Nokubo Naoki

Nokubo was born in Iwata-shi, which was formerly known as Toyodacho, Iwata-gun, Shizuoka. After graduating from Kinshin High School, Nokubo wanted to be part of the entertainment industry and went to an acting school in Tokyo. He later became a Watanabe Entertainment affiliate, and in August 2004, became…

Mika

Lee Su Hoon, known by his stage name Mika, is a South Korean singer, dancer and former member of XING (씽) and THE BOSS (대국남아, known as DGNA in South Korea and Daikoku Danji or 大国男児 in Japan). He graduated from Cheongdam High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree from Sehan…

Okawa Ryuho

Born in Kawashima, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan. The Founder, CEO, and "god" of controversial new religious movement Happy Science. First presenting himself as a spiritual channeler in contact with Buddha and Jesus Christ, he'd later claim a spiritual awakening in which he discovered he was…

Maeda Michiko

Michiko Maeda is a Japanese film and television actress who became known as the first Japanese actress to appear in a nude scene in a mainstream film. Michiko Maeda was born in Osaka. She was working in a department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo when she began working as an actress at the…

Kayi Cheung

Kayi Cheung (simplified Chinese: 张嘉儿; traditional Chinese: 張嘉兒; Pinyin: Zhāng Jiā'ér; Yale: Jeung1 Ga1 Yi4, born on 18 November 1983) is a Hong Kong model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2007 and 1st Runner-up of the Miss Chinese International 2008. She also…

Pyo Chang Won

Pyo Chang Won is a South Korean professor, police detective, former politician and self-taught and self-proclaimed criminal profiler. He comes from a very poor background and as a child he had some violent outbursts and was obsessed with Bruce Lee movies and Sherlock Holmes. He was so smart that his…

Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Fei Mu

Fei Mu's ancestral hometown is Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1906. Before becoming a director, he worked as an assistant of the film pioneer Hou Yao. Known for his artistic style and costume dramas, Fei made his first film, Night in the City (1933), produced by the Lianhua…

Peter Mak

Peter Mak Tai Kit was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. He grew up spending a great deal of his childhood at a cinema, where his father left him for the day while working in a nearby cake shop, an experience that planted in him the seeds for a future in film. Mak’s family relocated to…

Yuthlert Sippapak

Yuthlert Sippapak is a film director, screenwriter and producer born in Loei, Thailand. Growing up in northeast Thailand, Yuthlert developed a strong interest in the arts from an early age and at 18 went to Bangkok to study fine arts at Silpakorn University, where he received a degree in interior design…

Yubikoi: Kimi ni Okuru Message

7.2

A drama about young adults and the importance of text messaging on their love lives. In the drama, Han Seung Ho is a Korean foreign student who moves in with, Miu, his friend. Han Seung Ho wants to send a message to…

Papa

7.3

The storyline is about a manager who pushes a young female talent to enter a reality TV show contest in the U.S. Some background information involves the manager having to get married to attain a legal visa and ends…

Inference Notes

7.3

The story tells us about a genius girl Xia Zao An who got involved in a conspiracy of probability killing after a heart transplant. With everyone around her as possible suspects, she shall solve this through layers…

Host Sozoku Shichaimashita

7.3

The story is about Motohashi Kumiko, an advertising agency worker who suddenly inherits a "MAJEST", which is a host club located in Kabukicho, due to her uncle's will, and how she works with the eccentric, handsome…

Drama Festival 2013: Haneuljae's Murder

7.3

A period drama about a woman's tale of love and respect from the 1950s Korean war. Yoon Ha and Jeong Boon met years ago when they were both having a difficult time in their lives. Yoon Ha was a kid at that point of…

That Kind of Love

7.3

A story about two imperfect people entangled by fate because of their search for love. The Love Coach extraordinaire, who profiles and points out the flaws of a conceited man who deems himself as Mr. Perfect, ends…

The Four Daughters of Luoyang

7.3

This is a story about the loves and careers of four sisters from a wealthy background. Their father, Mr. Gu, is the head of their Luoyang family, who one day, along with his wife, suddenly go missing, leaving their…

Under Parallel Skies

7.2

A romantic film about a man struggling with a painful past as he tries to move forward, only to discover that the woman in his present life has an uncanny connection to his past. Together, they navigate the complexities…

Forbidden Fairytale

7.2

A sexy comedy about a situation where an aspiring civil servant and children's story writer, who dreams of writing children's stories after leaving school, is assigned to the youth protection team and is forced to…

A Dynamite Family

7.3

A human comedy about five brothers known for their disagreements, in a village called Duksoori... Soo Kyo, Dong Soo, Soo Geun, Hyun Jung, and the youngest sibling become a family through their parent’s second marriage.…