Paweł Mykietyn

Polski

iso_639_1: pl

iso_3166_1: PL

english_name: Polish

title: Freestyle

overview: Trying to check out a recording from his debut album, a street rapper and his friend run into trouble when a major drug deal turns into a total disaster for them.

original_title: Freestyle

original_language: pl

title: Trick

overview: Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.

original_title: Trick

title: Sweet Rush

overview: As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.

original_title: Tatarak

job: Original Music Composer

title: Nude Area

overview: Naomi, a fifteen year-old Dutch girl from South-Amsterdam, develops a crush on a beautiful Arabic girl of the same age living in the poor quarters of Amsterdam West. During one magical summer in Amsterdam, the two girls play an emotional chess game of love, seduction and attraction.

original_title: Nude Area

original_language: nl

title: Magiczny kwiat paproci

original_title: Magiczny kwiat paproci

title: The Little Red Paper Ship

overview: The Little Red Paper Ship has a dream to discover new land. Despite the fact, that he is just a small ship made from a piece of paper, he has also courage in his heart to believe that everything is possible. One day he decides to start a journey, which would lead him to accomplish his dream. The journey turns out to be a great adventure... that will change him forever.

original_title: The little red paper ship

title: EO

overview: The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

original_title: EO

title: Fanciful

overview: After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and emotionally cold towards the teenager, now driven by fear for his daughter’s life, her father tries to rebuild their relationship.

original_title: Piąte. Nie odchodź!

title: All Inclusive

overview: A story of seven women who are going on holidays to Morocco, getting out of the hotel and confronting women from Morocco. They will look for their own way of life in the desert, confront their world, looking at the reality that surrounds them.

original_title: All Inclusive

title: Essential Killing

overview: A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

original_title: Essential Killing

title: Frost

overview: Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.

original_title: Šerkšnas

original_language: lt

title: II koncert na wiolonczelę i orkiestrę

original_title: II koncert na wiolonczelę i orkiestrę

title: Elles

overview: A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.

original_title: Elles

title: Titanium White

overview: Dominik, a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to Porto Ercole by order of a professor to collect material about the most mysterious period of Caravaggio's life. When he meets Silvia and the local priest Paolo, he unexpectedly becomes part of a criminal intrigue, step by step discovering the carefully hidden secret of an inconspicuous town. It turns out that the world of art that Dominik has known so far is not what it might seem...

original_title: Wrobiony

title: The Other Lamb

overview: For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

original_title: The Other Lamb

title: Stranger

overview: A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.

original_title: Ono

title: Wałesa: Man of Hope

overview: How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man’s metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people.

original_title: Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei

title: A Pale View of Hills

overview: Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.

original_title: 遠い山なみの光

original_language: ja

title: In the Name of...

overview: The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

original_title: W imię...

title: Czarodziejska góra

original_title: Czarodziejska góra

title: 11 Minutes

overview: The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

original_title: 11 minut

title: Closure

overview: After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.

original_title: Bez końca

title: Unearthed

overview: In 1967, extensive archaeological excavations took place near the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, during which over 16,000 objects belonging to deportees were uncovered. The excavations became the subject of a 14-minute documentary film, shot on location by director Andrzej Brzozowski. Ania Szczepańska followed in the footsteps of this film and the entire event with her film Unearthed, which she worked on for 14 years. Her documentary follows the author’s search for the circumstances surrounding the making of the film, and the significance of the excavations themselves.

original_title: Sous la terre

title: Walk with Angels

overview: “Every hour, a child disappears in South Africa.” With these words, a male voice introduces us ruthlessly to a world that usually remains hidden to outsiders. It is distressing and painful to become aware of its existence, but somehow, it also has to do with our own society, no matter how surreal that may seem.

original_title: Spacer z aniołami

title: 33 Scenes from Life

overview: The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but her husband Piotr is at rehearsals in Cologne and leaves her to cope with this difficult situation. Only her friend Adrian is at her side. Her father Jurek is also overwhelmed by the impending loss of his beloved wife. After the death of the mother her father takes comfort from alcohol. Shortly after the father dies. Julia found only in the arms of Adrian to rest, but this in turn destroyed her marriage to Piotr. After the loss of the parents and break up of the marriage she is now alone in the world with an uncertain future where Adrian is of little help

title: War Game

overview: A bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election.

title: Freestyle

title: Trick

title: Sweet Rush

title: Nude Area

title: Magiczny kwiat paproci

title: The Little Red Paper Ship

title: EO

title: Fanciful

title: All Inclusive

title: Essential Killing

title: Frost

title: II koncert na wiolonczelę i orkiestrę

title: Elles

title: Titanium White

title: The Other Lamb

title: Stranger

title: Wałesa: Man of Hope

title: A Pale View of Hills

title: In the Name of...

title: Czarodziejska góra

title: 11 Minutes

title: Closure

title: Unearthed

title: Walk with Angels

title: 33 Scenes from Life

title: War Game


Marcin Bosak

The Mire

overview: The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

character: Jacek Dobrowolski

original_name: Rojst

Ekipa

overview: Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.

character: Mateusz Bonowicz

original_name: Ekipa

Komisarz Mama

character: Adam Żeromski

original_name: Komisarz Mama

overview: Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.

character: Paweł Ibrom

Into Deep Water

overview: A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.

character: Adam Wroński

original_name: Głęboka woda

The Defence

overview: Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

character: prokurator Karol Rejchert

original_name: Chyłka

Pitbull

overview:
The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings.  There are no rules here.  Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless.  There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it?

