Gift Room

The Giftsil Village, where the grandmother's house is located, is turning into the construction of the Yeongju Dam, a part of the Four Rivers Project. The gift room with more than ten households seems to be in a paused…

Kyoto Jin no Hisokana Tanoshimi: Natsu

The protagonists are a young proprietress of a long-established confectionery shop and a mysterious foreign professor who has lived in Kyoto for over ten years. The second installment focuses on “summer,” a season…

Tsutakantoku Kokoyakyu wo Kaeta Otoko no Shinjitsu

Documentary about the famed high school baseball coach Tsuta Fumiya. Commentaries from his contemporaries reveal the true persona of Tsuta, who led a prefectural high school baseball team in Tokushima to over ten appearances…

The Blue Hearts

7.4

The 6 directors picked a favourite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song: Ken Iizuka ("Hammer"), Ten Shimoyama ("Be Kind To Others"), Noboru Iguchi ("Love Letter"),…

Live Fashionably or Die

Documentary with an uplifting message about elderly society featuring a fashion show with senior citizens walking the runway. Kobe City was profoundly traumatized by the Great Hanshin earthquake. The Hyogo Modern Senior…

Face Taiwan

30 years after the Taiwanese New Wave first emerged, the veterans such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming Liang remain active in their careers. Ten of Edward Yang’s former assistants have become directors. The filmmakers…

Pure Hearts: Into Chinese Showbiz

Pure Hearts: Into Chinese Showbiz is the maiden work of Ph.D. Bi Zhifei, a 36-year-old director. It took him ten years to write the screenplay and to produce the movie. This is an unprecedented work where a bold decision…

Somtum Hamburger

10.0

Steve Brandon, a man in his early thirties, works at a famous financial advisory firm in the heart of New York City. For the past ten years, Steve's life has revolved around his work. Each day he works, he drinks coffee,…

Adventurous Life

7.5

Looking up at the heavens and down at the earth, contemplating life from its depths. Ten travelers, ten journeys, from Africa to the polar regions, measuring the dimensions of the soul with the world. (Source: Chinese…

A Woman Is a Woman

7.1

The film follows two trans women in Hong Kong - Chiu Ling Fung is still at school but has been wrestling with their gender identity. Meanwhile, Sung Chi Yu has been happily married for ten years but has kept a secret…

Sun Chien

Sun Chien is a Taiwanese actor who developed his career in Hong Kong (notably as one of the 5 Venoms) and signed as a contract actor with the Shaw Brothers for eight years. He lost both parents while young and was brought up by his two sisters.

Soganoya Meichou

Fong Yuen

Yuen Fang is a Hong Kong actor and make-up artist. He worked as a make-up artist on over 300 films. He was active from 1937-1983. (Source: IMDb)

Liao Wei Wei

Liao Wei Wei is a Chinese actress. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and began her career in 2014. This included singing drama theme songs, acting and taking part in TV magic shows as well as reality shows. She has acted in several films directed by Kelong Li.

Wai Pak

Wai Pak is a Chinese actor born in China. In the late 1980s, he faded from acting and moved to Argentina.

Hirata Yasuyuki

Hirata Yasuyuki is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. He's known for his numerous appearances in Chinese movies and TV series focused on the Sino-Japanese wars. (Source: Baidu Baike)

Igawa Kuniko

Born as Toshiko Nonaka, she began acting as Toshiko Kono before changing her name again after World War II during the golden age of Japanese cinema to Kuniko Igawa. She became a café owner after she retired, which occurred in 1977, in Kamakura. Coffee Igawa is still a going concern despite her death…

Lu Feng

Lu Feng is a Taiwanese actor based in Hong Kong. At the age of 8, he learned martial arts at the army-affiliated Junior Lu Guang Drama School. He then applied his skills as a stuntman on screen. He caught the attention of director Chang Cheh and was recommended to Shaw Brothers as an actor. (Source:…

Shibata Takeshi

Kato Taku

Born in 1969 in Nara, KAto Taku has been working for the Japanese public broadcasting company NHK since 1991. His documentary Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter (2017) was shown on Nippon Connection 2018. (Source: NipponConnection)