Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (née Miller), later Lady Mallowan, was a British author renowned for her detective novels, short stories, and plays. Best known for creating the iconic fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections.…

Moon Jung Suk

Moon Jung Suk was born in Seoncheon, North Pyongan Province in what is modern day North Korea in 1929. She graduated from an Boseong Girls' High School in 1947 after which Moon started her career as a theatre actor alongside her older sister Moon Jung Bok. In 1952, she made her debut as an actress whilst…

Wan Yi Hwa

Wanyiwah Phondphaothanandon, known also as Martha Htoowah and as Wan Yi Hwa, is a Burmese singer. Originally born in Thailand, her family moved to South Korea in 2016 seeking refugee status. Her father, Sawtinhtweaye Phongphothandon, was a famous singer in Myanmar who performed under the stage name…

Kim Ji Hoon

Kim Ji Hoon was born in Daegu. After graduating from Hanyang University's Theater and Film Art Department, he worked as an assistant director on a number of films. He made his feature directorial debut in 2004 with the film Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise, starring Cha In Pyo and Cho Jae Hyun. His 2007 film…

Ichikawa Kon

Ichikawa Kon was a Japanese director born in Ujiyamada, Mie. He has worked on a wide range of films, from entertainment films to documentaries to TV historical dramas, and was involved in film production for a long time. His major directorial films include "The Burmese Harp," "Flame," "Ototo," "Key,"…

Gosha Hideo

Gosha Hideo was a Japanese film director born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon Television as a reporter in 1953. In 1957, he moved on to…

Kashiwa Yukina

Kashiwa Yukina is a Japanese actress and former idol singer born in Kanagawa Prefecture. She was in the girl groups Momoiro Clover Z and Nogizaka46. As a child, Kashiwa acted in many tokusatsu dramas, including "Tokusō Sentai Dekaranger", "Garo", and "Madan Senki Ryukendo". In 2007, at the age of 13,…

Niigaki Risa

Niigaki Risa, born October 20, 1988 in Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese pop singer under Hello! Project. She is a 5th generation member and the current leader of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume and was a member of the group Tanpopo and the leader of Athena & Robikerottsu, as well as participating…

Tanba Tetsuro

Tanba Tetsuro, born Tanba Shozaburo (丹波正三郎), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, entertainment promoter, and paranormal researcher. He founded the Tamba Production Company (丹波プロダクション) and the actor training institute Tamba Dojo (丹波道場). Additionally, he researched spiritualism…

Kwon Ri Se

Kwon Ri Se was a Japanese singer, dancer and member of LADIES' CODE (레이디스 코드). She graduated from Tokyo Korean School High School. She was born in Fukushima, Japan but had Korean descent. Before debuting, she participated in Miss Korea 2009 and was crowned as "Miss Korea Japan Jin". She…

Leave It for Tomorrow, for Night Has Fallen

10.0

Four interconnected tales set at the height of the Philippine martial law’s crackdown on insurgents reflect the palpable aura of fear that has Filipinos in a state of paralysis, unable and unwilling to move until…

Taiyo no Wana

8.0

Set at a home appliance company in Nagoya. One day, major home appliance maker Meio Electrics receives a warning letter from Zestar Research Company in America. They accuse Meio of patent infringement with solar panels,…

Invisible Rock

Film student Jacky is writing a script. He tries to put his own experiences into his creation. There are his mother Jade who has passed away for a long time, the lesbian Josephine who wonders around, and a gay man…

Journey to the West

8.0

The film content consists almost entirely of long, minimalist sequences showing a Buddhist monk in saffron robe walking very (almost imperceptibly) slowly — according to the Zen kinhin (walking meditation) practice…

Wednesday's Downtown

In each episode, a Japanese entertainer is invited to appear on the show as a host and present various trivial theories, to a group of panelists. After a brief discussion with the panel, the theories are tested during…

Gekai Hatomura Shugoro 13

When Hatomura Shugoro is helping with a free medical diagnosis in Shinjuku, Sasamura Yoshiro, a Diet member who runs for help, passes by. Hatomura, who runs side by side with anxiety, notices that a bomb is attached…

Photography

8.0

Rich longing and sentimental power delivered through the medium of photography A woman just before giving birth takes a picture at her husband's recommendation. A moment when a child who has never seen his mother after…

Saibaku: Madi ni Shamisen Kanaderube

A documentary that records the last two years of Yujiro Takahashi, a Japanese folk song singer and Tsugaru shamisen master who passed away in September 2012. Born in Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture in 1934, Yujiro moved…

ABCD Is Love Do-Bo-Do

Dobudo, an alien ship trainee crew member, crashed to the earth due to an operation error of the spacecraft. Passengers were scattered everywhere, and the injured captain was taken away by an ambulance. In order to…

Rugged!

6.4

The story is about how a 10-year-old girl genius got 30 billion yen back from a scam gang. Noa has to take over her father's company after he passed away while trying to get back JPY 300m from a fraud group which had…