Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Kang Soo Yeon

Kang made her acting debut as a child actor in the 1970s. She acted in a number of low profile movies before making a breakthrough performance in the Im Kwon Taek directed 1986 movie, The Surrogate Woman for which she was honored with the Volpi Cup Best Actress award at the 1987 Venice International…

Hiro Peralta

Hirojenel Benz "Hiro" Magalona Peralta is a Filipino actor, host and businessman best known for his roles in Little Nanay and Tween Hearts. Peralta was born in Manila and raised by his uncle's family in Quezon City. His father, Engelbert Garcia Peralta, was a sous chef turned custom broker, and his…

Kataoka Ichitaro

Kataoka was born on February 13, 1877 to Hikoemon HARASAWA, the master sculptor for Kyoto Imperial Palace, at Harasawa's house on the corner of Sakaimachi-dori and Marutamachi-dori streets, right across from the Imperial Palace. Upon his father's death in 1881, he was adopted by Seizaburo TSUKAMOTO.…

Somboonsuk Niyomsiri

Somboonsuk Niyomsiri is a film director and the 2015 "National Artist of Thailand" in the field of cinema for helping shape the Thai screen of the 70s. He is known with the artist nick 'Piak Poster'. The National Artist title rightly recognises his contribution in making movies — 29 of them — though…

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…

Barbara Yung

Yung was born in Hong Kong to a civil service family as an only child. Her childhood was relatively uneventful until the death of her father when she was aged 7. Yung left Hong Kong for England at age 15 (in late 1974) to rejoin her mother who had immigrated to the United Kingdom (TVB K100 Feature Interview,…

Norman Wong

Wong Chi Hung (English name: Norman) is a Hong Kong film editor and composer who worked in films from 1975-2007. He was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film Editing for The First Time Is the Last Time (1990).

Patrick Tse

Patrick Tse began his acting career in the 1950s and remained active for the next 40 years. He is a versatile and popular actor, usually playing the leading male roles. He stopped acting in the 1990s after immigrating to Canada but returned to acting in 1999. His last film was in 2003 (Colour of the…

Choi Min Soo

Choi was born in Seoul in 1962. Choi's family has been active in acting and singing for over the last eight decades. Choi was born as the son of Choi Moo Ryong, a popular actor of the 1960s and 1970s, and Kang Hyo Shil, an actress. His maternal grandmother is Jeon Ok, referred to as Queen of Tears for…

The Wedding Husband

Before her birth, a girl is betrothed by her parents to a dull-witted man. As she grows to adulthood, she makes several unsuccessful attempts to get out of the arranged marriage, but at last, she gives in to her parents'…

The Champion

"The Champion" is about Lu Fu, an innocent man recently released from prison after serving a term in the place of his brother. In the three years that Lu Fu has spent locked up, his brother Lu Tei Pao has taken over…

The Eternal Breasts

7.7

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with…

Childhood

7.2

The story of two best friends who grew up together. Because their homes were close to each other, they were especially close. Their lives were as simple as any other young man until the last day of study. They are…

Love at Seventh Sight

6.9

He is an audio technician, an unromantic man looking for the most romantic sound on earth. In an unexpected encounter, he comes across two of the most romantic things — a beautiful recreational vehicle and its beautiful…

Vivid Romance

7.3

In Sung is an unemployed college grad who has been trying to become a police officer for the last four years, and he is suddenly dumped by his girlfriend, who does not give him any explanation. He then gets fired from…

Royal Tramp

7.3

Masterfully interweaving fictional characters and events with those from history, Jin Yong's last wuxia novel tells the story of an unconventional hero who achieved fame and success due to sheer luck and clever gimmicks.…

One Way Trip

7.8

Yong Bi, Sang Woo, Ji Gong, and Doo Man are four 20-year-old friends. They take one last trip together to Pohang, before Sang Woo leaves to enlist in the military. At night, they drink on the beach and watch the night…

Itsuka, Nemuri ni Tsuku Hi

7.8

A second year high school student, Morino Hotaru has spent the last few years crushing on her classmate, Otaka Ren. Unable to find the courage to confess her feelings, Hotaru has become something of an expert in unrequited…

Yumi's Cells Season 3

8.6

After quitting her job, Yu Mi became a star writer at the peak of her fame, with her "Writer Cell" taking charge over "Love Cell." But the sweetness of success doesn’t last forever. Her days soon turn dull and monotonous…