Taeko Asano

Last Friends

job: Screenplay

overview: Follow the life of Michiru Aida, a beauty parlor assistant who returns to Tokyo after 4 years. Bullied by her seniors at work and abused by her boyfriend, she is reunited with her best friend during high school, Ruka Kishimoto, a skilled motocross racer. Takeru, a make-up artist, is introduced to Ruka by her housemate, Eri and thus begin a journey of friendship.

department: Writing

original_name: ラスト・フレンズ

original_language: ja

Innocent Love

overview: An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, yet she believes in her brother's innocence and often pays him visits with words of encouragement. As life gets harder when nobody is willing to give her a job, Kanon decides to try her luck in the city and there she meets the man of her destiny...

original_name: イノセント・ラヴ

I'm Sorry, I Love You

overview: Ritsu was abandoned by his mother Reiko when he was little, so now he belongs in the lower social strata. One day, Ritsu gets involved in a case and his head is severely injured, so he can die at anytime. Convinced she abandoned him due to poverty, Ritsu attempts to find his mother and be good to her before his death. But when he learns that she is leading a happy life instead, with her pianist son Satoru, he decides to take revenge on his mother. Ritsu then meets Rinka, a girl whom he happened to help in the past, and discovers she is Satoru’s childhood friend.

original_name: ごめん、愛してる

Love 2000

overview: Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.

original_name: 二千年の恋

Cat Street

job: Writer

overview: A story about a talented child actress who wins back her dream after retiring from acting. Keito was once a popular child actress, but she had shut herself away from society for 10 years after a traumatic acting incident. She is now 17 years old and incidentally enrolls to a free school for dropouts where she makes true friends. Together, they build trust and find the meaning of life. --NHK

original_name: キャットストリート

Precious Time

overview: Masaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her body. She end up meeting him after the concert and fall in love with him, and he is interested in her. How ever Masaki has gotten HIV during the time she sold her body... How will this affect her relationship with Keigo?

original_name: 神様、もう少しだけ

Love Generation

overview: Love Generation revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei and Uesugi Riko, who begin their relationship as squabbling colleagues before falling in love.

original_name: ラブジェネレーション

Kare, Otto, Otoko Tomodachi

overview: Haruko (Maki Yoko), an events producer, is the second of the Inuyama family's three daughters. She turns down a proposal from the man she has been cohabiting with, causing their relationship to turn awkward. Her older sister, Asako (Kimura Tae), is hides her husband's domestic violence while her younger sister, Ikuko (Kaho), cannot instinctively understand love. Haruko is at a critical point in her career and love life, but she scrambles about for the sake of her sisters. The three of them are helped by the family ties and eventually break out of their shell.

original_name: カレ、夫、男友達

overview: For 13 years, Yuria Aikawa's whereabouts have been unknown. All of a sudden, she reemerges and returns to her family. What awaits Yuria is a world that have completely changed.

The Cicada's Eighth Day

overview: Kiwako Nonomiya is devastated after Takehiro Akiyama, the married man she has been having an affair with, manipulates her into getting an abortion by promising to marry her and then refusing to divorce his wife. Kiwako then learns of Takehiro's wife's pregnancy. One morning, while Takehiro and his wife Etsuko are away, Kiwako sneaks into their home to get a look at their six-month-old child. Without a thought for the consequences, she carries the baby away. Kiwako then raises the child as her own, while being a fugitive from the law.

original_name: 八日目の蝉

Toward the Wilderness

overview: Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth

original_name: だから荒野

What Do You Really Do About Love?

overview: Sakurazawa Jun is 27 years old and excels in her job, is fashionable, has many hobbies and lives a very fulfilled life. Her life is driven by her primary motto  "love is just a waste of time!" and she has no experience in romantic relationships or with men. Before her appears Nagamine Shuma, an incredibly handsome chef in training who knows exactly what women want to hear and feel. He's someone who lives in the moment, lets people come and go, is cool and not serious about love. For some reason, Shuma is intrigued by Jun and decides to approach her...

original_name: 恋なんて、本気でやってどうするの？

Happy Marriage!?

job: Teleplay

overview: A rich, handsome businessman, Hokuto, proposes marriage to Chiwa, whose father has a large debt. Hokuto apparently has a secret reason for marrying Chiwa. Will this marriage work out?

original_name: はぴまり〜Happy Marriage!?〜

Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight

overview: Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.

original_name: 黄昏流星群

Junjo Kirari

overview: The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl. Indeed, even in the first episode she exhibits her confidence and enthusiasm. But above all else, Sakurako is interested in becoming a jazz pianist, and music features extensively in the plot.

original_name: 純情きらり

Prism

overview:
Maejima Satsuki works part-time at a garden centre in Tokyo. While her aspiration is to be a voice talent, she is on the verge of giving up. Satsuki has never been serious about what she does. It is the same with romance. However, she meets Morishita Riku, who is a garden designer. After a terrarium that she made captured his attention, Satsuki ends up helping out with a garden project he has undertaken.

Before long, the two of them become a couple. Then, the gardener, Shiraishi Yuma, joins the project, and Riku is greatly shaken. Satsuki is unaware of their reunion. The feelings of the three of them intertwine as they focus on completing the garden. Satsuki eventually makes a choice.

original_name: プリズム

Extramarital Love

original_name: 婚外恋愛

Perfect Love

original_name: パーフェクトラブ！

Ooku

overview: The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.

original_name: 大奥

Ooku ~ Hana no Ran ~

overview: Tells the story of the women surrounding Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun.

original_name: 大奥～華の乱～

Cross of Roses

overview: A new kind of melodrama about a man that wants children, but can't have them with his wife; and a single-woman that wants to have a child of her own. It is also about what children mean to both sexes.

original_name: 薔薇の十字架

Every Precious Moment

original_name: たとえあなたを忘れても

Onna no Kunsho

original_name: 女の勲章

100 Tales of Horror

job: Creator

overview: There are all kinds of people living in the back street tenement houses in old Edo. One of them is Ashiya Dosan, the descendant of an Onmyoji who made a name for himself back in the Heian period. Unfortunately, unlike his forefathers, Dosan has not made much of a living off the fortune telling and amulet peddling that he does.

department: Creator

original_name: 怪談百物語

English

iso_3166_1: US

also_known_as:
浅野 妙子
あさの たえこ
Asano Taeko

title: Chichi yo, anata wa erakatta - 1969 nen no oyaji to boku

original_title: 父よ、あなたはえらかった～1969年のオヤジと僕

title: Love for Beginners

overview: Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki suffers from low self-esteem and isn't very comfortable styling her own hair. She also has a tendency to dress old-fashioned. She's teased at high school because of this. One day, popular male student Tsubaki Kyota targets Tsubaki for teasing. Tsubaki Kyota holds sway over the entire classroom and is quite a playboy. Inexplicably they fall in love. Meanwhile, Tsubaki Kyota has commitment issues...

title: Birds Without Names

overview: An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.

original_title: 彼女がその名を知らない鳥たち

title: Bōkyō

overview:
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island:  "Mikan no hana"
 Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a city on the opposite shore. Housewife Misato Tomita lives on the island.  "Umi no hoshi"
 Yōhei Hamasaki, who was born on Shiratsuna Island, lives in an apartment in the outskirts of Tokyo with his wife, Tomomi, and their son, Taichi.  "Kumo no ito"
 Popular artist Hirotaka Kurosaki, who is a native of Shiratsuna Island, goes back to his hometown after seven years.

title: The Bucket List

overview: Sachie Kitahara is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her family. Mako Goda is a wealthy woman who runs a business. They are both diagnosed with terminal illnesses and are told they only have a short time left to live. These two women from completely different walks of life meet at the hospital. They both feel emptiness in their lives. They happen to get a 12-year-old's written bucket list. Sachie Kitahara and Mako Goda decide to carry out the girl's wish list and they begin to feel happiness entering their lives.

title: Ōoku

title: Face

overview: Seira Ino (Emi Takei) is about to make her major label debut as a “masked artist” who does not show her face.

title: Stop the Old Fox

overview: After the sudden death of her adoptive father Shimada Mataemon, Nui, whose own father met an untimely death when he was about to expose the corruption of the shogunate becomes determined to expose the collusion between Kannouji, and the unforgivable relationships between the ladies in waiting of the inner palace and the monks. Nui is undertaking this undercover investigation without regard for the danger she is putting herself in, for the sake of Shinnosuke whom she secretly loves

title: Oiesan

overview: Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband, Yoni Suzuki and her general manager built the company from a small sugar importer into Japan's largest trading and manufacturing company.

title: Pro Bono

overview: A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hire an attorney to defend him. The boy’s sister, Kiriko, pleads with an accomplished attorney named Otsuka to defend her brother pro bono. But because of Otsuka’s busy schedule and other priorities, he refuses to take the case. Lacking a proper defense, Kiriko’s brother is eventually convicted of murder, and dies in prison. From that point on, Kiriko is determined to take revenge against Otuska.

title: Partner in Crime

overview: For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the statute of limitations on the murder of her colleague expires, a mysterious man appears in Misaki’s life, who says, “I know your secret.” Is he a friend or foe? The nameless man who claims to know about Misaki’s past does not reveal any personal information about himself, but only says he wants to live with her in exchange for keeping her secret. Hence, a bizarre living arrangement begins. Who is this man and what is his purpose? Meanwhile, conventional detective Kiba is convinced that Misaki is the elusive criminal behind the 15-year old murder case and is determined to uncover evidence to prove his theory. As this peculiar love-suspense drama unfolds, you will need to piece together information to solve the mysterious puzzle of murder while the clock counts down to the expiration deadline.

title: Marmalade Boy

overview: Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.

title: Mystery Trilogy Special

overview: This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.

original_title: このミステリーがすごい！

title: Jikan no Shûzoku

title: That Girl's Captives of Love

overview: Centers on three childhood friends in a love triangle. Yori moved back to the countryside, and started wearing glasses and not being noticed by girls. Meanwhile, Shizuku entered the entertainment industry alongside Subaru, and both began working as a model and actor, respectively. But when Yori turns 16, he re-enters their lives.

title: ICHI

overview: Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.

title: First Love

overview: A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.

title: The Bucket List

title: Guilty, the AI Said

overview: A rookie judge testing a powerful AI verdict system finds herself at odds with the technology when it condemns a teenage patricide to death before the trial even begins.

title: Clover

overview: Saya Suzuki is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge. Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.

title: Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

overview: The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.

original_title: 父よ、あなたはえらかった～1969年のオヤジと僕

title: Love for Beginners

title: Birds Without Names

original_title: 彼女がその名を知らない鳥たち

title: Bōkyō

title: The Bucket List

title: Ōoku

title: Face

title: Stop the Old Fox

title: Oiesan

title: Pro Bono

title: Partner in Crime

title: Marmalade Boy

title: Mystery Trilogy Special

original_title: このミステリーがすごい！

title: Jikan no Shûzoku

title: That Girl's Captives of Love

title: ICHI

title: First Love

title: The Bucket List

title: Guilty, the AI Said

title: Clover

title: Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

What Do You Really Do About Love?

original_name: 恋なんて、本気でやってどうするの？


Carlo Borghesio

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

English

iso_639_1: en

english_name: English

title: Anything for the Woman

original_title: Tutto per la donna

original_language: it

job: Director

title: I due compari

overview: Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.

department: Directing

original_title: I due compari

title: How I Lost the War

overview: Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.

original_title: Come persi la guerra

title: Come scopersi l'America

original_title: Come scopersi l'America

title: Come scopersi l'America

job: Assistant Director

title: The Lady in White

overview: The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.

original_title: La dama bianca

title: Il processo delle zitelle

original_title: Il processo delle zitelle

job: Story

title: How I Lost the War

title: How I Lost the War

title: L'eroe della strada

overview: Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble.

original_title: L'eroe della strada

title: Porte chiuse

original_title: Porte chiuse

title: La mazurka di papà

original_title: La mazurka di papà

title: Due cuori

overview: An employee embezzles a sum belonging to the company where he works and loses it by making a wrong speculation. The employee's sister asks her fiancé for the dough so she can save her brother from shame. The fiancé refuses; then the girl decides to confront the director of the company to explain everything to him.

original_title: Due cuori

title: Due cuori

title: The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez

overview: Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.

original_title: Il peccato di Rogelia Sánchez

title: L'eroe della strada

title: Il campione

overview: A boxer falls in love with his coach's daughter despite the coach's objections.

original_title: Il campione

title: Napoleone

overview: A historical farce about Napoleon.

original_title: Napoleone

title: Two Millions For a Smile

overview: An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.

original_title: Due milioni per un sorriso

title: Two Millions For a Smile

title: Two Millions For a Smile

title: Il monello della strada

original_title: Il monello della strada

title: Il vagabondo

original_title: Il vagabondo

title: Capitan Demonio

title: Capitan Demonio

title: Anything for the Woman

title: I due compari

title: How I Lost the War

title: Come scopersi l'America

title: Come scopersi l'America

title: The Lady in White

title: Il processo delle zitelle

title: How I Lost the War

title: How I Lost the War

title: L'eroe della strada

title: Porte chiuse

title: La mazurka di papà

title: Due cuori

title: Due cuori

title: The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez

title: L'eroe della strada

title: Il campione

title: Napoleone

title: Two Millions For a Smile

title: Two Millions For a Smile

title: Two Millions For a Smile

title: Il monello della strada

title: Il vagabondo

title: Capitan Demonio

title: Capitan Demonio


German Poloskov

Conscience

character: Вадим Громов, инспектор МУРа

original_name: Совесть

original_language: ru

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

also_known_as:
G. Poloskov
Г. Полосков

title: The Criminal Quartet

overview: Mafia kidnaps an investigator's little son after he discovers massive thefts on a local shoe factory. With the help of his three old friends, two cops and a newspaper reporter he struggles to rescue his son and close the case at the same time.

original_title: Криминальный квартет

title: The Aquanauts

overview: While doing their work on the deep underwater station two aquanauts discover strange mystery: it seems as if one of the aquanaut's girlfriend who recently died in a car crash had turned into a big manta fish. That manta writes words on the station's port-holes and tries to draw attention many other ways.

character: Igor Sobolev

original_title: Акванавты

title: The Beginning of the Legend

overview: The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.

character: Nastya's father

original_title: Так начиналась легенда

title: Birds Over the City

overview: Andryusha and his fifth-grade comrades in a pile of scrap raw materials found poorly bound typewritten pages with the inscription "Attack." The guys enthusiastically read this collection of frontline stories. Their author Bukin, it turns out, lives nearby, in the next quarter. The man is middle-aged and sickly; however, he does not succumb to the blows of fate. He devotes all his strength to the preservation of forest wealth, and in his free time from these worries he continues to write stories, recalling certain episodes of a rich front-line life ...

original_title: Птицы над городом

title: No Password Necessary

overview: A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War.

original_title: Пароль не нужен

title: A Soldier Came Back from the Front

overview: The war is drawing to a close, soldiers demobilized from wounds are returning to their homelands. What awaits them in their native villages?

original_title: Пришёл солдат с фронта

title: Conscience

overview: Three Soviet prisoners of war escape from a fascist concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them. Many years later, this former German henchman meets one of the escapees and comes up with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe destruction of all the fugitives with whom he once escaped from a concentration camp; they abandoned him wounded during the escape. He begins to put his cruel plan into action, deciding to take revenge and thereby getting rid of witnesses to his crimes in the concentration camp...

original_title: Совесть

title: Fourth Height

overview: Real story of the young legendary actress of Soviet cinema Gulya Korolyova, who started acting in films at the age of four. In May 1942, having barely finished school, Gulya voluntarily went to the front and soon died heroically in a battle near Stalingrad.

character: капитан

original_title: Четвертая высота

title: The Journalist

overview: A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl.  When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...

character: Employee of the Moscow Editorial Office

original_title: Журналист

title: We Didn't Learn This

overview: The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.

character: captain of the 3rd rank

original_title: Это мы не проходили

title: Attention Tsunami!

overview: A remote alert post in the Pacific Ocean. There, tsunamis often hit the shore, sweeping away everything in their path. It is the duty of seafarers to warn people about the impending danger. They must record tremors that can trigger a tsunami, and they are the first to be in danger. Seven sailors are on duty, the peaceful course of which is interrupted by the tsunami that struck the island. There are victims — now it is necessary to warn the mainland about the impending disaster...

original_title: Внимание, цунами!

title: Messengers of Eternity

overview: By a twist of fate, Prince Olensky, a scholar of art history and the director of the Hermitage, is entrusted with the mission of preserving the museum's collection for Russia during the October days of 1917.

original_title: Посланники вечности

title: The Criminal Quartet

media_type: movie

original_title: Криминальный квартет

title: The Aquanauts

title: The Beginning of the Legend

original_title: Так начиналась легенда

title: Birds Over the City

original_title: Птицы над городом

title: No Password Necessary

original_title: Пароль не нужен

title: A Soldier Came Back from the Front

original_title: Пришёл солдат с фронта

title: Conscience

title: Fourth Height

original_title: Четвертая высота

title: The Journalist

title: We Didn't Learn This

original_title: Это мы не проходили

title: Attention Tsunami!

original_title: Внимание, цунами!

title: Messengers of Eternity

original_title: Посланники вечности

Conscience

character: Вадим Громов, инспектор МУРа

media_type: tv

known_for_department: Acting


Tsutomu Abe

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit

overview: Muraki is a failure in his job as a salesman and has to deal with his wife's disappointment and criticism at home. One day, after sleeping in a park, he happens upon two women who look like they've been victims of a sexual assault. He helps them but as night comes an increasingly twisted mindgame unfolds between the involved parties and it is no longer certain who's the victim and who's the perpetrator.

character: Muraki's Colleague

original_title: 縄姉妹　奇妙な果実

title: Kyoto Story

overview: Kyoko is a university librarian and she also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Kota. He is the son of the local tofu maker and has begun a moderately successful career as a stand-up comedian. A visiting lecturer from Tokyo falls head-over-heels in love with Kyoko and asks her to go abroad with him to Beijing, where he has to spend the next few years for his research. But Kyoko cannot decide.

original_title: 京都太秦物語

title: Happy Family Plan

original_title: しあわせ家族計画

title: Tora-san's Matchmaker

overview: After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father.

original_title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の縁談

place_of_birth: Sendai, Prefettura di Miyagi, Giappone

title: Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit

title: Kyoto Story

title: Happy Family Plan

title: Tora-san's Matchmaker

original_title: 男はつらいよ 寅次郎の縁談

known_for_department: Directing


Hana Ebise

普通话

海老濑花

biography: 海老濑花（Hana Ebise），1985年12月9日出生，演员，主要作品有《太秦灯光下》《筑城武士》《10个约定》。

iso_3166_1: CN

普通话

海老瀨花

biography: 海老瀨花（Hana Ebise），1985 年 12 月 9 日出生，演員，主要作品有《太秦燈光下》《築城武士》《10 個約定》。

title: The Sowing Traveller 3

overview: Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Traveller 3 tells a universal story of the cherished act of growing fruit. Ayane is conflicted about coming back home because she feels it’s a setback. Filming took place in Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture, a peach growing area with lots of sun and fertile soil. Along with the harmony of daily life that the local people have with nature, an important feature of the film is its beautiful landscapes.

