Han Ying Chieh

When Han Ying Chieh was 3 years old, he moved to Beijing and from 9 to 18 years old joined a Pekin Opera group. In 1946, he went to Shanghai and debuted in the film industry at 19 years old as a stuntman that same year. Next year he left the movies temporarily to do martial arts and circus exhibitions…

Zeze Takahisa

Takahisa Zeze is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink." Takahisa Zeze was born in 1960 and graduated…

Ishii Takashi

A sometime manga artist, Ishii entered the film industry as a writer, scripting Roman Porno at Nikkatsu for such directors as Chūsei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Shun Nakahara, and Shinji Sōmai. Many of his scripts were based on his own manga Angel Guts(Tenshi no harawata), which Nikkatsu adapted into a series,…

Jun Robles Lana

Jun Robles Lana, born as Rodolfo R. Lana Jr., is an internationally acclaimed Filipino filmmaker. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2015, he directed the multi-awarded film "Shadow Behind The Moon", which won the Best…

Ma Jing Tao

Steve Ma Jingtao is a Taiwanese actor, best known for acting in many Taiwanese, mainland Chinese and Singaporean television series since the early 1990s. Most of the more notable television series he acted in are of the wuxia and historical drama genres. Some of his notable roles in television series…

Fujitani Ayako

At age 12, she won the Asian Beauty Contest, held in commemoration of the Japanese release of the film Police Story 3. At age 13 she became the sixth girl to lead the Mitsui ReHouse advertising campaign. This began her modeling career. She was featured regularly in magazines and television commercials.…

Guo Jing Lin

Guo Jing Lin, born to a family of workers in Beijing, is a Chinese actor. director and screenwriter. He graduated from the 90th grade performance department of Shanghai Theatre Academy, and is a first-class actor of China National Theatre. When he was a child, he lived near Beijing Renyi, a theatre…

Matsumoto Hakuo II

The 9th generation Matsumoto Koshiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Waseda University and a versatile actor, Matsumoto Koshiro IX has performed extensively in Kabuki and Western stage plays. He made his stage debut in 1945, at the age of three, under the name Matsumoto Kintaro II, and took…

Kurata Tetsuo

Tetsuo Kurata is a Japanese television, stage and film actor and administrator, best known for portraying Kotaro Minami, the main character in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Black and its sequel, Kamen Rider Black RX. Kurata auditioned for the role of Kotaro Minami in January 1987, when…

Koda Kumi

Kumiko Kōda (神田 來未子 Kōda Kumiko, born November 13, 1982), better known by her stage name Kumi Koda (倖田 來未 Kōda Kumi), is a Japanese singer from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs. Having debuted in 2000 with the single "Take Back", Koda gained fame for her seventh single,…

Golden Nun

In this movie, we got a bald lady monk who fights a ghost girl, and at one point, this bald nun becomes golden. Thus, the title. And it wouldn't be complete without vampire hoppers! (Source: Tarstarkas, YT)

The Drunken Swordsman

A young man, very talented in the martial arts, appears in a troubled part of the country and rids it of brigandry with his fighting skills. His sloppy dress and fondness for wine earns him the title of Idiot Swordsman.…

Flaming Superman Megaloman

8.0

Science Fiction/superhero/kaiju TV series. Created by Tetsu Kariya, the show was produced by Toho Company Ltd. Starting with Episode 14, the show's title became Flaming Superman Megaloman. This series features a superhero…

Bat Without Wings

6.9

Acclaimed director Chu Yuan was credited for bringing mystery and detective thriller ingredients into his atmospheric and character-rich martial arts epics, and this is one of the most impressive examples. The title…

Kemuri ga me ni Shimiru

The story of Shingo Nemoto, whose unsuccessful career as a shogi player, reflected in his love life. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from a book with the same title. The main character was modeled after Hideharu Suzuki,…

The Denouement of Chu Liu Hsiang

Chu Liang Hsiang has to fight a legion of fighters helmed by the Bastard swordsman himself Tsui Siu Keung, who is united by one aim, and that is, to defeat the Romantic swordsman Chu Liu Hsiang and claim the title…

The Ume Tree in the Midst of the Snow

5.9

The third episode of 500 Years of Joseon Dynasty deals with the period of history spanning from the reign of King Munjong, the first son of Sejong, to the chaos of Yeonsangun's rule. The "ume tree" of the title represents…

Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave

6.4

The opening sequence shows Bruce Lee (played by an unknown imitator), leaping from his grave after it is struck by lightning. While this and the title imply a story involving Bruce Lee returning from the afterlife…

Versailles No Track Neechan

A work referencing two popular Japanese works; the Toei movie series " Torakku Yaro " and the popular manga title "The Rose of Versailles ". The story is based around the "Versailles Flower Shop", flowers are delivered…

Appassionata

This story is based on the novel “Jo no mai” by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece…