Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director born in Suwalki, Poland. In 1942, he joined the Polish resistance, serving in the Home Army. Following the war, he pursued painting at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts before enrolling in the Lodz Film School. Wajda apprenticed with director Aleksander…

Ruka Azuma

Ruka Azuma is a Filipino-Japanese multidisciplinary artist, whose forte is filmmaking, content creation, and digital design. His passion for the arts roots heavily on his culture and as well as his love for making freeflow, abstract, and/or concept heavy type of art. At an early age, he has been exposed…

Iizawa Tadasu

Iizawa Tadasu, born Iizawa Tadasu (伊澤紀) in Wakayama, Japan, was a Japanese playwright, director, and novelist. He graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School's affiliated elementary school in 1922 and entered Musashi High School (武蔵高等学校) that same year. However, he struggled with…

Matsubayashi Shue

Matsubayashi Shue was a Japanese film director, former naval officer, and a monk, born in Sakurae-cho, Gotsu-shi, Shimane. His Dharma name is Shaku Shue. After he graduated junior high school in 1938, he went to Kyoto and graduated from the Ryutani University specialized department. He moved to Nihon…

Ito Kisaku

Stage artist. His older brother, Michio, was a dancer, and his younger brother, Koreya Senda, was a director. Graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts). Yoshi Hijikata devoted himself to performing arts, starting with the Model Stage…

Shimada Chiemi

An artist-filmmaker from Chiba, Japan. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films explore themes of intimacy, domesticity, and displacement while utilising documentary, fiction and experimental approaches. Her practice attempts to elicit contemplation, which results in…

Inoue Yasushi

Yasushi Inoue (May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1907, Inoue was raised in Shizuoka Prefecture. Inoue studied at both Kyushu University and Kyoto University. He balanced his studies with a career as college…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Naito Takashi

Naito Takashi is a Japanese actor, voice actor, talent, and moderator born in Higashi-ku, Osaka and raised in Korien, Neyagawa. He graduated from Osaka Seikouin High School and dropped out of the Department of Film, Faculty of Arts, Nihon University. After working at Hyundai Production Building, he…

Super Jockey

Comedy entertainment program, consisting of several segments, including parodies, songs, various types of quizzes, movie and art reviews or even presenting strange and useless products for the home.

Nowhere Girl

6.0

Ai is a student at an all-girls' art high school, known to be extremely gifted in the arts. Her days become like a nightmare though, due to jealous classmates and adults wanting to use her for their own selfish reasons.…

Maru

7.3

Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He lost his independent will and became accustomed to simply doing what…

That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen

7.4

A comedy about chemistry students who decide to cheat on the finals in order to protect their dorm from being demolished and replaced by a hotel. It touches upon the idea that cheating is an art, but also considers…

Hikari Sentai Maskman

7.3

Commander Sugata is a scientist and sage who excels in mental reinforcements and is a master of every martial art. He discovered the existence of the Underground Empire Tube, a once peaceful kingdom that has turned…

Tai Chi Boxer

7.5

A sequel in name only to the hit Jet Li film The Tai Chi Master, the film stars martial arts superstar Jacky Wu Jing as a young man shielded from the world by his overprotective father. Once he gets out, he's able…

Cobweb

7.4

In 1970s Korea, when both art and dreams are censored, a film director dreams of a masterpiece. After his successful debut, Director Kim endures scathing attacks from critics who call him a specialist in trashy dramas.…

KBS Drama Special 2012: Re-Memory

7.0

A tense thriller about Yeong In, an art gallery employee with face blindness (prosopagnosia), who witnesses the murder of a security guard while working late on a stormy night. With no clear evidence, she becomes central…

Her Private Life

8.3

Seong Deok Mi, a dedicated art gallery curator, is exceptional at her job but harbors a secret: she is a devoted fangirl of Cha Si An, managing his fansite. This obsession is her private world, hidden from those around…