Wakamatsu Koji

Koji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as "Ecstasy of the Angels" and "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin". He also produced Nagisa Oshima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses". He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre,"…

Riju Go

Riju Go is a Japanese film director and actor. Riju started making 8mm films in high school, and his Kyokun I earned a spot at the 1980 Pia Film Festival. In 1981, he made his acting debut with a starring role in the TBS drama Fubo no gosan. The same year, he participated in the production of Kihachi…

Zhang Lu

Jang Ryool is a Korean Chinese producer, scriptwriter, and director. Zhang was originally a novelist before embarking on a career in cinema. His arthouse films have mostly focused on the disenfranchised, particularly ethnic Koreans living in China. He began his career with a short film Eleven (2000)…

Manussa Vorasingha

Born in September 1980 in Bangkok, and received B.A.degree in film and photography from Thammasat University in 2002, then worked as an independent filmmaker. Many of my works had been awarded and screened in many international film festivals e.g. "Post-it" received Best Short Film Award from 2003 World…

Lang Lang

Lang Lang is a Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and some top American orchestras. A Chicago…

Hong Ji Young

Hong Ji Young is a South Korean director and screenwriter. After graduating from the 14th Class of the Korean Academy of Film Arts, Hong Ji Young first gained notoriety with her feature, The Naked Kitchen (2009). The film was invited to various overseas film festival, including the Berlin Film Festival.…

Stanley Kwan

Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred Chow Yun-fat, and was a big box-office success. Kwan's films often deal sympathetically with…

Li Shao Hong

Li Shao Hong is a Chinese film and television director and producer. She is considered a member of the Fifth Generation movement, and China's top woman director. Her films have won multiple awards in China and abroad, including the Golden Montgolfiere at the 1992 Three Continents Festival (for Bloody…

Siqin Gao Wa

Siqin Gaowa is a Chinese actress, born to a Han Chinese father and Mongolian mother in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. She made her debut in the 1982 film "Rickshaw Boy". She won the Golden Rooster Award and Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress that year. In 1995, she was a member of the jury at the…

Tsai Ming Liang

Tsai is a notable filmmaker in Taiwan's Second New Wave movement. He was born in Malaysia and lived there for twenty years, before moving to Taipei, Taiwan. His first film was "Rebels of the Neon God" (1992). In 2015, he won Best Director at the Taipei Film Awards for the short film No No Sleep. Tsai…

She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones

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Zhuang is a late bloomer. When he first meets his classmate Meng, a talented long-distance runner, he rashly and spontaneously takes the blame for her theft of a starting pistol. But before they can get to know each…

Remains of the Hot Day

China at the end of the 1990s, lunch in an extended family. The father works in distant Shenzhen and is rarely home. The grandmother cooks and keeps an eye on the children. The air is filled with levity, longing, worries…

Above the Dust

Ten-year-old Wo Tu dreams of having a water pistol like the other boys in his village. Even though his father promised, he fails to bring one back with him from the city. But there is one hope for Wo Tu: his dying…

Some Rain Must Fall

Cai, a 45-year-old housewife, has lost track of who she is and who she wants to be. During one of her daughter’s basketball matches, she inadvertently injures an elderly woman. This seemingly trivial event is a catalyst…

Abiding Nowhere

The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but determinedly through the forest, over stones and grassland. He also makes his way through the shadows of trees and houses.…

A Summer's End Poem

In a village near the southern Chinese city of Chaozhou, a boy has spent the summer with his grandfather. As the last day of the holidays approaches, he gathers together his hard-earned savings to fulfil a dream: he…

Extracurricular Activity

Two high school students find themselves at the mercy of one of their mothers after a night-time mishap. Over the course of a single night, the elephant in the room is all but desperately avoided by all participants.…

When a Rocket Sits on the Launch Pad

At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone fell into water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the…

Hito

Jani lives in a dystopian world of nuclear reactors and military curfews. After getting beaten up in a fight, she is telepathically contacted by a hovering lapdog whose people entrust her with a talking catfish rescued…

Mountain Roars

As mountains shift and echoes from explosions rumble in the distance, mysteries lie hidden in every corner of caves, streams, and trees. A mysterious light appears as a young man and woman try to piece together the…