Amamoto Hideyo

Amamoto Hideyo, also known by the alternate name Amamoto Eisei (天本英世), was a Japanese actor born in Wakamatsu, Fukuoka, Japan. He came from a wealthy family, with his father working at the Sumitomo Coal Mining Company (住友石炭鉱業株式会社) in Fukuoka. Amamoto graduated from Wakamatsu…

Jeon Young Seon

Born in 1953. Her father is Jeon Oh Seung, a composer, and her aunt is Na Ae Shim, a singer and movie star. In 1958, when she was 5 years old at the recommendation of the assistant director Hong Eun Won, a friend of her aunt's, she entered the film industry by appearing in Director Lee Kang Cheon's…

Stevel Marc

Stevel Marc is the first of two children for Jasmine Williams and Carlton McDonald. He grew up in Portland, Jamaica where he attended Titchfield High School. His modeling career started when he was discovered professionally by Dwight Peters of Saint International Modelling Agency, shortly before he…

Azuma Rion

Azuma Rion is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group SKE48. She was a member of SKE48's Team E. Azuma passed Team Crerekko's, a Hokkaido-based idol group, 4th generation auditions in October 2012, but resigned in December 2012. She later applied for SKE48's 6th generation auditions in January…

Moon Ye Bong

Moon Ye Bong was a North Korean actress. She started acting in a theatre company with her father, Moon Soo Il. She first appeared on stage at the age of 13. She continued to work in a theatre company before making her debut as a film actress in 1932. She appeared as a boatman's daughter in the director…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…

Otsuka Ai

Ai Otsuka (Tsuka Ai, born September 9, 1982) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, composer, pianist, and actress from Suminoe-Ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo," which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly…

Matsuyama Mary

Matsuyama Mary, born September 2, 1991, in Hyogo prefecture, is a Japanese actress. Possessing natural brown eyes and red hair, Mary is often mistaken as a "hafu" although she is pure Japanese. Matsuyama entered the entertainment industry in 2007 after being scouted on her way home from junior high…

Autumn, Autumn

6.6

Ji Hyeon attends an interview in Seoul before taking a train back to his hometown of Chuncheon. On the way, he sits next to a middle-aged couple. The film soon separates into two stories, one following Ji Hyeon and…

Lemon&Letter

Fifth-grader Kijima Kaito moved with his family to his father's hometown on Ogijima island when his mother got sick. He's lived with his father and grandfather in a household of three ever since his mother's death,…

Middle

Xu Jia Lin decides to leave the city and return to his hometown due to family reasons.

Midnight Bus

6.3

Takamiya Toshikazu works as a long-distance overnight bus driver from his hometown in Niigata. One night his ex-wife Miyuki, who he divorced sixteen years ago, slips onboard his Tokyo-Niigata bus just as he's about…

Magic Town

Documentary about a director Ikeda Chihiro running a filmmaking workshop for children in her hometown of Fukuroi City in Shizuoka Prefecture. Portrays the brutal purity of the children with a sympathetic gaze. Film…

Sukabro

Umino Ryusuke fails to make it as an actor in Tokyo and returns to his hometown of Yokosuka, where his younger brother Kota is a street musician. They are working as handymen when a half-Japanese woman named Naomi…

Guitar Brothers

8.2

Story about the "guitar brothers" Fang Qing Ming and Fang Qing Hua from their hometown in Shizhu Village, Guizhou Province who went to work in a guitar factory in Guangzhou. They later became the owner of a guitar…

Yeongju

6.0

This is a story about people and a family who once tried to abandon their hometown and change their names, and seek forgiveness and repentance for their acts.

Death in the Land of Encantos

A Filipino poet named Benjamin Agusan is the hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. For the past seven years, Benjamin had been living in an old town called…

Ripples of Life

7.4

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in…