Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

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…

Yoon Hyung Joo

Yoon Hyung Joo is a South Korean folk singer, lyricist and composer. He graduated from Gyeonggi High School and later attended the school of Medicine at Kyung Hee University but dropped out. Yonsei University awarded him an honorary bachelor's degree in Medicine and Kosin University awarded him an honorary…

Somai Shinji

Shinji Somai was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. Somai was born in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, and was brought up in Hokkaido. He began his career in 1975 as an assistant director with Nikkatsu Co., one of Japan's leading film production companies, after he dropped…

Nukumizu Yoichi

Nukumizu Yoichi is a Japanese actor. He was born on June 19, 1964, in Miyazaki. (Source: Nipponcinema)

Chen Kai Ge

Chen Kai Ge is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visuals and epic storytelling. Kai Ge won the Palme d'Or Award at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the International Federation of Film Critics Award in 1993. Chen Kaige…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Lee Lu Da

Lee Lu Da is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress and member of WJSN (우주소녀, also known as COSMIC GIRLS). She graduated from Haesung Girls' High School. She made her debut in February 2016 as the group's vocalist and rapper with their first EP, "Would You Like?". The group was originally managed…

Simon Chen

Chen Jun Yu (English name: Simon), born in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China, is a singer and an actor. He graduated middle school at "Zunyi No. 11 middle school", and college at "Sichuan Conservatory of Music". Way back in 2018 while Chen Junyu was still studying music, he took part singing multiple songs…

Kamiki Ryunosuke

Kamiki Ryunosuke is a Japanese actor. He entered the industry in 1995 when he was only 2 years old. He made his drama debut in “Good News”, which gained him immense popularity through his first full-time role as Naoya, playing the son of SMAP’s Masahiro Nakai. In 2001, he was discovered by Hayao…

A Time in Quchi

6.5

Bao is sent to Quchi to accompany his widowed grandpa during the summer because his parents are getting divorced. Taking his homework with him, Bao is transferred to a small school. He finds out that he and a girl…

Once upon a Time

7.7

Pursuing his dream of becoming a screenwriter, twenty-seven-year-old Nathee invites his close friend Pharadon to write a script with him. He finds writing inspiration in the old poems hanging in a restaurant called…

Like a French Film

5.9

Omnibus movie with 5 segments. “A Time to Leave” The long-suffering mother of four daughters decides to end her life after months of illness. She tells her daughters that she has terminal cancer, and asks her children…

Tale of a Boy: Noble Heart

8.0

This is another Tomu Uchida film (fragmentary?) from 1925 called “Shonen Bidan Kiyoki Kokoro” which means it is a moral fable which translates as something like ‘A shining example of a boy’s good morals’.…

Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains

8.4

It is 1965, a time of rapid economic growth for Japan and also a time when the people called Sanka, a nomadic band of outcasts, were fading away. Having arrived at his father’s countryside estate from Tokyo to focus…

Bloody Beach

6.7

A couple of friends go on vacation to a sunny beach paradise, only to realise that there's a killer among them. As bodies start piling up, they start to think that it all might be connected to someone they chatted…

Grow Up

7.5

Ye Chun Meng is a talented medical intern who is hardworking and determined, even the so-called "demon mentor", Zhou Ming secretly acknowledges her effort. However, she feels inferior because of her poor family background…

Honey Juice Weewill

An installment from program A of an omnibus about mysterious creatures made as part of the first film project by Polar Circle, a collective founded by director Kageyama Shu who has gathered together an eclectic range…