Category: Eastern
Posted on November 9, 2015 |
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Till Death Do Us What? / Wedded Pair Diary / Fûfu FûFû Nikki (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give birth and they try to smile everyday until her very last day. After Yoko passes away, Kota focuses on writing their story via their blog. He drifts away from reality. One day, Yoko appears in front of Kota again.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Hiromi Nagasaku, Tetta Sugimoto, Hitomi Satô, Shûhei Takahashi
Director: Kôji Maeda
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Tags: Hiromi Nagasaku, Hitomi Satô, Kôji Maeda, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Shûhei Takahashi, Tetta Sugimoto
Posted on November 8, 2015 |
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The Assassin / Nie yin niang (2015)
Action | Drama
9th century China. 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings. A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.
Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chun Shih
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
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Tags: Chen Chang, Chun Shih, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Qi Shu, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Posted on November 7, 2015 |
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Knock Knock! Who's There? / You ke dao (2015)
Horror | Thriller
Funeral home is the last stop of the deceased ones. This is also where 'turn undead' take place, the ritual that purifies the soul. The soul hasn't gone through the ritual is usually a haunting one. They still have things undone in human world. In order to finish that, they usually do something disturbing which led to supernatural incidents. Three seemingly seperate stories happen at funeral home intertwine.
Starring: Annie Liu, Kate Tsui, Jennifer Tse, Babyjohn Choi, Wai-Leung Kwok, Rebecca Zhu, Carrie Ng, Simon Lui, Venus Wong, Carlos Chan
Director: Carrie Ng
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Tags: Annie Liu, Babyjohn Choi, Carlos Chan, Carrie Ng, Jennifer Tse, Kate Tsui, Rebecca Zhu, Simon Lui, Venus Wong, Wai-Leung Kwok
Posted on November 6, 2015 |
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Yakuza Apocalypse / Gokudou daisensou (2015)
Action | Comedy | Horror
Akira admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but has never died. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treats him like an idiot, Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. Akira becomes disappointed in the yakuza world, because it's not like what he say in the movies. Especially, in terms of loyalty and charity depicted of the yakuza. An assassin is then sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Riko Narumi, Rirî Furankî, Reiko Takashima
Director: Takashi Miike
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Tags: Hayato Ichihara, Reiko Takashima, Riko Narumi, Rirî Furankî, Takashi Miike
Posted on November 5, 2015 |
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Crayon Shin-chan: Serious Battle! Robot Dad Strikes Back / Eiga Kureyon Shinchan: Gachinko! Gyakushuu no Robotôchan (2014)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Hiroshi got a slipped disk due to a back injury. He was taken to an Este salon by a mysterious beautiful girl to receive a free trial of beauty treatment as well as a massage. When Hiroshi returned home after a beauty treatment, he was surprised to see himself in the form of a robot. The robot Hiroshi could be controlled by a remote control and pretty much do anything including cooking and cleaning. However, this new change was a dark conspiracy hatched by "The Association of Fathers" to create a strong father figure for all the fathers in Japan.
Starring: Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Keiji Fujiwara, Satomi Kôrogi, Emi Takei, Korokke
Director: Wataru Takahashi
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Tags: Akiko Yajima, Emi Takei, Keiji Fujiwara, Korokke, Miki Narahashi, Satomi Kôrogi, Wataru Takahashi
Posted on November 5, 2015 |
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Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!! / Eiga Kureyon Shinchan: Bakauma! B-kyu gurume sabaibaru!! (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Shin-chan and the Kasukabe Defense Corps undertake a mission to carry the legendary sauce of B-class Gourmet to the B-Class carnival. The sauce is very important for B-class Gourmet. A mysterious A-Class Gourmet group led by Gourmet-Poy has taken over the carnival. Can Shin-chan and the Kasukabe Defense Corps carry out their mission and bring happiness to the ordinary people?
