The Awful Truth

As China fell into hyperinflation following the end of the war, people fought tooth and nail to get their hands on the only reliable currencies in the world: gold and American dollars. This is a story that shows how…

Qing Guo Xiang

The story of how to protect Qingguo Lane in the tide of urban development. This is a serious issue facing the people of the ancient city of Yanling. People of insight, represented by the overseas returnee painter Wang…

Dororo

7.2

The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts - 48 to be exact - were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein"…

Osaka Kanjousen Part 2

7.2

Where there are people, there is a district. Trains connect district to district. The train stops at stations, creating encounters between people at the stations and that is where love is born. This is a 10-part omnibus…

People's Hero

6.8

Two youths concoct a disorganised plan to rob a thriving inner-city bank. This plan is poorly executed, though, and a security guard is wounded in an ensuing shoot-out. Little do these youngsters know that among the…

Osaka Kanjousen Part 1

6.6

Where there are people, there is a district. Trains connect district to district. The train stops at stations, creating encounters between people at the stations and that is where love is born. This is a 10-part omnibus…

Written

5.8

'A' wakes up in a tub, and realizes one of his kidneys stolen. While he is trying to find his missing organ, he meets a writer and learns that he is a just a character of an unfinished film and he will meet an actor…

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse

9.5

In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film…

Haruko no Ningyo

7.1

In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along the pilgrimage route in Shikoku. It seems to be a pilgrim struggling…

Lee Seung Hwan

Born in 1990. He majored in film at Myongji University. His short films were invited to several film festivals, and Dive (2018) won the Best Film at Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival. This film is his first feature film. (Source: PIPFF)

Lek Preecha Chanapai

Preecha Chanapai (nickname: Lek) also known as Lek Carabao is a actor, musician and singer born in Bangkok, Thailand. He is member of Carabao, a famous and popular thai rock and Phleng phuea chiwit (thai protest song) band. He practiced playing guitar at the age of 13 with his brother teaching. He studied…

Real Florido

Real S. Florido is an independent film director in the Philippines and Mass Communications graduate from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. His indie film Saan Nagtatago si Happiness? was one of the eight finalists in the 2006 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. A year earlier, he was…

Natsume Masako

Raised in Naka-ku, Yokohama, while in junior college in 1976 she auditioned for the lead in Nihon TV's "Ai Ga Miemasu Ka?". Chosen from 4,000 applicants, she dropped out of school to pursue an acting career, playing the part under her real name Odate Masako. Masako's mother initially objected to her…

Josephine Siao

Josephine Siao Fong-Fong was born as Siao Liang in Luzhi in Suzhou, Jiangsu. At the age of two, she was brought to Hong Kong by her parents. Siao's first movie appearance was at age six, and she became one of the biggest teen idols in Hong Kong during the late 1960s, along with frequent co-star Connie…

Tamaki Hiroshi

Tamaki Hiroshi, born in Nagoya, is a Japanese actor represented by Aoi Corporation. His wife is actress Kinami Haruka, his sister-in-law is actress Kinami Sayaka, and his cousin is comedian Capybara. When he was in his third year of junior high, he was influenced by the drama "Wakamono no Subete" to…

Henny Savenije

Henny Savenije was Dutch and met his Korean wife in the Netherlands more than 20 years ago. They endured both Cultural differences and Economic difficulties. This became more and more difficult and his wife became homesick and so they moved their family to Korea. A family of four, they have 2 sons.…

Landy Wen

Wen Lan, born Tseng Wen Lan (曾温嵐) in Jianshi, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and also known by her aboriginal name Yungai Hayung, is an indigenous Taiwanese R&B singer and actress of Atayal descent. She graduated from the Film and Drama Department of Youth High School (青年高中). In 1997, Wen Lan participated…

Komada Koyo

Born in Osaka on July 1, 1877 (Meiji 10) . He stow-awayed to the United states only return home and needy after two months, he then moved to Tokyo, Kyobashi Ward (now Tokyo Chuo-ku Kyobashi) and became a clerk at the advertising agency " Hiromeya " in Tokyo . On February 21, 1897 (Meiji 30) , Kazuichi…

Tezuka Mai

Tezuka Mai has two parents in the acting business. Shinozuka Masaru (father) and Asaka Mayumi (mother). In addition to her appearances in movies and dramas, she has made several appearances in music videos. Including Hata Motohiro's Hatsukoi (2013), Bonnie Pink's Is This Love? (2010), Kim Jeong-hoon's…