Ikkaku Senkin Yume Kazoku Series

Haruka is an ordinary, run-of-the-mill homemaker living in a typical suburban neighborhood who has developed a close relationship with two other housewives in the area. Until one of the lottery tickets the housewives…

A Sentimental Story

6.0

Some years ago, an Italian violin that Niccolò Paganini supposedly had used was stolen from a Beijing orchestra, smuggled overseas, but miraculously recovered a few years later by Chinese law enforcement. Strangely,…

Ichigen no Koto

~ Based on Tomiko Miyao's 1978 novel "Ichigen no koto" (publisher Kodansha), which would win the Naoki Prize.

The Easy Life

2.0

A pair of reckless, fearless delinquent youths in Kishiwada, Osaka, share a philosophy of "just enjoying the easy life." They encounter laughter, tears, brawls and anger as they fumble their way towards maturity. (Source:…

Year after Year

Sigh

4.0

Liang Ya Zhou is a successful, middle-aged TV screenwriter from Beijing. While in Hainan working on a new script, Liu Da Wei assigns young and beautiful Li Xiao Dan to him as an assistant. Ya Zhou and Xiao Dan are…

Such a Life!

'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. The only 'cure'…

Genghis Khan

Temujin is born in the late 12th century, son of a peaceful tribal leader. When his father is killed, Temujin must retreat to the wilderness and learn to survive on his own, kept alive by his love for his mother. Eventually,…

Yi Xiang Zhi Chang

The Nation Under the Foot

4.0

Tsuchiya Tokio

Tsuchiya Tokio is a Japanese screenwriter and scriptwriter, born in Shinagawa, Tokyo. He has used several pen names, including Kurabari Shuichiro (倉成 柊一郎) and Tsuchiya Tokio O (土屋斗紀O) from 1995 to around 1999. In the "Yonimo Kimyo na Monogatari" (世にも奇妙な物語) series, he…

Miki Tetsuya

Miki Tetsuya is a Japanese entertainer born in Toyonaka, Osaka. He graduated from Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences.

Hidari Bokuzen

Hidari Bokuzen was a Japanese actor and comedian born in Kotesashi Village (now part of Tokorozawa), Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He appeared in such films as Kurosawa Akira's Seven Samurai, The Lower Depths and Ikiru. Hidari was famous among Japanese audiences for his portrayals of meek,…

Valen Hsu

Valen Hsu is a singer-songwriter, music producer, and actress.

Yuki Ichiro

Yuki Ichiro is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Okayama, Japan. When he first debuted, he belonged to Daiei and was active under the name Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎), but later changed his name to his current name, Yuki Ichiro.

Yamashima Shuji

Yamashima Shuji is a Japanese actor.

Kayama Takehiko

Former actor. He retired from the entertainment world in 1982 and worked in a restaurant. He died at the age of 42 due to heart failure in 1986 .

Liu Kuan Ting

Liu Kuan Ting is a Taiwanese actor. In 2018, he won a Golden Bell Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series for "Q Series: A Boy Named Flora A". In 2019, he won his first Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for "A Sun". In 2021, he won his second for Golden Horse Award for Best…

Wang Yi Jin

Wang Yi Jin is a Chinese actress and singer represented by Jaywalk Newjoy; a subsidiary company of Jaywalk Studio. Born Wang Yun Xuan in Jinan, Shandong, China, she was one of the child hosts for a television show called"Sunshine Expressway" and went by the name of Xuanxuan for the show. Wang attended…

Ba Jin

Ba Jin, pseudonym of Li Yaotang, was one of most important and well-respected writers of the twentieth century in China. He was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1904, but lived in Shanghai for most of his adult life before his death in 2005. Ba Jin was prolific, publishing 14 short story collections, 19…