Aiko Melendez

Aiko Melendez is a Filipino actress and former politician. Her father, Jimmy Melendez (born Jim Shinoji), was an actor. Her half-brother, Jam Melendez (son of Jimmy Melendez and Deborah Sun), also entered showbusiness. Aiko Melendez started as child star in the early '80s under Regal Films among them,…

Kim Jong Wook

Kim Jong Wook is a South Korean former singer. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Konkuk University and later obtained a master's degree in Journalism and Information from Kyung Hee University. He made his debut in 2007 with his 1st album, "Kim Jong Wook First" and…

Ohara Koyu

Ohara Koyu is a Japanese film director known for his popular Roman Porno films, Fairy in a Cage (1977) and the Pink Tush Girl series (1978–1980). One of Nikkatsu's most versatile and prolific directors, filming eight movies in 1979 alone, his stylistic preoccupations led him to be known as "King of…

Fujita Susumu

Fujita Susumu was a Japanese film and television actor. He played the lead role in Kurosawa Akira's first feature, Sugata Sanshiro, and appeared in other Kurosawa films including The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail and The Hidden Fortress. Later, he was a supporting actor in Honda Ishiro's Mothra…

Yanagisawa Shinichi

Yanagisawa Shinichi was a Japanese jazz singer, actor, voice actor, welfare activist, vaudevillian, and lyricist from Tokyo. He was affiliated with M-Three and served as honorary president of the NPO Japan Abilities Association and honorary director of the Kima Makan in Higashiyamato. During World War…

Kamei Fumio

Kamei went to the Soviet Union in 1928 to study filmmaking, but had to return home because of an illness. He eventually began working at Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL), one of the precursors to Toho, where he made a name for himself making documentaries - or "culture films" (bunka eiga) as they were…

Hara Hisako

Hara Hisako was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Ishijima Hisa (石島久). She used the stage names Hara Hisako (原緋紗子) and Hara Hisako (原緋沙子). She was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan, as the youngest of four siblings. Her father was a banker, but he passed away when she was…

Tsubaki Sanshiro

Tsubaki Sanshiro was a Japanese actor born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Mase Matsutaro (間瀬 松太郎), and he also went by the stage name Tsushima Keiichiro (津島 慶一郎). In March 1924, he completed his education at the former Nishikiko Commercial School in Kanda Nishiki-cho,…

Bumkey

Kwon Ki Bum, known professionally as Bumkey, is a South Korean hip-hop singer-songwriter. He was born in Seoul but he moved to Los Angeles, USA in 1999 with his family. In 2004, he decided to return to South Korea, alone, to pursue a career in music. He made his debut in Dynamic Duo's song "Love Is"…

Sunthorn Phu

Phra Sunthorn Vohara, born Phu and known as Sunthorn Phu, was a famous royal poet honoured as the Shakespeare of Thailand. Born in 1786, four years after the birth of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, in what was then Thonburi and today Bangkok, his family home was behind the royal palace. Sometime after his…

Tekken

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer. (Source: TMDb)

Thunder Run

Two Hong Kong police officers end up falsely imprisoned in Devil's Prison - a prison 'from which there is no escape' in Laos and must find a way to escape from the sadistic warden. (Source: IMDB, HKMDB)

The True Hero

An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail, he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school, he comes across…

Another Lonely Hitman

8.3

Yakuza gunman, Tachibana is released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence to find that his former gang is not nearly as respected as it once was. To make things worse, his wife has settled down with another…

Love, Guns and Glass

A benevolent gangster is set up by his right-hand man and is sent to prison for over ten years. Once released, his wife leaves him, his daughter doesn't love him anymore and he's broke. He falls for Cecilia Yip who…

Super Citizen Ko

5.0

At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization. (Source: IMDB)

A Fiery Family

6.0

Norman Chu plays a Triad who wants to go straight after getting out of prison, but is pulled back into "the game" in order to save his brother-in-law (Gordon Liu) from mounting loan shark debts. (HKMDB)

Running Mate

A counselor and a police inspector seek female convicts who escaped when their prison van overturned. (Source: HKCM)

Naughty Boys & Soldiers

"Naughty Boys & Soldiers" is set in a 1970s coastal town with a primary school and a military base. While most of the comedy is slapstick zaniness, the film also pokes fun at the many absurdities in Taiwan's White…