Tazaki Jun

Jun Tazaki was a Japanese actor best known for his various roles from Kaiju films produced by Toho, often cast in the roles of scientists or military personnel.

Little Unicorn

Unicorn Chan was one of Bruce Lee's best friends since childhood. Along with Bruce, the two were often cast as juvenile delinquents in Hong Kong films. One of their earliest films together was Little Cheung (1950). When Bruce cut short his film career to pursuit studies in the US, Unicorn Chan continued…

Shin Sang Ok

Shin Sang Ok was a prolific South Korean film producer and director with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. His best-known films were made in the 1950s and 60s when he was known as the "Prince of South Korean Cinema". He received the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's…

Li Jin Yan

Li Jin Yan is a Chinese voice actress. She graduated from Heilongjiang Provincial School of Culture and Arts in 1995. Besides being the main voice actress of CCTV Star, Li has participated in the dubbing work of many dubbed films and dramas from South Korea, Singapore, Japan, India, the Philippines,…

Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh was the leading Martial Arts director in Hong Kong in the 1970s, now with close to 100 films to his name. His has influenced other directors such as John Woo and Liu Chiau Liang, and made famous such Hong Kong stars as Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Fu Sheng and Lung Ti. Chang has declared that…

Mak Chun Hung

Mak Chun Hungis a Hong Kong-based composer and music producer. He has been in the industry since 1992, working on soundtracks for classic films and TV series in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan. Mak Chun Hung is well-known for his work on the soundtracks of the Chinese Paladin drama series. Due…

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…

Chingmy Yau

Chingmy Yau is a Hong Kong actress who started the entertainment industry by participating in beauty pageants. Winning the "Miss Photogenic" trophy at the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant in 1989 began to get her film offers. Most of her early work consisted of her appearing in romantic comedies until…

Nicky Wu

Nicky Wu is a Taiwanese singer and actor born in Xinzhuang, Taipei, Taiwan, with ancestral roots in Fujian. He debuted in 1988 as a member of the idol group "Little Tigers" and transitioned to a solo career in 1992. Wu attended several educational institutions, including Sixian Elementary School, Xintai…

Kris Wu

Li Jia Heng, later legally changed to Wu Yi Fan and known professionally as Kris Wu, is a Canadian singer, dancer, actor and former member of EXO (엑소). He was born in China but moved to Vancouver, Canada, at the age of 10 when his parents divorced. He then moved back and forth between both countries…

Hoigaku Kyoshitsu no Jiken File 27: Osowareta Konyaku-sha!

Ninomiya Saki, a forensic expert, and her husband, Ninomiya Kazuma, a police inspector, investigate the suspicious death of a caregiver found bound in her apartment. While the case initially appears to be a clear homicide,…

Hoigaku Kyoshitsu no Jiken File 34: Hanketsu no Hoshu!!

Ninomiya Saki, a forensic medicine associate professor working with the police, becomes involved in a high-pressure case when she witnesses a suspicious death in public. The victim appears to be connected to a ransom…

Hoigaku Kyoshitsu no Jiken File 38: Danjo no Shitai wa Futari de Usowotsuku!?

Ninomiya Saki investigates a mysterious double death discovered in an abandoned factory, where initial findings suggest an unusual combination of strangulation and a rare medical condition affecting the heart. As forensic…

The Fourth Wall

Liu Lu is leading a dreary and seemingly mundane life, working at a deer breeding farm. A friend, Ma Hai, keeps trying in vain to win her affections. It's as if she's isolating and banishing herself from any kind of…

Chronicle in the Ruins: Our Own Ethnographic Film

A documentary that shows the love and bond within a family as they face the consequences of a fire that destroyed their home by making a film. Hara Masato made his debut as a high school student in the 1960s and was…

Moving Pictures: Sex in the New Chinese Cinema

Note the date. Much will have changed since this programme. Another interesting piece from the much-missed Moving Pictures, this one looks at the emergence of sexual themes in the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers.…

Kioku Sosa: Shinjuku Higashisho Jiken File

7.6

Onizuka Ichiro, who was relegated to a wheelchair after a certain incident, was reappointed to the Shinjuku Higashi Police Station after retirement. One day, a mass food poisoning incident occurred in Suga-cho, Shinjuku.…

Kioku Sosa Special 2: Shinjuku Higashisho Jiken File

7.3

Ando, a priest at a shrine in Kagurazaka, is murdered with his body set on fire. At the request of Keitarou, now a superintendent, Onizuka and Saki join the investigation. Onizuka remembers the victim in relation to…

Kioku Sosa Season 3: Shinjuku Higashisho Jiken File

7.3

Onizuka Ichiro is a skilled detective who is confined to a wheelchair after being injured in an incident that occurred right before his retirement. Armed with a detailed "city of memory" in his mind, he solves modern-day…

The Better Half

7.4

Camille is happily married to Marco. Meanwhile, Bianca, Marco's childhood friend, is secretly in love with him. She begs Marco to marry her but Marco's heart is only for Camille. After Marco's and Camille's wedding,…