Satomi Akira

Actor and Film Director. Born in Tokyo City Honjo-ku, Mukojima Suzaki-cho . His brother was film director, Eiichi Matsumoto. He started acting in 1923. However, despite his connection to the film industry, Akira had serious bad luck, when it comes to managers and film studios. First he got into a conflict…

Srifa Mahawan

Mom Luang Srifa Mahawan was a Thai writer. She wrote under the name Srifa Ladavalaya and pen names Sifa and Jullada Pakdeephumin. She was born Srifa Ladavalaya in Bangkok and studied business at Chulalongkorn University. She left university and taught school for eighteen years, teaching at Saint Joseph…

Kim Kih Hoon

Kim Kih-hoon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim's first theatrical film The Mode of Disappearance (2005), tells the story of a man who one day finds his face has changed unrecognizably. The film debuted at the Busan International Film Festival and was invited to other major short…

Hazumi Tsuneo

Hazumi Tsuneo was a Japanese film critic and film producer born in Tokyo. He also made his debut as a screenwriter when he was 23. His real name is Matsumoto Eiichi, and he is different from the film director Matsumoto Eiichi, who was active in the era of silent films. In 1934, at the age of 25, he…

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…

Lu Xun

Lu Xun was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In…

Ogura Hisao

Ogura Hisao is a Japanese producer, director, and screenwriter from Nagano, Japan. He graduated from Sophia University (上智大学) and began his career as a freelance assistant director and director at Fuji Television's (フジテレビ) First Production Department. In the early 1990s, Ogura joined…

Roderick Cabrido

Roderick Cabrido is an award-winning Filipino documentary producer and film maker. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila one of the most densely populated areas of land in the world and one of the poorest and most underdeveloped communities in the Philippines. He started out by creating documentaries,…

Fujitani Miwako

Fujitani Miwako, a Japanese actress and singer from Kita, Tokyo, debuted in 1977 with a commercial for Calbee (カルビー) potato chips. In 1978, she appeared in the TV drama "Yuhi ga Oka no Sori Daijin" (夕日が丘の総理大臣). She began her music career in 1994 with the duet "Ai ga Umareta…

Ryu Keiichiro

Ryu Keiichiro was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Akasaka-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Ikeda Ichiro. He graduated from the Department of French Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. During the war, he departed as a student soldier and fought in mainland China as an army officer.…

Broken Hearts for Sale

An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band". ~ "Oyaji Fight" directed by Yukiko Mishima, "Father and Son" directed by Hideo Sakaki, "This Gentle World" directed…

Mother

Three young women are murdered within a short time, and they are found with an X mark written in lipstick on their faces. The investigation proceeds as serial murders, but Keiko, who is in charge of the investigation,…

Between You and Me

Min Gyeong takes on the lead role in a short film and begins filming. As time goes on, the set becomes increasingly disorganized, and subtle cracks begin to form in her relationship with the director. (Source: koreanfilm.or.kr/eng)…

Seventeen and a Half Years Old

7.0

Teenage film fanatic Zhang Jun Jia has a plan to impress school belle Huang Qiao Shan. He gathers a production crew and makes a short film for her to star in for the upcoming art festival. Zhang faces endless obstacles…

Chase Season 2

7.5

BS Toto's "Sunset News" receives nationwide attention for bringing to light the truth behind the false accusation murder case. However, this is short-lived, and the staff of BS Toto is quickly forgotten by Japan, returning…

My Second Village

7.0

The show features celebrities and their children who travel to a foreign city and live there for a while. They enjoy the city in ways short-term travels would never provide: Walking the narrow allies around the neighborhood,…

The Sun Shines On Me

6.6

Ren Wenxiu went to the township government to find a job because of family friction with Han Chunmei's neighborhood. Here, she met several people who had trouble with her in life: veteran Zhang Lin, middle school teacher…

Heart of Ice

"Heart of Ice" is based on the true story of short-track speed skating coach Meng Qing Yu, who trained several athletes to become world champions. The film centers on a local coach named Zhao Hong Qi, who has trained…

Romance Hunter

6.4

Five very different women in their thirties try to find happiness and love, and go through the highs and lows of dating, romance and relationships. The main character is a romance consultant on the radio show “Romance…

Game Over

Game over is a 21-minute short film that explores issues of infidelity in the time of covid. The night before the unexpected announcement of the Metro Manila COVID19 lockdown, we follow Kate and John as they spy on…