Yuki Keiko

Yuki Keiko is a Japanese lyricist and former actress born in Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan. She entered the entertainment industry at the age of 16 using the stage name Fujita Keiko (藤田佳子) and made her debut as an actress in "Juudai no Himitsu". In 1954, she joined Daiei Film. In the 1960s, she was…

Shishido Rumi

Shishido Rumi is a Japanese singer and voice actress from Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Shishido debuted as an idol singer with Sony Records in 1990 with the single "Cosmic Rendezvous." In 1992, she left her management and began releasing music independently. Around the same time Shishido left her management,…

Wi Ding Ho

Wi Ding Ho, born and raised in Malaysia, attended the film school at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, lives in Taipei these days. His first feature film Pinoy Sunday (funded and supported by NHK, Japan) garnered a pair of awards at Taipei International Film Festival and also won Wi Ding a Best New Director…

Yoshi Sudarso

Sudarso was born in Surabaya, Indonesia to Indonesian parents of Chinese and Japanese descent. His family moved to Cerritos, California, when he was nine years old. He studied at Cal State Long Beach initially pursuing a career in math and accounting before eventually switching to theater. He is famous…

Top Surapong Ploensang

Surapong Ploensang, nicknamed Top, is a Thai director. Top began his career as an assistant director at Phenomena Bangkok, and later on, became a commercial director for many well-known clients in South East Asia. His notable clients include Axe, ChupaChup, Ikea, Kitkat, Vasaline, and Colgate. In 2007,…

Kawachi Tamio

Kawachi Tamio was a Japanese actor. He was a student at Kanto Gakuin University when Ishihara Yujiro, one of his neighbors in Zushi, Kanagawa, invited him to join the Nikkatsu studio. He made his debut in A Slope in the Sun (1958) playing Ishihara's younger brother. The studio initially sold him as…

Ieki Miyoji

Though he has never acquired a reputation abroad, Ieki was a distinguished exponent of domestic drama whose films deserve admiration for their intelligence and humanity. He worked initially at Shochiku as assistant to Heinosuke Gosho and Minoru Shibuya, and his debut, Torrent (Gekiryū, 1944), made…

Raymond Red

Raymond Red is one of the pioneer figures of modern Filipino alternative cinema. Having a background in visual arts and photography after studying at the Philippine High School for the Arts and the University of the Phils. College of Fine Arts, he began by making numerous experimental and narrative…

Sugawara Koharu

Koharu Sugawara is a Japanese dancer, choreographer, and model from Sanmu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Sugawara practiced dancing from around 2002 when she was 10 years old. In her teens, she won the various contests such as "Dance Attack and Shonen Chample". After graduating from a local public middle…

Ouchi Hiroshi