Kayama Yuzo

Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese…

Connie Chan

Among the Cantonese 'Seven Princesses' who dominated the Cantonese cinema in the 1950s-60s, two stood out. The first one was Josephine Siao, and the second one was her rival Connie Chan. Daughter of two opera stars, Chan Fei Nung and Kung Fan Hung, Connie Chan trained at a young age in Northern and…

Princess V. Na Pramuanmarg

HRH Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit was born Her Serene Highness Princess (Mom Chao) to her author parents His Highness Prince Bidyalongkorn and HSH Princess Princess Pornpimolpan Rajani (Voravarn). Educated at Mater Dei School and the Finishing Course in Bangkok, she worked as a secretary for her poet father,…

Kim Ji Hoon

Kim Ji Hoon was a South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, actor, presenter, and former member of TWO TWO (투투), GANG (갱), and DUKE (듀크). He graduated from Inchang High School and later obtained an associate's degree in Practical Music from Myongji College. He wanted to become a singer since…

Lydia Shum

Lydia Shum, who was known by her stage name Fei Fei (肥肥), was a Hong Kong actress and television host from Hong Kong, China. She is the ex-wife of actor Adam Cheng whom they share a daughter named Joyce Cheng, who is also a Hong Kong actress and singer. Lydia Shum entered the Hong Kong entertainment…

Yayan Ruhian

Yayan is an Indonesian actor. By the age of 13, hoping to "show his masculinity", he began studying the traditional martial art, Pencak Silat. Yayan trained with what later became Pencak Silat Tenaga Dasar, eventually becoming a trainer and referee – although he later learned that this disqualified…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Takahata Yuta

Yuta Takahata is a Japanese actor and tarento. Takahata graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. He is the eldest son of actress Atsuko Takahata and actor Ryosuke Otani, and his sister-in-law is actress Kotomi Takahata. Takahata is also related to Keiko Kitagawa and Daigo. Takahata was…

Alexander Fu Sheng

Alexander Fu Sheng was a Hong Kong martial arts actor in the 1970s. He was born in Hong Kong, the son of a wealthy New Territories indigenous inhabitant businessman. As a child, his family lived in Hawaii for a few years, and there he began training in judo and karate. In 1971, he enrolled at Shaw Brothers…

Hiroki Ryuichi

Hiroki Ryuichi is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Of the directors who have graduated from “pink film” to the…

Kiai

A look at the situation of Karate as a sport in the Philippines from the perspective of Mark Fernando and his life as a Filipino Karate athlete. (Source: humantao films Facebook)

Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke

It is a deceptively complex interplay between fireworks footage shot during a Japanese summer festival and the sonic imprints left by the same images on the optical soundtrack. (Source: TMDb) ~~ Release date: Sep 9,…

Be with Me

6.8

Art director Faye has to leave amid a film shoot to care for her ailing father. With her father's condition worsening, Faye leaves her unfinished old house in Taipei behind and returns to her hometown of Chiayi with…

I Am Trash

5.5

Three grown sons have struggled to achieve some sort of normal routine after their father was sent off to prison for sexual assault on an underage girl. Their lives are thrown into radical disarray when dad finishes…

Alter Ego

6.1

Three aspiring young Japanese models are on their very first fashion shoot at an abandoned school one hot summer day. Without warning, strange events begin occurring around the set that causes the models and photo…

Black Cat

6.4

Catherine is a violent and disturbed young lady who is shot down by the government in one of her escapades. She wakes up in a training facility and is taught to use weapons, combat, and is put through heavy endurance…

Ikiru: Okawa Shogakko Tsunami Saiban wo Tatakatta Hito Tachi

This documentary is compiled from 10 years of footage shot by some of the parents who want answers as to why they lost their children at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, due to the Great…

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Nguyen was reported for a car theft and ended up being shot nine times by police officer Chen Chung Wen. Nguyen bled to death on the way to the hospital. The public supported Chen’s use of firearms against the runaway…

Reality Check

6.7

Senior television director HA YAT CHEUNG (Ruco Chan) is preparing to shoot an all new reality TV show, documenting HK youth CHEUNG CHUN KIT's (Hero Yuen) experience of going from city life back to village life in Mainland.…