Shimazaki Mami

Born in Tokyo in 1975, she started studying ballet at age three. At 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied at Maurice Bejart's Rudra dance school in Lausanne. After finishing her studies, she danced with several troupes and projects in Europe and Japan. At the end of the 1990s, after meeting Israeli…

Gijs Blom

Gijs Blom is an actor from the Netherlands. At the age of 17, he played the lead role in the critically acclaimed film Boys, directed by Mischa Kamp. The film was shown at multiple international film festivals and was eventually bought by Netflix. For his role in Boys, Gijs earned a nomination for a…

Zheng Jun Li

Zheng Jun Li was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema. His films The Spring River Flows East and Crows and Sparrows are widely considered classics of Chinese cinema. He was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and…

Mabuchi Haruko

Mabuchi Haruko is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan. She died from lung cancer at the age of 75. (Source: Wikipedia)

Makisig Morales

Makisig Morales is a Filipino-Australian actor and singer. At the age of 5, Makisig Morales competed in the show "Duet Bulilit" together with his sister Mayumi. He later auditioned with his sister Mayumi and brother Vincent in "Little Big Star", where only Makisig and Mayumi were accepted to compete…

Miyagi Ayako

Miyagi Ayako was born in Musashino, Tokyo. Since the age of 15, she aspired to become a novelist. She went on to debut in 2006 with "Hanayoi Dochu (A Courtesan with Flowered Skin)", set in the Edo era.

Joyce Chen

Chen Yin Hang (English name: Joyce) is a Hong Kong host and actress. Fond of acting since young age, Joyce Chen attended high school in Toronto, Canada and after graduation, in 1995, she returned to Hong Kong to join TVB’s performing artist training program. Out of 10,000 candidates during the training…

Gan Ryu

Gan Ryu (also known as Gan Ryutaro), is a Japanese actor. He died at the age of 55 due to acute heart failure.

Ichinomiya Atsuko

Ichinomiya Atsuko was a Japanese actress. She passed away at the age of 77 on February 16, 1991, due to liver failure. (Source: Wikipedia)

Julie Condra

Julie Condra was born in Winters, Texas and lived there until the age of 9 when the family moved to San Antonio, Texas. At the age of 9, she began modeling and appeared in local TV commercials.She was crowned Miss Texas Teen at 14 when she also began her acting career. She moved to LA at age 16 and…

Watashi no Sukina Hito wa,

At the age of 29, Komiyama Rino fulfills her lifelong dream of getting engaged, but she spends her days feeling uneasy about her fiancé, Seta Hiroto. One day, Rino meets her younger colleague, Sakimura Kei, and through…

China's Extreme Speed

In middle age, veteran train driver Lao Guan reluctantly parts ways with the locomotive he loves and takes on a new role as a “full-time head instructor.” Leading a group of trainee drivers through a rigorous combination…

Zhi Yuan Jun Xin Zui Bu Ju Shan Shui Chang

6.3

From a young age, A Wan was adopted by the Ling family. She grew up with her cousin, Ling Yan Chen, and they were childhood sweethearts. Just before her coming-of-age ceremony, she discovered that she was actually…

Embrace You

From the age of eight, Shen Jia Yi and Gu Yan Chen grew up together, vowing to devote their lives to the aviation industry. But the harsh rules of the wealthy elite tore them apart, with Gu’s mother forcing Shen…

Boku no Naka ni Saku Hanabi

A coming-of-age film following Okura Minoru pursuing the memory of his late mother. (Source: natalie.mu)

You Jian Xing Luan Qi Wu Shi

At the age of six, Xiao Xing Luan was abandoned at a nunnery by her father on the grounds that she was “unlucky to her mother.” Relying on her talent, she grew up to become a gifted young woman. In order to annul…

Entrapment

At the age of five, Shang Ying Yi witnessed her father having an affair with the family’s maid. Shortly after, her mother died in an accident. Shang Ying Yi was sent abroad and gradually marginalized by the Shang…

Undergrads

6.7

A coming-of-age tale that delves into the complexities of sexuality and its big impact on their young lives. (Source: Vivamax)

Wonderful Youth

In the prime age of his youth, high school freshman Xiao Yufan’s life takes a dramatic turn when he sinks a world-class buzzer-beater, earning his place on the prestigious Shijiazhuang No. 2 High School basketball…

Mayumi

A coming-of-age story of a girl who ignites her friend’s sexual awakening, only to lead him to an unexpected heartbreak. (Source: VMX)