Yongyoot Thongkongtoon

Yongyoot Thongkongtoon is a Thai film director, producer, and screenwriter. He made his debut in 2000 with the sports comedy The Iron Ladies. He graduated from Chulalongkorn University, with a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts (Broadcasting), in Bangkok. Yongyoot is Netflix’s director of content…

Zhao Xiao Shi

Zhao Xiaoshi, born 1962 in Guangzhou, China, began working for the Zhujiang Film Studio as a cinematographer after being trained at the department of photography in Beijing Film Academy. At the age of 24 he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography for his debut feature film, Vanish (dir.…

Lav Diaz

Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino filmmaker known as one of the key members of the slow cinema movement, having made several of the longest narrative films on record. Although he had been making films since the late 1990s, Diaz didn't attract much public attention outside of the Philippines and the…

Susumu Hani

Tokyo native Susumu Hani was one of the earlier directors involved in what later became known as "Nuberu Bagu" ('nouvelle vogue' or 'new wave') cinema of Japan. He unusually begun work outside the Japanese studio system and was employed by Iwanami Eiga, the film unit of a publishing company, before…

Miyake Kyoko

Kyoko is a Peabody award winning filmmaker from Japan. Her latest documentary film, Tokyo Idols, is premiering in World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her documentary Brakeless was supported by BBC / ITVS / IKON / NHK / DR and won the prestigious Peabody Award 2014 after…

Nakae Yuji

Nakae Yuji, born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1960, moved to Okinawa shortly after beginning his studies of agricultural science at Ryukyu University. As a student, he began filming with 8 mm. After graduating, he founded the film production company Panali Pictures in 1988. He was one of the directors of…

Imai Tadashi

He is a masterpiece representing the left wing humanism of postwar Japanese film . After dropping out of the Tokyo Imperial University , he entered Toho 's predecessor JO studio and was promoted to director in 2 years of joining. After World War II, he worked on a number of socialistic films as the…

Ha Myung Joong

Ha Myung Joong is a South Korean actor, film director, producer, planner, and screenwriter. Ha started his career as an actor but expanded his career to film directing, and film producing. Ha graduated from Kyung Hee University with a major in English literature. His brother Ha Gil Jong was a film director.…

Yanagi Kotaro

Yanagi Kotaro is a Japanese actor who plays in various movies, dramas, and stage events. He's most commonly referred to as "Yanagi", although he sometimes shortens it to "Yana" or "Nagi.". He is also part of a young men's stage acting troupe, D-BOYS, which perform in various skit-like performances,…

Tamlyn Tomita

Tamlyn Tomita is an Japanese-American actress and singer, born in Koza, USCAR, and raised in Los Angeled, U.S.A. She made her screen debut as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and reprised the character for the streaming web series Cobra Kai (2021). She is also well known for her role as Waverly…

Inland Sea

Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen of Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan. At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a small boat to make his living, dreaming about retirement. Kumi-san…

First Love

6.5

Tadashi is about to take his final school examinations. Unbeknown to anyone, he has fallen in love with his fellow pupil, Kota, and doesn’t dare to tell anyone. One hot summer’s day, some of the other schoolboys…

Come Here

5.7

How do you put together the puzzle if the image is missing? You start from individual pieces and see how they fit together. There are the four young actors on a trip to Kanchanaburi, “a city so meaningful, I’d…

Through Your Eyes

Decades after making a promise, Poh Huat returns to the Hawaii Nite Club, hoping to find his long-lost lover. The club, from a bygone era, exists in a place which time has forgotten. Siew Fang, the club’s owner,…

Last Days at Sea

“When they grow big, they leave the shells they are in. And then, the shell they’ve left behind … a smaller crab will find it and it will become its home.” Twelve-year-old Reyboy will soon be leaving his home…

The Sense of Violence

Kim Mu Yeong analyses the visual material in his found footage film with almost scientific precision (newsreel images, architectural images, film images; images of the enemy, images of women, images of the family),…

The Longing

Hiro and his wife Sono run an okonomiyaki restaurant which employs ex-youth offenders to help support their rehabilitation. Since an incident with a former employee a year ago, Hiro has been hounded by hate speech…

En Route To

A seemingly typical day unfolds at an all-girls’ boarding school in the countryside. When form teacher Jong-sung fails to turn up for class, most of the pupils remain indifferent – only the pregnant Yun-ji, a quiet…

Numb

In the snowy coastal city of Niigata, which is blanketed in grey skies and the roar of winter waves, Daichi, a boy who lost his voice under the tyranny of his father in early childhood, lives in a prefab room on the…

Enjoy Your Stay

Luz is from the Philippines and has been working for several years without papers as a cleaner in Switzerland. At the start of winter, she is sent along with her friend Aileen and other Filipina women to the luxury…