The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides.  The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film.  It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis.  They're not just tracking down murderers.  They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.

character: Zbigniew Katera, ojczym Mateusza

original_name: Pitbull

The Londoners

overview:
Londyńczycy is a Polish TV drama series about Polish immigrants in London, aired on TVP 1 since late 2008. It is currently aired on Community Channel.

The title music for the series is the Robbie Williams song "Supreme".

character: Wojtek Górski

original_name: Londyńczycy

Six People

overview: A daughter wants to save her father; a husband, his wife; a former lover, his childhood love. They are about to participate in a revolutionary kidney transplant program. But with the operation imminent, complicated family relationships, past conflicts and hidden resentments resurface.

character: Paweł Mirski

original_name: Szóstka

Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów

character: Raider

original_name: Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów

New

character: Maciej Wolski

original_name: Nowa

Raven

overview: Adam Kruk, a 40 year old police officer addicted to painkillers and psychotropic drugs, returns to the town he grew up in to find the paedophile who abused his friend Slawek years ago. Once there, he is unexpectedly called to investigate a new case: the kidnapping of a powerful man's grandson, which he undertakes to help set him free from his past mistakes. As he was unable to protect Slawek, he sees this case as a second chance to protect a child and an opportunity for justice. Adam must control the darkest corners of his mind to solve the kidnapping and as the case unfolds, he discovers answers which will reveal an unexpected link between these two cases.

character: Szymon Wasiluk

original_name: Kruk

Uwikłani

character: Maciej Roguski

original_name: Uwikłani

Secret Wars

overview: After the Military Information Services is dissolved, a new, secret intelligence unit is formed to carry out various special operations.

original_name: Służby specjalne

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

title: Death of Zygielbojm

overview: A story about the tragic fate of a Jewish political activist who committed suicide on 12th May 1943 in London. What he did was supposed to be a sign of protest against the world’s passive attitude towards the tragedy of Holocaust. The story is told from the point of view of a young British journalist who, as most of the people living in the West back then, was unaware of the extent of the crime taking place in the east of Europe at that time.

original_title: Śmierć Zygielbojma

title: Spoor

overview: A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

character: Ksiądz Szelest

original_title: Pokot

title: The General - Attempt at Gibraltar

overview: The film presents the last days of Gen. Sikorski, right before the Gibraltar catastrophe. The commander is accompanied by his daughter Zofia and a group of closest collaborators. They are all guests in the palace of the Governor of Gibraltar, Mason Macfarlane, who is supposed to persuade Sikorski to give back documents on the murder of Polish officers in Katyn. When Sikorski refuses, a plan of attempt on his life comes into action. Who stood behind it? Who executed it and how? Was Zofia on board of Liberator too?

character: Józef Ponikiewski

original_title: Generał – zamach na Gibraltarze

title: Superheroes

overview: When a policewoman is unfairly accused of selling drugs, her three deadbeat brothers come to the rescue.

character: Krzyś

original_title: Ciacho

title: In Darkness

overview: A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv (formerly Poland).

character: Janek Weiss

original_title: W ciemności

title: Resurrection

overview: 10-year-old Magda loses her younger brother. The father is deeply grieved, the mother is cold and unavailable. Magda decides to revive Marcel and has a great idea for it that must work.

original_title: Wskrzeszenie

title: White Courage

overview: The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious Wolfram, an anthropologist and climber. He shares with him his mountaineering technique and knowledge about the Prague origins of the highlanders. Andrzej returns to Zakopane, war breaks out. To protect the Highlanders from wartime destruction, he wants to persuade them to cooperate with the Germans. Andrzej and Maciek are standing on opposite sides of the barricade. The brothers' confrontation is bloody and painful.

character: Opler

original_title: Biała odwaga

title: Back Then

overview: Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their married life. He is an intelligent constantly humiliated by the state, he also makes his own moonshine after work and silently envies his prosperous brother in law. She is the leader of the "Solidarity" union at work, with the need for freedom and a dream to get out of Poland. The real adventure for the family starts when they manage to get their dream orange Fiat 126p. Ela and Tadek discover their appetite for trading and trips abroad, and the growing Marta will fall in love for the first time.

character: PE teacher

original_title: Zupa nic

title: Lesson Plan

overview: After a teacher dies, his best friend — a former cop — takes a job at the school where he worked to confront the gang he thinks was responsible.

character: Szymon Makowiecki

original_title: Plan lekcji

title: Autor wychodzi

overview: A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she is just a heroine in the movie and nothing really depends on her. Rebellious against the author, she writes her own film, recreating the characters from scratch - but neither do her characters want to be heroes in someone else's film. The story of the heroine is intertwined with the story of a critic who "chased" writers all his life to finally find out that his efforts were pointless.

character: Wojtek Czwartosz

original_title: Autor wychodzi

title: Myśmy już byli. Bohaterowie Starych Powązek

character: Self

title: 80 Million

overview: A movie about the power of thousands, the courage of hundreds and friendship of a few, thanks to whom a change of fate of millions became possible. Poland, lower Silesia, the beginning of a very cold winter 1981. After a series of entrapments by the security service a confrontation between the opposition and the communists seems to be inevitable. Just before the proclamation of martial law a group of young solidarity activists decide to play va banque and organize a rash action to take out 80 million of the union money from one of the Wroclaw’s banks before the account is blocked. Security service officers follow their steps. It’s the beginning of a gripping tournament in which also priests and curb dealers will play their parts. Each side has aces up their sleeve.

