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Released in 1953 and often ranked as one of the greatest films ever made, this Japanese masterpiece by director Yasujirō Ozu explores themes of generational conflict and family disappointment as an aging couple visits their self-absorbed children in the bustling capital city.
Tokyo Story
While its sister version Pokémon Red featured Charizard on the cover, this iconic Game Boy game's North American box art displays the fully evolved Water-type Kanto starter Pokémon known for its powerful water cannons mounted on its shell.
Pokemon Blue
A key figure of the Bloomsbury Group, this British novelist pioneered the use of the stream-of-consciousness narrative style in works like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and famously argued in her essay A Room of One's Own that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".
Virginia Woolf
Famous for his explosive temper and catchphrases like "idiot sandwich" and "where's the lamb sauce?", this multi-Michelin-star chef hosts several high-stakes reality shows, including Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and MasterChef, running an extensive global restaurant empire in his spare time.
Gordon Ramsey
This 1997 musical comedy follows the fictional adventures of Baby, Scary, Sporty, Ginger, and Posh Spice as they prepare for a major concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, all while dealing with an overzealous manager, a scheming newspaper owner, and a documentary film crew.
Spice World
This enhanced version of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl featured a new storyline focusing on the Legendary Renegade Pokémon, Giratina, and introduced the mysterious Distortion World, a dimension where the normal laws of space and time do not apply.
Pokemon Platinum
Guillermo Del Toro
This Emmy and Grammy-winning comedian, known for her reality show My Life on the D-List, faced a federal investigation and was fired from her CNN New Year's Eve hosting gig after posing in a controversial 2017 photo with a mask resembling a bloody, severed head of then-President Donald Trump.
Kathy Griffin
A dysfunctional family piles into a temperamental yellow VW bus to drive their young daughter, Olive, from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach so she can compete in this titular beauty pageant, culminating in an unforgettable dance performance to Rick James' "Super Freak".
Little Miss Sunshine
In this 1997 game, the protagonist Cloud Strife and the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE fight against the corrupt Shinra Electric Power Company, which is draining the planet's life force, and the main villain, a legendary soldier with a single black wing named Sephiroth.
Final Fantasy 7
This South Korean director made history in 2020 when his film, a dark comedy thriller about social inequality between the wealthy Park family and the struggling Kim family, became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Bong Joon-ho
This fashion savant achieved breakout stardom in 2003 as one of the "Fab Five" on the original Bravo reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, offering wardrobe makeovers and style advice to heterosexual men. He is now a long-standing judge on RuPaul's Drag Race.
Carson Kressley
This 2017 indie film, directed by Sean Baker, focuses on six-year-old Moonee and her young mother Halley, who live week-to-week at the purple "Magic Castle" motel in Kissimmee, Florida, just outside of the famous Disney World resort, which was its real-life development code name.
Florida Project
This 2001 PlayStation 2 role-playing game was the first in the series to feature voice acting and follows the story of a blitzball star named Tidus as he helps the summoner Yuna on her pilgrimage to defeat "Sin," a massive, recurring monster threatening the world of Spira.
FFX
This novel's innovative structure is divided into three sections: "The Window," a brief, desolate interlude called "Time Passes" that compresses a decade of war and death, and a final section where the artist Lily Briscoe completes her painting and the remaining family members finally make a long-delayed boat trip.
A MacArthur "Genius" Award-winning artist, this Chinese-American choreographer, painter, and director is internationally acclaimed for his interdisciplinary work and, most notably, for being the lead choreographer for the spectacular "scroll painting" segment of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies.
Shen Wei
Directed by Satoshi Kon, this 1997 animated psychological thriller follows Mima Kirigoe, a former J-pop idol who pivots to an acting career, only to be tormented by a relentless stalker and a blog that recounts her life in detail, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.
Perfect Blue
The player character, known as the "Sole Survivor," emerges from Vault 111 over 200 years after the nuclear bombs dropped in search of their kidnapped infant son, Shaun, navigating a wasteland set in the ruins of this US city and its surrounding region, the Commonwealth.
Fallout 4
After dying unexpectedly while saving a child, a teenage delinquent named Yusuke Urameshi is resurrected and granted the title of "Spirit Detective," tasked with solving supernatural cases alongside his human rival Kuwabara and two powerful demons, Kurama and Hiei.
Yu Yu Hakusho
This critically acclaimed director is known for seamlessly blending music genres with distinct visual styles, most famously mixing jazz and film noir in the space-western Cowboy Bebop, and infusing Edo-period samurai action with hip-hop beats in Samurai Champloo.
Shinichiro Watanabe