Kitabayashi Tanie

Kitabayashi Tanie was a Japanese actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well-known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue…

Bando Mitsugoro X

Morita Hisashi (January 23, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was a Japanese Kabuki actor, television presenter, and writer. Born as the eldest son of the Yamatoya guild, his grandfather was Bando Mitsugoro VIII, one of Japan's most revered kabuki actors who was designated as a "Living National Treasure"…

Park Sang Chul

Park Sang Chul is a South Korean trot singer. He graduated from Samcheok High School and later obtained a bachelor's degree in Broadcasting and Entertainment from Samcheok University and a master's degree in Health Management from Konkuk University. When he was 19 years old, he decided to go to Seoul…

Zong Zi Jie

Zong Zi Jie is a Chinese actor from Shandong, China, who is now based in Singapore. He is currently an artiste managed by NoonTalk Media. Zi Jie entered the entertainment industry at the age of 13, debuting in MediaCorp’s prime-time Chinese drama "My School Daze" in 2009. (Source: NoonTalk Media)

Yoshimoto Banana

Yoshimoto Banana is the pen name of Japanese writer Yoshimoto Mahoko. Yoshimoto graduated from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in literature. While there, she adopted the pseudonym "Banana", after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."…

Maki Makilan

Maki Makilan is a filmmaker from Negros Occidental, currently based in Quezon, Philippines. She earned her degree from the University of the Philippines Film Institute and also trained at the Mowelfund Film Institute. Her undergraduate thesis mientras tanto received support from the Film Development…

Yoshida Daihachi

Yoshida Daihachi is a Japanese film director and writer. He won the award for Best New Director at the 29th Yokohama Film Festival for Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!(2007). He also won many awards for his film The Kirishima Thing (2012) for Best Director at the 67th Mainichi Film Awards and Director…

Yoon In Ja

Yoon In Ja, born Yoon In Sun, also known by her Buddhist nun name Sanha, was born inSariwon, South Korea. In 1941, she made her debut as a theater actress. In 1954, she made her feature film debut as an assistant to the documentary film "Korea", and, in 1954, she made her debut as a star of the film…

Sung Jin

Sung Jin is a South Korean monk. He graduated from Dongguk University with a bachelor's degree in Buddhism. He is currently the chief monk at the Seonggwansa Temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism in Namyangju. He is active as a member of a choir called MANNAM along a Catholic priest, a Protestant…

Oki Hiroyuki

Oki Hiroyuki was a Japanese director and visual artist. He studied in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Engineering, and started experimenting with film around the same time. In 1990, he received the Special Jury Prize at the Image Forum Festival for his film Swimming…

Teki Cometh

7.3

Watanabe Gisuke, 77 years old. Having resigned from his position as a university professor for 10 years—predeceased by his wife, he lives in a traditional Japanese house passed down from his grandfather's generation.…

Chronicle of the Evening Cicadas

7.3

Towards the end of the Edo period, Danno Shozaburo receives an order from Nakane, the prime minister at the han. The order is to keep watch over Toda Akiya, who has been in confinement for killing a boy servant who…

Return to the 36th Chamber

7.3

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate…

Love's Shattered Reflections

7.3

Peeraka, a promising medical intern, is thrust into a nightmare when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his mother and sister. Abandoned by his girlfriend Mesa, Peeraka's life ends tragically as he tries…

Unfair: The End

7.3

Set 4 years after the movie "Unfair: The Answer". Natsumi Yukihira receives secret documents about an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato, pays…

Hit Me Anyone One More Time

7.3

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was…

Saya Zamurai

7.3

A samurai named Kanjuro is decided to give up his sword after a certain incident. He wanders aimlessly with his daughter, but because he abandoned his position as a samurai without permission, a price is put on his…

Love Death and Cat

7.2

In order to retain the beautiful skin that does not belong to her and her lover Gong Tian Bao, the ninety-year-old cat-demon dancer deliberately attracts the demon-catching Taoist priest Liu Zhi, hoping to absorb his…

Teen Regime

7.2

In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a country on the decline. Wanting to break free of this endless situation, Prime Minister Washida sets up an experimental…

The Exorcists of Tha Rae

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In Thailand's largest Catholic village, Tha Rae, a demon returns after forty years, possessing a former priest and spreading terror. Traditional exorcism fails, forcing a by-the-book priest and a rogue shaman to join…