Shigehara Hideo

Shigehara Hideo was a Japanese cameraman, editor, recording engineer, and businessman born in Akakura Onsen in Myoko City, Niigata Prefecture. He was the inventor of the SMS system (Super Mohara Sound System), also known as the "Mohara-style talkie". He has served as President of the Mobara Research…

Lok Kung

Lok Kung was a Hong Kong actor, born as Lok Nai Lam in Hong Kong in a family from Guangdong Province. Prior to joining the film industry, he worked as a primary school teacher. Since his screen debut in the 1953 movie "The Valiant Dog", he had participated in about 425 movies, playing many diversified…

Itami Juzo

Juzo Itami, born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films, all of which he wrote himself. The son of Mansaku Itami, prewar director of satiric jidai-geki, Jūzō worked initially as an actor, appearing regularly in Japan and occasionally in English-language…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Twist Kim

Made his big screen debut in the 1962 film “A Man From Tokyo,” and rose to stardom through ``The Barefooted Young’ He became known as a quirky and comical supporting actor and appeared in some 160 films during the ’60s and ’70s

Chen Hung Min

Chen Hung Min was sent to train in Japan with Toho and Toei film companies in 1963. At the time, he was working as an editor for Central Motion Picture Corporation, the government-sponsored company that specialized in Mandarin-language cinema in Taiwan. But, because Central had the best equipment and…

Herman Kwan

Herman Kwan was a Hong Kong actor. He started off as a Cantonese opera actor in street theater before joining New Voice Opera Troupe. He also started singing for early Hong Kong film soundtracks and moved on to act in films, mostly adaption of opera in Cantonese. He became famous and acted in many lead…

David Kurata

Kurata Yasuaki is a Japanese actor specializing in action movies. An accomplished martial artist, he has dan ranks in karate (7th degree), judo (3rd degree), and aikido (2nd degree). He is perhaps best known for his extended battle against Jet Li in Fist of Legend and for his villainous role in So Close.…

Ozu Yasujiro

Yasujiro Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are prominent themes…

Ang Lee

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer. Lee's earlier films, such as The Wedding Banquet, Pushing Hands, and Eat Drink Man Woman explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western. Lee also deals with repressed, hidden emotions in many…

Tora-san 49: Tropical Fever Special Edition

7.4

Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling. . ~~This special edition was made by adding…

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core

7.2

Like Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010, Movie War Core is split into three parts. The Kamen Rider W portion of the film is titled Kamen Rider Skull: Message for Double. The story, taking place after…

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi Preface: True Theory, Yotsuya Kaidan, the Curse of Oiwa

7.0

Fifth mockumentary file in the Kôji Shiraishi series, titled "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!". From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video…

Muta Keijikan Jiken File 6: Oku Kinugawa Yukemuri Keikoku no Satsui

Fires on the Plain

7.5

An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast…

The Cave of the Silken Web

8.0

The Cave of the Silken Web is a 1967 film directed by Ho Meng Hua and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. The film is based on an episode of the novel Journey to the West. The film is the third of a series…

The Power of Expression: The Minamata Producer Speaks

Feature-length documentary by directors Kataoka Nozomi and Inoue Minoru of Kiraigo - Town Where Ogres and Buddha Live. Interweaves interviews and film excerpts to create a contemporary rendition of the filmmaking methods…

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi: The Most Terrifying Movie in History

6.8

Kudo, a director of a video production company, has investigated numerous urban legends and strange phenomena with his assistant, Ichikawa, and his cameraman, Tashiro. (Source: IMDb)

The Symbol of a Man: The Rule for a Vagabond

7.0

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga. The 8th of the Otoko no Monsho series of 11 films.

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi File 04: The Truth! Hanako-san in the Toilet

7.3

A video recently posted shows something popping out of a closed toilet. Before the school was closed, rumors of "Hanako-san in the Toilet" were whispered at the school, and now the interview team will try to confirm…