Namihira Akio

Namihira Akio was a Japanese singer known for his wartime songs. His real name was Namihira Yoshihiro (波平惠弘). He was born in Hirara, Okinawa, Japan. He attended the Kanto State Dai-Ren Second Junior High School but transferred to Miyako Junior High School to prepare for entrance exams to a music…

Julien Carbon

Julien Carbon is a French director and screenwriter , working in duet with Laurent Courtiaud in Hong Kong . Successively classical musician, journalist and film critic for Julien Carbon, audiovisual director, writer and journalist for Laurent Courtiaud, it is through their passion for Asian cinema that…

Kubota Joji

Kubota Joji was a Japanese children's literature writer born in Shimada, Goya, Okayama, Japan. He was also a member of the Japan Art Academy. His father, Heitaro, managed the Shimada Textile Mill, which produced items such as lamp wicks. However, his father passed away when Joji was eight years old…

MM Gigante

MM Gigante is an AB Communication Arts graduate from UST Angelicum College, QC. She started hosting school tours and events in 2007. MM joined PETA’s Creative Musical Theater class in May 2011, where she co-wrote two songs under the said course. Two months later, she landed the role of Queen Ines,…

Parinee Buthrasri

Parinee Buthrasri is a cinematographer and producer based in Thailand and Czech Republic. She began her career at Electric Eel Films in 2009 as a still photographer for a film Mundane History. Throughout her 8 years of experience in film industry, she has earned a lot of knowledge on independent film…

Darlene Catly Malimas

In 2010, Darlene's first feature film, "Senorita" competed at the prestigious Festival del Film Locarno. Her second feature, "Aparisyon" had its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, won the NETPAC Award in Hawaii, Audience Choice in France. . Last June 2017, the Museum of…

Wi Ding Ho

Wi Ding Ho, born and raised in Malaysia, attended the film school at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, lives in Taipei these days. His first feature film Pinoy Sunday (funded and supported by NHK, Japan) garnered a pair of awards at Taipei International Film Festival and also won Wi Ding a Best New Director…

Murakami Haruki

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese novelist and literary translator. He was born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture on January 12, 1949 and grew up in Nishinomiya and Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture. While attending Waseda University, he owned a jazz cafe. He married his wife, Yoko, who also attended…

Liu Xiao Qing

In her early days Liu worked as a farm labourer, then as a propagandist for the People's Liberation Army and later a stage actor for the Chengdu Military Drama Group. Liu acted in mainland Chinese films before she turned 30 — The Great Wall of the South China Sea (1976), What a Family (1979) and The…

Nam Woo Hyun

Nam Woo Hyun is a South Korean singer, dancer, actor, musical actor, former member of TOHEART (투하트) and current member of INFINITE (인피니트). He graduated from Dobong Information Industrial High School and later obtained an associate's degree in Broadcasting Entertainment and a bachelor's…

The Hole

An exploration of liberation amidst surreal sounds and imagery. In this wildly abstract and psychedelic short film, a mysterious young man held in prison escapes to the vibrant metropolis, only to find that captivity…

The Moon of Seoul

7.8

Han Seok Kyu plays a charming gigolo from the slums determined to attain wealth at all cost in the big city. Choon Seop, an old friend from hometown played by Choi Min Shik, struggles hopelessly to stop Hong Shik from…

Homecoming

10.0

The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government…

Giraffe

6.3

When 300 Malaysian giraffes died, the earth came to the end. Director Note This film is in the 2008 : VERY SHORT NEW YEAR CINE-BRATION project (Source: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit)

Yoo Kwan Soon

It is a biographical film on the patriotism and short life of a 16-year-old girl. Yoo Kwan Soon was in the vanguard of the March 1st Independence Movement on March 1, 1919. After the movement Japanese policemen arrested…

Latté

5.7

Xi Wang Film presents Latte, a bittersweet short film about the romance of two young men. The film explores the harsh reality of homosexual love within the context of traditional Chinese values whereby every man in…

Different Dreams

7.8

A turning point in Korean history, one never to be forgotten is presented in this engaging historical drama, celebrating its 100th anniversary. In 1919, during the Japanese colonial period, two events paved the way…

Public Affairs Office in the Sky

8.1

Inaba Rika, whose childhood dream was to become a news reporter, is instead a director for an informative TV program. At one point, she was a reporter; however, her career was cut short after her ambitious habits for…

A-Teen

8.0

People say that 18 is a carefree age, but all the moments were too serious to say I was not worried. This is a short teenage school romance web drama.

In This Corner of the World

8.3

18-year-old Urano Suzu marries Hojo Shusaku and moves from Eba City to Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture in the middle of the Pacific War. As Japan slides into a war it cannot get out of, the townspeople go on with…