Starring: Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Keiji Fujiwara, Satomi Kôrogi, Hiroshi Kamiya, Yûichi Nakamura, Saori Hayami, Naomi Watanabe
Director: Masakazu Hashimoto
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Tags: Akiko Yajima, Hiroshi Kamiya, Keiji Fujiwara, Masakazu Hashimoto, Miki Narahashi, Naomi Watanabe, Saori Hayami, Satomi Kôrogi, Yuichi Nakamura
Posted on November 5, 2015 |
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Colorful / Karafuru (2010)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A sinful spirit is granted the opportunity to prove worthy for rebirth, inhabiting the body of a student who killed himself.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Keiji Fujiwara, Aoi Miyazaki, Kazato Tomizawa, Akina Minami, Katsumi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Nakao, Jingi Irie
Director: Keiichi Hara
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Tags: Akina Minami, Akiyoshi Nakao, Aoi Miyazaki, Jingi Irie, Katsumi Takahashi, Kazato Tomizawa, Keiichi Hara, Keiji Fujiwara, Kumiko Asô
Posted on November 4, 2015 |
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Bad Guy / Nabbeun namja (2001)
Drama | Erotica
A thug traps a woman into prostitution and gradually becomes more and more protective of her.
Starring: Jae-hyeon Jo, Won Seo, Yun-tae Kim, Duek-mun Choi, Yoon-young Choi, Yoo-jin Shin, Jung-young Kim
Director: Ki-duk Kim
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Tags: Duek-mun Choi, Jae-hyeon Jo, Jung-young Kim, Ki-duk Kim, Won Seo, Yoo-jin Shin, Yoon-young Choi, Yun-tae Kim
Posted on November 3, 2015 |
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
Comedy | Drama
A man with a magnanimous spirit helps a mute girl from Pakistan return home.
Starring: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Harshaali Malhotra, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sharat Saxena
Director: Kabir Khan
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Tags: Harshaali Malhotra, Kabir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Salman Khan, Sharat Saxena
Posted on November 2, 2015 |
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Farewell to the Ark / Saraba hakobune (1984)
Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Su-e and her cousin Sutekich, a descendant of one of the village clans, live together but have been forbidden by her father to have sexual contact. Like other villagers, he believes that if cousins have children together, the children will suffer serious birth defects. His remedy is to make Su-e wear a large, ugly chastity belt. Unable to take the ridicule of his fellow villagers, Sutekichi stabs the head of the clan to death and then runs away with Su-e. After some time elapses, the two make their way back to the village, but by then Sutekichi is suffering the effects of his actions.
Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi
Director: Shûji Terayama
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Tags: Mayumi Ogawa, Shûji Terayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Takahashi, Yoshio Harada
Posted on November 2, 2015 |
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country / Den-en ni shisu (1974)
Drama | Fantasy
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Starring: Kantarô Suga, Hiroyuki Takano
Director: Shûji Terayama
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Posted on November 2, 2015 |
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets / Sho o suteyo machi e deyou (1971)
Drama | Music
In this highly political Japanese film, a family's disintegration is shown as an analogy for the Japanese descent into heartless materialism. Though his family members have resigned themselves to their downward spiral both socially and economically, the son of the household has not. He is ambitious to attain something and to strike out on his own. What happens instead is that he grows increasingly disillusioned about his life and his world.
Starring: Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi, Fudeko Tanaka, Sei Hiraizumi, Keiko Niitaka
Director: Shûji Terayama
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Tags: Fudeko Tanaka, Hideaki Sasaki, Keiko Niitaka, Masahiro Saito, Sei Hiraizumi, Shûji Terayama, Yukiko Kobayashi
Posted on November 1, 2015 |
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Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie / Kôkaku Kidôtai (2015)
Animation | Sci-Fi
Set after the events of Arise, the film involves the assassination of the Prime Minister of Japan which is publicly described as the "greatest event since the war". It is up to Public Security Section 9, lead by Major Motoko Kusanagi, to discover the true nature of the murder. They are aided by the Prime Minister's son, Osamu Fujimoto.