original_title: 種まく旅人 〜夢のつぎ木〜

title: Kyoto Story

character: Kyoko

title: A Tale of Samurai Cooking

overview: In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga Domain, who arranges for her to marry his son and heir, 24-year-old Yasunobu. But, Yasunobu is cold to his new wife, and he's more interested in swordplay than cookery.

original_title: 武士の献立

title: Manhunt

overview: Accused of a murder he didn't commit, a prosecutor sets out on a mission to clear his name.

character: Tejin Gorup Secreatry

original_title: 追捕

original_language: zh

title: Raise the Castle!

overview: Three men are possessed by the spirits of ancient samurai determined to build their master's castle, even if they must use cardboard.

original_title: 築城せよ!

title: Matchmaking Cruise

overview: The movie was inspired by Hiroshima prefectural government's marital activity "Koinowa Project" which is practiced as part of countermeasures against the declining birthplace.

original_title: こいのわ 婚活クルージング

title: Uzumasa Limelight

overview: Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

original_title: 太秦ライムライト

title: 10 Promises to My Dog

overview: One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend. One day, Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...

original_title: 犬と私の10の約束

title: One Day in January

overview: Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles topped with grated spicy daikon radish. Even regulars refrain from coming to the restaurant because of the extra spicy soba. But on year, a stranger comes in and finishes the bowl, announcing that it tastes familiar. The man begins to visit every year on the 4th of January to eat Sanada Soba. Shobei develops a warm feeling towards the peculiar customer he interacts with once a year.

original_title: 鬼平外伝 正月四日の客

title: 黒の斜面

original_title: 黒の斜面

place_of_birth: Prefettura di Kyoto, Giappone

title: The Sowing Traveller 3

original_title: 種まく旅人 〜夢のつぎ木〜

title: Kyoto Story

title: A Tale of Samurai Cooking

title: Manhunt

title: Raise the Castle!

title: Matchmaking Cruise

original_title: こいのわ 婚活クルージング

title: Uzumasa Limelight

title: 10 Promises to My Dog

title: One Day in January

title: 黒の斜面


Yoshihiro Usami

title: Kyoto Story

character: Kota

place_of_birth: Yokohama, Prefettura di Kanagawa, Giappone

title: Kyoto Story


Yeung Chi Kin

name: Happy Mother-in-Law, Pretty Daughter-in-Law

overview: Ma Linglong, a professional matchmaker and an ex-princess of the fallen Qing Dynasty, is choosy when picking wives for her three sons. She wants her first son, Changsheng, to marry an intelligent and hardworking wife, but he falls in love with the money-lover Manguan. Linglong's second son, Changhuan, is bright and witty, and she has hopes for him to marry an elegant and clever wife, but Changhuan is attracted to the naïve ex-convict Jinyu. The youngest son, Changjun, is educated in the west. Linglong hopes Changjun's educated background will bring honor to the family, but Changjun wants to marry the family's matchmaking apprentice Bajie, who is three years his senior. Although her three daughters-in-law are not what she expected, she nonetheless tries her best to correct their flaws, winning the respect of her children.

original_name: 欢喜婆婆俏媳妇

普通话

杨志坚

biography: 杨志坚，1971年出生于香港，香港电影导演会会员、香港艺进同学会会员、香港演艺人协会会员、香港编剧家协会会员。早年曾参演《上海滩》《射雕英雄传》。曾作为副导演参与了春节综合晚会和香港小姐的选举，次年作为导演参与了这两档节目。

普通话

楊志堅

biography:
楊志堅在 1979－1980 年先後於無綫電視藝員訓練班及編導訓練班畢業，任職綜藝組及戲劇組助理編導。

1982 年加入亞洲電視任綜藝節目編導，曾參與拍攝亞洲電視台慶節目，1984 年轉任電視劇編導，1990 年首次執導其電影代表作之一由葉玉卿主演的《卿本佳人》、2001 年的《人頭豆腐湯》。

楊志堅一直在亞視任職至 1990 年代末，參與拍攝《八仙過海》、《銀狐》等經典劇集，亦曾擔任 1997 年亞視賀歲劇集《萬事勝意》監製。1997 年後，轉往中國大陸發展，拍攝電視劇集及電影。

2017 年拍攝香港電視娛樂劇集《詭探》《詭探前傳》是時隔多年再於香港拍攝電視劇。

title: There Is a Secret in My Soup

overview: "There Is A Secret in My Soup" is based on infamous HK crime case called 'Hello Kitty Murder'.In 1999 three triad gangsters kidnapped,brutally tortured and beat a 23-year old woman named Fan Man-yee for one month until she died.Then they dismembered and cooked the body,threw most of it out with the trash,fed legs and arms to stray dogs and hid the skull inside the head of a giant-sized Hello Kitty doll.

original_title: 人頭豆腐湯

original_language: cn

title: There Is a Secret in My Soup

title: Pretty Woman

overview: While working alone late at the office one night, Veronica is raped by a returning male colleague, who accidentally kills her in the process (she falls back and hits her head on a sharp object). Later that same evening, he comes across a bar hostess who looks identical to the woman that he has just murdered. He eventually talks her into showing up for work in Veronica's place on the very next day, and handing in her resignation. Unfortunately for him, she is persuaded to stay, and decides to continue impersonating the deceased secretary.

original_title: Pretty Woman

title: Pretty Woman

title: 山海经破蛊师：食梦貘

overview: Chinese movie

original_title: 山海经破蛊师：食梦貘

original_language: en

title: The Classic of Mountains and Sea 2

overview: Taotie beast once again endangering the human world. In order to maintain peace in the world, ancient mythical beasts such as Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu, and Qilin work together to eliminate the Taotie Beast.

original_title: 山海经破蛊师：饕餮兽

title: China Dolls

overview: Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him.

