Jang Sa Ik

South Korean singer whose music combines elements of popular music, jazz, and Korean traditional music, in particular, the style of pansori. He spent his childhood listening to his father and his uncle playing traditional music on the taepyeongso, a traditional Korean oboe and he grew to love the sounds…

Li Yu

Li Yu (1610–1680 AD), also known as Li Liweng, was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher. Born in Rugao, in present-day Jiangsu province, he lived in the late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties. Although he passed the first stage of the imperial examination, he did not succeed in passing the higher…

Yuan Yuan

Yuan Yuan is a screenwriter and director. She is currently an Ang Lee Scholar at New York University as an MFA candidate in writing and directing. Her fascination with movies started when she joined the Chinese film translation group YDY in school. She translated hundreds of movies and series for Chinese…

Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks is an American actress, director, writer and producer. She is known for playing Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games film series (2012-2015) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden in Pitch Perfect film series (2012-2017). Banks made her directorial debut with Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), whose $69 million…

Jeffrey Xu

Jeffrey Xu (born October 3, 1988), is a Chinese actor based in Singapore and was named as one of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill. Xu studied performing major at Shanghai Film Art Academy before being discovered through the tenth season of Star Search in 2010, in which he emerged winner. He made his first…

Shinoda Masahiro

Shinoda attended Waseda University, where he studied theater and also participated in the Hakone Ekiden long distance race. He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu. He debuted as a director in 1960 with One-Way Ticket…

Yoo Young Seok

Yoo Young Seok is a South Korean singer-songwriter, radio DJ and university professor. He graduated from Gyeonggi High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Applied Music from the Seoul College of the Arts and another degree in Industrial Engineering from Ajou University. He debuted in 1988…

Sunthorn Phu

Phra Sunthorn Vohara, born Phu and known as Sunthorn Phu, was a famous royal poet honoured as the Shakespeare of Thailand. Born in 1786, four years after the birth of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, in what was then Thonburi and today Bangkok, his family home was behind the royal palace. Sometime after his…

Kobayashi Takeshi

Kobayashi Takeshi is a Japanese musician. He started his professional career in the late 1970s. After working in the backing bands for singers such as Yosui Inoue, Misato Watanabe, and Anri, he came into prominence as a musical collaborator for the Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata's eponymous…

Kim Young Min

Kim Young Duk, known professionally as Kim Young Min, is a South Korean singer, dancer, musical actor and former member of TAESAJA (태사자). He graduated from Inchang High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Pai Chai University. Before debuting, he was part of a Samulnori…

2 Moons 2

7.4

Wayo is accepted to Kantaphat University in the Faculty of Sciences. There he reencounters Phana, a second-year boy he's long been in love with, though he had never managed to talk to him. When Wayo has the chance…

Soar into the Sun

7.5

South Korean elite Air Force pilot Tae Hoon finds himself kicked out of his top-notch team and demoted into a combat unit after a cocky and dangerous air show demonstration. On the first day of his transfer to F15K,…

Zettai Kareshi

7.5

Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops "Night Tenjo", the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riiko to take part in a 5-day…

You Complete Me

7.5

Gao Shan is a highly skilled investment and fund specialist who plans to get revenge against the people who have caused the death of his father. The first step of his plan is to get hired in the investment department…

Swallow the Sun

7.5

This novel-based story revolves mainly around four people who are drawn to Seogwipo, Jeju for a project. Kim Jung Woo and Lee Soo Hyun first met when they were children but lost track of each other for numerous years.…

Kingyo Club

7.6

Irie plays Hiiragi Haru, a third-year high school student with no real interest in women or higher education, instead choosing to live his life idly. When he notices a first-year student named Harukawa Koto being bullied,…

Tampopo

7.6

Tampopo is a celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Acclaimed director Juzo Itami's (The Funeral. A Taxing Woman) hit satire was dubbed the first "noodle western" for its delightful parody of American…

Blend Feelings

7.4

Jian Xiang Xiang, a traditional incense maker, is devastated by a double betrayal—her boyfriend, Gu Jia Cheng, betrays her in both love and career. Just when she's at her lowest, a barrage of mysterious on-screen…

When I See Your Face

7.2

Young girl Lu Hui was born with severe face blindness and is used to keeping a distance from people. On his first day back at school, Long Cheng Zhou, an international exchange student at Decheng University, helped…

W Series: The Way You Shine

7.6

Zhou Xin Xing is a young woman who has been through a lot. Her first marriage to a dermatologist ended in failure. She had once dreamed of opening a French-style patisserie and living a long, happy life with her husband.…