character: Maks

original_title: 80 milionów

title: The Great Warsaw Race

overview: A young jockey Krzysiek dreams of competing in a prestigious race - the Great Warsaw Race. He enters the world of horse racing with the naivety of an enthusiastic newcomer. He quickly realizes though that the racetrack is a web of dependencies, powerful interests, and manipulated results. Krzysiek hopes he can change it. But in a world of corruption and dirty deals it's hard to remain unblemished.

character: Omar

original_title: Wielka Warszawska

title: Expecting Love

overview: A successful Los Angeles lawyer discovers that a short-term affair could have long-term consequences when a woman he had a brief affair with claims that she's currently pregnant with his unborn child.

character: Marcel

original_title: Mała wielka miłość

title: Prosto z nieba

overview: It is morning, April 10, 2010. A nice, calm, spring day is coming. Millions of Polish families are still asleep when, in dozens of houses and apartments, nearly a hundred people are getting ready to travel by the safest means of transportation - the presidential plane. The destination: Smolensk. However, as the day draws to a close, unimaginable sadness and pain will invade these dozens of homes and apartments. Feelings that will be shared by the entire nation.

character: Mąż tłumaczki Olki

original_title: Prosto z nieba

title: Clergyman

overview: In 2011, a psychiatric patient is visited by a postulate. The patient is a retired head of the "D" Group – a secret department of the Security Service to fight against the Polish Catholic church. Murders, beatings, blackmails, provocations, robberies, those are standard methods of operation for its officers. The postulate wants to unravel the mystery of the death of priest Roman Kotlarz, a parish priest from Pelagow.

character: Prosecutor

original_title: Klecha

title: Politics

overview: Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.

character: Mateusz Morawiecki

original_title: Polityka

title: Banksters

overview: Karolina works in a bank, she is energetic, self-confident, go-getting. When the latest currency product comes into her hands - a loan in Swiss francs, the woman gets a great chance to prove herself. Having the full consent of his boss - Adam, he unscrupulously starts persuading clients to take the most risky and unfavorable investments. Jan is the gray eminence of the Polish financiers. In his phone, he has contacts to the presidents of the largest banks in Poland. His cynical ideas and decisions affect the economy and the fate of hundreds of thousands of people overnight. Such as Artur - an ambitious head of an IT company who decides to use currency options to develop his business. His partner is Mateusz, who dreams of independence, his own place and the longed-for move away from his in-laws.

title: Just Love Me

overview: Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young, hip architect. In his break-out role, popular Polish television star Maciej Zakoscielny plays the handsome young professional, who is torn between two women.

title: The Champion of Auschwitz

overview: It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable.

title: Piotrek trzynastego 2: Skórza Twarz

overview: A group of inner-city youths travel to the Mazurian Lake District, where a maniacal murderer is prowling.

title: Gry

title: Death of Zygielbojm

title: Spoor

title: The General - Attempt at Gibraltar

title: Superheroes

title: In Darkness

title: Resurrection

title: White Courage

title: Back Then

title: Lesson Plan

title: Autor wychodzi

title: 80 Million

title: The Great Warsaw Race

title: Expecting Love

title: Prosto z nieba

title: Clergyman

title: Politics

title: Banksters

title: Just Love Me

title: The Champion of Auschwitz

title: Piotrek trzynastego 2: Skórza Twarz

title: Gry


Sam Reid

biography:
Sam Reid, born on February 19, 1987, in New South Wales, Australia, is a actor known for his captivating performances in film and television. He grew up on a cattle property in the Monaro region and developed a passion for acting at a young age. Reid pursued his craft at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), graduating in 2010 as the star student of his year.

Reid gained recognition for his role as Lestat de Lioncourt in the AMC series Interview with the Vampire (2022–present), earning critical acclaim. He has also starred in notable productions such as The Newsreader (2021–2025), Lambs of God (2019), and the period drama Belle (2013), where he played John Davinier.

The Newsreader

overview: An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.

character: Dale Jennings

original_name: The Newsreader

original_language: en

Interview with the Vampire

overview: A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

character: Lestat de Lioncourt

original_name: Interview with the Vampire

Hatfields & McCoys

overview: It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.

character: Tolbert McCoy

original_name: Hatfields & McCoys

The Astronaut Wives Club

overview: As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life Magazine documented the astronauts’ families, capturing the behind-the-scenes lives of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. As their celebrity rose and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.

character: John Glenn

original_name: The Astronaut Wives Club

Prime Suspect 1973

overview: Jane Tennison is a probationary WPC in 1973 London, where she faces sexism while working her first murder case. Follow her early career, her relationship with her boss DI Len Bradfield, and her determination to prove herself in a male-dominated police force, as she will eventually achieve the rank of Detective Superintendent.

character: DI Len Bradfield

original_name: Prime Suspect 1973

Agatha Christie's Marple

overview: The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

character: Nat Fletcher

original_name: Agatha Christie's Marple

The Hunting

overview: When two high school teachers discover students are sharing explicit photos of their underage friends and peers online, the revelation has devastating consequences for the students and their families.