original_title: 特區愛奴

title: 帝都公主传

original_title: 帝都公主传

title: 一千靈異夜之血的疑惑

overview: hong kong film

original_title: 一千靈異夜之血的疑惑

title: 一千靈異夜之死連環

overview: china films

original_title: 一千靈異夜之死連環

title: There Is a Secret in My Soup

title: There Is a Secret in My Soup

title: Pretty Woman

title: Pretty Woman

title: 山海经破蛊师：食梦貘

title: The Classic of Mountains and Sea 2

title: China Dolls

title: 帝都公主传

title: 一千靈異夜之血的疑惑

title: 一千靈異夜之死連環


Tōru Kawashima

Magyar

iso_639_1: hu

iso_3166_1: HU

english_name: Hungarian

title: Ryuji

overview: Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.

original_title: 竜二

job: Producer

title: God's Pinch Hitter

overview: Ryo, Eiji and Katsuya assemble as usual in an underground car park, only this time, the woman who has always accompanied them is missing.  Driving into central Yokohama in Ryo’s Mercedes, the trio set their plan in motion. After altering a motorcycle’s licence plate, Ryo breaks away, heading off alone.  What lies ahead remains uncertain. But as their scheme unfolds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary operation, rather, a carefully orchestrated “perfect crime”, driven by the intertwined loyalties and affections of three men.

department: Production

original_title: 神様のピンチヒッター

title: Like a Savage

overview: Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

original_title: 野蛮人のように

title: Like a Savage

job: Original Story

title: Like a Savage

title: Ryuji

title: Chi-n-pi-ra

overview: Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. One day, Yoichi's companion commits a crime, which leads him to become a real yakuza. In this way Yoichi wishes to put an end to his hoodlum days, but on the other hand he has to leave his brother Michio behind...

original_title: チ・ン・ピ・ラ

title: Hawaiian Dream

overview: Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking pakalolo – marijuana – under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well. When they get busted by the chief of police, they're forced to make a deal and and help get a local crime boss masquerading as a benevolent celebrity arrested.

original_title: ハワイアン・ドリーム

title: Hawaiian Dream

title: Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki

overview: Seven raccoons with supernatural powers sneak into a freight train, disguise themselves as humans, and head to Tokyo with the intention to create a band. They become superstars "Checkers" but their true identity will be revealed very soon.

original_title: TAN TANたぬき

title: Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki

title: Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints

overview: At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope locked her in a "painting". Visualization based on Rampo's "Oshie and Traveling Man". Released in 1994 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Rampo's birth.

original_title: 江戸川乱歩劇場　押繪と旅する男

original_title: 江戸川乱歩劇場　押繪と旅する男

title: Chi-n-pi-ra

place_of_birth: Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan

title: Ryuji

title: God's Pinch Hitter

title: Like a Savage

title: Like a Savage

title: Like a Savage

title: Ryuji

title: Chi-n-pi-ra

title: Hawaiian Dream

title: Hawaiian Dream

title: Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki

title: Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki

original_title: 江戸川乱歩劇場　押繪と旅する男

original_title: 江戸川乱歩劇場　押繪と旅する男

title: Chi-n-pi-ra


Beth Tamayo

biography: Beth Tamayo is a former Filipino actress and 1990s star. She rose to prominence for her roles in films such as Pedrito Masangkay: Walang bakas na iniwan (1994) and Magic Kombat (1995), and her performance in the 2008 series Babangon ako't dudurugin kita.

Ganti

overview: Ganti is a Philippine television drama and the second installment of Now and Forever series. Ganti is a drama about people who live for vengeance in the name of wealth, power and love.

character: Carmela

original_name: Ganti

original_language: tl

Wag Kukurap

overview: Wag Kukurap is a horror television series hosted by Dingdong Dantes. The show is broadcast every Saturday and is divided into two shows, each containing a true paranormal story from the best selling horror books True Philippine Ghost Stories and Haunted Philippines. During the intermission, a photograph of ghostly figures is shown and later on the background revealed. Contests are sometimes held where participants must decide which of two pictures is real. At the end, footage of "real life ghosts" encountered by people is shown.

original_name: Wag Kukurap

iso_639_1: tl

iso_3166_1: PH

english_name: Tagalog

title: Miss Pinoy

overview: A fiction inspired by a true story of a group of Overseas Filipino Workers who looked for a good investment in preparation for their eventual return to the Philippines but turned out to become victims of million dollar fraud.

original_title: Miss Pinoy

title: Secret Love

overview: A 1994 Filipino romantic drama starring Geneva Cruz and Jomari Yllana.

character: Gina

original_title: Secret Love

title: Pedrito Masangkay: Walang Bakas na Iniwan

character: Jennifer

title: Askal: Asong Kalye

overview: Tells the story of Askal (John Regala) hardened by life in poverty. All grown up, he uses his skills to stop the spreading of 'Askals' (Asong-Kalye, Street Dog; used as a metaphor for street children) and give them a better future. Stopping the root of  all crimes and poverty in the process. A modern-day Robin Hood.

character: Alice

original_title: Askal: Asong Kalye

title: A Mother's Story

overview: Medy, a make-up artist, was given the chance of a lifetime to accompany a concert star to the United States for a performance. She promised her family that she will return after a week.

character: Helen

original_title: A Mother's Story

title: Lab En Kisses

overview: This is a story of an odd couple, Labrador, a woman hater and Kisses, a stubborn stow away from Cebu, who is trying to escape her uncle who pushes her to marry a man she doesn't love. A love and hate relationship brew between the two until they found themselves facing the same odds... but this time, together.

character: Maria

original_title: Lab En Kisses

title: Vampire’s Kiss

overview: Vanessa is a cursed female vampire who poses as Midnight Solitaire, a sought-after caller on Dead Hour Dave's radio show, to get many victims. Living a double life, Vanessa finds love in Victor, whom she asks for help to cure her state.

original_title: Halik ng Vampira

title: D'Sisters: Nuns of the Above

overview: Victor and Michael are ordinary brothers who have different likes and taste in life. Victor is a chickboy while Michael likes foods and very gullible. Being at the wrong place at the wrong time, they find themselves entangled in mischief with the authorities and goons. Seeking shelter as nuns, will they ever pull this off?

character: Sister Amor

original_title: D'Sisters: Nuns of the Above

title: Magic Kombat

overview: Two janitors become trapped in a video game world and must fight their way out.

character: Diana

original_title: Magic Kombat

title: Rubberman

overview: Bitoy discovered a pair of magical rubber shoes that granted him extraordinary abilities, turning him into the hero known as Rubberman.

