Joven Tan

Joven Tan is a writer and director, known for Paupahan (2008), Suarez: The Healing Priest (2020) and Stars Versus Me (2015).

Michael Imperioli

Michael Imperioli is an American actor, writer, director and musician. He is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama The Sopranos, which he earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004.

Hamada Koichi

Hamada Koichi is the Tuntex Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University, where he specializes in the Japanese economy and international economics. Hamada also serves as economic adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Paolo Villaluna

In 2001, Paolo made his first short documentary,"Palugid" (Margins) and won the Best Short Film at the 24th Urian Awards, the Documentary Prize at the 2000 Gawad CCP Awards and the Audience Award at the eKsperimento International Film Festival 2001. His subsequent short films have been screened in several…

Dustin Celestino

Dustin Celestino is a Filipino film director, screenwriter, composer, college professor, and playwright. His debut feature film "Utopia" (2019) was the Jury Prize winner of the C1 Originals 2019 Film Festival, for which he was nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Since 2017, he has received…

Koda Hiroko

Joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company in 1953 and worked as an actress on stage and on the air. Appeared in the 1976 serial television novel "Unno Juttan". She also won the Minister of Education Award and the Prix Italia Grand Prize for the music poetry "Ondine" ( composed by Akira Miyoshi ), starring…

Cho Yeong Su

Cho Yeong Su is a South Korean composer and singer. He made his debut as a member of the group 'Twelfth Theme' in 1996 and won the grand prize at the MBC University Song Festival that year.

Akiyoshi Rikako

Rikako Akiyoshi (in Japanese, 秋吉 理香子) studied literature at Waseda University and received her Master’s degree in Film and TV Production from Loyola Marymount University. Her debut work Snow Flower won the Yahoo! JAPAN literature prize and was adapted into a short film. She is the author…

Dok Go Sung

Born in Gangneung, Gangwon-do. His real name is Jeon Won Yoon. He graduated from Seorabol College of Arts and worked as an exclusive singer at the Goryeo Record Company after winning a prize in the rookie singer contest while attending college. During the Korean War, he made his debut as a movie star…

Ueda Yoshihiko

Ueda Yoshihiko is a photographer and Professor of Graphic Design at Tama Art University. Among his many awards are the Photographic Society of Japan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Tokyo Art Directors Club Grand Prize, and the New York Art Directors Club Photography Award. In 2011 he launched Gallery…

Cordillera

'Cordillera' depicts the struggles of rebel priest Conrado Belweg of the Cordilleras. (Source: IMDb)

APT Lenten Special: Marcelino

A boy named Marcelino was adopted by priests in a monastery. Marcelino would often run to the only friend he thinks he has, the man crucified at the cross. (Source: APT Entertainment Inc.) ~~ Adapted from the Spanish…

Sabel

7.0

When Choleng falls in love with a priest Julio, her life darkens when the townspeople get back at her when they find out Julio and Choleng are going to leave their community, thinking that Julio would leave his responsibilities…

Bingoleras

10.0

Six single women and a priest's lives intersect when a bingo marathon is launched in their church for the barangay fiesta, turning expectations and relationships upside down and inside out. (Source: IMDb)

Dalai Lama The 14th. The World Champion Of Peace

This documentary follows 1989 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama. Through this film, he delivers a message of encouragement to Japan which marked the 70th year since…

Of Sinners and Saints

Leonardo Rossellini is an Italian priest from Rome, assigned to a parish in Payatas, a poor area of Metromanila, Philippines. Leonardo's mission is to counsel battered women and teach poor children. But soon his peace…

F.Hilaire

Francois Touvenet Hilaire was a French Catholic priest who traveled to Thailand in the 1900s. Believing that God led him to a faraway land of different languages and cultures, he began to merge his knowledge of the…

Soshite Senso ga Owatta

A drama depicting the appearance of Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki and his family at the end of the war. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Imperial Decision - Emperor of Japan and Suzuki Kantarou" (聖断－天皇と鈴木貫太郎)…

Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty

6.4

Rebellious Yu Yuan Gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and an itinerate…

Expedition Party's Glory

6.7

Sugisaki is an actor already past his prime. He lands a job as the lead in a TV program. The television program ventures into unexplored territories to locate a legendary UMA (unidentified mysterious animal). Initially,…