character: Ray

original_name: The Hunting

Spooks

overview: Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

character: Young Harry

original_name: Spooks

Lambs of God

overview: A dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.

character: Ignatius

original_name: Lambs of God

Bloom

overview: One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.

character: Young Max

original_name: Bloom

All Saints

overview: Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.

character: Marty Avent

original_name: All Saints

Whitechapel

overview: Detective Inspector Chandler investigates copycat killers in London's East End.

character: Damon Nelson

original_name: Whitechapel

The Vampire Lestat

overview: The Vampire Lestat goes on tour while being haunted by "muses" from his past. As the band's popularity grows, so does Lestat's influence over vampires & humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat's power in the face of the Great Conversion.

character: Lestat de Lioncourt / Jarda Klapek

original_name: The Vampire Lestat

The Vampire Lestat: After Dark

overview: Dive deeper into the world of The Vampire Lestat with this new series that takes fans behind the scenes of each episode with members of the cast and creative team. Hosted by writer and podcaster Lizzie Bassett.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: The Vampire Lestat: After Dark

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

Tiếng Việt

iso_639_1: vi

iso_3166_1: VN

english_name: Vietnamese

also_known_as:
Сэм Рид
سم رید

title: Anonymous

overview: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

character: Earl of Essex

original_title: Anonymous

title: The Railway Man

overview: A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

character: Young Finlay

original_title: The Railway Man

title: Belle

overview: Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.

character: John Davinier

original_title: Belle

title: '71

overview: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

character: Lt. Armitage

title: The Riot Club

overview: Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.

character: Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt

original_title: The Riot Club

title: Serena

overview: North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

character: Vaughn

original_title: Serena

title: After the Smoke

overview: In a remote outback mining station a town gathers for the local rodeo - but as a series of events unfold, a young man bears witness to something he will never forget.

character: Jack

original_title: After the Smoke

title: 2:22

overview: Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan Branson for a few seconds. Suspended from his job, Dylan starts to notice an ominous pattern of sounds and events that repeats itself in exactly the same manner every day, ending precisely at 2:22 p.m. Also drawn into a complex relationship with a woman, Dylan must figure out a way to break the power of the past and take control of time itself.

character: Jonas Edman

title: The Limehouse Golem

overview: A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.

character: John Cree

original_title: The Limehouse Golem

title: Despite the Falling Snow

overview: New York, 1961. Alexander Ivanov, a high-ranked Soviet bureaucrat, reluctantly defects to the West while is part of a diplomatic mission, feeling the grief of being unable to know the fate of his wife Katya, whom he has had to leave behind in Moscow. Only many years later, in 1991, he will finally find out the truth when his niece Lauren travels to Moscow to participate in a painting exhibition.

character: Young Alexander Ivanov

original_title: Despite the Falling Snow

title: The Taking of Prince Harry

overview: The Taking of Prince Harry is a 2010 British TV docufiction which shows the fictional capture of Prince Harry in Afghanistan. It shows the Cabinet Office Briefing Room committee going into action, and his eventual escape during a US drone attack. The film stars Sam Reid as Prince Harry.  It was shown on 21 October on Channel 4. The show has been the subject of controversy, with the British military saying that it could be distressing for the families of the soldiers serving in Afghanistan.

character: Prince Harry

original_title: The Taking of Prince Harry

title: Tigers

overview: Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.

character: Frank

original_title: Tigers

original_language: hi

title: Redd Inc.

overview: Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.

character: William Tucker

original_title: Redd Inc.

title: Standing Up for Sunny

overview: An isolated guy with cerebral palsy is railroaded into helping an unassertive comedienne, and finds love and acceptance through stand-up comedy.

character: Mikey

original_title: Standing Up for Sunny

title: Waiting for the Barbarians

overview: At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.

character: The Lieutenant

original_title: Waiting for the Barbarians

title: The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

overview: In 1893, heavily pregnant Molly Johnson and her children struggle in isolation to survive the harsh Australian landscape after her husband left to go droving sheep in the high country. One day, she finds a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yakada wounded on her property. As an unlikely bond begins to form between them he reveals secrets about her true identity. Realizing Molly’s husband is actually missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff starts being suspicious and sends his constable to investigate.

title: Anonymous

title: The Railway Man

title: Belle

title: '71

title: The Riot Club

title: Serena

title: After the Smoke

title: 2:22

title: The Limehouse Golem

title: Despite the Falling Snow

title: The Taking of Prince Harry

title: Tigers

title: Redd Inc.

title: Standing Up for Sunny

title: Waiting for the Barbarians


Joanna Chan Pui-San

Road For The Heroes

original_name: 出位江湖

original_language: cn

Family Squad

overview: The Huang family has served in the police force for generations. The patriarch, Huang Jiajing, is modest and talkative, but lacking in confidence and self-esteem. After making mistakes in his job as a police officer, he was transferred and then resigned. His wife, Liao Zhonghao, is a contented housewife devoted to her children. Their eldest daughter, Huang Di, is a senior police inspector who is authoritative and diligent. Their second daughter, Huang Fei is impulsive, lazy, and gluttonous, but unexpectedly clever. Their son, Huang Fa, is a university student who is playful and vain, but spoiled by his family. Jiajing's godson, Liao Tong-tai, is Huang family's mischievous relative who loves to prank, and Huang family's sworn enemy...

