Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Wang Bing

Wang Bing is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films. His movie on Chinese labour camps, The Ditch, was included in the 2010 Venice Film Festival…

Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Tanimura Masaki

Tanimura Masaki is a Japanese television series director. A graduate of Kobe University, he joined TV Asahi where he began to work on late-night series and then on a few variety shows. In 2006, he moved to Fuji TV, where he directed several episodes of various series, including one of the "Nodame Cantabile"…

Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Marlo Mortel

Marlo Mortel is a Filipino actor, TV host, musician, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur, who was best known for his role as Nicolo Angelo Cortez in the morning television drama, Be Careful with My Heart and Gabriel Luna in OMG. In the novel I Love You Since 1892, he was originally introduced as Juanito…

Lek Saran Sakornsin

"Lek" Saran Sakornsin was an actor and model of Thai-Chinese descent born in Nakhon Sawan. Lek's father died before he was born and his mother re-married, leaving him to live with his grandmother. So his grandmother was pretty much his only family member. Lek was considered to be one of the most famous…

Xu Qing Dong

Xu Qingdong was a Chinese television director and screenwriter who is known as one of the few successful crime and medical procedural directors in China. His directorial works span from the 1980s-2014. He was born in 1945 in the United States and was brought back to live in Yan'an, China when he was…

Kamihoriuchi Kazuya

Kazuya Kamihoriuchi is a Japanese television drama director and stage director specializing in tokusatsu. He is from Kagoshima, Japan. After high school, Kamihoriuchi worked as an assistant director for variety programs at a television station in Kagoshima. He later moved to Tokyo to pursue a career…

Ikezawa Ayaka

Ikezawa Ayaka is a Japanese talent, engineer, and programmer born in Tokyo. She graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. She belongs to Toho Entertainment. On January 9, 2006, she was selected for the Jury's Special Award at the 6th Toho "Cinderella" audition.…

Ishmael

10.0

After serving his time in jail for twelve years for the crime of murder, Ishmael is now a free man. Alone and confused, he decided to come back home to find peace and solitude in a place familiar to him. But his dream…

Hanabi Shisho

Yusuke works part-time work at a convenience store. He has a recurring dreaming involving a man in a horse mask and can't stop thinking about him. One day, Yusuke runs into his ex-bandmates. It feels like a reoccurring…

Kabuki-Mono Keiji

10.0

At the time Tokugawa Ieyasu won the battle of Sekigahara, the Uesugis had their vast 1,200,000 koku holdings in Aizu drastically curtailed to 300,000 koku in Yonezawa, Dewa Province. Great numbers give up on the future…

Red Tomb

From the time of Korea's liberation from Japan until a ceasefire was called to the Korean War in 1953, more than 1,000,000 civilians were sacrificed. It became a back and forth slaughter between the left and the right,…

The Legend of the Northern Wei Dynasty

7.2

At that time, the Xianbei aristocratic forces of Northern Wei adopted a primitive and backward mode of governance to govern the country, which restricted the normal development of productive forces and agricultural…

Bhoy Intsik

Two small-time felons with disparate personas cross paths: One's a principled tough gay; the other is a scheming, street-smart teenager. Together, they get caught up in a string of petty exploits while managing to…

Yellow Kid

5.0

Fired from his part-time job in a restaurant kitchen for absenteeism, rookie boxer Tamura has a lot to be angry and frustrated about in his life. But things start to change when he’s approached at the gym by the…

I Corrupt All Cops

7.1

During the time Hong Kong was under British rule, there was a dark age when corruption and bribery were the order of the day. Chinese Chief Inspector Lak together with his gang, Unicorn, Gale and Gold laundered massive…

Onsen Satsujin Jiken Series 3

The stage this time is Shuzenji Onsen. Inspector Shigaki goes on a family trip to Shuzenji and gets involved in a murder case. The incident had a lot to do with the secret of the birth of the female president of a…