Tokyo Slaves / Me & 23 Slaves / Doreiku: Boku to 23-nin no dorei (2014)
Mystery
24 people play a fierce survival game for their own purposes.
Starring: Sayaka Akimoto, Kanata Hongô, Udai Iwasaki, Yûki Kubota, Yusuke Makio, Hikaru Ohsawa, Yôsuke Saitô, Miyuki Torii, Yûki Yamada
Director: Sakichi Satô
100 Yen Love / Hyakuen no koi (2014)
Comedy
Kazuko (Sakura Ando) lives at her parents' home. She rarely hangs out with other people. Things change when her younger sister divorces and moves back with her child. Kazuko and her sister's relationship goes bad, causing Kazuko to move out and live alone. What brings happiness to Kazuko is to watch a middle-aged boxer (Hirofumi Arai) practice at a boxing gym. The boxing gym is located between the 100 yen shop where she works and her home. One day, Kazuko and the middle-aged boxer meet and they begin to live together.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai
Director: Masaharu Take
The Crossing / The Crossing: Part I / Tai ping lun (2014)
Drama
In the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ziyi Zhang, Hye-kyo Song, Xiaoming Huang, Dawei Tong, Masami Nagasawa
Director: John Woo
Two Thumbs Up / Chung fung che (2015)
Action | Drama
Big F, who's just gotten out of prison, wastes no time in tracking down his old comrades, picking up bowling alley employee Crazy B, back-alley hairstylist Johnny T and mechanic East L in quick succession. As it turns out, Big F wants to rob a truck transporting dirty money across the Mainland-Hong Kong border, and to do that, the gang's got to pose as police officers. On the day of the heist, the men set off in their minibus-turned-police-vehicle dressed as cops and armed with BB guns. What they don't know is that another group of criminals also has its sights set on the truck – and those people have AK-47s.
Starring: Francis Ng, Simon Yam, Leo Ku, Patrick Tam, Mark Cheng, Sixuan Chen, Philip Keung
Director: Ho Leung Lau
Taksu / Yokudô (2014)
Drama
Chihiro is depressed and obsessed with his own mortality. Him and his wife, Yuri (Yoko Mitsuya), decide to take a trip to Bali, Indonesia to see his pregnant sister, Kumi (Kiki Sugino). They hope the trip can bring about change.
Starring: Yôko Mitsuya, Takumi Saitô, Kiki Sugino
Director: Kiki Sugino
Hibi Rock: Puke Afro and the Pop Star / Hibi rokku (2014)
Comedy
Takuro Hibinuma had no talent for sports or aptitude for studying throughout high school and never had a girlfriend. However, he found his true calling when he began playing rock music. While in high school, he formed a rock band named Rock 'n' Roll with his friends. After graduation, they move to Tokyo and begin playing live shows. One day, at a live house, Takuro meets a world-renowned idol singer named Saki Utagawa and his fate is irrevocably altered when she asks him to write her a song.
Starring: Shûhei Nomura, Fumi Nikaidô, Tomoya Maeno, Keisuke Okamoto, Motoki Ochiai, Tomoko Mariya, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Yû Irie
Dragon Blade / Tian jiang xiong shi (2015)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An, an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn't commit. Soon thereafter, however, he meets Roman soldier in Cusack's Lucius and the pair begin to form an unlikely alliance.
Starring: John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Jackie Chan, Sharni Vinson
Director: Daniel Lee
Sala / Kinki (2014)
Drama
Sala is a teacher at a girls' high school. She has a relationship with a female high school student there. One day, she learns that her father is involved in a crime. She has been estranged from her father for years. Sala goes to her father's home and finds a boy that was confined there by her father. Her father asks Sala to hide the boy.
Starring: Kiki Sugino, Taiga, Shirô Sano, Takeshi Yamamoto, Seiko Fujimura, Ryû Morioka, Sarara Tsukifune
Director: Kôtarô Wajima
Memories of Matsuko / Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Mystery
When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it had any value. What he finds is a revelation. Talented film director, Tetsuya Nakashima ("Kamikaze Girls" 04), wield a host of cinematic tools to make "Memories of MATSUKO" a memorably entertaining and emotionally powerful "fairytale tragedy," weaving together realistic human drama with offbeat comedy and spectacular (Bob Fosse-like) production numbers to tell the heartbreaking story of Matsuko Kawajiri, a starry-eyed woman who spends her entire life serching for a worthy "prince" capable of returning her limitless love. Versatile actress, Miki Nakatani, renders a virtuosic performance in the lead role of Matsuko.
Starring: Eita, Miki Nakatani, Ko Shibasaki, Yûsuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikako Ichikawa
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
My Love, My Bride / Na-eui sa-lang na-eui sin-boo (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Young-min and Mi-young are a young couple who get married after graduating from college. Following the honeymoon period, they begin to bicker with each other. While waiting for her husband at a café one day, Mi-young bumps into her ex-boss. Young-min sees this and gets the wrong idea. As they struggle to make their marriage work, Young-min and Mi-young gradually understand what love really is.
Starring: Jung-suk Jo, Min-a Shin
Director: Chan-sang Lim
From Vegas to Macau II / Du cheng feng yun II / Ao men feng yun 2 (2015)
Action | Comedy
The world renowned "Invincible Hand" Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz's son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool's step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken's only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his "Magic Hand" once again to uncover the evil plan…
Starring: Nick Cheung, Yun-Fat Chow, Carina Lau, Shawn Yue, Michelle Hu, Angela Wong
Director: Jing Wong
Haemoo (2014)
Drama
Based on true events, the story is about a large 69-ton fishing boat’s crew as they attempt to smuggle in illegal migrants in order to keep their fishing jobs. But their plan goes wrong when they meet a tragic accident while transporting the thirty or so illegal migrants on the ship in a heavy sea fog.
