Minami Shinsuke I

Minami Shinsuke was a Japanese comedian, actor, TV host, and talent born in Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. His eldest son is the second-generation comedian Minami Shinsuke. He studied at Suginami Daiichi Elementary School. In 1940, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the children's…

Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda was a Polish film and theatre director born in Suwalki, Poland. In 1942, he joined the Polish resistance, serving in the Home Army. Following the war, he pursued painting at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts before enrolling in the Lodz Film School. Wajda apprenticed with director Aleksander…

Ruka Azuma

Ruka Azuma is a Filipino-Japanese multidisciplinary artist, whose forte is filmmaking, content creation, and digital design. His passion for the arts roots heavily on his culture and as well as his love for making freeflow, abstract, and/or concept heavy type of art. At an early age, he has been exposed…

Iizawa Tadasu

Iizawa Tadasu, born Iizawa Tadasu (伊澤紀) in Wakayama, Japan, was a Japanese playwright, director, and novelist. He graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School's affiliated elementary school in 1922 and entered Musashi High School (武蔵高等学校) that same year. However, he struggled with…

Matsubayashi Shue

Matsubayashi Shue was a Japanese film director, former naval officer, and a monk, born in Sakurae-cho, Gotsu-shi, Shimane. His Dharma name is Shaku Shue. After he graduated junior high school in 1938, he went to Kyoto and graduated from the Ryutani University specialized department. He moved to Nihon…

Ito Kisaku

Stage artist. His older brother, Michio, was a dancer, and his younger brother, Koreya Senda, was a director. Graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts). Yoshi Hijikata devoted himself to performing arts, starting with the Model Stage…

Shimada Chiemi

An artist-filmmaker from Chiba, Japan. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films explore themes of intimacy, domesticity, and displacement while utilising documentary, fiction and experimental approaches. Her practice attempts to elicit contemplation, which results in…

Inoue Yasushi

Yasushi Inoue (May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer of poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido in 1907, Inoue was raised in Shizuoka Prefecture. Inoue studied at both Kyushu University and Kyoto University. He balanced his studies with a career as college…

Aoe Shunjiro

Aoe Shunjiro, whose real name is Oshima Chosaburo (大嶋長三郎), was a Japanese playwright and critic. He was born in Akita, Japan, as the eldest son of the drug merchant Eiseido. Initially named Eiichi (衛一), he adopted the name Chosaburo after his father's death in 1915. Aoe attended Akita…

Rainie Yang

Rainie Yang is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and host born in Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan, with ancestral roots in Hapu, Guangdong, China. She attended Hwa Kang Arts School for high school and came from a single-parent family, relying on her mother and sister while facing financial difficulties. After her…

Maru

7.1

Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He lost his independent will and became accustomed to simply doing what…

Nowhere Girl

6.0

Ai is a student at an all-girls' art high school, known to be extremely gifted in the arts. Her days become like a nightmare though, due to jealous classmates and adults wanting to use her for their own selfish reasons.…

That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen

7.3

A comedy about chemistry students who decide to cheat on the finals in order to protect their dorm from being demolished and replaced by a hotel. It touches upon the idea that cheating is an art, but also considers…

Sadut Ruk

7.6

This drama is the story about Pimjun and Krit, mother and son, who lived their lives as con artist. They had cheated many greedy and wealthy people for many years. But the police couldn't have arrested them. All the…

Manji Reverse

6.5

Unable to give up on his dream of becoming a painter, Sonoda quits his job and attends art school. While living a life of relying on his lawyer's wife for his family finances, Sonoda is fascinated by Hikari, a beautiful…

Walking on Thin Ice

Kang Eun Su has never dreamed of an extravagant life, simply wishing to be happy with her husband, Park Do Jin, and daughter. However, after Do Jin is diagnosed with cancer, Eun Su struggles to make ends meet with…

Tokyo Friends

6.9

Small-town girl Rei moves to the big city to pursue her dreams. In Tokyo, she finds work at a pub and befriends the three other girls who work there, art student Maki, opportunistic Ryoko, and aspiring actress Hirono.…

Designated Love

7.2

Qin Xi is an art director who puts love first, but she is independent and has a high IQ. One night, she took a snack to treat her boyfriend Jiang Han who was working overtime. But she accidentally saw that her boyfriend's…

Cute Or Crazy

7.4

Park Kyung Rim is an art gallery curator, who lives with her older brother Seung Soo, an English teacher, and her friend So Yoo Jin. Kyung Rim works for Kim Soo Mi, who co-owns the gallery with her husband, Chairman…