Fujima Murasaki

Kiyohiro Makoto

Kiyohiro Makoto is a Japanese director and producer.

Missa Johnouchi

Composer and singer-songwriter. She started professional activities such as composition and arrangement of popular TV dramas, commercials, movies and other video music while attending Toho Junior College of Music and Music Science. She studied under the composer Jean-Claude Petit in France. She also…

Sugiyama Kohei

Sugiyama Kohei was a Japanese cameraman born in Hamamatsu Town, Hamana District, Shizuoka Prefecture. After serving as a cameraman for Mizoguchi Kenji's "Genroku Chushingura" from the end of 1941 to 1942, he became the chief engineer of Manchukuo Film Association. At the same association, he was a cameraman…

Park Seo An

Park Se Jun, formerly known professionally as KIDZ and currently known as Park Seo An, is a South Korean singer, dancer, actor and former member of SPEED (스피드). He graduated from Hanlim Entertainment Arts High School, and before debuting, he lived in Vancouver, Canada, for nearly 3 years. MBK…

Adipati Dolken

Adipati Koesmadji or better known as Adipati Dolken is an Indonesian actor and model of mixed German and Javanese descent. Adipati gained prominence when he appeared in a supporting role on the soap opera Kepompong (Indonesian: Cocoon), which aired on SCTV from 2008 to 2009. He was later cast in Putih…

Takamatsu Toyojiro

Often seen as one of the key figures in Taiwan's early cinema. Takamatsu arrived in Taiwan in 1903 bringing to the Japanese colony his popular travelling film show which he began in Japan at the turn of the century. In 1907 he produced Taiwan's first film, an educational documentary titled Taiwan Jitsukyo…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Peace in Palace, Peace in Chang'An

Set towards the end of Sui and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty is a story of intense upheaval that paves the way for a Golden Age under the rule of the Li Imperial Family. As is often told in history, there is no…

Tyrole no Banka

In the past, it was bustling with coal mines, but due to the closure of the mine one after another, the city of Nupuka no Shiki in Hokkaido is currently suffering from depopulation. The mayor, Yamagata, is trying to…

An Inn in Tokyo

7.3

Kihachi, an unemployed worker, wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo's Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko and Masako. He is unable to find a job and has to rely on his sons catching stray dogs…

An Idiot in Love

6.1

This was the third film version of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel that might be described as an eccentric Pygmalion. A middle-aged businessman takes in an orphan girl with intentions of raising her to be a proper lady…

An Autumn Afternoon

7.6

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

An Artist of the Floating World

6.5

Set in post-World War II Japan and tells the story of Masuji Ono, a renowned artist looking back on and coming to terms with his life against the backdrop of a country being rebuilt after the war. (Source: Variety)…

An Encouragement of Love

7.3

Otori Keisuke attends a prestigious high school that has implemented a rigid environment to allow students to focus on their studies only. The high school has a strict rule that all kinds of entertainment are banned,…

Sanma no Aji

4.0

Hirayama Shuhei is a widower with a 24-year old daughter. He gradually comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, and so he arranges a marriage for her. (Source: asianwiki)

An Eraser in My Head

7.0

An art school student and an artist find love but soon must face a painful struggle.

Risou no Kekkon

7.2

Although a couple may enter into a marriage expecting love to conquer all, the reality rarely meets this fantasy. Abandoned by her boyfriend and fired from her job for resisting her supervisor's advances, Mari meets…

Park No Shik

Park No Shik was a South Korean actor. Park was born in Suncheon, South Jeolla province, Korea in 1930. He graduated from Suncheon School of Education. Park debuted as an actor in 1956 by starring in "Gyeoktoe" directed by Lee Gang Cheon. He had starred in over 900 films and established his career as…

No Min Woo

No Min Woo is a South Korean singer, dancer, child actor and member of BF (formerly known as BOYFRIEND (보이프렌드)). He graduated from Seoul Performing Arts High School. He made his acting debut in 2005 with a small role in the KBS drama "My Sweetheart, My Darling". He continued to act until 2011,…