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Yoo-chun Park
Director: Sung-bo Shim
Fall Guy / Kamata kôshinkyoku (1982)
Comedy | Romance
Kinji Fukasaku's Fall Guy is a moving love story and a heartfelt valentine to the movies. Morio Kazama stars as Ginshiro, a vain and selfish actor whose stardom is threatened by rising star Tachibana (Daijiro Harada).In a desperate bid to burnish his image, Ginshiro compels a devoted member of his entourage, Yasu (Mitsuro Hirata), to marry Ginshiro's pregnant mistress, Konatsu (Keiko Matsuzaka). To support his new wife, the devoted Yasu becomes a stunt man, performing increasingly dangerous stunts. Konatsu is torn between Yasu and Ginshiro, who compels his loyal disciple to perform a death-defying stunt that could save the film and Ginshiro's career.
Starring: Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Mitsuru Hirata, Chika Takami, Daijirô Harada
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Murder on D Street / D zaka no satsujin jiken (2015)
Mystery
An owner of a soba noodle shop is found dead at the D. Hill. The police concluded the death was an apparent suicide. However, a brilliant but eccentric private detective Kogoro Akechi and his wife Fumiyo sees that it is a murder case, not a suicide, and start their own investigation. They notice something weird is going on in the secondhand bookshop and gradually, hideous love-hate relationships and immeasurable passion and lust surrounding the wife of the bookshop is revealed. What is the truth of the murder case? This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ranpo Edogawa's death and his masterpiece is adapted to the screen for the first time in 16 years.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kawai, Hôka Kinoshita, Yoshimasa Kondô, Kôta Kusano, Takashi Nishina, Eiko Ohtani, Shoko
Director: Shoji Kubota
Pale Moon / Kami no tsuki (2014)
Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ohshima, Seiichi Tanabe, Satomi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
The Continent / Hou hui wu qi (2014)
Drama
Three men go on a road trip to find a new life away from the island they live on.
Starring: Shaofeng Feng, Wallace Chung, Bo-lin Chen, Joe Chen, Zhangke Jia, Luodan Wang
Director: Han Han
Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic / Miracle: Debikurokun no koi to mahou (2014)
Drama | Romance
Hikari (Masaki Aiba) works at a book store. He is a kind person, but his kindness often makes him look pathetic. Hikari hopes to become a manga writer. At night he spreads mysterious flyers "Debikuro Communication". One day, he meets someone via fate. Anna (Nana Eikura) has been Hikari’s friend since they were children. So-Young (Han Hyo-Joo), who is a world famous lighting designer, happens to know Hikari. Kitayama (Toma Ikuta) graduated from the same university as Hikari. Kitayama is also a popular manga writer. The love lives of these four people makes a miracle at Christmas night.
Starring: Masaki Aiba, Nana Eikura, Hyo-ju Han, Tôma Ikuta, Gekidan Hitori
Director: Isshin Inudô
A Courtesan with Flowered Skin / Hanayoi dôchû (2014)
Drama | Romance
The New Yoshiwara pleasure district, in the twilight years of the Edo Period. Popular prostitute Asagiri (Yumi Adachi) will soon be freed from her indentured service. One day at a local festival, she meets young artisan Hanjiro (Yasushi Fuchikami) which changes her destiny. Asagiri feels love for the first time in her life, but history involving Hanjiro's client (Kanji Tsuda) leads to tragic circumstances.
Starring: Yumi Adachi, Yasushi Fuchikami, Ena Koshino, Tomochika, Saki Takaoka, Kanji Tsuda, Yôko Mitsuya, Hanako Takigawa, Ayano Tachibana
Director: Keisuke Toyoshima
Swordsman III: The East Is Red / Dong Fang Bu Bai: Feng yun zai qi (1993)
Action | Fantasy | Romance
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself. The official discovers that the Portuguese are actually after the sacred scroll, and then finds Invincible Asia him/herself, who is not actually dead. Invincible Asia seeks to destroy all the imposters or 'false Invincible Asias' who have assumed his/her place leading cults, whilst the Portuguese, a mysterious Japanese warlord and others search for Invincible Asia and the Sacred Scroll.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Joey Wang, Rongguang Yu, Jean Wang, Shun Lau, Eddy Ko
Director: Siu-Tung Ching, Raymond Lee
Swordsman II / Xiao ao jiang hu: dong fang bu bai (1992)
Action | Fantasy
With an entirely new set of actors, this movie continues the story from Swordsman (1990). Blademaster and his martial arts school decide to retire to a distant mountain. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. He finds that they have been attacked, and their leader, Princess Yin-Yin, toward whom he has some romantic feelings, has been abducted. The attacker is her evil uncle Fong, who years before overthrew Yin-Yin's father and took over their sect. Fong also has possession of a sacred scroll which tells how to achieve ultimate martial arts power. Blademaster decides to help Yin-Yin and her imprisoned father, and his romantic complications deepen when his childhood chum and Yin-Yin are joined by a new rival. Blademaster thinks she is an innocent village girl he has saved, but in fact she is Fong! The process of gaining ultimate martial arts power requires self- castration and transmogrification into female form.
Starring: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee, Rosamund Kwan, Kar Lok Chin, Fennie Yuen, Shi-Kwan Yen
Director: Siu-Tung Ching, Stanley Tong
