Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Adachi Masao

Adachi’s career testifies to the opportunities which “pink” cinema provided for the expression of dissident attitudes. He had achieved notice as a student filmmaker collaborating on such creative experimental films as The Lacquered Bowl (Wan, 1961), a tragedy set in an isolated village. From 1966…

Higashi Yoichi

Known in the West mainly for one film, Village of Dreams (E no naka no boku no mura, 1996), Higashi has in fact produced an oeuvre of consistent intelligence and unobtrusive political commitment along liberal and progressive lines. His feature debut, People of the Okinawa Islands (Okinawa rettō, 1969),…

Fukuda Kanon

Fukuda Kanon, born March 12, 1995 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer signed to Hello! Project. She joined the project in 2004 as a member of Hello! Pro Egg and is a former member of Shugo Chara Egg! and is the current leader of Shin Minimoni and sub-leader of S/mileage. Fukuda Kanon…

Yuna

Iimura Yuna, known simply as Yuna, is a Japanese singer, dancer, former member of HARAJUKU DREAMMATE (ハラ塾DREAMMATE) and current member of CSR (첫사랑). She made her debut in June 2018 as part of HARAJUKU DREAMMATE with their first single, "First Step". The group had been forming since 2016…

Jim Kelly

With his super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s. After appearing in a minor film role, Kelly's second screen effort was as one of the invited guests to the deadly Han's Island in Enter the Dragon…

Ishihara Yujiro

Yujiro grew up in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, in Otaru, Hokkaido, and in Zushi, Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima. Yujiro attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho Elementary School. During his…

Lek Saran Sakornsin

"Lek" Saran Sakornsin was an actor and model of Thai-Chinese descent born in Nakhon Sawan. Lek's father died before he was born and his mother re-married, leaving him to live with his grandmother. So his grandmother was pretty much his only family member. Lek was considered to be one of the most famous…

Pak Suet Sin

Pak Suet Sin was the daughter of a leading actor in Cantonese Opera, Mr. Pak Kui Wing. Since she was the ninth child in the family, she was nicknamed 'the ninth lady'. She once apprenticed under Cantonese Opera master Sit Kok Sin, and began her co-operation with Yam Kim Fai in the forties of the last…

Oki Masaya

Oki Masaya was a Japanese actor from Oita Prefecture. Beppu City. He graduated from Oita City Oji Junior High School and high school. He belonged to JK Planning. One day, he was scouted by a customer and became a model for a fashion magazine, but because it was a one-off job, he continued to work as…

Haruka's Pottery

7.4

Twenty-year-old Haruka doesn’t know what to do with her life when she stumbles upon an exhibition of Bizen pottery. She becomes so fascinated with a beautifully crafted bowl that she spontaneously decides to quit…

Loving Strangers

7.5

Twenty-seven-year-old elite lawyer Wen Xi, after unexpectedly uncovering the mystery of her past, finds herself swapped with Yan Zhao, forced to leave her family and childhood sweetheart to enter into a contractual…

License to Live

7.5

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places.…

B for Busy

7.5

50-year-old Shanghai's uncle Lao Bai has been divorced for many years and lives by teaching people to paint. He is lonely but he does not want to admit loneliness. He had an exotic past that he fell in love with at…

Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai

7.5

52-year-old Saenai is an ordinary middle management salaryman. One day, he is forcibly handed a super suit by a strange old man and reluctantly takes over as superman. With a wife from hell Enko and two adolescents,…

Begin Again

7.5

Nine-year-old Zhang Yu is troubled by a difficult family situation. One day he meets a mysterious girl and the two set off for a journey... to the past, trying to prevent Zhang Yu's birth.

Silver Lining

7.5

"Silver Lining" depicts an old Cantonese restaurant called Yuet Tak Kui, which was well-liked by neighbourhood foodies before the handover in 1997. Assistant Chef Au Yiu Cho announces he and his wife, Tang Lai Kuen,…

Onna wa Sore o Yurusanai

7.4

31-year-old Iwasaki Urara became a lawyer and did a disservice to client because of her own mistake in her first court case. This traumatised her and she gave up being a lawyer. Fretting that she isn’t cut out to…

Ichiro

7.4

19-year-old Onodera Ichiro, who was born and raised in an Edo residence, is hastily summoned to return to his hometown after his father, the chief attendant of feudal lord processions, is killed in an accidental fire…

Bunt

7.5

11-year-old Dong Ku, who is mentally challenged, loves going to school to provide water to his friends. However, he gets disappointed when the school decides to install a water purifier in every classroom. He finds…