character: Candy

original_name: 卡拉屋企

Two of  A Kind

original_name: 淘氣雙子星

The Conspiracy of The Eunuch

original_name: 南俠展昭

Fate of the Last Empire

original_name: 清宮氣數錄

The Hitman Chronicles

original_name: 大刺客

The Gods And Demons Of Zu Mountain

overview: After becoming a Blood Shadow with evil powers, traitor Ding Yinwei poses a threat to the world. Emei martial artists Qiong, Yun, Jingwo, Lingyun, and Jinchang set out to find the two demon-slaying swords to defeat him. On their journey, they encounter a repentant Ping and join forces. Even after obtaining the swords, the group faces challenges, particularly due to romantic entanglements. Now, they must defeat Ding in a final showdown.

character: 程寒萼

original_name: 蜀山奇俠之紫青双剑

Super Cop

original_name: 重案傳真

The Mark of Triumph

original_name: 92鍾無艷

The Serpentine Romance

original_name: 奇幻人間世

The Chord to Victory

overview: Tam Kyu Lun, a witty street kid from the 1970s, befriends the introverted Chung Shun To. They meet Peng Yat Kin, Chan Kung Yau, Yip Siu Keung, and Chan Siu Cheung, forming a close-knit group bonded by music. Discovered by music manager Hugo Leung, they form the band Winners and achieve success. However, challenges test their friendship and romantic relationships face obstacles. Kyu Lun is involved with Yeung Suet Lai, while Shun To faces difficulties with Sin Ho Yi. Money causes suspicion, straining their relationships.

original_name: 少年五虎

The Romance of the White Hair Maiden

character: 铁珊瑚

original_name: 白髮魔女傳

The Poor Rich Man

original_name: 橫財三千萬

Plain Love

overview: Liu Yacai (played by Zhou Haimei) was sold to the four sons of the landlord Guan Xueru (played by Guan Haishan) as a daughter-in-law. She was bullied in the Guan family. Fortunately, she met Guan Tianyin (played by Zhang Zhaohui), the second son of the Guan family. However, due to fate, it is difficult to realize the dream of mandarin ducks.

original_name: 情濃大地

Mythical Crane Magic Needle

original_name: 仙鶴神針

Man from Guangdong

original_name: 我係黃飛鴻

Three In a Family

overview: Cheng Zi-dong works as a sales manager for household appliances. He and his girlfriend, Lu Jiayi , are preparing to get married and buy an affordable apartment. Cheng discovers a cheap apartment and plans to buy it with Lu, but they don't have enough money for the down payment. Lu borrows money from her sister, who lives with Cheng, causing tension. Later, Lu's sister joins Cheng's company, leading to more conflicts.

original_name: 茶煲世家

Something Incredible

overview: The supernatural is terrifying and covers everything, appearing like shadows, lights, spirits, and demons. It can move invisibly like a floating object and exist like a colony of bats in a deep cave, knowing someone's presence using its unknown power. The supernatural is not only about ghosts and monsters but also primal The supernatural is terrifying and covers everything, appearing like shadows, lights, spirits, and demons. It can move invisibly like a floating object and exist like a colony of bats in a deep cave, knowing someone's presence using its unknown power. The supernatural is not only about ghosts and monsters but also primal taboos, witchcraft, karma, and the demon that lies within every person's heart, generating fear and nightmares. "Something Incredible" is a series of horror and suspenseful unit dramas and not a superstitious legend.

original_name: 一千靈異夜

Rise & Fall of Qing Dynasty

original_name: 滿清十三皇朝

Beside the Seaside, Beside the Sea

original_name: 月兒彎彎照九州

Detective Investigation Files

overview:
"Detective Investigation Files" revolves around the professional and meticulous investigations carried out by a group of dedicated police officers. As they delve into mysterious deaths with unclear causes, they tirelessly work towards maintaining peace and security for the people. However, their demanding job often comes at the expense of personal happiness.

Cheung Dai Yong, a brilliant and astute police officer, has a track record of solving crucial cases. His trusted colleague, Lee Chung Yee, stands by his side, and together they tackle challenging and complex cases. Amidst their work, Dai Yong encounters Ko Jit, a tenacious journalist. Despite their initial conflicts, a deepening connection blossoms between them. However, Ko Jit already has a romantic partner.

character: 端木紫 Tuen Muk Tze

original_name: 刑事偵緝檔案

The Legend of the Condor Heroes

overview: The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in 1994.

character: 华筝 Wah-tsang

original_name: 射雕英雄传

Dark Tales

overview: Play depicts the world of love, promises not withstand the test of "green Feixianguan"; Fox tells ghost battle of wits, difficult to distinguish between good and evil "Phantom fox spirit"; vigilance ordinary people is a blessing of "land adventures sentence"; describes people, Saints love, never betray "Red flower drunk"; export intentioned rewarded "accidentally"; description Cizi Xiao mother, ethical affection "ghost mother loves her child"; Jiaobingbibai meaning of "demon Excalibur "; and savor the romance of" Kate chasing love "and so on.

character: 小翠

original_name: 聊齋

character: 小燕

The Emperor and I

overview: “The Emperor and I” tells the story of Emperor Lung (Eddie Cheung) and Yuk (Marco Ngai).  The two men were of very different backgrounds and yet by chance, they became friends.  At first, they were so close that they were willing to sacrifice for each other.  However, their difference in belief and status quo inevitably led to their contradiction and they eventually were against each other.

