Hu Ping

Hu Ping was a Chinese actress & screenwriter born in Changsha, Hunan. She was discovered by revolutionary playwright Tian Han while working at a coffee shop. She then moved to Shanghai and was active as a playwright & actress. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, she was an active member of the Anti-Japanese…

Mimura Akira

Mimura Akira was a cinematographer and film director during the Taisho and Showa periods, born in Etajima, Aki, Hiroshima, Japan. He was one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema photography and is known internationally as Harry Mimura (ハリー・三村). He graduated from Zushi Kaishin Junior High School…

Park Chang Geun

Park Chang Geun is a South Korean singer. He graduated from Youngshin High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Literature and German Language from Daegu University. During his teenage years, he was interested in Sanulrim's music and in college, he was active as a member of the karaoke troupe…

Kobayashi Satoru

Kobayashi Satoru was a Japanese film director most famous for directing the first pink film, the type of softcore pornographic films that became the most prolific film genre in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japanese sources claim that Kobayashi directed over 400 pink films between 1960 and 1990,…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Zhao Zi Hui

Zhao Zi Hui (English name: Loutus) is a Chinese actress, born in Shenyang of Liaoning Province and graduated from Meishi Film Academy of Chongqing University in 2003. At aged 14 in 1999, she officially entered showbiz with her participation in the TV series "We Are The Essence of China". In 2002, she…

Miki Mikako

Miki Mikako is a Japanese actress born in Hokkaido, Japan. She is affiliated with the Culture Division of Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. She graduated from Hakodate Shirayuri Gakuen High School in Hokkaido and later completed training at the Theater Echo Acting School. After being associated with the E-Nest…

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…

Somchai Asanajinda

Somchai Asanajinda was a Thai film director (he has directed more than 70 movies), actor (he has played in more than 80 movies), writer and journalist. Following the uprising of October 14, 1973, commercial filmmakers like Sor Asanajinda put anti-dictatorship messages in his action movies. He was named…

Gerardo de Leon

Gerardo de León was a Filipino film director and actor. Gerardo De León was a member of the Ilagan clan of Philippine motion pictures, which includes Robert Arevalo, Conrado Conde, Angel Esmeralda, Eddie Ilagan, musical scorer Tito Arévalo, and his daughter Liberty Ilagan. De León was a medical…

Once upon a Time in Hong Kong

6.5

In the early 70s, when Hong Kong was under British colonial rule, corruption was as rampant as ever. The majority of the Hong Kong Police Force collaborated with the triads. As king of the corruption empire, Chinese…

Leng Gong Bao Gai Da Bie Shu

6.6

College student Tao Tao suddenly finds herself transported into the past, reincarnated as an unloved empress. Before she can even meet Emperor Long Ao Tian, she's banished to the Cold Palace on her wedding night. Three…

A Murder Beside Yanhe River

6.8

A woman's body was found beside Yanhe river one day in 1937 with a gunshot wound on her head, and the investigation led to the arrest of Huang Kegong, a 26-year old general of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red…

The Big Call

6.8

Ding Xiao Tian is a young policeman whose sole goal is to catch Lin A Hai, the leader of a ring that deals in phone scams, and have caused his high-school teacher to commit suicide after being bankrupted by them. Eventually,…

L'Horizon Retrouve

7.0

Modern auctioneer Li Man Shu is unexpectedly transported to Paris in 1936, where she meets Shen Zhong Heng, a seemingly calculating man who is actually deeply patriotic. Together, they embark on a legendary tale that…

Song Bird

7.0

Rising above a turbulent childhood, Zhou Xuan joined the Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe at the tender age of 12. There she met Yan Hua who taught her how to read music and speak Cantonese. Ten years her senior, they…

L Storm

7.1

ICAC investigator William Luk and JFIU officer Lau Po Keung are each investigating corruption and money laundering cases without progress. Luk is suspended after a report claims he accepted a HK$12 million bribe, but…

A City Called Macau

6.5

Macau's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1999 ushered in that city's "golden age." By 2012, the value of Macau's gaming industry was nine times that of Las Vegas, and Macao had become the world's foremost gambling…

Warning from Space

6.3

UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns…

Turning Point 1

7.1

Laughing is supposedly an undercover police officer who has infiltrated a triad organization. However, before he became a police officer, Laughing was a member of the triads and worked for the big boss man No. 1. No.…