Jayil Pak

Jayil is a Korean-American writer, director, editor and subtitler who follows wherever his work takes him. After graduating from NYU with a degree in film production, Jayil has worked as a director of commercials, music videos, and short films in both the US and South Korea. In the last few years, his…

Fujita Makoto

He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.Fujita appeared in both jidaigeki and contemporary roles. He starred as Nakamura Mondo, a samurai, in sixteen Hissatsu ("Kill") series on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1973.…

Akanishi Jin

Akanishi Jin is a Japanese singer and songwriter, actor, voice actor, and television personality. Akanishi used to be a member of the popular J-pop group KAT-TUN until July of 2010 and was one of the two lead vocalists. Since the group's debut in 2006, it has achieved 14 consecutive number ones (including…

Jung Yu Ji

Jung Yu Ji is a South Korean singer, dancer, musical actress and former member of EXID (이엑스아이디) and BESTIE (베스티). She graduated from Lila Art High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Practical Music from the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She made her debut in February 2012…

Shoo

Shoo Kunimitsu, known by her Korean name Yoo Soo Young and also Shoo, is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress and former member of S.E.S (에스이에스). She was born in Yokohama, Japan to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. After living in Japan for 15 years, her family moved to South Korea…

Tanaka Kinuyo

Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Ozu Yasujiro's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine,…

Inoue Mao

Mao Inoue is a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai in Kids War and as Makino Tsukushi in the popular Hana Yori Dango series. Inoue Mao started her career as an actress at five years old. She has been in many dramas…

Jang Jin Young

Jang Jin Young was a South Korean actress. Jang began her career as a model, and participated in the 1993 Miss Korea beauty contest, before making the switch into acting. After making her film debut in 1998, Jang received critical praise and won a number of awards for her work. She became only the second…

Kang Soo Yeon

Kang made her acting debut as a child actor in the 1970s. She acted in a number of low profile movies before making a breakthrough performance in the Im Kwon Taek directed 1986 movie, The Surrogate Woman for which she was honored with the Volpi Cup Best Actress award at the 1987 Venice International…

Otowa Nobuko

Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She appeared in Story of a Beloved Wife and became the mistress of the director Kaneto Shindo. She later married him in 1977 after his previous wife divorced him and then died. She posthumously won the award for best…

The Great White Tiger Platoon

3.0

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan’s last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young,…

April, Come She Will

7.2

A psychiatrist, Fujishiro Shun, receives a letter from his former lover, Iyota Haru. The letter, which came from Salar de Uyuni, known for the "mirror of the sky," contains the memory of her first love from ten years…

Disciples of Hippocrates

6.5

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder…

Timber Gang

Yu Guangyi’s stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China as they employ traditional practices through one last, fateful expedition. For generations, the lumberjacks of Heilongjiang,…

The Passion

8.3

One night at a cinema in town, after the last movie of the night, Praew, a beautiful young girl is struggling to escape from Chai, a stranger who attempts to rape her in the restroom. In reality, Chai is the owner…

My Dream, Greco-Roman

6.7

Yong-Jae, 33 year-old amateur wrestler, will have a match for the national team today, which could be his last chance in his life. (Letterboxd)

Love or Not

7.4

Interior designer Mako is unable to forget her first love from childhood, who helped her when she was bullied back in elementary school days. One day, a letter arrives from someone named Kosuke—the same name as the…

Lesson in Murder

7.4

Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted of nine murders and received…

The Woman Behind the Tattoo Artist

"Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok" unravels the multiple layers of the almost mythological figure-living legend, Wang Od, a 92-year-old woman who has been called the ‘Last [Traditional] Tattoo Artist of Kalinga.’…

The Digital Hunter

6.7

Chen Zheng, a “mathematical genius” who works in the Bureau of Statistics, is famous for helping the police decipher the secret portrait of the robber Ding Qiang. However, the good times did not last long. Ding…