original_name: 方世玉與乾隆皇

A Way of Justice

character: 饰 王清玲

original_name: 人海驕陽

Celebrity Talk Show

character: 陈佩珊

original_name: 今夜不設防

妙探出租

character: 梨英

original_name: 妙探出租

龍庭爭霸

original_name: 龍庭爭霸

original_language: zh

普通话

陈珮珊

biography: 陈珮珊（英语：Jessie Chan Pui-Shan，1969年8月30日－），香港女演员及主持，前香港无线电视（TVB）女艺人。陈珮珊曾就读圣博德小学与洁心林炳炎中学，毕业于无线电视艺员训练班，1988年加入TVB，在80年代末至90年代中期间参与很多无线电视剧集，多演古装剧，后期主要担任主持节目。其丈夫为前艺人蔡济文。

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

普通话

陳珮珊

biography:
陳珮珊，香港女演員及主持，前香港無綫電視（TVB）女藝人。

畢業於無綫電視藝員訓練班，1988 年加入 TVB，在 80 年代末至 90 年代中期間參與很多無綫電視劇集，多演古裝劇，後期主要擔任主持節目。其丈夫為前藝人蔡濟文。

iso_3166_1: HK

also_known_as:
Joanna Chan Pui-San
陈佩珊
Chan Pui-Shan
陳珮珊
Jessie Chan
Suzanne
Susanna Chan

title: Deadly Desire

overview: Mark is a boxer. When he was a child, he witnessed his father's domestic violence and abuse of his mother, which cast a deep shadow on his young heart.

character: Man Man

original_title: 孽戀狂花

title: Miracles: The Canton Godfather

overview: A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

original_title: 奇蹟

title: Mr. Sardine

overview: Derek Chiu Sung-kei directs this low-budget yarn about a mild-mannered grocery store clerk named Sardine (Dayo Wong Chi-wah) who lives a highly ordered life in an apartment filled with canned goods. His equilibrium is smashed when his landlady evicts him to make way for her daughter Anna (Irene Wan Pik-ha) to move in. When the middle-aged woman keels over from a bad combination of Panadol and liquor, Sardine believes that he is responsible for her death and tries to hide the body. Trouble ensues when Anna finds the corpse in Sardine's apartment while Sardine contends with a devious fellow employee who tries to get him canned from the supermarket.

original_title: 沙甸魚殺人事件

title: The Banquet

overview: Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

original_title: 豪門夜宴

title: One Husband Too Many

overview: Theater enthusiast Sun (Anthony Chan) is so passionate about drama that he sells his home to stage Romeo and Juliet. The plays turns out to be a complete failure however - and is the last straw for his wife (Anita Mui), who quietly leaves him. Marriage isn't working out too well for his friend Wa (Kenny Bee) either: Fed up with a husband who spends too much time at work and not enough at home, Wa's wife (Pat Ha) suddenly leaves. Things finally look up for Sun when he produces a popular play starring rich girl Hung (Cherie Chung) and the two begin dating. But it turns out Wa also has his eyes on Hung...

character: Friend of Frances

original_title: 一妻兩夫

title: Grow Up in Anger

overview: The ups and downs of adolescence is sensitively portrayed in this story about three boys growing up in the midst of modern day strife.

character: Photoshop salesgirl

original_title: 青春怒潮

title: Profiles of Pleasure

overview: Before the Big Ban on prostitution, West Hong Kong is famous for its houses of pleasure. The most infamous of them all is Floral Ode House. Among its girls are Yen Hung, who becomes a widow regularly; aristocratic Chien Chien; Cherry Fun, who manages to lose the nickname; and a bevy of beauties. The madam who is on good terms with the police chief claims the best business this side of virtue. Then there comes from England Cheng Li-Peng, commissioned to ban prostitution. He is engaged to Lily, the police chief's daughter. But his parents had arranged a wife for him when he was an infant. They have lost trace of each other. Cheng Li-Peng starts his investigation, which lead him to Yen Hung's and Chien Chien's bedrooms. He is surprised to find himself in love with all three girls. And one of them turns out to be his missing fiancee!

original_title: 群鶯亂舞

place_of_birth: Hong Kong, China

title: Deadly Desire

media_type: movie

title: Miracles: The Canton Godfather

title: Mr. Sardine

title: The Banquet

title: One Husband Too Many

title: Grow Up in Anger

title: Profiles of Pleasure


Hitoshi Yazaki

biography:
Hitoshi Yazaki (born November 11, 1956) is a Japanese director and writer.

He studied directing at Nihon University. Before he started to direct, he worked with Nagasaki Shunichi and Ishii Sogo. His feature film Kazetachi no gogo/Afternoon Breezes (1980) was screened with great success at the film festivals in Edinburgh and Montreal and at the New York Gay Film Festival. He also had a lot of success with March Comes in Like a Lion.

