Kurotsuchi Mitsuo

Kurotsuchi Mitsuo was a Japanese screenwriter and director born in Kumamoto. Following his graduation from Kumamoto High School and the law department of Rikkyo University, he became an assistant director with Kinoshita Keisuke Productions. After two years of work, he became a freelance writer. He debuted…

Fishboy

Nakada Hiroyuki, better known by his stage name FISHBOY, is a dancer. He was born in Osaka and is the younger brother to entertainer Nakada Atsuhiko of the comedic duo Oriental Radio. His debut in dance was in 2003 where he won the Inter-highschool competition DANCEATTACK. He went on to make his name…

Yamanaka Sadao

Yamanaka Sadao was a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Hinoshitacho, Takakuradori Matsubarashita, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan. He is known as one of the representative directors of Japanese cinema in the 1930s, during the transition from silent films to talkies, and is recognized as a talented…

Gina Kim

Gina Kim is a filmmaker and academic. Kim's five feature-length films and short films have garnered acclaim through screenings at most major film festivals and venues such as the MOMA, Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian. Between 2004–2007 and 2013–2014, Kim taught film production and theory classes…

Nakamura Nobuo

Nakamura Nobuo was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Kurosawa Akira and Ozu Yasujiro in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles in the West were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo…

Sugawara Maya

Sugawara Maya is a Japanese idol from Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. She is a member of the female idol group SKE48 Team E and the sub-unit Love Crescendo. She is affiliated with Zest. On May 10, 2015, at the "2nd AKB48 Group Draft Meeting," she was selected as the first pick for SKE48 Team E and later officially…

Tsuboi Taku

Tsuboi Taku is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here…

Mayuzumi Toshiro

Mayuzumi Toshiro was a Japanese composer. He studied at Tokyo University of Art and Music and Le Conservatoire de Paris. Mayuzumi organized the "Three Composers' Group" in Tokyo and was a pioneer of contemporary music in the 1950s. Among his achievement was making some of the first electronic music…

Song Min Gyo

Song Min Gyo is a South Korean announcer. She graduated from Ewha Girls’ Foreign Language High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in English language and literature from Ewha Womans University. Min Gyo worked at KTV National Broadcasting and at NHK World English News before being selected…

Oda Masao

Oda Masao, born Saiki Masao (斎木政雄) was a Japanese actor born in Waseda, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. He later changed his name to Oda Masao (織田真佐男). He began his acting career at age six and graduated from Tokyo Prefectural School of Arts (東京府立工芸学校). In 1930, he enrolled…

Armor Hero Hunter: God Brain Crisis

is the sixth and final installment of the Chinese tokusatsu Armor Hero Series, produced by Hero Box, and directed by Cao Shenjun. The work is scheduled to be launched in October 2017, and the first season was released…

Mitsuaki Iwago's World "Cats" Travelogue

9.0

Mitsuaki Iwago embarks on a journey around the world to film cats for the first time.

Queer Taiwan

7.1

The animosity between the Equality Bees and the Family Guardian Coalition has worsened since the passing of the marriage equality bill. The supporters of the bill cannot accept the opposers’ views, and the latter…

Seon-A

7.0

Second-year Sun Ah makes the wrong choice when she wants to beat the first-ever child. It’s about taking the midterm exam papers and answer sheets from your computer. Seon Ah secretly looks for password hacking methods…

Innovative Story: Atty’s Hair Salon

An older woman named Feng Chu leases out the first floor of her townhouse to Atty, the daughter of an Indonesian woman, who runs a hair salon there. Over ten years as a tenant and landlady, Atty has been Feng Chu’s…

PTS Original: Home Sick

In Taiwan, catching the "first tuna" brings you tremendous luck. Every April through June, large bluefin tunas arrive on the Bashi Channel off the coast of southern Taiwan to their spawning grounds. Every year, Taiwanese…

Mr. Cop

The film is adapted from the novel "Zi Chou Yin Mao" published by the public security literature special issue "Woodpecker", and the script has been selected into the 2018 National Film Script Incubation Program. The…

Island Nation

7.6

The international situation is like a poker game. Taiwan can't get the chips at the table. Although it is not the center of the world situation, the wrestling of all countries is in Taiwan. "Island Nation" is the first…

Bragging Room Guest

The sheer number of TV and radio programs dedicated in sharing viewers' worries and difficulties seems to convey that most of our lives are filled with shame and regrets over our mistakes and failures. However, mistakes…

Harmonica Taiyo

8.0

It was in the Showa period in Niigata, the first son of a farmer’s family, Yoji Abe (Yuhei Ouchida) fell in love wtth one of his high-school classmates, Haruka Igarashi (Yuri Yamada). The two started dating after…