character: Jessica

original_title: Rubberman

title: Sinaktan mo ang Puso ko

overview: Miguel, a young man working at the car wash, is a die-hard fan of the well-known actress. However, while she liked him, she hates him and throws away anything she received from him. She tries to hide somewhere, with Miguel being the pinpoint of this act. When he found out, he became heartbroken and tried to commit suicide.

character: Tere

original_title: Sinaktan mo ang Puso ko

title: Ploning

overview: In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".

character: Divina

original_title: Ploning

title: Marahas: Walang Kilalang Batas

overview: A story of friendship gone bad, Ronaldo and Russel had a pact that they would help each other whatever happens. When Russel became a lawyer, he fulfills his promise to Ronald. Helping the latter's mother to get out of jail. Now living in two different worlds, their friendship takes a sudden ending.

original_title: Marahas: Walang Kilalang Batas

title: How Do I Love You

overview: Fired from her job and evicted from her apartment, Martee (Regine Velasquez) brings herself and her asthmatic son to Zambales for a vacation. In a dilapidated resort, owned by Lance (Piolo Pascual), Martee finds work as a manager whose duties entails plans on how to increase the resort’s clientele. At first, Martee finds difficulty adjusting to the slower provincial lifestyle, but eventually she finds the laid-back pace more favorable.

character: Lisa

original_title: Paano Kita Iibigin

title: Anting-anting

overview: a film by Ipe Pelino.

original_title: Anting-anting

title: Tomorrow, Father Will Be Executed

overview: Elmo is an ex-convict who swears on his mother’s remains to live uprightly. After his life in prison, Elmo makes sure to avoid any conflict despite the mistreatment he receives from people. His wife Cathy seems discontent with the meager money her husband makes. Until one time, Cathy finds fancy to Arthur, a rich arrogant brother by their town’s mayor. One day, Elmo catches Arthur abusing his Cathy in their house. He beats up Arthur but the people on the neighborhood stops Elmo from killing him. Arthur escapes from Elmo. However Arthur is murdered by his battered wife Sylvia. Because of Arthur’s brutal death, people wrongly accused Elmo as the killer. Elmo then is sent back to the prison and was sentenced to death. Will Elmo learn to defend himself and fight for justice?

character: Cathy

original_title: Bukas, Bibitayin si Itay

title: Esperanza: The Movie

overview: A Filipino movie based on the television series Esperanza, opens up where the TV finale left off.

character: Donna

original_title: Esperanza: The Movie

title: Wild Grass

overview: A confused and angry farm boy brought up under the strict and seemingly unforgiving guidance of an exacting and domineering father gains initiation to both romance and heroism during the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

character: Clara

original_title: Damong Ligaw

title: Chop-Chop Lady: The Elsa Castillo Story

overview: A battered housewife was butchered into pieces by her spurned lover and throw her body parts in different places.

original_title: Chop-Chop Lady: The Elsa Castillo Story

title: Emong Salvacion

overview: A film by Francis Posadas.

original_title: Emong Salvacion

title: Vulcan

overview: When a dinosaur egg is unearthed by a powerful volcano, a little boy's life is changed forever. The pterodactyl named "Vulcan", and the little boy end up forming an unbreakable bond of friendship while on an amazing spree of adventures.

character: Charlie Jalandoni

original_title: Anak Ng Bulkan

title: Ben Balasador: Akin Ang Huling Alas

overview: A 1996 Filipino action film starring Ian Veneracion and Beth Tamayo.

character: Theresa

original_title: Ben Balasador: Akin Ang Huling Alas

title: Magtago Ka O Lumaban

overview: Tagalog-language Action film

original_title: Magtago Ka O Lumaban

title: Proboys

overview: A 1995 Filipino youth-oriented film starring Ruby Rodriguez, Beth Tamayo, Giselle Sanchez, Joan Pascual, and Sharmaine Suarez.

character: Mylene

original_title: Proboys

title: Tatak ng Kriminal

overview: Gojo is an ex-con in search of his daughter and wife who is being kept by a gambling lord.

original_title: Tatak ng Kriminal

title: Swindler's List

overview: Two wacky men pursue a list of society’s criminals and scammers.

original_title: Swindler's List

title: Dobol-Trobol: Anti-Crime Kunsumisyon

overview: Niño Muhlach and Hero Bautista were dutiful, loyal cops. They were also inept and were the main headaches of the police force of Baguio City. It was the luck of these bumblers, though, to stumble on a major case which had its origin in China.

original_title: Dobol-Trobol: Anti-Crime Kunsumisyon

title: Ipinanganak Na Ang Taong Papatay Sa Iyo

overview: A 2000 action film from the Philippines.

original_title: Ipinanganak Na Ang Taong Papatay Sa Iyo

title: Kamandag Ko Ang Papatay Sa’yo

character: Leslie

original_title: Kamandag Ko Ang Papatay Sa’yo

title: Basagan ng Mukha

overview: A 2001 Filipino action film with Ronald Gan Ledesma and Manny Pacquiao.

original_title: Basagan ng Mukha

title: Miss Pinoy

title: Secret Love

title: Askal: Asong Kalye

title: A Mother's Story

title: Lab En Kisses

title: Vampire’s Kiss

title: D'Sisters: Nuns of the Above

title: Magic Kombat

title: Rubberman

title: Sinaktan mo ang Puso ko

title: Ploning

title: Marahas: Walang Kilalang Batas

title: How Do I Love You

title: Anting-anting

title: Tomorrow, Father Will Be Executed

title: Esperanza: The Movie

title: Wild Grass

title: Chop-Chop Lady: The Elsa Castillo Story

title: Emong Salvacion

title: Vulcan

title: Ben Balasador: Akin Ang Huling Alas

title: Magtago Ka O Lumaban

title: Proboys

title: Swindler's List

title: Tatak ng Kriminal

title: Dobol-Trobol: Anti-Crime Kunsumisyon

title: Ipinanganak Na Ang Taong Papatay Sa Iyo

title: Kamandag Ko Ang Papatay Sa’yo

title: Basagan ng Mukha


James Oakley

Français

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: The Devil You Know

overview: Kathryn Vale is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The resulting events force Kathryn to confront the truth about herself and those around her.

original_title: The Devil You Know

title: The Con Is On

overview: In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.

original_title: The Con Is On

title: The Devil You Know

title: The Con Is On

job: First Assistant Camera

title: Penumbra

overview: A gritty prison scene between two rival inmates in a cell that could be more sinister then the inmates.

department: Camera

original_title: Penumbra

job: Associate Producer

title: We Are What We Are

overview: The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.

original_title: We Are What We Are

place_of_birth: USA

title: The Devil You Know

title: The Con Is On

title: The Devil You Know

title: The Con Is On

title: Penumbra

title: We Are What We Are


Charlotte Aubin

biography:
Charlotte Aubin (born September 4, 1991) is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Isla Blanca, for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.

