Naoto Inti Raymi

Nakamura Naoto, better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and composer. "Inti Raymi" is Quechuan (Incan language) for "festival of the sun." He was born in Mie Prefecture in Japan and later grew up in Chiba Prefecture. For two years from 2001, he used his given…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Gang Mun

Gang Mun was born Oh Jin Hui in Seoul, and when she was 9 years old, she was the fourth out of 5 siblings and raised by a single mother. She graduated from Muhak Girls' Middle School and Chuncheon Girls' High School. She lived in Chuncheon until she dropped out of the Chuncheon Agricultural University…

Ha Il

Robert Bradley Holley, known by his Korean name Ha Il, is a US-born, now-naturalized South Korean lawyer and TV personality. He arrived in South Korea in 1978 as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but immediately fell in love with the country and the people. He graduated…

Bobby Kim

Kim Do Kyun, known as Bobby Kim, is South Korean hip-hop and R&B artist under Title Media. His father, a trumpet player, influenced and exposed him to music. At an early age, he worked as a rapper at night clubs. Since high school, he performed in clubs in the San Francisco underground. In 1992, he…

EunB

Go Eun Bi, known professionally as EunB, was a South Korean singer, dancer and member of LADIES' CODE (레이디스 코드). She graduated from Hanlim Entertainment Arts High School. Before debuting, she was a trainee at FNC Entertainment and was a confirmed member of their soon-to-debut girl group,…

Lu Qi

Lu Qi, born in Sichuan Ganluo, is a Chinese actor. After graduating from middle school in 1970, he was admitted to the military art troupe of literary and artistic soldiers. He first worked as an announcer, then played the erhu, performed operas, dramas and danced. In 1974, he was admitted to the Sichuan…

Umemura Yoko

Umemura Yoko, born Suzuki Hanako (鈴木花子) in Nihonbashi Kakegawa, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She made her stage debut in 1910 at the Hongoza Theatre (本郷座) while in elementary school. In 1922, she joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio (松竹蒲田撮影所) and debuted in film in…

Yuni Lee

Yuni Lee, born Li Yen Chin (李妍瑾), is a Taiwanese model, singer, actress, and television hostess from Tainan, Taiwan. She began her career as a commercial model at 16 but paused for four years due to family circumstances. In August 2005, she officially entered the entertainment industry by participating…

Kim Sung Keun

Kim Sung Keun is a Japanese-born, South Korean retired pitcher and manager who led several teams in the KBO League. Born in Kyoto during the Japanese occupation of Korea, he graduated from Katsura High School but did not attend college. However, Dong-A University later awarded him an honorary bachelor's…

Fuwaku no Scrum

8.0

47-year-old Marukawa Ryohei, who has been released from prison, is walking to a riverbed in search of a place to die when a rugby ball hits his back. Men mostly over the age of 40 are practicing rugby on the grounds…

Tokyo Miracle City: Gargantuan Rail Network - The Passionate Pursuit of Punctuality

7.7

In this second episode, we explore the vast rail network that crisscrosses the metropolis. With 148 train lines carrying some 40 million passengers daily, Tokyo hosts the world's largest and most interconnected urban…

A Bittersweet Dilemma

Nowadays, people tend to think they are consumers, whereas health care workers are in the service industry who should provide whatever they request. Over 40% of the nurses in Taiwan who has professional licenses choose…

The Price of Democracy

The expressions of democratization are usually interpreted by elites from two different parties but neglect the real faces/lives of every individual in the resistance rally. The director (a confused twenty-something)…

The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin

3.0

In a shanty village located next to the US military base in Uijungbu City, lives a former US military camp town sex worker, Park In Seon. Having lived in the village for more than 40 years, In Seon feels uneasy after…

Break Away

Gyeong Min stops at Gwangju on the way to vacation with his daughter Seon Joo. In fact, he visits it to remove traces of his wrongdoing 40 years ago. When Seon Joo sprains her ankle while looking around the redevelopment…

Senior Queen

In the era of 7.2 million baby boomers, nine female high school alumni from 1958, Year of the Dog, have lived different lives for 40 years after their high school graduation. After 40 years, they meet at a girls’…

Riding Uphill

Life is an uphill road to run furiously. A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin - a professional bicycle racing sport. Hamajima Koji is a 40-year-old, training at Shuzenji bicycle race school…

Cinema Kabuki Next: Aterui

Aterui is a play about ethnic minorities in Japan, about the subjugation of “others.” In this case it is about the Yamato Empire’s attempt to control the Emishi people from michi no oku,or the “end of the land,”…

A New Old Play

7.6

Qiu Fu, a leading actor in Sichuan opera who began his stage career at age seven and has been an actor for over 40 years, dies and meets two underworld officials. He refuses to drink the liquor of oblivion, so until…