Debusen

7.5

Fat, ugly Fukushima Mitsuru has fallen into debt because of his love of cosplay. He encounters the dead body of Fukushima Mitsuko, a female teacher with a name and face just like his while attempting to commit suicide…

Kamihate Store

6.9

Chiyo runs a modest bakery on the last bus stop in the small port town of Kamihate. The bakery was left by her late mother. Her personality is abrupt and, because of this, only the milk delivery man Okuda, who is autistic,…

A Matter of Interpretation

6.2

Filmmaker Lee Kwang Kuk noted for his unique style of deriving a story from another story in his debut film Romance Joe (2011) returns with another interesting narrative structure in his 2nd film A Matter of Interpretation.…

Doctor

7.9

Chikako Shida was born in 1910 in Ooisawa, Yamagata (now Nishikawa) as the eldest daughter of a prominent family. Her father Soujirou was the principal of a local elementary school and her mother died during a particularly…

We Are Reds! The Movie Minna Minna Minna

The conclusion to the two-part documentary about J-League soccer club, the Urawa Red Diamonds. Players, staff, and fans who were covered for a year throughout the 2014 season offer their thoughts on the team and deliberate…

A Road Stained Crimson

6.7

Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is a former contract killer, but now works in a motorcycle shop. He tries to live a respectable life with his partner Yoko (Jun Fubuki). Akira (Jun Murakami) has known Ken since his days as a contract…

Hatsukoi Triangle: Ano Ko wa Nande Nippon ni?

6.4

Aya and Ryo are directors of the popular TV variety programme “Why Did You Come to Japan?” which covers interesting foreigners at Narita Airport. Aya is Ryo’s junior and immediately took the plunge into the TV…

Yami Koku no Utage

An omnibus horror film comprised of six shorts about fragments from nightmares. > Story 1: Shadowgraph/ Utsushie(うつしえ) [Director: Sakamoto Keiji] A maid shows up at a deserted inn closed for the off-season…

SoSo

Wang Jing Yi, known professionally as Soso, is a Taiwanese singer, dancer and former member of GWSN (공원소녀). Before debuting, she attended Juang Jing Vocational School in Taipei. She made her debut in September 2018 as GWSN's lead dancer and vocalist with their first EP, "The Park in the Night,…

Yayan Ruhian

Yayan is an Indonesian actor. By the age of 13, hoping to "show his masculinity", he began studying the traditional martial art, Pencak Silat. Yayan trained with what later became Pencak Silat Tenaga Dasar, eventually becoming a trainer and referee – although he later learned that this disqualified…

Sunthorn Phu

Phra Sunthorn Vohara, born Phu and known as Sunthorn Phu, was a famous royal poet honoured as the Shakespeare of Thailand. Born in 1786, four years after the birth of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, in what was then Thonburi and today Bangkok, his family home was behind the royal palace. Sometime after his…

Ludovico Einaudi

Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin on November 23rd 1955. Perhaps it was his mother, an amateur pianist, who gave him the first impulse to music, planting the seeds for what would become a fruitful, illustrious career. He began to study music at the Conservatory of Turin and graduated…

Lee Michelle

Lee Michelle, or sometimes shown in the Western version as Michelle Lee, is a South Korean singer, vocal trainer, professor and musical/theater actress. She graduated from Munsan Sueok High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Music from Dong-Ah University of Media and Arts. She was born…

Ellyn

Bang Sun Hee, known professionally as Ellyn, is a South Korean singer, dancer, and former member of GIRLKIND (걸카인드). She graduated from Jamsil Girls' High School. She made her debut in January 2018 as the group's vocalist, visual and maknae with the single, "Fanci". Later that year, they became…

Matsumoto Seicho

Matsumoto Seicho was a Japanese author born on February 12, 1909 but his birthday is listed as December 21 on his family register. His real name is Matsumoto Kiyoharu. While Matsumoto himself stated he was born in Hiroshima, official records state he was born in Itaku Village, Kiku District, Fukuoka…

Park Dong Hyuk

Park Dong Hyuk is a South Korean singer, dancer, actor, and former member of ENOi (이엔오아이) and BLANK2Y (블랭키). He graduated from Songho High School. He made his debut in April 2019 (under the stage name Avin) as ENOi's sub-vocalist with their first single, "Bloom". The group struggled…

Oshima Nagisa

Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930's Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about Japanese WW2 prisoners of war. Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu…

Kim Tae Yong

Kim Tae-yong (born March 20, 1987) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim got into filmmaking before he turned 20 years old, after watching and inspired by the film The Son by directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. He was nicknamed "a short film executive" as he had made many shorts…