Sharon Kwan

Sharon Kwan is a Hong Kong-American singer. Born in the United States, she moved to mainland China in 2002 to study traditional Chinese culture and music. She attended the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Yuanpei School, where she chose the erhu as her major instrument, influenced by her…

Guan Hu

Guan Hu is a Chinese director and screenwriter, one of the representatives of the Sixth Generation of film directors. He graduated from the Department of Directing at the Beijing Film Academy. In 2000, he won the Newcomer Award at the 6th China Film Huabiao Awards for the film "Goodbye, Our 1948". In…

Zhang Yi Wen

Zhang Yi Wen, formerly known as Zhang Shu Shu (张澍澍), is a Chinese actor born in Anshan, Liaoning, China, who graduated from the film and television art department of Nanjing University of the Arts. He made his acting debut in the 2001 TV series, "Red and Black". Zhang Yi Wen was born into an intellectual…

Oh Jung Tae

Oh Jung Tae is a South Korean comedian. He attended the Theater and Film program at Dongshin University but dropped out. He made his debut in 1999 as a theater actor with a role in the play "Taxi, Taxi" as he always wanted to be a theatrical actor. However, in 2006, he was scouted on the street by a…

Ichimura Masachika

He is an actor,a "seiyū" and musical singer. He was born in Kawagoe, Saitama. He married singer and actress Ryoko Shinohara on December 8, 2005, who is 24 years his junior. She gave birth to a boy on May 10, 2008, just one day before Mother's Day of that year. Their second child was born in February…

Annie Yi

Annie Yi is a Taiwanese singer and actress born in Taipei, Taiwan. In the early 1990s, she ventured to Hong Kong for her career, followed by a stint in Japan from 1996 to 1997. After turning 29 in 1998, she began her career development in China. She grew up in a military dependents' village. Her father…

Mavis Fan

Mavis Fan is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, music producer, and actress born in Taipei, Taiwan. She began her music education at age three by learning piano and later took up the flute at age nine. Mavis joined the music program at Guangren Senior High School (光仁高級中學) after attending Guangren…

Maro Akaji

Maro Akaji is a Japanese actor, butoh dancer, and director born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. He is the founder of the avant-garde butoh group Dai Rakuda-kan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Camel Arts. His mother, Yuko, suffered from mental illness following her husband's suicide, and Maro…

Carla Abellana

Carla Abellana is a Filipina actress born in Manila, Philippines. She is the daughter of actor Rey "PJ" Abellana and Rea Reyes. Her grandmother is veteran actress, Delia Razon, who was born to a German father and a Filipino-Spanish mother. She graduated cum laude from De La Salle University with a Bachelor…

Candy Rakkaen

Wathinee Wongsawatkul, known as Chanatcha Rakkaen, is a Thai singer, dancer, DJ, and actress. She is the daughter of the Mor Lam artist and Thai National Artist, Banyen Rakkaen. Her brother is Thai actor, singer, model, and hairstylist Toni Rakkaen, and her sister is Annie Rakkaen. In 2010 Chanatcha…

Shortcut

A single Filipina mother migrant in Japan, Erlinda, is juggling three jobs to provide for her college daughter's tuition fee (Hairstyling School), daily living expenses and her sick mother's medication and treatment…

Yoshimoto Shinkigeki Eiga Joshi Kosei Tantei Aichan

2.0

Ai's late mother encouraged her that only people with beautiful hearts are beautiful people. She was bullied by "pretty" girls while growing up and she now has a natural aversion to those type of girls. Ai is then…

Memories of Whale Island

8.0

Aimi's mother died during the 1995 earthquake in Japan. She revisits the island of Okinawa to watch the whales as she once did with her mother. There is little left for her in this world. She meets a Vietnamese man…

14 Apples

Shin-hong's mother goes to a fortune-teller for advice on her son's insomnia and life problems. The fortune-teller advises Shin-hong to get 14 apples and take them to a temple in rural Central Myanmar, where he must…

The Maid in London

7.0

A young mother, Margo, and Faye are forced to cling to the edge of a knife so they can travel in the United Kingdom. They both plan to work there even without a work permit. With only six months visa, time is running…

Home Sweet Tokyo Season 2

7.4

When his Japanese mother-in-law passes away, Englishman Bryan Jenkins moves to Tokyo with his family to live with his father-in-law. With his wife heading out to work in the city, he must come to grips with being a…

Who Was The Whale

After her mother disappears silently, her father begins to cling to her sister. The younger brother, who knows nothing, meets a whale wandering around the house the night his father shut his sister in. (Source: Matchbox…

To Be Sixteen

6.0

With his mother admitted to hospital and unable to communicate well with his layabout father, shy teenager Se Jun is a drift in the countryside town in which he resides. His only friend is local bad-boy Jin Young,…

Mogura

Ever since her mother disappeared Aoi has lived alone in the city of Kawasaki. She is a sex worker who goes under the name “Haru”. One day, she meets a new driver sent by her agency, Kei. These are two lonely people…