Osanai Kaoru

Osanai Kaoru was a Japanese theater director, playwright, and actor central in the development of modern Japanese theater. (Source: Wikipedia)

Lin Yu Tang

Lin Yutang was a famous writer, scholar, translator, and linguist of modern China. He was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1940, 1950).

Kevin Yeh

Yeh Tsung Hsuan (English name: Kevin) is a Taiwanese director. His films focus on self-identity and relationships in modern society.

Park Joon Woo

Park Joon Woo is a South Korean-Belgian cook and food columnist. He was born in South Korea but moved to Belgium when he was 18 due to his father's military deployment. He dropped out of the Modern Languages program in college and then worked as a sculptor for over a year before quitting. He took a…

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…

Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV

Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Ibe Harumi

Ibe Harumi, born in Tokyo, was a Japanese composer and guitarist, having a wide repertoire from flamenco to modern jazz. He worked on numerous film scores centered mainly on Toshio Masuda 's works and he released many instrumental albums of kayokyoku and enka music.

Yoshiya Nobuko

Yoshiya Nobuko was a Japanese novelist active in Taisho and Showa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the…

Lu Xiao Ran

Lu Xiao Ran is a Mainland actress from Fuzhou, Fujian. She graduated Beijing Modern Music Academy in 2012 and officially debut in 2015.

Tashi Dawa

Tashi Dawa is a Chinese novelist of half-Tibetan, half-Han ethnic background. He is a distinguished Tibetan writer in China, and one of the most controversial figures associated with modern Tibet. (Source: Wikipedia)

Utamaro's World

5.0

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared…

The Story of Dr. Sun Yat Sen

As befits the telling of the story of perhaps the most universally beloved hero of modern-day Chinese history Dr. Sun Yat Sen (1866-1925), this lavishly produced biographical film uses techniques culled from Chinese…

Heaven-6-Box

Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan’s foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute…

Cause We Are So Young

6.5

Three men have unforgettable encounters as they wind their way through the maze of modern relationships. (Source: hmvod.com.hk)

The Young Tiger

5.9

Young Tiger, a martial artist in modern-day Hong Kong, fights a braggart in a martial-arts studio and defeats him. He later witnesses the braggart getting beaten up by a gang of thugs. After entering the fight, he…

Ruriko Joou no Karei Naru Hibi

6.0

The story approaches the hearts of sick people living in a distorted modern age. The neat painting teacher and S&M Queen, Ruriko, will train you. (Source: Letterboxd)

When We Meet Again

7.2

After accidentally traveling into a novel about ancient times, a modern female student becomes Lu Shuang Shuang, a vicious Crown Princess. Knowing the plot well, she decides to divorce Mo Cheng Qian, the Crown Prince…

Come Kiss Me at 0:00 AM

7.3

Hinana is a high school girl who, like a modern Cinderella, has many household chores to see to in addition to her studies. While she's quite a conscientious girl, in reality she actually dreams of one day finding…

The Romance of Hua Rong Special

7.3

A special episode where Hua Rong meets her lover from the past, during modern times. Now, Qin Shang Cheng is an overbearing CEO. (Source: MyDramalist)

The Resilient Dr. Ling

7.5

Ling Ruo Jin, a smart and courageous female doctor of modern medicine, traveled through time and space to become a cowardly and ugly woman in ancient times. She was forced to marry the cold-faced prince Xiao Ye Han,…