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

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: In the Mood for Melville

overview: Various directors and film critics discuss Jean-Pierre Melville’s importance and influence in the world of cinema.

character: Self

original_title: In the Mood for Melville

original_language: fr

job: Director

title: Sweet Little Lies

overview: A husband and wife, who have not had sex in three years, both fall into extra-marital affairs.

department: Directing

original_title: スイートリトルライズ

title: Strawberry Shortcakes

overview: Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

original_title: ストロベリーショートケイクス

job: Writer

title: Sakura

overview: Three siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is something of a contrast from his younger brother who is at school. The youngest one is the girl and has two brothers to protect her. And then there is Sakura, the family's dog who is always by their side. The fate of this quirky but happy family changes drastically after Hajime, the family's hero-like figure, encounters a tragic accident...

department: Writing

original_title: さくら

title: March Comes In Like a Lion

overview: Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover. Since he has no memory of his sister Ice, he obliges her. How long until his memory returns?

original_title: 三月のライオン

title: The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects

overview: Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem.

original_title: 花を摘む少女と虫を殺す少女

original_title: 花を摘む少女と虫を殺す少女

title: Have a Nice Day

overview: Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

original_title: ハヴァ、ナイスデー

title: 冬の光

overview: Yazaki's characteristic relentless depiction of this and that, albeit with some technical problems, shows a fervour that tries to fit into a single, complete world. It is aimed at a spectacle. [This is a Lost Film]

original_title: 冬の光

title: 裏窓

overview: 『裏窓』 is a play on the name of the person who shoots himself with a bistol every morning. The two men take it in turns to face themselves with the bullet loaded and damaged, and present the consciousness of a young man who is not alive until he fires a shot into the magazine of his revolver.  The young man's consciousness is presented to him. A friend comes along or pulls the trigger. The film is a drama, as are 『裏窓』 and『冬の光』. The woman is found. The film is quite interesting, but you have to pull the trigger to find out if you will die from a gunshot. But that is not to say that the film is not interesting.

original_title: 裏窓

title: Afternoon Breezes

overview: Two young girls, Mitsu and Natsuko, share the same apartment. Natsuko is Lesbian and secretly in love with Mitsu. But Mitsu is heterosexual and has a boyfriend. In the hope of destroying the relation between Mitsu and her boyfriend, Natsuko seduces the boyfriend and also tries to influence him in other ways.

original_title: 風たちの午後

title: Love and Treachery

overview: Kyosuke, an editor at a publishing company, keeps his concerns about his stagnant relationship with his wife hidden. As he struggles with his feelings, he meets Reika, the lover of an talented up-and-coming novelist, and becomes obsessed with her.

original_title: 不倫純愛

title: The Place Where the Sun Sits

overview: Former high school classmates, now adults, hold jealous thoughts, hidden intentions and lust for revenge. Graduates from a high school have held reunions since they graduated 10 years ago. The high school itself is located 2 hours from Tokyo by train and past reunions were held by different teams for different areas. An upcoming reunion is the first time where everyone will gather again.

original_title: 太陽の坐る場所

job: Screenplay

title: The Place Where the Sun Sits

title: A Cappella

overview: Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.  Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.

original_title: 無伴奏

title: Still Life of Memories

overview: A rising photographer is asked by a mysterious woman to take pictures of her body, engaging both his talent and personal life.

original_title: スティルライフオブメモリーズ

title: Afternoon Breezes

title: March Comes In Like a Lion

title: Love and Treachery

title: 1+1=11

overview: An ensemble drama in which the lives of 25 people intersect, inspired by Yamanaka Sadao's classic film {Humanity and Paper Balloons}. Various men and women, living in Japan today. Presents slices of everyday life for people in various situations, where things that are always the undergo change.

original_title: イチタスイチハイチ イチ

title: 1+1=11

original_title: イチタスイチハイチ イチ

title: XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss

overview: Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...

original_title: XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss

title: Have a Nice Day

title: Sakura

title: Back of Happy Street

overview: A journalist, his pyromaniac girlfriend, and an ex-baseball player team up to rip off a gangster, with violent consequences.

title: SEARCH

overview: A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.

title: Yumeko's Death

overview: The first 16mm film to depict the terrorism and betrayal of a public security spy, set against a backdrop of internal strife. One of the origins of Nagasaki's work.

title: Yumeko's Death

title: As for Me

overview: Kanako, a college senior, is torn between her unreliable ex Keishi and her steady new admirer Yoichi. As Keishi grows close to a freshman named Maiko, and Yoichi’s ex Aiko moves on, Kanako must decide what—and who—she really wants.

title: In the Mood for Melville

title: Sweet Little Lies

title: Strawberry Shortcakes

original_title: ストロベリーショートケイクス

title: Sakura

title: March Comes In Like a Lion

original_title: 花を摘む少女と虫を殺す少女

original_title: 花を摘む少女と虫を殺す少女

title: Have a Nice Day

title: 冬の光

title: 裏窓

title: Afternoon Breezes

title: Love and Treachery

title: The Place Where the Sun Sits

title: The Place Where the Sun Sits

title: A Cappella

title: Still Life of Memories

original_title: スティルライフオブメモリーズ

title: Afternoon Breezes

title: March Comes In Like a Lion

title: Love and Treachery

title: 1+1=11

original_title: イチタスイチハイチ イチ

title: 1+1=11

original_title: イチタスイチハイチ イチ

title: XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss

title: Have a Nice Day

title: Sakura

title: Back of Happy Street

title: SEARCH

title: Yumeko's Death

title: Yumeko's Death

title: As for Me


Erica Fox

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

job: Producer

title: Timepiece

overview: Set in the 1940's, James Earl Jones as an an old clockmaker faces racism and is tried for murder when the racist is killed. However, Kevin Kilner comes forward and claims to have commmitted the crime in self defense. All the while, Kilner's family life is in disarray with various crises including his daughter catching meningitis.

