Kim Ki Bum

Kim Ki Bum was active as a singer of an orchestra, and then became an actor. In 1959, he began his career as a movie star. In the 1960s, the golden age of Korean cinema, he often appeared as a villain such as a puppet army, a Japanese military police, and a Japanese detective in director Shin Sang Ok's…

Chu Ke Liang

Chu Ke Liang, born Hsieh Hsin Ta (謝新達), was a Taiwanese actor, comedian, and a television show host. Born in Zuoying, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chu Ke Liang left home in his early teenage years to pursue his dream of being in theater. He went on to receive tuition from Lin Sung Yen and became an actor…

Kanazawa Tomoko

Kanazawa Tomoko is a Japanese member of the Hello! Project group Juice=Juice, which she joined on February 25, 2013, and was appointed as its second leader in June of 2019. She has been on hiatus since September 2021 for poor health due to endometriosis. She will be graduating from the group and Hello!…

Shin Gi Ru

Kim Hyun Jung, known professionally as Shin Gi Ru, is a South Korean comedian. She graduated from Younghwa International Tourism High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree from Seoul Arts College. She made her debut in 2005 as part of KBS "Laughter Club" with other comedians with very little…

Choe Seong Min

Choe Seong Min is a South Korean comedian. He graduated from Chungnam Machinery and Technology High School and later obtained an associate's degree from Goguryeo University. Before debuting, he traveled around the country with 3 other aspiring comedians and appeared in regional festivals and special…

Choi Baek Ho

Choi Baek Ho is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He was born as the youngest of two children to his father, Choi Won-bong, who was an independence activist and a member of the National Assembly, and his mother, who was an elementary school teacher. He was discharged from the military due to tuberculosis…

Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

James Miki

James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…

Cassy Legaspi

Cassy Legaspi is a Filipino television personality, actress and model. She is the daughter of Filipino actor Zoren Legaspi and Filipino TV host and actress Carmina Villaroel. She was born along with her twin, Mavy Legaspi, in Los Angeles, California. They were three (3) months old when Zoren and Carmina…

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…

Silent Revolution

Documentary about people living in depopulated regions who are working to revitalize their communities through renewable energy. Volunteers in Iitate Village and brewery owners in Kitakata City established Aizu Electric…

Magic Town

Documentary about a director Ikeda Chihiro running a filmmaking workshop for children in her hometown of Fukuroi City in Shizuoka Prefecture. Portrays the brutal purity of the children with a sympathetic gaze. Film…

Father Cambodia e Shiawase o Todoketa Gocchan Shimpu no Monogatari

Documentary about the travels that mark the crowning achievement for an 86-year-old priest who has devoted his life to supporting refugees and building schools in Cambodia. Goto Fumio, nicknamed Gocchan, was born into…

Kokoro no Kokyo Aru Wansho no Ayundekita Michi

Documentary about the lives of 'wansei' Japanese who were born and raised in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation prior to World War Two. At the end of World War Two there were some 200,000 'wansei.' Forcibly repatriated…

SUKITA: The Shoot Must Go On

9.0

Documentary about veteran photographer Sukita Masayoshi, whose photos of musicians like David Bowie and Iggy Pop have been seen around the world. Follows the trajectory of his work including behind-the-scenes anecdotes…

Uta no Hajimari

Documentary about deaf photographer Saito Harumichi. When Saito threw away his hearing aid and picked up a camera at age 20, he chose a life of "seeing" over "hearing." His wife Moriyama Manami is also a deaf photographer,…

The Big Band Season 2

8.2

Forget about their past! Whether they’re veterans or nobodies, in this season of The Big Band, their existing labels won’t matter! Their passion for music is the only reason and answer to how far they’ll go.…

Kupipo SOS! The Dreamers from Underground

Documentary about the idol group Kupipo, which was formed in 2014 with Hattori Maki as the leader. Maki is a man who wishes to act like a cute gal and dresses up in woman's clothes. Follows the group from early summer…

"Children of the Hakkyo School Project”, Work-in-Progress 2017

10.0

Documentary about kids growing up as they attend the Korean school in Edakawa in Tokyo's Koto district. Footage covering first-graders in 2010 through graduation was edited as a work-in-progress and given a special…

Haribote

Documentary about a small local TV station uncovering improprieties at a city council in Toyama Prefecture, a conservative area known for having the highest percentage of LDP voters in Japan for ten years running.…