Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and haiku poet. He is famous for directing Japan's first domestically produced talkie film, "Madame and Wife." His real name was Gosho Heieimon (五所平右衛門). His haiku pen name was Goshotei (五所亭). He was born as the illegitimate…

Kim Bong Gon

Kim Bong Gon is a South Korean traditional educator and poet. As a child he dropped out of elementary school as the village where he lived followed the tradition of a Seodang-style education of having private schools that taught children all basic education. Much later in life, he completed a non-degree…

Won Tae Yeon

Won graduated from Kyung Hee University, he was originally a popular poet during 90s. With "More Than Blue", he made his debut as a director. During the early '90s, he published a series of books of poetry. Upon release, he was called an alchemist in the language of love for his intricate poetries.…

Vincent Fang

Vincent Fang was born on 26 January 1969 in Hualien, Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese multi-Golden Melody Award nominated lyricist, best known for his collaboration with singer-songwriter Jay Chou. Fang won Best Lyricist at the 19th Golden Melody Awards for "青花瓷" (Blue and White Porcelain) sung by Jay…

Zhou Shi Yu

Zhou Shi Yu is a Chinese idol born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China. She graduated from Jiangsu Normal University with a major in Advertising and Arts. She was a member of SNH48 (9th generation). She officially debuted on March 23, 2018, as a member of Team FT. During the SNH48 Group Grand Shuffle…

Wei Chen Liang

Wei Chen Liang is an actor from mainland China. She graduated from Sichuan Conservatory of Music. In 2016, she acted in the web movie "Counterfeit Goods". In 2017, she starred in "The Hunting of the Anti-Terrorist Special Forces", playing the role of a computer expert, Mai Mengmeng. In 2018, she performed…

Sato Hachiro

Sato Hachiro was a Japanese poet, nursery rhyme lyricist, and writer born in Ichigayayakuoji-mae-cho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo. He dropped out of junior high school. Hs father is writer Sato Koroku. He lived with Fukushi Kojiro, a poet who was a disciple of his father, on Chichijima in the Ogasawara Islands,…

Fausto J. Galauran

Fausto J. Galauran was a Filipino physician, writer and director. He was the first writer whose publication was paid for by Liwayway. In Literature, Dr. Galauran has won six First Prizes in poetry, four First Prizes in Life. He was the winner of the National National Literature of the year 1937. He…

Jai West

Born in Vancouver to a Japanese mother and a French father, Jai Tatsuto West speaks fluent English, French, and Japanese. His acting career began in his teens as a series regular on the popular children's show "Kidzone", followed by many roles in television and film in the US and Canada, including guest…

Chen Nuo

Chen Nuo was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi. He graduated from Shanxi University Law School and Chongqing University Meishi Film School . He is a Film and Television Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Director In 2012, the directed micro-film "Pet Guardian" won the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award. In…

Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty

6.4

Rebellious Yu Yuan Gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by society and focus on her studies and poetry. However, her trysts with both her maid and an itinerate…

Yan Hua San Yue

6.9

This is the melancholy story of Nalan Rong Ruo, a Manchu poet whose tragic experiences in love during his short lifetime are reflected in his poetry.

The Muse

10.0

In a community by the railroad, an old healer named Tatang performs a “miracle” when a young male lover is run over by a train. It is said that Tatang can heal with poetry and his Muse. Another cataclysmic event…

My Sweet Harakiri

Sozaburo excels at swordsmanship, but doesn't know the first thing about books. Entangled in a government plot, he is ordered to commit "seppuku" -- to slice his belly in ritual suicide. Without any poetry experience…

Scattered Reflection

7.7

Shima is a second year high school student. She has already become the youngest ever winner of a "new writer award" for poetry. Yet, she keeps it a secret that she is a writer at school. Shima has developed feelings…

A Voiceless Cry

A documentary that retraces the experiences of 79-year-old farmer-cum-poet Kimura Michio, who lives in Tohoku. Kimura was born to a family of sharecroppers in a tiny farming village. He published 16 poetry collections…

Intercourse of Words

This intimate piece features clips of the filmmaker and her partner as they are making love. Backed with sensual music and poetry narration, this collaborative piece aims to prove that poetry can touch someone where…

I Hear the Whistle

A moving sad story, that made a movie of a real girl, who fights against an intractable disease called Huntington's dance disease, which causes muscle atrophy. ~~ Adapted from poetry.

Hwang Jin Yi

During the King Jungjong era of the Joseon Dynasty, a famous barmaid, Hwang Jin Yi, excels in poetry, calligraphy, singing and dancing. She befriends gentlemen and scholars, and is fascinated by them. As a proud woman,…

Shelter

A nighttime delivery man meets a woman who works as a publishing editor. He helps her to deliver boxes of books to the warehouse during rainy days; she spends her last moment in a Beat Generation-inspired publisher,…