I Hear the Whistle

A moving sad story, that made a movie of a real girl, who fights against an intractable disease called Huntington's dance disease, which causes muscle atrophy. ~~ Adapted from poetry.

Call from Darkness

A mysterious story involving the disappearance of Tatsuo's three brothers. Tatsuo, thinks that he too may disappear and has a nervous breakdown. His fiancé visits a neurologist, who suggests that Tatsuo recount his…

A Man's Crest: Violent Path

2.0

The new head of a powerful family, who leads Oshima-Murata yakuza clan, faces danger from an evil rival out for blood and revenge. ~~ The 7th of the Otoko no Monsho series of 11 films.

The Stranger Within a Woman

7.2

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked…

Women's Victory

8.7

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following…

Sayon's Bell

The bell of mourning rings in memory of the beautiful maiden who was fleetingly lost. A film co-produced by the Taiwan Governor-General's Office, the Manchurian Film Association, and Shochiku. When Taiwan (Republic…

Hideko the Bus Conductor

7.5

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kofu, Yamanashi, has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.…

In The Thicket

6.3

Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations,…

Obahan Deka! Sasuga Himeko 4

One day, the lifeless body of an office lady named Yuri is discovered in her own room. Notified of the incident, Himeko rushes to the scene with officer Akama. It turns out that Yuri had been recently troubled by a…

The Inanimate World

7.7

Investigations on a mysterious woman, Toko, started when Sonoe, a teacher and Toko's fellow faculty member, was found dead as a result of what seemed to be an unfortunate accident. Eiki, an insurance investigator,…

Nakajima Saki

Nakajima Saki, born February 5, 1994 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer and idol managed by Up-Front Agency and part of Hello! Project. She is a member of °C-ute. She was inactive due to dislocating her hip and being in intense pain. Nakajima first joined Hello! Project in 2002…

Gashuin Tatsuya

Tatsuya Gashûin was born on December 10, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan as Akinosuke Sugano. He is an actor, known for Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004) and Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998).

Yamada Yuri

Yuri Yamada, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese actress, playwright and director managed by Apre. She is the leader of the theater company "Luxury Poverty". She made her debut as a child actress, appearing as Little Cosette in the musical Les Miserables at the Imperial Theater when she was in the second grade…

Matsu

Member of Jpop group "EXILE." under LDH. Since 2016 he has been serving as the chairman of the Gekidan Exile Matsu-gumi. On July 22, 2013, Matsu announced his engagement to a non-celebrity woman after 7 years of dating. The couple registered their marriage on January 1, 2014. He has been acting since…

Sasaki Sumie

Sasaki was born on June 22, 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. She has a younger brother and sister. In 1951, she married journalist Akira Aoki. The two remained married until Aoki's death of lung cancer in 2003. In 1951, Sasaki joined a theater troupe and acted in her first play, Sono Imoto. She won an award for…

Tik Klinsee

"Tik" Channarong Khanthithao, or Tik Klinsee, is an artist, actor, presenter, and director born in Ratchaburi, Thailand. He graduated from Silpakorn University's Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts. (Source: MyDramaList)

David Kurata

Kurata Yasuaki is a Japanese actor specializing in action movies. An accomplished martial artist, he has dan ranks in karate (7th degree), judo (3rd degree), and aikido (2nd degree). He is perhaps best known for his extended battle against Jet Li in Fist of Legend and for his villainous role in So Close.…

Guo Yan

Guo Yan, born in Huainan, Anhui on November 24, 1992, graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and is an actress in mainland China. (Source: baidu)

Benjamin Zhang

Benjamin Zhang (formerly known as Zhang Shushu) was born in Anshan City in Liaoning Province. He is an actor from mainland China and graduated from the Film and Television Art Department of Nanjing University of the Arts. His first role was in the 2001 TV series, "Red and Black". Benjamin was born into…

Im Kwon Taek

Im Kwon Taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry. As of spring…