George A. Furness

A former soldier and lawyer residing in Japan during the 50s and 60s. He retired from the army as a Major. His was well known in Japan for serving as defense counsel for Shigemitsu Mamoru, a war-time Japanese politician, and Admiral Toyoda Soemu, during the Tokyo Trials. Despite Shigemitsu’s opposition…

Celest Chong

Chong began her acting career as a secretary in Eric Khoo's Stories about Love performing a Turkish inspired belly-dance. She also sang the show's theme song, "Sorry, My Love". Later, she moved on to Channel 5's sitcom, Making Love, in which she played a sultry receptionist named Pamela. She later played…

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

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.…

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. He was the first Italian filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Last Emperor (1987), one of many accolades including two Golden Globes, two David di Donatellos, a British Academy…

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Kobayashi Takeshi

Kobayashi Takeshi is a Japanese musician. He started his professional career in the late 1970s. After working in the backing bands for singers such as Yosui Inoue, Misato Watanabe, and Anri, he came into prominence as a musical collaborator for the Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata's eponymous…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Jeon Seo Jin

Jeon Seo Jin is a South Korean actress.

Chen Xue Tao

The Locker

6.2

A group of friends use a locker that is supposedly haunted. Everyone is soon haunted by the ghost of a little girl with long black hair. As they start getting killed off in a number of ways, it's up to the remaining…

Planck Constant

6.2

Kim Woo Joo goes to a beauty salon to have his hair cut 1mm every day. During his haircut, Kim Woo Joo imagines the assistant hairdresser's skirt becoming shorter little by little. At a cafe, he writes down a script…

Subscription Adultery

6.3

What if there was a subscription service that allowed people to have a "safe affair"...? An ordinary housewife who has never thought about having an affair falls into the swamp of an adultery subscription service that…

Trick or Cheat

6.3

A group of high schoolers are determined to put on a musical dance performance but the school threatens to scuttle their plans because their grades are the pits. The two leaders of the gang, William and Gem, are given…

Believe in Love

6.4

Ye Qing Cheng is an influential man in the Rong City. Tang Jiu Jiu is his childhood playmate. But, due to his family, he left the city and Tang Jiu Jiu when he was little. Years later, Tang Jiu Jiu becomes a mixologist,…

Drama Special Season 1: A Reason

6.5

After her husband ends up in a vegetative state as a result of a car crash, Jisu found little reason to live. She went through the daily motions of life in a trance-like manner, until Park Songi, a new caregiver, arrived.…

Pray

6.1

Two young adults, Mitsuru and his girlfriend Maki, kidnap a little girl and hold her for ransom to pay off a drug-related a debt. As they hide out at an abandoned school, they attempt to call the girl's parents only…

Red Sword

6.1

Adapted from the Grimms' Fairy Tales, the story is a twist on the classic book, where the battle between the werewolf corps and the fateful werewolf hunter - Little Red Riding Hood is depicted.

Exes & Missus

6.5

Phraphai, a skilled heart surgeon, is married to electrical engineer Din. They have a three-year-old daughter, Namnile, but Phraphai’s demanding career and motherhood leave little room for romance. Din, a romantic,…