Ramon Estella

Ramon A. Estella son of Filipino composer Jose Estella, was a pre-war Philippines movie director and actor. At the age of 27 years old, he started directing his first film, "Bayan at Pagibig,” in 1938 and in 1941, he was proclaimed Director of the Year by Philippine Cinema and Radio because of the…

Uno Chiyo

Uno Chiyo was a Japanese author and kimono designer. She was known for her contributions to Japanese fashion, film, and literature. Born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. In 1915, she was fired from her job as a teacher's assistant due to an affair she was having with a colleague. In 1919, she married her cousin,…

Chu Git Yee

Chu Git Yee (English name: Donna) is a Hong Kong actress. After graduating from high school, she participated in the 1989 Miss Hong Kong competition and won runner-up. Her acting stint spanned from 1990 to 2004. She joined TVB for two years and had filmed many dramas. Chu faded out of entertainment…

Ohara Joji

Ohara Joji was a Japanese cameraman and cinematographer born in Tokyo. He is the father of bassist and composer Ohara Ray. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin Middle School, he joined Matsutake Kamata Photo Studio in 1924, when he was 19 years old. In 1927, he was promoted to a cameraman and made his…

Kimura Takeo

Kimura Takeo was a Japanese art director of more than 200 films, writer and film director. He begun his career in 1945 and was one of Japan's best known art directors, most famously for his collaborations with cult director Suzuki Seijun through the 1960s at the Nikkatsu Company, exemplified by 'Tokyo…

Atsuta Yuharu

Atsuta Yuharu was a Japanese cinematographer born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and grew up in Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in 1922, he joined the Shochiku Corporation, and due to his love for painting, he entered the photography department of the Shochiku Kamata Studios. After 15 years as an…

Lee Ji Sun

Lee Ji Sun is a South Korean professor and book author. She graduated from Changdeok Girls' High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from Ewha Womans University, master's degrees in Rehabilitation Counseling from Boston University and in Social Welfare from Columbia…

Gazebo

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1978. Lives in Tokyo. He started making independent films on 8mm film when he was in college. After graduating, he worked as an assistant director, art painting staff, in production, etc., and is currently active as a director of advertising and music videos. In 2021,…

Minoru Murata

Murata Minoru was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor in the Taisho and early Showa periods born in Ogawamachi, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. He is the first deputy director of the Directors Guild of Japan. He joined Norimasa Kaeriyama's Film Arts Association from the Shingeki movement and is known…

Kozu Yoshiyuki

Kozu Yoshiyuki is a Japanese composer. He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music and then studied composition under Nobutoki Kiyoshi and trumpet under Fujio Nakayama Fujio. He has composed music for movies, popular songs and brass bands. He's been the director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and…

Forever Lose the One I Love

She is a talented painter who loves art and pursues freedom and her true self. He, on the other hand, is a talented musician who loves music and pursues dreams and freedom. The two young people meet by chance, and…

Dreaming of Huang Shan

While restoring an ink painting, Cheng Nan is transported to the past, where he meets the artist Lin Shan and embarks on a magical journey of healing, friendship, love, and family reconciliation. (Source: TMDb)

Labyrinth Under Cyclone

He is a painter; she is a musician. They meet, fall in love and separate aboard what might be a spaceship floating through the cosmos after a world-ending apocalypse. Are they primordial beings at the origin of life?…

Tomie: Re-birth

6.4

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the…

Inescapable

6.7

After a gifted painter is murdered by her lover, her twin sister sets out for revenge—only to fall for the killer in a surreal twist of fate. As love and hatred blur, a dark journey unfolds between vengeance and…

The Lady in the Portrait

6.8

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a Fresh outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between…

The Rose in My Hand

6.8

The genius painter Lu Ming Yu was imprisoned and abused by her uncle for ten years, until she escaped during her cousin’s wedding and shared a fateful night with Duan Xiu Ming. The two joined forces against her family;…

Finishing Touch

It uses a famous painting as the starting point to spark a journey of the soul. Some plot elements draw inspiration from Shenzhen's Dafen Oil Painting Village, blending reality with artistic re-creation. It tells the…

Substitute

The talented painter Jiang Li once caused a great tragedy through her own willfulness, leading to the death of her boyfriend Jiang Feng, who was like a white moonlight in her life. She then unexpectedly encounters…

Lost Love

6.9

Wang Feng is a painter who hires Yu Hao to model for a picture. Therefore, a strong attraction is born that takes them by surprise.