Ikenami Shotaro

Ikenami Shotaro was a prominent Japanese novelist known for his historical fiction and period novels that depicted the post-war era in Japan. Besides his literary contributions, he was also renowned as a film critic, particularly fond of French cinema and film noir. He was born in Seitencho, Asakusa-ku,…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Okada Mari

Nacida en 1976 en Chichibu, un pequeño pueblo de montaña, su infancia fue cualquier cosa menos ideal. Con su padre desentendiéndose de ella al nacer y viéndose su madre en la tesitura de criarla sola, las cosas se torcieron definitivamente para Okada al entrar en el colegio. Allí sufrió un caso…

Itami Juzo

Juzo Itami, born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films, all of which he wrote himself. The son of Mansaku Itami, prewar director of satiric jidai-geki, Jūzō worked initially as an actor, appearing regularly in Japan and occasionally in English-language…

Angela Chang

Angela Chang is a Taiwanese singer and actress born in Zhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan, and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of 12. In 1999, she won the championship in the singing competition "Chinese Radio Pop Star" in Canada. She later returned to Taiwan to pursue her career. Coming from…

Liu Xin Peng

Wang Shen Di

Kim Gwan Mo

Kim Gwan Mo is a South Korean actor.

Jang Seok Hoon

Lee San

Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

7.4

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he’s running from loan sharks and his personal expectations. (Source: Letterboxd)

Working Girls

How the daily lives of seven women working different jobs in a big commercial bank in Makati are affected by their ambition for success in their chosen career paths and how this drive affects their personal lives.…

Hua Tuo and Cao Cao

Grand warlord Cao Cao consults the physician Hua Tuo about his chronic headaches. Cao Cao intends to take him on as his personal physician but Hua Tao refuses. (Source: TMDb)

Natsu, Taiken Monogatari

4.0

Four high school girls from troubled homes are living in a high school dormitory and decide to go on a summer vacation trip with some of their teachers. In part, the girls want to meet boys and possibly have their…

Kinjirareta Mariko

9.0

Mariko, a girl possessing psychic and psychokinesis powers, is struggling against various personal challenges and setbacks while attempting to deal with her birth father's criminal past. (Source: D-Addicts)

Kangofu Monogatari

Enoko has just graduated from a nursing school and has just become a longing nurse at a university hospital. Soon, the woman faces not only her father's disease, but also personal and medical problems in the ward,…

Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song

The film documents the anti-Marcos revolution, the life of Oliver, child prostitution, and the filmmaker's own personal history, including his homosexuality, his filmmaking, and his travels abroad. (Source: IMDb)

Station

7.2

A look at a detective's life, who gave up his family for work, through many cases and personal relationships.

The Buddha Assassinator

Lord Tsoi of the Manchus is ambushed by Ming freedom fighters. Kung fu fanatic, Shao Hai, comes to his rescue and is made Tsoi's personal body guard. Shao Hai soon finds that he has been ordered to kill a member of…

Ima,

Lyrical silent short, which in contrast to other shorts around this period, shows glimpses of her personal style of filmmaking that will be later developed in other films shortly to come. (Source: Mubi)