Choi Il Hwa

Choi Il Hwa is a South Korean actor. In 1983 he joined the Madang Seshil Theatre Group. Since then he has continued to act in theatre, television, and films.

Cha Seung Woo

Cha Seung Woo is a South Korean singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and former member of NO BRAIN (노브레인), THE MOONSHINERS (더 문샤이너스), and THE MONOTONES (더 모노톤즈). He graduated from Sangmoon High School. In 1994, he formed the band CRY BABY (크라이 베이비) with 2 more…

Somboonsuk Niyomsiri

Somboonsuk Niyomsiri is a film director and the 2015 "National Artist of Thailand" in the field of cinema for helping shape the Thai screen of the 70s. He is known with the artist nick 'Piak Poster'. The National Artist title rightly recognises his contribution in making movies — 29 of them — though…

Okazaki Yuki

Okazaki Yuki was born in Asakusa, Taito in Tokyo. She is a Japanese actress and singer. She dropped out of Nihon University College of Art. She studied ballet as a child. She began acting as a child, appearing on TV and on stage where she performed in Japanese versions of popular Broadway plays like…

Norman England

An established writer, musician, filmmaker, and character actor. Working in various crew positions in countless Japanese films and writing/reporting for numorous publications including the legendary Fangoria. He was born in the San Francisco area but grew up in a town called Rockland County. He got…

Shih Szu

Shih Szu is a Taiwanese actress. A ballet student from the age of six, at the age of sixteen, she joined the Shaw Brothers Studio after secondary school and began appearing in films such as "The Crimson Charm" and "The Rescue". However, the film that would rocket her to stardom would be her appearance…

Han Ying Chieh

When Han Ying Chieh was 3 years old, he moved to Beijing and from 9 to 18 years old joined a Pekin Opera group. In 1946, he went to Shanghai and debuted in the film industry at 19 years old as a stuntman that same year. Next year he left the movies temporarily to do martial arts and circus exhibitions…

Ivy Ling Po

Ivy is one of the most famous actresses in Chinese cinema, and during the 1960s, she was in a series of films that are considered classics. Though by the thought of today (by Western audiences) to some degree for her action films, she was an all-around actress – most famous in her day for her Chinese…

Lo Chen

Lo Chen was born in 1923, in Shanghai, as Li Meng Fei. He settled in Hong Kong in 1947 and began working as a scriptwriter and as an assistant director for the Great China Film Company. After the closure of the Great China Film Company, Lo worked together with Ma Xu Weibang and wrote several other movies,…

Higuchi Shinji

Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…

One Bowl of Kakesoba

7.0

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centres on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch (Watase Tsunehiko) and his perky wife (Ichige Yoshie). One New Year's day, a haggard-looking…

Paper Mansion

Linda, in her 70s, is a Chinese citizen who has been living in the Philippines since the Japanese occupation of their homeland. For a while, it was like she was building the perfect Chinese family: raising three children…

Happiness as Flowers

This series is set at the beginning of the "gai ge kai fang" (economic reforms and opening up of China) that began at the tail end of the 70s. The story is centred around Du Juan, who is a dancer in the army.

Kom Faek

7.6

A group of gangs lead the world into the bloody action of Bangkok in the 70s. The atmosphere of animosity between the bad guys and good guys unlock everyone's experiences of beginning to find the chains within true…

Delivery Boy

7.0

Local delivery boy Chun Ho falls in love after delivering dumplings to Eric, an expat businessman living in Hong Kong. Yummy Chinese food and cheesy 70s music bring them together, but the class gap that separates them…

The War of Jan-Ken-Pon

4.3

Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some absurd torture techniques that bring to mind some sort of Japanese…

Iron Housewives

7.7

Following the stories of housewives is a drama about three women in different stages of their life who are willing to sacrifice everything for family. Mei Li is a post-80s woman who works as a deputy director of finance.…

To Live

7.9

Fu Gui and Jia Zhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fu Gui loses everything. In the years that follow, he is pressed…

The Sense of Violence

Kim Mu Yeong analyses the visual material in his found footage film with almost scientific precision (newsreel images, architectural images, film images; images of the enemy, images of women, images of the family),…

I Am Kirishima

On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confession to the Kamakura hospital staff treating him: “I am Satoshi Kirishima.” On January 29th, he died. For 49 years,…