Adrian Kwan

Adrian Kwan is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and producer born and raised in Hong Kong, China. Adrian holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Video from the University of Regina in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada, and a Master of Arts in Filming from the MetFilm School in London,…

Charles Dong

Charles Dong is a Chinese director, cinematographer, producer and writer born in Anshan, Liaoning, China. He is known for his award-winning short films that explore themes of cultural identity and displacement, as well as his recent work directing television mini-series in the romance and drama genres.…

Rao Hui

Rao Hui is a Chinese screenwriter and associate professor in the Film and Television Department at the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院), where he teaches screenwriting, genre film, directing studies, and audiovisual language. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the Chinese Department…

Chang Jung Chi

Chang Jung Chi is a Taiwanese director born in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from Fu-Hsing Trade & Arts School (復興美工), the Department of Visual Communication at Kun Shan University (崑山科技大學), and the Graduate Institute of Applied Media Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts (國立臺灣藝術大學).…

Kubota Joji

Kubota Joji was a Japanese children's literature writer born in Shimada, Goya, Okayama, Japan. He was also a member of the Japan Art Academy. His father, Heitaro, managed the Shimada Textile Mill, which produced items such as lamp wicks. However, his father passed away when Joji was eight years old…

Yang Chieh

Yang Chieh is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress born in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. She studied Radio & Television Department at National Chengchi University in Taipei from 2008 to 2013 and was in the MFA-Film program at Columbia University in New York after 2014. Yang Chieh…

Li Hsing

Li Hsing née Li Zi Da was a Taiwanese director who was born in Shanghai and emigrated to Taiwan during the Great Retreat in 1948. He is considered to be the godfather of Taiwanese cinema, and was active in the film industry for over 70 years. He has won three Golden Horse Awards for Best Director,…

Shim Eun Ha

Shim Eun Ha debuted in 1994 in the basketball-themed TV drama The Last Match and quickly became the nation's most popular and talked-about star. After acting in three more television dramas and two lesser-known films (including Born to Kill with Jung Woo Sung), she made a permanent mark in the film…

Tsukamoto Shinya

In 1986 a new film blasted to the centre of Japanese cinema, gaining international acclaim with its singularly inventive style and cataclysmic violence. Shinya Tsukamoto directed this 16-mm sci fi horror called Tetsuo - a story of a human being who becomes a monster of metal. This radical auteur quickly…

Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

Pit-a-Pat

7.0

Wang Yu Ching and Jung Hsuan are two young girls who are exploring what it means to face their desires amidst the backdrop of school. Their hopes and dreams are woven into a playful and fantastical narrative as they…

Mystery 6

7.3

Mystery 6 is a South Korean horror mockumentary featuring Super Junior. The series consists of hidden cameras, interviews and a narrative "documentary" on investigating the truth behind a former tenant's death in Super…

Waiting Alone

7.2

Set in Beijing, the film is a window into modern Chinese youth culture. "Waiting Alone" is a coming-of-age tale which tells the first-person-narrative story of Wen, an antique shop co-owner and an aspiring author,…

Break Free

7.3

After realizing she was a small supporting character in a novel, one who is tragically killed right at the beginning and subjected to constant injustice, Song Zhen Xing begins to break the narrative. When a man she…

Who's the Murderer Season 11

7.7

"Who's the Murderer Season 11" ushers in a comprehensive upgrade, adopting a genre-based unit drama format and unfolding in-depth narratives around six major themes, including “anti-war and patriotism,” “protection…

Twenty-Four Eyes

7.9

The movie follows the career of a schoolteacher named Hisako Oishi in Shodoshima during the rise and fall of Japanese ultra-nationalism in the beginning of the Showa period. The narrative begins in 1928 with the teacher's…

Jae Seok’s B&B Rules!

Yoo Jae Seok, a trustworthy broadcaster, will become the host of a bed and breakfast for the first time. Contains the unique fun and charm of hosts with different personalities, and will present diverse enjoyment to…

Lala Pipo: A Lot of People

6.3

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative spaghetti through the sticky Tokyo night. (Source: AsianCinematic)

Daybreak

6.2

The whole movie occurs entirely in one place; a big white vacation house in Tagaytay, Cavite and only with two male characters. In a single narrative time, intending by way of voyeurism, the film allows viewers to…

Abyss

This is the story of a town's buried secrets resurfacing. The quiet order of a conservative community is shattered by a web novel, Shen Yuan, whose fictional narrative perfectly mirrors the details of a long-cold,…