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Han Ying Chieh
When Han Ying Chieh was 3 years old, he moved to Beijing and from 9 to 18 years old joined a Pekin Opera group. In 1946, he went to Shanghai and debuted in the film industry at 19 years old as a stuntman that same year. Next year he left the movies temporarily to do martial arts and circus exhibitions…
Zeze Takahisa
Takahisa Zeze is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink." Takahisa Zeze was born in 1960 and graduated…
Ishii Takashi
A sometime manga artist, Ishii entered the film industry as a writer, scripting Roman Porno at Nikkatsu for such directors as Chūsei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Shun Nakahara, and Shinji Sōmai. Many of his scripts were based on his own manga Angel Guts(Tenshi no harawata), which Nikkatsu adapted into a series,…
Mickey Curtis
Mickey Curtis (born Michael Brian Curtis) is a Japanese actor, singer, and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where…
David Kurata
Kurata Yasuaki is a Japanese actor specializing in action movies. An accomplished martial artist, he has dan ranks in karate (7th degree), judo (3rd degree), and aikido (2nd degree). He is perhaps best known for his extended battle against Jet Li in Fist of Legend and for his villainous role in So Close.…
sEODo
South Korean singer and songwriter who performs under the stage name "sEODo". He is the creator, leader and main vocalist of the Korean group, sEODo band, a group who popularized Jeoson Pop. His style focuses on the characteristic story, rhythm, and melody of the Korean traditional music and mixes with…
Nagai Go
Nagai Kiyoshi, better known by the pen name Nagai Go, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey,…
Higuchi Shinji
Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…
Lee Hae Young
Lee Hae-young (born 1973) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Lee wrote and directed his debut feature Like a Virgin (2006) (with director Lee Hae-jun), which won several awards for Best New Director and Best Screenplay. His first solo feature Foxy Festival (2010) is a comedy that showed…
Suzuki Seijun
Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically…
