Lin Cheng Sheng

Lin Cheng-sheng is a Taiwanese film director. His 1997 film Sweet Degeneration was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Betelnut Beauty in 2001. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tsukioka Yumeji

Tsukioka Yumeji was a Japanese film actress. She has appeared in more than 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film The Temptress and the Monk, which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Inoue Umetsugu. (Source: Wikipedia)

Simon Chung

Simon Chung Tak Sing is a Hong Kong film director. His films include Innocent, released in 2005, End of Love which premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, and Speechless, released in 2012, and which premiered at the BFI 26th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (since renamed…

Hidari Sachiko

Hidari Sachiko was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1952 and 1995. At the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her roles in "Kanojo to Kare" and "The Insect Woman". In 1977, she directed and starred in the film "The Far Road",…

Kudo Eiichi

Kudo Eiichi was a Japanese film director from Tomakomai, Hokkaido. His 1982 film Yajudeka was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. His 1963 film 13 Assassins was the basis for the 2010 remake by Takashi Miike. Born into a merchant family in Numanohata, he is the eldest of eight…

Feng Ke

Feng Ke was born in Jiaozuo, Henan Province on April 24, 1991 and is an actor from mainland China who graduated from Beijing Film Academy. In 2015 he starred in a movie "At First Glance, To Recall" and was nominated for the Berlin Chinese Film Festival. In 2016, he participated in Mango TV's large scale…

Josh Kim

Josh Kim is a Korean-American filmmaker based in Thailand. He shot short films and his debut feature, How to Win at Checkers (Every Time), premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. The film was Thailand’s official entry to the Academy Awards and Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film. With…

Nezu Jinpachi

Jinpachi Nezu was a Japanese actor. He appeared in 56 films and television shows between 1974 and 2010. He starred in the 1982 film Farewell to the Land, which was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.

Fukagawa Yoshihiro

Yoshihiro Fukagawa is a Japanese film director. His film Into the White Night was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In an interview, Fukagawa explains that there have been many versions of Into the White Night, but he wanted to challenge…

Diao Yi Nan

Diao Yinan is a Chinese director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival for Black Coal, Thin Ice. A graduate of the Central Academy of Drama in 1992, Diao has worked as a screenwriter with directors Shi Runjiu (in All the…

Long Live the Island Frogs

The film was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Road to Boston

8.2

Ki Jung won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but because Korea was under Japanese colonial rule at the time, he wore the Japanese flag on his chest. In 1947, two years after Korea’s liberation from Japanese…

Out of Control

7.0

Actress and martial-arts guru Lucy Lin's visit to a film festival in Berlin is marred by the unwanted appearance of her ex-fiance, Interpol agent Tom Young. Young is hot on the trail of renowned cyber-criminal Bennet…

I Open a Curtain to See a Dead Bird

Three Thais scattering in three major cities – an actress struggling to stay afloat in the pompous Berlin art world, a mother in Bangkok whose country has failed to bring justice to her son’s death and a director…

Idaten

8.0

Follow up the story of 52 years and covers three editions of 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1964 Tokyo Olympics where it features the two lead characters Kanakuri Shisou as the first Japanese man…

Non Reading Club

8.0

Yan Wu Ji did not want to admit the fact that he had lost his love. He took a leave of absence from Berlin and returned to Taiwan. The bookstore where he fell in love with his ex-girlfriend was named Warten, waiting…

Hiroshige Blue

8.5

Hiroshige's struggles to become a successful ukiyo-e artist are supported by his devoted wife, Kayo. Using a paint called Berlin blue, he pursues his passion for painting, but success comes at a price. (Source: Japanese…

XiXi

XiXi is a heartfelt essay film exploring womanhood, autonomy and the power of self-reinvention. Its story revolves around the director Fan’s friendship with XiXi, a captivating performer Fan met in Berlin. Drawn…

Nagisa

6.7

Set in the 1960s, from acclaimed director Masaru Konuma that won the Best film award at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, is coming of age story about a 13-year-old girl named Nagisa (Seashore) and the summer…

Double Agent

6.9

It’s 1980 at the height of the cold war, Lim Byeong Ho is chased by North Korean officials at Checkpoint Charlie in East Berlin, but he narrowly escapes. In safety on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie, Lim is…