Category: Eastern
Posted on April 15, 2015 |
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Dream Flight / Xiang fei (2014)
Action | Drama | Thriller
The movie tells the real-life love story of Lt. Col. Lee Cheng-liang, a high profile Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) jet pilot, and his visually impaired wife, who are played by Taiwanese actor Bryant Chang and actress Tiffany Hsu, respectively.
Starring: Bryant Chang, Tiffany Ann Hsu, Mason Lee, Paul Chiang, Chung-Hua Tou
Director: Khan Lee
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Tags: Bryant Chang, Chung-Hua Tou, Khan Lee, Mason Lee, Paul Chiang, Tiffany Ann Hsu
Posted on April 15, 2015 |
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Uzumasa Limelight / Uzumasa raimuraito (2014)
Action | Drama
The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, the admirable story of Seiichi Kamiyama dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul.
Starring: Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda, Hirotarô Honda, Hisako Manda
Director: Ken Ochiai
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Tags: Chihiro Yamamoto, Hirotarô Honda, Hisako Manda, Ken Ochiai, Masashi Goda, Seizô Fukumoto
Posted on April 13, 2015 |
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In the Hero / In za hîrô (2014)
Comedy
48-year-old Wataru Honjo (Toshiaki Karasawa) is a big fan of Bruce Lee and works as a suit actor (stunts performer wearing costumes). He is also president of "Shimoachiai Hero Action Club”. Even though he doesn't have the typical body type for his profession he has worked in the business for 25 years. Wataru doesn't get along with cocky rookie suite actor Ryo Ichinose, but an incident draws them closer. Ryo Ichinose then takes an audition for a Hollywood movie and passes. For the fighting scene in the climax scene, the action actor quits citing the scene is too dangerous. The movie staff hears that Wataru is the best Japanese action actor and offers the job to him. Will Wataru go for it?
Starring: Toshiaki Karasawa, Sôta Fukushi, Tomoka Kurotani, Susumu Terajima, Ini Kusano
Director: Masaharu Take
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Tags: Ini Kusano, Masaharu Take, Sôta Fukushi, Susumu Terajima, Tomoka Kurotani, Toshiaki Karasawa
Posted on April 13, 2015 |
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Fight Back to School III / Tao xue wei long zhi long guo ji nian (1993)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Stephen Chow returns as Chow Sing-Sing, the obnoxious undercover cop who seems to get into all sorts of trouble, only this time he doesn't go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite (Anita Mui), which doesn't sit well with his fiancée played by Cheung Man who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Anita Mui, Sharla Cheung, Pak-Cheung Chan, Anthony Wong
Director: Jing Wong
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Tags: Anita Mui, Anthony Wong, Jing Wong, Pak-cheung Chan, Sharla Cheung, Stephen Chow
Posted on April 13, 2015 |
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Fight Back to School II / Tao xue wei long 2 (1992)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). During a meeting with his senior officer, Inspector Yip (Deanie Ip), Star jokingly suggests he wish to be reassigned to the traffic unit. Star immediately finds himself demoted to Constable engaging in traffic duty on the streets of Hong Kong. After being made the scapegoat for a failed high school terrorist investigation, Star hastily resigns from the police. He decides to enroll at the high school to launch his own private investigation. But Star realises the investigation won't be easy when he discovers that the bumbling, incompetent CID detective Tat (Ng Man Tat) is also undercover at the high school.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Sharla Cheung, Man Tat Ng, Athena Chu, Deannie Yip
Director: Gordon Chan
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Tags: Athena Chu, Deannie Yip, Gordon Chan, Man Tat Ng, Sharla Cheung, Stephen Chow
Posted on April 13, 2015 |
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Fight Back to School / Tao xue wei long (1991)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Stephen Chow's prodigious skills with guns and martial arts take center stage once again in this successful action film from Hong Kong filmmaker Gordon Chan. Chow stars as Star Chow, a cop who plays by his own rules, often endangering the other members of his team as well as the success of their missions. When a practice drill goes awry, Star is punished by the commissioner (Barry Wong) by being reassigned as an undercover agent at the local high school, his task being to locate the student who stole the commissioner's favorite gun. Naturally, there's a beautiful guidance counselor (Sharla Cheung) to provide some romantic interest, and — just as naturally — things take a downward turn when she discovers Star's true identity. In the meantime, Star locates the commissioner's gun, as well as a cache of stolen arms belonging to a triad gangster. The entire situation comes to a head during the school's open house, with a specially constructed maze serving as the backdrop for the final gun battle. Filled with action and humor, the film's success led to a pair of even more entertaining sequels. Ng Man-tat co-stars with Roy Cheung, Gabriel Wong, and Paul Chun.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Man Tat Ng, Sharla Cheung
Director: Gordon Chan
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Posted on April 12, 2015 |
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Flirting Scholar / Tang Bohu dian Qiuxiang (1993)
Comedy | Romance
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Li Gong, Pak-Cheung Chan, Pei-pei Cheng, Mimi Zhu
Director: Lik-Chi Lee
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Tags: Li Gong, Lik Chi Lee, Mimi Zhu, Pak-cheung Chan, Pei-pei Cheng, Stephen Chow
Posted on April 11, 2015 |
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Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert.
Starring: Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
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Posted on April 10, 2015 |
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Bullet Ballet (1998)
Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Goda returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that his girlfriend, Kiriko, who he's been with for a decade, has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws in the world, not only is Goda left with the yawning, black "why" behind Kiriko's suicide, but also a whole other set of mysterious "hows", "wheres" and "whos". How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions, and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life…
Starring: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, Kyôka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
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Tags: Hisashi Igawa, Kirina Mano, Kyôka Suzuki, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura
Posted on April 4, 2015 |
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S for Sex, S for Secrets / Siu je yau sam (2014)
Drama | Romance
The long-married Sze and Keung, on the other hand, are dealing with marital problems that are at once both different and familiar to Bobo and Hung's. Sze, a successful career woman, and Keung are seen as a model couple, but behind the façade of perfection, Sze has to deal with Keung's philandering ways. Can the couples work out their problems, or will their issues spell the end of their relationships?
