George Wang

George Wang, born named Wang Chun Yang (王春陽), was a Chinese-born Taiwanese actor, producer, and director. In 1935, he entered the Department of Economics at National Northeastern University, later transferring to the Department of History. After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, he joined the…

Horiuchi Keizo

Horiuchi Keizo was a Japanese composer, lyricist, translator, and music critic born in Kaji, Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. He also used the pen name Yasutani Shizuo (安谷鎮雄). He was the third son of Horiuchi Iataro, the owner of "Asada Ame". However, he abandoned his inheritance rights to Asada Ame at…

Watanabe Koji

Watanabe Koji is a writer and digital media critic from Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan. He is the owner of K-CAFE, a restaurant located in Nakano Broadway, and serves as the president of GTV, a company specializing in the production of games and video software. Additionally, he works as a part-time lecturer…

Barbara Yung

Yung was born in Hong Kong to a civil service family as an only child. Her childhood was relatively uneventful until the death of her father when she was aged 7. Yung left Hong Kong for England at age 15 (in late 1974) to rejoin her mother who had immigrated to the United Kingdom (TVB K100 Feature Interview,…

Kim Eul Boon

The 78-year-old villager and non-actress 'Eul-boon Kim' had not only never performed in a movie before 'Jibeuro', but she had never before *seen* a film. She was found during an extensive talent search among real rural village people by director Lee Jeong-hyang to play the lead role of the stoic, heroic…

Roxanne Tong

Roxanne Tong Lok Man is an actress and a model, born in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of London. Her father is actor Tong Chun Chung whose brother is Hong Kong actor Kent Tong. In 2012, Roxanne competed in the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant and was placed in Top 6. She was awarded the Tourism…

Qi Xiang

Qi Xiang, born in Jilin Province, is a Chinese actress, formerly known as Qi Huan. When she was a child, she could not write well. So her parents changed her original name "Xiang" to "Huan" with fewer strokes. At a very young age, she was admitted to a drama school and became the first female Peking…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Ida Anita Del Mundo

Ida Anita del Mundo comes from a family of filmmakers and artists: her father, Clodualdo del Mundo Jr., is one of the Philippines’ most revered screenwriters, filmmakers, and authors. Her grandfather, Clodualdo del Mundo Sr., was an author, journalist, and a comic book artist who founded several avant…

Song Zu Er

Song Zu Er, whose real name is Sun Fan Qing (孙凡清), is a Chinese actress born in Tianjin, China. She made her debut as a child actress in the television drama The "Sea and Sky Boundless." In 2007, she starred in her first film, "You Are An Angel." In 2018, Song Zu Er enrolled in the Beijing Film…

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

7.3

Tashiro finds an abandoned boy in a war-torn village and takes him home in an attempt to get some neighbor to adopt him. No one seems to accept responsibility even for one night until the unwilling Otane widow stays…

Kono Koe wo Kimi ni

7.5

Honami Takashi is a 46-year-old professor teaching mathematics at a university but lacks speaking skills thus is not very popular with his students. His wife Nao is fed up with him and leaves home with their child.…

Haruka no Hikari

7.5

Haruka is a fisherman's daughter, who lost her home and many friends in the Tohoku earthquake. After a year living in a temporary housing, she did not want to return back to her hometown and went to Tokyo where she…

Happy Together

7.9

A Lin works for a large Hong Kong corporation whose business practice is not exactly honorable. But he is being promoted to upper management with all its perks. Cherry is a woman reporter working for a Hong Kong TV…

Dad's Backdrop

8.6

A middle-aged professional wrestler who lost his wife recently returns to Osaka, his home town, with his son Kazuo. However, Kazuo hates not only wrestling, but his father who couldn't be at the death bed of his mother.…

Guardian

10.0

A renowned performer living in Ye City was killed in his home. When police detective Zhao Yun Lan and his junior, Fang Nan, arrived, they discovered his dead body but found no signs of struggle or fight. While Zhao…

3 Colors Love Story

6.9

Three directors made three different love stories based on their home phone numbers. The three short love stories are 30 minutes each. Hear Memories: In the day that Kyung Min passed away, a call was made to Yu Mi,…

Tsuki to Kaminari

7.1

When Yasuko was a child, her mother left their home, so she grew up not knowing what an ordinary family is. Satoshi's mother was the girlfriend of Yasuko's late father. One day, Satoshi appears in front of Yasuko and…

Yochou Sanpo Suru Shinryakusa

7.0

Asakawa Miyuki tells her colleague Yamagiwa Etsuko that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind and takes…

Boku Dake no Madonna

6.8

Kyoichi Suzuki is an average college student in his junior year. Although he's not in one of the top universities, he's satisfied with his college life studying architecture. Kyoichi left home and is finally on his…