She has also appeared in the films Romeo and Juliet, 9 (9, le film), Crème de menthe, Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau), Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin, This Is Our Cup (Ça sent la coupe), Mad Dog Labine, Beautiful and Neat Room, Goodbye Happiness (Au revoir le bonheur), Heirdoms (Soumissions), Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges), Ireland Blue Book (Irlande cahier bleu), Testament, Cardboard City (Ville Jacques-Carton) and Montreal, My Beautiful (Montréal, ma belle), and the television series Providence, Blue Moon, L'Échappée, Fugueuse and Virage.

Originally from Carignan, Quebec, she is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada. She has published a poetry collection, Paquet d'trouble.

Virage

overview: Frédérique Lessard, three-time Olympic medalist, is retiring. She decides to leave her spouse, with whom she had planned to start a family. Faced with emptiness, she will discover that life is not a race and will have to learn to live without performing. Freely inspired by the life of Marianne St-Gelais, but also by several Olympians.

character: Frédérique Lessard

original_name: Virage

original_language: fr

La revue culturelle

character: Self

original_name: La revue culturelle

La fête de la rentrée

overview: The Noovo headliners introduce the essentials of the network’s new programming.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: La fête de la rentrée

La semaine des 4 Julie

original_name: La semaine des 4 Julie

Toute la vie

overview: École Marie-Labrecque is a one-of-a-kind institution: The 60 girls who study at the school are all between the ages of 12 and 17, and they're all pregnant or new mothers. The school's mission is twofold: to give them an education and to prepare them for motherhood. It's It's a huge challenge and they have only a few months to get ready.

character: Victoria

original_name: Toute la vie

Blue Moon

overview: Justine Laurier, an ex-Canadian soldier, just inherited her father's shares of Blue Moon, a security company that carries out sensitive operations for the Canadian government. While Justine discovers what Blue Moon is all about, she receives troubling information regarding the death of her father. Alone, she must find the truth in a universe of lies.

character: Cassandra Boyd

original_name: Blue Moon

L'Échappée

character: Jade Francoeur

original_name: L'Échappée

En mode Salvail

overview: What to expect: interviews, musical performances, a fierce band, surprising stories and most of all, guests who are more than happy to play along and follow Éric Salvail on his beautifully crazy tangents!

original_name: En mode Salvail

On va se le dire

overview: Host Sébastien Diaz, known for his curiosity, is interested in absolutely everything that's going on in the world. At the rate things are changing, every day brings surprising new trends, unusual developments and contradictory social movements. Sébastien is joined by regular contributors and invites various celebrities to talk about the hottest topics in this modern round table.

original_name: On va se le dire

Runaway

overview: The tragic yet hopeful story of Fanny, a young teen from a good suburban home whose life spirals out of control when she falls for a manipulative and abusive man.

character: Peggy

original_name: Fugueuse

Rousseau's Show

original_name: Le show de Rousseau

Silence, on joue!

overview: In a friendly atmosphere, two teams consisting of two celebrities and a contestant face off in a variety of clever, fun games where they win points for their quick wit, powers of logic, and general knowledge.

original_name: Silence, on joue!

Bonsoir bonsoir!

overview: Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also, and most importantly, on their passions, interests and opinions.

original_name: Bonsoir bonsoir!

Dominos

overview: After their mother’s death, Toto and Adib are completely devastated. Among the colours of Montreal’s South-West and human imperfection at its most poetic, the series plunges into their reality for 24 hours, revealing marginal and vulnerable humans affected by this tragedy.

character: Corinne

original_name: Dominos

Life Bugs

overview: Discover the professional and romantic setbacks of Eliott, a young video game designer, and Jeanne, an ambitious lawyer who wants to finally break through. Will they be able to overcome all the pitfalls on their way and around, to find love?

character: Jeanne Champagne

original_name: Les bogues de la vie

Le match des étoiles

overview: A dance-off where stars learn, prepare and present dance routines that they must show to a select panel of judges.

original_name: Le match des étoiles

Belflower

overview: An invested father-in-law, Nicolas is devastated when his girlfriend leaves him and cuts him off. So he takes refuge in his childhood hometown to find his friends and navigate with them through their lives as modern men.

character: Ariane Chagnon

original_name: Bellefleur

Coups de food

overview: In the company of host and foodie Sébastien Benoit, a personality shares with us each week his greatest “food hits” from the metropolis and its surroundings: Vietnamese pub, artisan butcher, tea room, Greek delights, comforting pastries, snacks. Haitian snack-bar, Italian sandwich shop, high-end restaurant... Montreal is full of recognized gourmet establishments, but also well-kept secrets.

original_name: Coups de food

Le Tricheur

overview: This daily quiz show puts strategy front and centre, as five celebrities answer general-knowledge questions to win money for their favourite charity. But here’s the catch: one of the five participants is cheating, because they’re secretly being fed the answers. The cheater’s mission is to play it smart so they can fool the other players and win the game without getting caught.

original_name: Le Tricheur

Bête noire

overview: Bête noire the collateral effects of an unforgivable act commited by Jérémy, a 16 year-old teenager. With the help of the psychiatrist-coroner in charge of the investigation, his mother tries to understand how her son, a seemingly normal boy, could commit such a heinous act. What caused this nightmare? When did everything change? Together, the two women try to solve the mystery of Jérémy.

character: Pascale Dubé

original_name: Bête noire

The Emperor

overview: A charismatic, benevolent young man grows into a tyrannical, ruthless aggressor as his victims come and go.

original_name: L'empereur

Français

iso_3166_1: CA

title: Heirdoms

overview: A family mediator tries to resolve a crisis situation in Joseph's household. Since Roxanne left him, he forbids her to see their son Mathieu, and slyly sequesters him in their country property. Numb in the silence and emptiness created by Roxanne's absence, Joseph and Mathieu rush over.

