Amano Chihiro

Chihiro Amano is a Japanese film director and screenwriter who has been described as "profusely talented" by movie critic Tom Mes. Amano was born on July 30, 1982. After five years working in the corporate world, she turned to film and made her debut with the 2009 Sayonara Muffler which was shown at…

Sugino Kiki

Kiki Sugino, born as Seo Yeong Hwa, is an actress and producer. Sugino was born in Hiroshima, Japan to Korean parents (Japanese-born Koreans are known in Japan as "Zainichi Koreans"). She made her debut as an actress in Korea in the 2005 film "One Shining Day". Kim Ki Duk cast her in a small role in…

Kiuchi Midori

Kinouchi Midori is a former Japanese idol and actress. In early 1978 she scored her biggest hit with "Yokohama Eleven", which reached the Oricon top 30. That same year she announced her retirement because of her marriage to composer and arranger Tsugutoshi Goto. They divorced 4 years later, and she…

Suda Anna

Suda Anna is a Japanese performer, rapper, model and actor. She is a member of the Japanese all-female dance and vocal groups E-girls, Happiness, and SudannaYuzuYully. Anna is represented with LDH. Anna is half Filipino. She speaks Japanese as well as Tagalog. Born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, she began…

Okada Mariko

Okada Mariko is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Yoshida Yoshishige, until his death in 2022. Her father was the noted silent film actor Okada Tokihiko, who before his early death (the year following his daughter's birth) starred in Ozu Yasujiro's Tokyo Chorus (1931). As an adult,…

Morino Mash

Moeino Mash is a Japanese screenwriter born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature at Hosei University. Under the guidance of Professor Masao Nemoto, she studied novel writing. After working at an advertising agency, she completed her studies in the Film…

Lu Chuan

Lu Chuan (born 8 February 1971) is a Chinese filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He is the son of novelist Lu Tianming. He was born in Xinjiang, China. Hailed as a major new voice in Chinese cinema, Lu's first two films were small-budget productions which garnered both Chinese and international acclaim:…

Namewee

Wee Meng Chee is a Malaysian Chinese hip hop recording artist, composer, filmmaker and actor. He is widely known by his stage name Namewee. He is a controversial figure in Malaysian Chinese music. He first gained mainstream popularity with his song You're Not Red. In subsequent years, several other…

Manussa Vorasingha

Born in September 1980 in Bangkok, and received B.A.degree in film and photography from Thammasat University in 2002, then worked as an independent filmmaker. Many of my works had been awarded and screened in many international film festivals e.g. "Post-it" received Best Short Film Award from 2003 World…

Higa Suzuki

Higa Suzuki, known mononymously as Suzuki, is a Japanese singer under LDH JAPAN. He is a member of the groups DEEP SQUAD and WOLF HOWL HARMONY from EXILE TRIBE, as well as a special seven-member unit WOLF & WANDER under G&LDH, a joint venture between LDH JAPAN and GMM Music formed with FLIO and WOLF…

Legal Beat: Gyakuten no Hotei

Wanting to help people who cannot speak up for themselves, Taichi Sora becomes a lawyer. Although he passes the bar exam on his first attempt, his job search ends in disappointment because his stutter makes it difficult…

Blossom

Hano Tama was born in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1897. Her biological mother died when she was two years old, and she was raised by her father and his stepmother. After graduating from a girls' school, she started…

Lita

The story is set on Tellus, a distant planet in outer space. Facing extinction due to the effects of environmental destruction caused by Earth, its inhabitants dispatch an investigator named Nizaki to determine whether…

God Raiga vs King Ohga

5.7

The giant monster Raiga returns, rising in Atami Harbor and attacking the city. A second kaiju, Ohga, soon joins the chaos, and the two monsters clash, destroying large sections of the city. Defense forces launch two…

Varan

5.9

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight…

Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog

6.3

Tamotsu Inukai is a married middle-aged man with a wife, daughter and son. He loves his family and is a family man, but because of his work he is sent to sent to an island. His family stays behind in Tokyo. With the…

First Cry

Declining birth rates, physician shortages, and the growing number of obstetrics departments closing in regional areas—today’s maternity care system is facing an unprecedented crisis. Even perinatal medical centers…

Banshaku no Ryugi Season 5: Natsu Hen

In Season 5, Hop Housing, where Miyuki works, expands into Hokkaido. Umino instructs Miyuki to select a location for the company's Hokkaido branch, and she agrees to take the business trip in exchange for the chance…

IZO

6.3

Almost defying description, Miike's film opens with found documentary footage about sperm-production in young males and then turns to a graphically violent recreation of the execution in 1865 of the 28-year-old Okada…