original_title: Timepiece

title: Silk Hope

overview: Frannie Vaughn (Fawcett) comes back home after being away a long time, only to find that her mother has died. She also finds out that her sister, Natalie (Crow) and her husband, Jake (Bryce), are planning to sell the acres once owned by Frannie and Natalie's family. To buy the land back from her sister, Frannie gets a job and falls in love with a fellow worker, Rubin (Johnson). In the end, Frannie's dreams come true and Natalie comes to her senses and moves in to the old family house with Frannie and Rubin.

original_title: Silk Hope

title: Dead Women in Lingerie

overview: A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.

original_title: Dead Women in Lingerie

title: Dead Women in Lingerie

job: Unit Production Manager

title: Silk Hope

title: Santa and Pete

overview: This warmhearted Yuletide tale tells the story of Grandpa Nichols who is spending his first Christmas alone as a widower. His grandson Pete is riveted by his grandfather's story of St. Nick, and Pete decides that it is his desire to do all he can to help out old St. Nick in any way he can.

original_title: Santa and Pete

title: The Christmas Box

overview: A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.

original_title: The Christmas Box

title: The Christmas Wish

overview: Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by the local citizenry. But Will isn't really taking a sentimental journey at all: He's merely in town to modernize and streamline his family's real-estate company. While going through his grandfather's effects, Will and his grandmother come across the old man's diary--which reveals a lengthy relationship with a woman named Lillian.

original_title: The Christmas Wish

job: First Assistant Director

title: Red Sun Rising

overview: Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho. He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder. Soon they discover that Jaho is preparing a gang war and weapon smuggling ring. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.

original_title: Red Sun Rising

title: Cab to Canada

overview: Fact-based story about a Pasadena cab driver who picks up what he believes is a routine fare, an elderly woman on her way to a funeral. However, the wealthy woman is soon is insisting that the cabbie drive her on a cross-country trip that ends up entailing 3100 miles and ending in Vancouver. Initially contentious, the two eventually find a reluctant friendship growing.

original_title: Cab to Canada

title: Going Home

overview: A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or return home to care for her aging father whose mental state is deteriorating.

original_title: Going Home

title: Timepiece

title: Silk Hope

title: Dead Women in Lingerie

title: Dead Women in Lingerie

title: Silk Hope

title: Santa and Pete

title: The Christmas Box

title: The Christmas Wish

title: Red Sun Rising

title: Cab to Canada

title: Going Home


Roi Hayashi

Hagane no Onna

overview: Haga Ineko stopped being a school teacher for she was about to get married. When she is suddenly dumped by her to-be husband, she loses her way, and starts drinking. One day, an old friend approaches with a job offer. She would be a substitute teacher in a class on which several teachers gave up without an apparent reason. She reluctantly takes the job only to discover that there are several brutal bullying cases inside the class. Even she eventually starts being anonymously threatened due to her opposing posture against such cases. She now has to identify and reprimand them while at the same time protecting weaker students. The word "Hagane" on the title is a nickname which comes from Haga (her surname) and Ne (from Ineko, her name), but is actually a pun with the actual word hagane (which means steel, denoting how she must be in order to resist as a teacher). (d-addicts.com)

original_name: ハガネの女

Kamen Rider

overview: Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

character: Boy

original_name: 仮面ライダー

Strawberry Night

overview: Reiko Himekawa is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work and gain the respect of the policeman.

character: Kosuke Mishima (Child)

original_name: ストロベリーナイト

title: Accidental Kidnapper

overview: Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.

character: Densuke

original_title: 誘拐ラプソディー

title: Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible

overview: At a time when nations are warring, a sword with mysterious power called "Heaven's Sword" is stolen. The sword is said to give its wielder the power to conquer the world. Various ninja all over Dokutake Castle and beyond also manuevering for this sword of immense power. Rantaro and his classmates are assigned to retrieve the stolen sword, their first real ninja mission.

character: Kirimaru Settsuno

original_title: 忍たま乱太郎 夏休み宿題大作戦！の段

title: Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible

character: Shinbee

original_title: 忍たま乱太郎 夏休み宿題大作戦！の段

title: Ninja Kids!!!

overview: The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.

original_title: 忍たま乱太郎

title: Ace Attorney

overview: Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright, as he strives to protect his clients in various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Mia Fey, and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth. Phoenix's greatest ally is Mia's younger sister Maya, a spirit medium whose body is possessed by Mia to communicate with him.

character: Young Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)

original_title: 逆転裁判

title: OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders

overview: Eiji and Ankh team up with Kotarou and Momotaros as they travel back in time to 1971 aboard the Den-Liner to stop three Mole Imagin. But Ankh’s desire to obtain Core Medals while in the past sets off a chain of events that alters the 40-year history of the Kamen Riders by allowing Shocker to take over the world. It’s up to OOO and New Den-O to restore the timeline!

character: Shigeru

original_title: オーズ・電王・オールライダー レッツゴー仮面ライダー

title: Accidental Kidnapper

title: Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible

original_title: 忍たま乱太郎 夏休み宿題大作戦！の段

title: Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible

original_title: 忍たま乱太郎 夏休み宿題大作戦！の段

title: Ninja Kids!!!

title: Ace Attorney

original_title: オーズ・電王・オールライダー レッツゴー仮面ライダー

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media_type: tv

known_for_department: Acting