Kim Seong Yeon

Kim Seong Yeon is a South Korean retired judoka turned coach. She graduated from Jeonnam Physical Education High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Judo from Yongin University and a master's degree in Physical Education from Chosun University. She decided to try judo after her parents…

Shinoda Noboru

Shinoda Noboru was a cinematographer born in Saitama, Japan. He studied at Nihon University and is best known for Love Letter (1995), Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004) and Love Hotel (1985). He died in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. (Source: IMDb)

Fujisawa Hirokazu

Fujisawa Hirokazu was born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1981. He graduated from the Department of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University. He started creating independent films while still in university. After graduating, he participated in the film "Pacchigi!" (Directed by: Ikutsu Kazuyuki) as a volunteer…

Fiona Roan

Taiwanese-American writer/director based in LA. Her latest work JIEJIE won the HBO Asian Pacific American Visionary Award and will be distributed by HBO this May. Feng-I received her Directing MFA degree from AFI and was previously trained in classical Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University.…

Yamaguchi Reiko

Yamaguchi Reiko is a staple of Japanese adult videos and pornography and arguably considered the country's second biggest AV star after Sola Aoi. Known for her G-cup bust, she was born in Aichi Prefecture central japan on 15.12.1978. Inspired by her own film career she opened a bar called Bar Naked…

Muranishi Toru

Muranishi Toru is an innovative and controversial director of Japanese adult videos (AV). Known in Japan as the "Emperor of Porn", he has been credited as one of the creators of the quasi-documentary style found in Japanese AVs, a genre that has remained popular throughout the history of the adult industry…

Ahn Chang Rim

Ahn Chang Rim is a South Korean retired judoka. He graduated from Yongin University with a bachelor's degree in Physical Education. He was born in Kyoto to third generation Zainichi Korean parents and grew up in Japan. He began practicing judo since elementary school and competed in regional tournaments.…

Debbie Huang

Debbie Huang is a Taiwanese singer, music producer, and actress born in Taipei, Taiwan. She graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2004 with a Bachelor’s degree and later pursued a master’s in composition at Musashino Gakuin University (武蔵野学院大学) in Tokyo, Japan, starting in…

Ishii Kenichi

Ishii Kenichi is a Japanese actor and director from Numata, Gunma, Japan, affiliated with Office Boardville (オフィスボードビル). He graduated from Gunma Prefectural Numata High School (群馬県立沼田高等学校) and initially worked for a chemical company. In 1965, he became an assistant…

Billy Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul

Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, nicknamed Billy, is a filmmaker and producer born in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, from which he recently graduated. His education includes various courses and workshops held at the Anhalt Hochschule in Dessau, the Tokyo…

Love Stories From Fukuoka 15

6.6

A series of real-life stories submitted by viewers in Fukuoka about their personal experiences with love, loss and longing. All the stories are based in Fukuoka, the capital city of the Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyushu…

All About Chiaki Mayumura (Provisional)

As an idol who does everything from songwriting to running her own company, Chiaki Mayumura has been described as both a genius and a maverick by the Japanese music industry. "Is Chiaki Mayumura just a single person?"…

Tokuso 9 Season 3

7.3

It has been nine months since the previous head of the Special Investigations Unit left. Asawa Naoki and the members of the unit no longer get requests for backup from the First Investigation Division but keep getting…

Keishichou Sousa Ikkachou Season 4

7.0

Junichi Oiwa, chief of the non-carrier “slap-up” investigator who leads over 400 elite detectives, is the latest in this series that will help solve difficult cases. In this work, familiar members such as Hirotaro…

Engawa Lovers 2

The second installment of the humanity comedy "Engawa Lovers," which depicts the everyday life of men who love the veranda, set on the veranda of an old Japanese house. A fledgling movie director, Daisuke Hagiwara…

Engawa Lovers

A humanitarian comedy depicting the daily life of men who love the stage on the edge of an old Japanese house (the porch). The stage is an old Japanese house with a veranda near the sea. Ryo Sasaki, who is a cram school…

East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front

I thought about how to live. I thought about how no Japanese would understand us. The memory of the assailant locks us in the last cold snap and presses us against our backs. We, who are living in Japan now, wanted…

Bansousha

7.0

On a day before the new year’s long-distance relay race, the final roster of the members who have made Hiyori Foods’ track and field team are announced. Awashima Yuichi has been dropped, and his track and field…

Yellow Bricks - The Man Who Tricked Frank Llyod Wright

8.0

The story will center around the Japanese city of Tokoname in Aichi prefecture, which is well known for its ceramics. Over 100 years ago, famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright reached out to Kichinosuke Hisada to procure…

Ohana no Sensei

7.2

Otori Maruko has just been elected into the National Diet of Japan. Originally known as Head of the Otori Flower Arrangement School, which has over 70.000 students nationwide, she gets instructed by the secretary appointed…