Starring: Maaya Sakamoto, Tarusuke Shingaki, Kazuya Nakai, Miyuki Sawashiro, Shunsuke Sakuya
Director: Kazuchika Kise, Kazuya Nomura
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Posted on November 1, 2015 |
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No Touching At All / Doushitemo furetakunai (2014)
Drama
Toshiaki (Kosuke Yonehara) is a young gay man. On the first day of work, he meets Yosuke (Masashi Taniguchi) in the elevator. Yosuke is Toshiaki's new boss. Toshiaki is attracted to Yosuke. Toshiaki can't be honest with his feelings due to a traumatic incident from his past.
Starring: Kôsuke Yonehara, Masashi Taniguchi, Shou Tomita, Shôichi Matsuda, Yuya Mito
Director: Chihiro Amano
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Posted on November 1, 2015 |
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About Elly / Darbareye Elly (2009)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that she has to return to Tehran because her mother has been recently submitted to hospital for heart surgery, but Sepideh asks her to stay and hides her luggage. The children are playing in the sea and one mother asks Elly to watch them. Out of the blue, Sepideh's daughter calls to some men playing volleyball to rescue one of the children from the water. After rescuing the little boy they seek out Elly, questioning whether she has drowned or returned to Tehran. What has happened to Elly?
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Merila Zare'i, Peyman Moaadi, Mani Haghighi
Director: Asghar Farhadi
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Posted on October 30, 2015 |
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Kaidan / Kwaidan / Ghost Stories / Hoichi the Earless / Weird Tales (1964)
Fantasy | Horror
This film contains four stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": A woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea…
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Aratama, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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Posted on October 29, 2015 |
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Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Action | Adventure | History | War
A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.
Starring: Prabhas, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Nassar
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
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Tags: Anushka Shetty, Nassar, Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, S.S. Rajamouli, Sathyaraj, Tamannaah Bhatia
Posted on October 29, 2015 |
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Key of Life / Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
Sakurai is an aspiring actor who becomes frustrated with his life. Sakurai then decides to kill himself, but before committing suicide Sakurai heads off to a public bathhouse. At the bathhouse, Sakurai then witnesses a man named Kondo collapse and lose his memory in front of Sakurai. On a sudden whim, Sakurai switches locker keys with Kondo and pretends to be Kondo. Sakurai soon finds himself in trouble with the yakuza.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue
Director: Kenji Uchida
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Posted on October 28, 2015 |
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No Risk, No Gain / Casino Raiders – The Sequel / Ji juen gai jong yuen choi (1990)
Comedy | Drama
As an adviser of a Renown U.S. Casino and a Prominent Gambler, "The Supreme" Ray has encountered many adventurous challenges in his career. "Tiger Eye" Chiang has made Ray undertake to contest with him in Macau. Ray's adventure begins again. Via Hong Kong, Ray meets his female cousin's friend snakey, "Big Dee" and his schoolmate Janey. Unfortunately, he is cheated by these two guys and loses all his possession. The two guys pretend to be Supreme's identity to Macau, and the card competition are beginning.
Starring: Pak-Cheung Chan, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Sung Young Chen, Michelle Reis, Christine Ng, May Lo
Director: Jimmy Heung, Taylor Wong
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Tags: Alan Tam, Andy Lau, Christine Ng, Jimmy Heung, May Lo, Michelle Reis, Pak-cheung Chan, Sung Young Chen, Taylor Wong
Posted on October 27, 2015 |
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Pieta in the Toilet / Toire no Pieta (2015)
Drama
Hiroshi (Yojiro Noda) has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai (Hana Sugisaki) appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.
Starring: Yôjirô Noda, Hana Sugisaki, Rirî Furankî, Saya Ichikawa, Shinobu Ohtake, Rie Miyazawa
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
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Tags: Daishi Matsunaga, Hana Sugisaki, Rie Miyazawa, Rirî Furankî, Saya Ichikawa, Shinobu Ohtake, Yôjirô Noda