original_title: Soumissions

title: Red Rooms

overview: The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

character: Actrice Talk Show

original_title: Les Chambres rouges

title: irlande cahier bleu

overview: An anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker, Ducarmel also plays in a competitive basketball league. There’s only one problem with his hobbies: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter. Moreover, when he dozes off in the evening, he dreams… a little too forcefully. In his bizarre dream world, a beguiling blue book reigns, love looms, and he is the best basketball player of all time.

character: Liliane

original_title: irlande cahier bleu

title: Anna Kiri

overview: Escaping death after a failed robbery, a reckless and dreamy writer abandons her delinquency to pursue her quest of recognition.

character: Cindy

original_title: Anna Kiri

title: Richelieu

overview: A French-to-Spanish interpreter working for a food processing plant that hires seasonal workers from Guatemala is, at first determined to obey the sometimes excessive directives of the young boss, but she befriends the workers and tries to defend them against the exploitation they suffer.

character: Infirmière externe

original_title: Richelieu

title: Roméo et Juliette

overview: Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because he’s been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child.  Roméo, 17, is the son of the accused.  Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and Roméo fall for each other.

character: Juliette Véronneau

original_title: Roméo et Juliette

title: Pour t'enlacer

overview: This film tells the story of Noah, a young woman in her late twenties, who, the day after an unattached affair, finds herself pregnant and forced to make a heartbreaking choice. It is by turning to the tranquility of the countryside and to the wisdom of his grandmother Beatrice that Noah will be able to advance, step by step, in his thinking. It is sheltered by the grandiose calm of the great outdoors and by the love of his grandmother, beyond judgment, that Noah will be able to put his thoughts in order and make his decision.

character: Noah

original_title: Pour t'enlacer

title: French Girl

overview: Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon’s dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon.

character: Juliette Tremblay

original_title: French Girl

title: Testament

overview: A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glorifies colonialism.

character: Rosalie Lecavalier

original_title: Testament

title: The Clash

overview: Roberto, a Peruvian boy in his teens, has moved to Montreal to  live with his father, Bob Montoya, and his new Canadian family.  While Bob tries to succeed in his new life as a small time "business man", the ties with his son will be marked by a quiet violence that seems to have followed them from their country of origin.

character: Julia

original_title: La bronca

original_language: es

overview: Province of Quebec, Canada, the Maple Spring, 2012. Driven by frustration and the desire to find a new life, Klas Batalo, Ordine Nuovo, Tumulto and Giutizia form a counter-cultural group, a radical cell guided by a deep hostility to the established order that they manifest through terribly ambiguous political expressions, Molotov cocktails and guerrilla tactics, seeking to sow mayhem in Montreal as a prelude to the overthrow of the government.

title: Crème de menthe

overview: Following the death of her father, Renée goes back home to Saguenay for the funeral. Forced to empty her late father’s house, she finds a gigantic mess, the result of years of hoarding. In the following six days, Renée will seek her significance, a trace of herself, in the clutter.

original_title: Crème de menthe

title: Ça sent la coupe

overview: Seven years ago, Max’s parents died in a car accident. Since then, the young man, now 35, has been treading water. He manages his father’s hockey memorabilia shop, lives in the apartment upstairs, and watches each and every Habs game with his friends. But he’s forced to take a hard look at his life when his girlfriend, Julie, leaves him, and his sister, Nathalie, comes back to town.

title: Isla Blanca

overview: Mathilde returns home after eight years to say goodbye to her terminally ill mother.

title: 9

overview: According to the text of Stéphane E.Roy Nine slices of life. Nine stories that intertwine. A satirical comedy. Marc Gauthier, creator of the new "Dare Communic-Action ©" alleged communication guru, offers a new approach. But there will always be a gap between theory and practice ... Between nine earthy situations and absurd misunderstandings, everyone will try to grow up

title: The Natural Sweetness of Skin

overview: Revealing women, showing men Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.

original_title: Les Salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau

title: Mad Dog Labine

overview: A fiery and inventive docufiction that portrays two marginal teenagers living in a remote and underserved Canadian village.

title: Goodbye Happiness

overview: To commemorate the passing of their beloved father, four brothers very much at odds congregate for one final week at their summer house in the Magdalen Islands. As they bid their final goodbyes, the four brothers revisit their past joys and hardships as each one of them struggles to give meaning to their very different lives.

title: Plage de sable

title: Lachine

overview: An Asian filmmaker whilst making his last film in North America is taken on a journey of both romance and selfdiscovery as he tries to navigate a world in a state of flux, all the while seeking answers and closure in both his personal and professional life.

title: Cardboard City

overview: Against the voracious concrete and a ruthless developer, a poet stands tall, the last bulwark against oblivion, like a Gaul defying Caesar. He gathers voices from the past, revives memories, and weaves an ode to Ville Jacques-Cartier's working-class heritage, a haven where hopes and struggles once echoed.

title: Montreal, My Beautiful

overview: At 53 years old, Feng Xia, a Chinese immigrant in Montreal, finally confronts her repressed desire for women and begins a secret affair with a young Québécoise.

title: Beautiful and Neat Room

overview: In order to be able to afford a small Brooklyn apartment, a fiercely artistic woman decides to cohabitate with one seemingly harmless but secretly crazy roommate after the next and finds herself in some bizarre boundary-pushing experiences, forcing her to question her own norms and the human psyche.

title: La symphonie du sens

overview: Ten-year-old Sam sees his father Richard reappear after a long absence. The reassuring world she shared with her mother and stepfather is shaken. Richard, with his excesses and vulnerabilities, disrupts her sense of security. In this tender chaos, will Sam be able to keep her light alive?

title: Heirdoms

title: Red Rooms

title: irlande cahier bleu

title: Anna Kiri

title: Richelieu

title: Roméo et Juliette

title: Pour t'enlacer

title: French Girl

title: Testament

title: The Clash

title: Crème de menthe

title: Ça sent la coupe

title: Isla Blanca

title: 9

title: The Natural Sweetness of Skin

title: Mad Dog Labine

title: Goodbye Happiness

title: Plage de sable

title: Lachine

title: Cardboard City

title: Montreal, My Beautiful

title: Beautiful and Neat Room

title: La symphonie du sens


Normand Chaurette

title: Roméo et Juliette

overview: Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because he’s been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child.  Roméo, 17, is the son of the accused.  Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and Roméo fall for each other.

title: Roméo et Juliette

known_for_department: Writing