Tanaka Noboru

Tanaka Noboru was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films, including three critically respected films known as the Showa trilogy: A Woman Called Sada Abe (aka Sada Abe: Docu-Drama) (1975), Watcher in the Attic (1976), and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977), all three starring Nikkatsu…

Danny Chan

Born as Chan Pak Keung to a wealthy businessman family in Hong Kong, the late Danny Chan was a very popular Cantopop singer-songwriter, records producer and actor in Hong Kong. Rather than focusing on his studies, Chan wanted to sing and loved playing the keyboard and piano. After graduating from middle…

Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Kataoka Ichitaro

Kataoka was born on February 13, 1877 to Hikoemon HARASAWA, the master sculptor for Kyoto Imperial Palace, at Harasawa's house on the corner of Sakaimachi-dori and Marutamachi-dori streets, right across from the Imperial Palace. Upon his father's death in 1881, he was adopted by Seizaburo TSUKAMOTO.…

Matsukata Hiroki

Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…

Zhen Zhen

Zhen Zhen, born Chang Chia Chen (章家珍) in Beijing, China, is a Taiwanese actress who began her film career at the age of 16. She comes from a notable military family from Digaang, Wuxing, Zhejiang, China. Her grandfather, Zhang Hong Chun (張洪春), was a major general and the principal of the…

Mars Ravelo

Marcial Ravelo, better known as Mars Ravelo, is one of the most successful Filipino komiks novelists in the Philippines. He started out drifting from one part time job to another, having been unable to finish schooling due to financial reasons and for he once worked as a janitor. Ravelo had an inborn…

Kim Sung Chan

Kim Sung Chan was a South Korean actor and theater producer. While attending Seonin High School, he was part of the theater club. However, his parents opposed, and he decided to run away from home. He spent time working at a labor camp and practiced acting while trying to earn some food. After graduating…

Ouyang Sha Fei

Ouyang Sha Fei was a Hong Kong actress born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China. She famously starred in over 250 films in a 54-year period, between 1937 and 1991. At the age of 17, she began her acting career in several Mandarin movies in Shanghai. She was in 17 films between 1951 and 1952, making…

Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller), later Lady Mallowan, was a British author renowned for her detective novels, short stories, and plays. Best known for creating the iconic fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.…

Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley

7.8

Hu Ba Yi, Shirley Yang and Fatty Wang discover that the rumoured life-saving "dust bead" had become a burial object in the tomb of the King Xian of the ancient Dian Kingdom and set to find the traces of the mystic…

Pit Babe Season 2

7.8

When hidden powers rise, loyalties shatter, and the dead don’t stay buried. Two years after Tony’s death, a hidden world of powers emerges. As Charlie fights to expose those exploiting them, his bond with Babe…

Swords of Legends

7.8

In Legend of the Ancient Sword, which takes place during the Tang Dynasty, young martial artist Bai Li Tu Su feels a mysterious aura in him that can be suppressed only with the Sword of Burning Solitude. When fighting…

Shin Kamen Rider

7.8

College student and motorcycle enthusiast Takeshi Hongo is abducted by the evil organization Sustainable Happiness Organization with Computational Knowledge Embedded Remodeling, otherwise known as "Shocker", and converted…

Aftershock

7.8

During the tragic Tangshan earthquake in 1976, Li Yuan Ni finds her twins, daughter Fang Deng and son Da Feng, buried under a giant slab of concrete. Rescue workers inform Yuan Ni that she has to chose between the…

Deranged

7.9

Just before dawn, gruesomely skeletal bodies surface on the Han River. More bodies are discovered all over the nation. The cause of death is determined to be a mutated parasite worm that brainwashes its hosts, ultimately…

Pit Babe Season 2: Uncut

7.9

When hidden powers rise, loyalties shatter, and the dead don’t stay buried. Two years after Tony’s death, a hidden world of powers emerges. As Charlie fights to expose those exploiting them, his bond with Babe…

The Village: Achiara's Secret

7.7

Achiara is a small, quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English teacher Han So Yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead…

Shadow

7.7

In 1999, 11th-grader Dan transfers to Saint Lawrence’s, an all-boys Catholic school, while his father undergoes treatment for terminal brain cancer. His mother passed away when he was seven. Dan bonds with Brother…

Lost to You

8.0

At 17, Zhan Wang returns from Beijing to his hometown, carrying a secret diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. There, he meets Xu Yuan, also 17 — a top student who has been branded by the entire town as a child of…