Choi Sung Ho

Born Choi Dol Seon, in Paju, Gyeonggi-do in 1922, he graduated from Waseda University, Japan. After liberation, he worked with Kim Jin Gyu, Lee Ye Chun, and Choi Seong Ho at the Nana Acoustic Theatre organized by Banyawol in 1949. In 1955, when he was active in a musical theatre group, he was selected…

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…

Kakehi Masaya

Born in West Tokyo City, Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hoya High School and Nihon University College of Art. Soon as a manga artist, when he was 14 years old, he won the Big Comic Spirits Monthly Newcomer Encouragement Award at “The City of Youkai” . He has also been selected for Kodansha…

Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

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…

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…

Oyamada Sayuri

Oyamada Sayuri is a Japanese actress and model who began her career in Japan but is currently based in New York City and Tokyo. Oyamada was born in Niigata, Japan, and made her acting debut in 2000 in the film "Body Drop Asphalt", accruing widespread acclaim in Japan and globally. In 2010, Oyamada ventured…

Morishige Hisaya

Morishige Hisaya was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School) and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He appeared in nearly 250 films,…

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"…

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…

The Day Before

A part-time worker at a convenient store, Ji Eun looks forward to receiving her severance pay. Except for the final sequence, the camera remains inside the convenient store where she works. As she moves about and talks…

My Own Swordsman Children's Edition

8.4

Set some time during the Ming Dynasty, a story of laughter and tears revolves around an innkeeper and her crew as they run the Tongfu Inn inside the Seven Heroes Town. (Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Memories of the Rising Sun

In the time of war, can goodness be still found? "Memories of the Rising Sun" traces a Japanese soldier's journey to humanity as he find himself torn between his loyalty to his mother country and his love and care…

Nine Monks

For the first time in the history of Korean Buddhism, nine monks ceased hostility by staying in a tent throughout winter. Inside the cold tent, ninety days of meditation begins with seven strict rules. Crisis comes…

Kingdom of Womanhood

In an alternate time and place, the Daughters' Kingdom is home to beautiful girls who live a peaceful life and have four loyal guardians. Every year, at certain times of the year, holy water would flow from the Daughters'…

Coexistence

Tomomi was working part-time at a bar, frustrated by the same boring daily routine. Meanwhile, Kodai was rushing to the bar. He wanted to show Mina, his ex-girlfriend, something he found when he returned to her house.…

Yellow Ribbon

10.0

The five years time since the Sewol Ferry disaster, what did it mean to us? The time is documented in the film and described with the notion of trauma. After people face their trauma, they start to speak of responsibility…

New Lady Enforcers

This is the first time that Bawanghua has cooperated with the Flying Tigers to jointly fight against terrorist organizations and crimes, showing that the modern police force is well-trained, capable of shouldering…

Legend of Great Ming

6.5

In a turbulent time in the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Bodyguard solves humans' cases, while the Jinwu Guard takes charge of ghosts' and monsters' business. Eunuch Wei seizes great power and suppresses dissidents. Colluding…

Anecdote of the East Sea

6.0

In Ruoxi Ho’s time, evil forces are rampant on the island of Palm Wild, where tens of thousands of Tian clansmen live. When Lin Yu, a ranger, learns of this, he decides to return to the island to quell the turmoil…