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Watanabe Mototsugu
Watanabe Mototsugu is a highly revered filmmaker in the Pink Eiga world. A consummate entertainer, he was born December 2nd, 1957 in Tokyo and studied filmmaking at Nihon University. From there he entered Mukai Productions (the ‘father of Pink Eiga’, Hiroshi Mukai’s production company), where…
Yoshiya Nobuko
Yoshiya Nobuko was a Japanese novelist active in Taisho and Showa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the…
Hirotsu Ryuro
In 1899, Ryūrō met Ozaki Kōyō, and joined his literary group Ken'yusha. In 1895, he published two novels which enabled him to achieve literary recognition: Hemeden and Kurotogake. These were the first of a new genre in Japanese literature, the "tragic novel", which he created. Heavily influenced…
Epaksa
Epaksa (Korean: 이박사, 李博士) is a South Korean Techno-trot singer. Born October 5, 1954 in Gyeonggi-do, his birth name is Lee Yong-Seok (Korean: 이용석). "Techno-trot" (Korean: 테크노 뽕짝) is a fusion genre of music which was popular in 1990s and early 2000s, and was well known as…
Futagawa Buntaro
A specialist in jidai-geki, Futagawa is remembered largely for the silent films he made at Makino Productions in collaboration with popular action hero Tsumasaburō Bandō. Several of these survive: Kageboshi (Edo Kaizokuden: Kagebōshi, 1925) is admired for having introduced a greater psychological…
Jaime Fabregas
Born in Iriga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines to his parents Pedro Fábregas and Isabel García. Fábregas is a former host of the gag show Sic O Clock News on IBC 13. He is also a former wrestling segment reporter of Pinoy Wrestling on PTV 4, where he was dubbed as the Pinoy version of WWE Reporter…
Nomura Yoshitaro
Yoshitaro Nomura was a prolific Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. During his years as an assistant director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot,…
Koizumi Hiroshi
Hiroshi Koizumi was a Japanese actor who began as an announcer for NHK before transitioning to film in 1950. He was accepted into Toho as part of the 3rd New Face program for new actors and made his film debut in 1952. He first appeared in sci-fi in 1955 as a pilot in Godzilla Raids Again. He would…
Mitsutake Kurando
Originally from Tokyo, Japan. Graduated with an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. A member of the Directors Guild of Japan and Screen Actors Guild. Mitsutake made his feature film directorial debut with MONSTERS DON’T GET TO CRY in 2004. In 2008, Mitsutake produced, wrote, and directed his…
Shin Terra
Shin Terra was born in 1973 and studied film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Afterward, he graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts in 2001. Since then, he made his debut with “A Mild Day“ (1992) and has directed a large number of short films such as “Andropia“ (1996), “The Ambitious…
