Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive trilogy by Takashi Miike. Takeuchi also starred in Battle Royale II: Requiem, where he played Riki Takeuchi. (Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/4e1Vpr_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matsushige Yutaka", "alternateName": "松重豊", "birthDate": "January 19, 1963", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Matsushige Yutaka, born in Fukuoka Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He won the award for the best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Dear Doctor.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/RRNrY_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Miike Takashi", "alternateName": "三池崇史", "birthDate": "August 24, 1960", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Miike Takashi is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over ninety theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions in the years 2001 and 2002 alone. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly.
Miike was born to Korean parents in Yao, Osaka, Japan, an area inhabited by poor working-class immigrants from the Korean Peninsula. His family originally emigrated to Kumamoto Prefecture. During World War II, his grandfather was stationed in China and Korea, and his father was born in Seoul in today's South Korea. His father worked as a welder and his mother was a seamstress. Although he claimed to have attended classes only rarely, he graduated from Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film (Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakko) under the guidance of a renowned filmmaker Shohei Imamura, the founder and Dean of that institution.
One of his most controversial films was the ultra-violent Ichi the Killer (2001), adapted from a manga of the same name and starring Tadanobu Asano as a sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer. The extreme violence was initially exploited to promote the film: during its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, the audience received "barf bags" emblazoned with the film's logo as a promotional gimmick (one typically flamboyant gory killing involves a character slicing a man in half from head to groin, and severing another's face, which then slides down a nearby wall).
However, the British Board of Film Classification refused to allow the release of the film uncut in Britain, citing its extreme levels of sexual violence towards women. In Hong Kong, 15 minutes of footage were cut. In the United States, it has been shown uncut (unrated). An uncut DVD was also released in the Benelux.
In 2005, Miike was invited to direct an episode of the Masters of Horror anthology series. The series, featuring episodes by a range of established horror directors such as John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, and Dario Argento, was supposed to provide directors with relative creative freedom and relaxed restrictions on violent and sexual content (some violent content was edited from the Dario Argento-directed episode Jenifer). However, when the Showtime cable network acquired the rights to the series, the Miike-directed episode Imprint was deemed too disturbing for the network. Showtime canceled it from the broadcast lineup even after extended negotiations, though it was retained as part of the series DVD release. Mick Garris, creator and executive producer of the series, described the episode as "amazing, but hard even for me to watch... definitely the most disturbing film I've ever seen".", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/ZK0NL_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noon Daran Boonyasak", "alternateName": "นุ่น ดารัณ บุญยศักดิ์", "birthDate": "June 5, 1979", "nationality": "Thai", "description": ""Noon" Daran Boonyasak, born Sinitha Boonyasak in Bangkok, Thailand, is an actor, Thai cooking teacher, and the older sister of actress Ploy Chermarn Boonyasak. In 2001, she decided to take an acting/directing course at Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok. It was there that she learned how to act without over-acting like she had been doing in her previous 20-odd soap opera roles. She spent some time as a television host and was taking a Thai cooking class when she was approached by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang for the role of Noi in "Last Life in the Universe" (เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล), a role which kept her from quitting the film business altogether and for which she won the Best Actress award at both the 12th Bangkok Critics Assembly and the Starpics Thai Film Awards 2546.
(Source: ShareRice; MyDramaList)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/wnJ1Nc.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ploy Laila Boonyasak", "alternateName": "พลอย ไลลา บุญยศักดิ์", "birthDate": "September 15, 1982", "nationality": "Thai", "description": "Laila Boonyasak, formerly Chermarn Boonyasak, nickname Ploy, is a Thai film and television actress and model. She is well known for her role as June / Tang in the movie The Love of Siam. Her other film roles have included the title ghost character in director Yuthlert Sippapak's horror-comedies Buppah Rahtree and Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns. She was also featured in Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Last Life in the Universe, in which she portrayed the younger sister of the character played by her real-life older sister, Daran Boonyasak.
In 2001, when she was just 18, Chermarn played a teen mum in the drama Na Tang Baan Raek (The First Window). And despite having been a big star since her 20s, she did a supporting role in the 2007 gay-teen drama Love Of Siam, which eventually won her a Suphannahong National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her role as a vengeful ghost in Buppha Ratree is also interpreted as an expression of feminine anger over patriarchal society.
In 2014, Chermarn has joined forces with the UN Refugee Agency and celebrities around the world to help spread the message of World Refugee Day.
She's also a mentor on the modelling-themed reality series The Face Thailand Season 1 and The Face Thai and season 4 All-Stars, aired on Channel 3.
She left Thai TV3 in 2017 and became a free agent.
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