Murakami Hiroaki

Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…

Morishita Aiko

Morishita Aiko is a Japanese actress who has appeared in a number of feature films and television series. Her real name is Yoshida Kayo. She was born in Musashino, Tokyo. She graduated from Kojimachi Gakuen Girls' High School. She was scouted during her high school studies and debuted as a model. She…

Okuda Eiji

Okuda Eiji is a Japanese actor and film director. He was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in "Sen no Rikyu". He won the award for best actor at the 37th Blue Ribbon Awards for "Like a Rolling Stone". He made his directing debut in 2001 and has…

Mizuhashi Kenji

Mizuhashi Kenji is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. Upon graduating from Hikarigaoka Tokyo Metropolitan High School, he briefly attended beauty school before quitting to go into acting. Mizuhashi is known primarily as a film actor due to his body of work, but also occasionally appears in TV dramas. He has…

Matsuo Satoru

Matsuo Satoru is a Japanese actor, entertainer, and commentator born in Amagasaki, Hyogo. He is affiliated with FMG. He worked as a part-time worker in the organization department of the Sankei Shimbun Osaka headquarters for 3 years, declined the offer to become a full-time employee, and aspired to…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…

Nishida Masafumi

He was born in Tokyo. While studying at Gakushuin University, Nishida performed in a comedy unit which was later disbanded. He made his directing debut with the web movie ”Kikikomi”. He was also in charge of the composition of NHK's educational program ”Shakiin!”. Since then, he has been working…

Hosokawa Shigeki

Hosokawa Shigeki is a Japanese actor and former model. From 1995 to 2000, he was a professional model. He took time off from modeling in 2002 to study acting more thoroughly. He did not go to an acting school after his high school graduation so he used this time to improve his skill. Though mainly a…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Mia Taeng

Kongkai lives his life as a playboy, so his mother wants him to get married with a girl who can make him better. So, she forces him to marry with Arunprapai, a good girl she finds for him. Arunprapai accepts to marry…

Laws of the Universe

6.0

A young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return to his hometown after the sudden death of his father. (Source: Letterboxd)

Brave Young Girls

4.0

Yukari Oshima stars as a Japanese Interpol officer investigating the triads for drug smuggling and recruits some young girls coerced into prostitution by the gangs to gather incriminating evidence. However, when the…

The Chinese Ghostbuster

5.2

Wu Ma stars as a ghost who's searching for the perfect husband for his daughter. In order to get her married, the two decide to leave the spirit plain and head for the land of the living. To their surprise the world…

Hocho Mushuku

Kure Ryusuke worked as a cook at Kirinoya, a Japanese restaurant in Tsukiji, Tokyo. But because of some stabbing incident , inflicted by his son, he got kicked out. For now on, wandering around Japanese restaurants…

Feeling Relief Is Easy

4.5

Higashiyama Noriyuki stars as a playboy who is not about to be caught, and relative newcomer, Ryo, is the naive young woman who dreams of eventually ensnaring him even if she must sit back and watch him cavort with…

A Man with HIV

After volunteering as a blood donor, the HIV virus is found in 31-year-old Li Zi Liang. He is immediately fired by his boss for fear of infection. Every time he walks on the street, he is surrounded by groups of people…

Indigenous Peoples

Filmmaking wielded as a hard-edged tool of resistance. Made at the height of political censorship in Taiwan, Indigenous Peoples traces the emergence of the Return Our Lands movement in the late 1980s. (Source: SGIFF)

4 Colors Heart

Wiphawee gets a job as a nanny to Watchara’s kids, taking her far from her close friend Phongnarin. Although Phongnarin doesn't want her to go, the two promise to write to one another. When she starts the job, she…

Crying Heart

Also known as A Dumb Boy, this Hong Kong drama is the story of a dying mother and her love for her retarded son. Mrs. Fat is slowly succumbing to cancer, but her biggest worry is her only child, the 30-year-old Bee.…