Jeon Young Seon

Born in 1953. Her father is Jeon Oh Seung, a composer, and her aunt is Na Ae Shim, a singer and movie star. In 1958, when she was 5 years old at the recommendation of the assistant director Hong Eun Won, a friend of her aunt's, she entered the film industry by appearing in Director Lee Kang Cheon's…

Moon Jung Suk

Moon Jung Suk was born in Seoncheon, North Pyongan Province in what is modern day North Korea in 1929. She graduated from an Boseong Girls' High School in 1947 after which Moon started her career as a theatre actor alongside her older sister Moon Jung Bok. In 1952, she made her debut as an actress whilst…

Shoo

Shoo Kunimitsu, known by her Korean name Yoo Soo Young and also Shoo, is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress and former member of S.E.S (에스이에스). She was born in Yokohama, Japan to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. After living in Japan for 15 years, her family moved to South Korea…

Peck Palitchoke Ayanaputra

Palitchoke Ayanaputra, nicknamed Peck, is a singer, musician, music composer, model and host born in Bangkok, Thailand. He lived in Australia for 7 years during his childhood. After Palitchoke moved back to Thailand, he started his career in the music and entertainment industry as an artist trainee…

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…

Bada

Choi Seong Hee, known professionally as Bada, is a South Korean singer, dancer, musical actress and former member of S.E.S (에스이에스). She graduated from Anyang Arts High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Performance and Film from Dankook University. She made her debut in November…

Petchara Chaowarat

Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles. Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee (Love Diary of Pimchawee), in 1961.…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Abe Hiroshi

Abe Hiroshi, born in Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese model and actor. He began his career as a model, but successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences in Japanese media. Abe graduated from Chuo University in 1988 with…

Maiake Kandis Wanaroon

Kandis Wanaroon, nicknamed Maiake, is a Thai actor under Nadao Bangkok. He studied high school at Suankularb Wittayalai School and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Kasetsart University. Maiake loved playing badminton since childhood. At the age of 8, he joined the club Ad First and moved to Siriphun…

The Aswang Phenomenon

What would happen if a country of 97 million people were taught at a young age that the boogie man was real? In the Philippines for the last 400 years, the 'aswang' has been used as propoganda and social control by…

Who Killed Edward

5.9

Edward Wong is a lonely, depressed young man living in isolation in Hong Kong. He often walks around at night to cope with his chronic insomnia. He has no destination and cannot explain his own behaviour. One day,…

HARAJUKU: The Seven Days the Angel Gives

9.0

Set in Harajuku, Tokyo, the "last seven days" of a young man, a hero and an angel who succeeded to the only public bathhouse, is depicted. (Source: natalie.mu)

An Old Couple's Story

“What’s going to happen to me and this old man?” Lee Jeom Soon, lost her husband 30 years ago and raised her three daughters alone. She sent them all to get married, and lived alone. One day, when she was running…

Sunken Island

6.4

This is a very special day of human distinction. On the very last night on earth, a man goes on a mysterious trip and travels through time, witnessing tons of absurd happenings. With different identities in different…

Mr. Zheng

"If life is irreversible, I would like to use my last courage in exchange for all my memories of you." The film tells the story of Mr. Zheng, a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease who couldn't bear to forget his…

Kono Ato, Mechakucha... Shita

Late one night, after the last train had already departed, Harumi Sorato, a 24-year-old virgin office worker, was invited to the room of Yui, the woman he had feelings for. Though filled with doubt and suspicion, Sorato…

Lollipop Love Story

6.2

Two best friends "Gao", cool handsome young man, and "Moo", playful and cheerful young man who uses his status as Gao's friend to try to hit on the girls in his school. They are enjoying their last moments in the high…

Border Line

5.5

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long.…

Memento Mori

6.2

After an accident, Da Ming can't remember what happened last night. Back home, he discovers in his closet the dead body of Gao Yan. Who killed this man hated by so many people included Da Ming himself?