Ishii Katsuhito

Ishii Katsuhito is a Japanese film director. After graduating from Musashino Art University, Katsuhito Ishii got a job at Tohokushinsha Film and began directing commercials in 1992, receiving numerous awards in this field. His first short film The Promise of August, shot in 1995, went on to receive…

Cheung Ying Choi

Cheung Ying Choi was one of the biggest Cantonese movie superstars of Hong Kong cinema in the 1960s. He was at the peak of his popularity from 1962 till 1965. He was born in 1934 and appeared in his first movie in 1953. He made a total of over 300 Cantonese black & white feature films - many were box-office…

Karl Maka

Karl Maka moved to Hong Kong in 1958 and then five years later he emigrated to New York City where he studied as an engineer. It is difficult to ascertain whether he got his sense of humor on the streets of New York or later when he was working for the telephone company in New Jersey! At some point…

Kim Jong Hak

Kim Jong Hak was a South Korean television director and producer. He graduated from Whimoon High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Broadcasting from Kyung Hee University. He joined MBC in 1977 and made his debut in 1981 as one of the directors of the long-running drama,…

Bai Jing

Bai Jing was a Chinese actress born to an ordinary family in Liaoning Province and was actively involved in performances as early as her kindergarten days. With her talent in singing and dancing, she entered the China Coal Mine Art Troupe Staff Secondary Art School in 1996 to study dance. In April 1999,…

Tsuburaya Eiji

Tsuburaya Eiji was a Japanese special effects director, film director, camera operator, and inventor born in Sukagawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture. He was the first president of the company Tsuburaya Special Skills Productions. He was the leading expert in special effects technology in the Showa era and…

Tien Feng

Tien Feng was a Chinese actor, assistant director and producer born in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. When he was a student, he was fond of drama and began participating in stage performances. In 1949, he joined the Army Drama Troupe and went to Taiwan with the army. Immediately afterwards, he made…

Ahn Jae Hwan

Ahn Gwang Seong, known professionally as Ahn Jae Hwan, was a South Korean actor. He graduated from Daewon Foreign Language High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Crafts from Seoul National University. He made his debut in 1996 as part of the 25th open recruitment for talent at MBC. He…

Takamine Hideko

Takamine Hideko was a Japanese actress, singer, and essayist born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Her real name was Matsuyama Hideko (松山秀子), and her maiden name was Hirayama Hideko (平山秀子). Her family lived in a household run by her grandfather, Rokusho, who managed a soba restaurant called…

Nagai Go

Nagai Kiyoshi, better known by the pen name Nagai Go, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating popular 1970s manga and anime series such as Cutie Honey,…

My Small Land

7.6

17-year-old Salya grew up in Japan from an early age, leaving the place where she was born with a Kurdish family. She lived a normal high school life, just like the Japanese of her generation, but at some point she…

Dream Stage

7.6

20-year-old Ozawa Tsubasa has been helping out in the eatery that her mother Yukiko runs in a port town in the Tohoku region. She loves songs and secretly wishes to become a singer. However, she is on the verge of…

Boku no Tsuma to Kekkon Shite Kudasai

7.6

45-year-old Mimura Shuji is a man who loves making people laugh more than anything else. A staff of a TV station, he has lived a life dedicated to directing variety programmes. He was recently transferred from programme…

Issen Chou En no Minoshirokin

7.6

35-year-old Hiraoka Naoto is a man dissatisfied with generational disparity. One year ago, he resigned from his company. He launched a blog on his frustrations with the world and has been writing petitions regarding…

Ode to Nothing

7.6

Sonya is an old maid stuck in a town that long ceased to recognize her existence but only until one fateful morning when a mysterious corpse arrives at the footsteps of their family owned funeral shop. Bringing forth…

A Haunting Hitchhike

7.6

16-year-old girl Jung Ae is living with her father in a redevelopment area of Seoul. Her father was diagnosed with an end-stage cancer and is waiting for his death without further treatment. He tells Jeong-ae that…

Love Exposure - TV SHOW

7.7

Troubled 17-year-old Yu is the son of a widowed priest who's in an illicit relationship with a parishioner. Beleaguered by his father's hypocritical religious zeal, Yu takes his own sin - taking upskirt panty shots…

Romang

7.6

75-year-old Jo Nam Bong and 71-year-old Lee Mae Ja have dementia. They've been married for 45 years and they are alike in all ways, mentally and physically. Now they live like they are the only two in the world. Every…

When I Turned Nine

7.6

9-year-old Yeo Min does various part-time jobs to make one wish come true: buying sunglasses for his mother who has lost her eye while working. Meanwhile, Woo Rim, Yeo Min’s classmate and his one-sided love, is not…

Patient Chart Prayer

7.7

25-year-old Suwano Ryota is in his first year as a medical intern at a university teaching hospital. During his childhood, his father died from a disease and his mother remarried. Even though Suwano Ryota’s stepfather…