Starring: Jacqueline Chong, Jeana Ho, Philip Keung, Annie Liu, Pak-ho Chau
Director: Jill Wong
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Tags: Annie Liu, Jacqueline Chong, Jeana Ho, Jill Wong, Pak-ho Chau, Philip Keung
Posted on April 2, 2015 |
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An Inspector Calls / San Taam Ka To (2015)
Action | Comedy
An unexpected inspector drops by a lavish party of a notable family in order to investigate the suicide of a pregnant girl. This breaks the joy and peace of the party which is meant to celebrate a couple's engagement. Every one claims that he does not know the girl. However, the inspector finds some suspicious stuff with the help of a diary book and a photo. As the astonishing truth is gradually revealed, none of the noble family members can be excluded from the case.
Starring: Louis Koo, Eric Tsang, Teresa Mo, Ka Tung Lam, Chrissie Chow, Karena Ng, Bak-Ming Wong
Director: Bak-Ming Wong, Herman Yau
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Tags: Bak-Ming Wong, Chrissie Chow, Eric Tsang, Herman Yau, Ka Tung Lam, Karena Ng, Louis Koo, Teresa Mo
Posted on April 2, 2015 |
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The Seventh Lie / Dai chat fong yin (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Spellbinding vignettes reveal the deception and treachery in the intertwined lives of four flawed characters: a chauffeur falling for his boss's wife, a sneaky bellhop who rips off hotel guests, a runaway bride seeking out her ex-boyfriend, and a conflicted murderer trying to cover up his crimes.
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Chung Him Law, Shiu Hung Hui, Josie Ho, Peggy Tseng
Director: James Hung
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Posted on April 2, 2015 |
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Stand By Me Doraemon (2014)
Animation | Drama | Family
In the suburbs of Tokyo some time ago, there lived a clumsy boy about 10 years old. There appeared in front of him named Sewashi, Nobita's descendant of four generations later from the 22nd century, and Doraemon, a 22nd century cat-type caretaker robot who helps people with its secret gadgets. Sewashi claims that his family is suffering from the debts Nobita made even to his generation, so in order to change this disastrous future, he brought along Doraemon as Nobita's caretaker to bring happiness to his future, although Doraemon is not happy about this. And so Sewashi installed an accomplishment program into Doraemon forcing him to take care of Nobita. Unless he makes Nobita happy, Doraemon can no longer go back to the 22nd century. This is how the life of Doraemon and Nobita begins. Will Doraemon succeed this mission and return to the 22nd century?
Starring: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Kaiji Tang, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Ryuichi Yagi, Takashi Yamazaki
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Tags: Kaiji Tang, Megumi Oohara, Ryuichi Yagi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Subaru Kimura, Takashi Yamazaki, Tomokazu Seki, Wasabi Mizuta, Yumi Kakazu
Posted on March 31, 2015 |
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Vengeance of an Assassin / Rew thalu rew (2014)
Action
Being an assassin has its rules – always keep your eyes on your target, be strict on your mission, execute without any hesitation and there is no room for negotiation. Each killer has his own background, but all of them have trade in their blood and losses. For Natee, his only reason in becoming an assassin and leaving behind his brother and his uncle is to find the truth about his parents’ death. It is the issue that he has always doubted and felt that uncle Thanom was hiding something from him. While protecting Ploy, a niece of a local business man from a group of assassins, he was asked to kill the girl instead
Starring: Nantawooti Boonrapsap, Dan Chupong
Director: Panna Rittikrai
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Posted on March 28, 2015 |
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Women Who Flirt / Women Who Know How to Flirt Are the Luckiest / Sa jiao nu ren zui hao ming (2014)
Comedy
When a woman decides to take it upon herself to win back the love of her live, she realizes she'll have to sink to using her female prowess — and becoming what she despises the most — a woman who flirts.
Starring: Xun Zhou, Xiaoming Huang, Yi-Lin Sie, Sonia Sui
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
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Posted on March 27, 2015 |
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The Round Table / Entaku (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Kokko (Mana Ashida) is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko is full of dissatisfaction and she admires loneliness.
Starring: Mana Ashida, Ryûhei Maruyama, Misato Aoyama
Director: Isao Yukisada
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Posted on March 25, 2015 |
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Grey Met Shrek / Kei yun fui gu noeng (2014)
Drama | Romance
Ordinary men and women want to hear fairy tales, they are eager to become an extraordinary actor and actress. Fairy tale endings usually equal to a happy ending, just like a fairy tales princess and prince full of happiness and expectation. But when different space and error paired together, that becomes an unexpected strange love story, when Shrek met Cinderella.
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Annie Liu, Sammy Leung
Director: Shu-Ning Hui
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Posted on March 25, 2015 |
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The Twilight Samurai / Tasogare Seibei (2002)
Drama | Romance
Set in the late nineteenth century, Seibei Iguchi is a low-ranking samurai whose wife has died of tuberculosis. With two daughters, Kayano and Ito, and an elderly mother to support, he and his family must survive in austerity. The moment that his daily work as a clerk, in one of the clans' warehouses is over, he hurries home, refusing to drink or eat with fellow samurai. Behind his back, his fellow samurai teasing him for his actions. The divorce of his childhood friend Tomoe leads him into a confrontation with her violent ex-husband, a high-ranking samurai. When word of Seibei's easy victory using only a wooden sword begins to circulate, his reputation for sword-fighting prowess begins to change his colleagues assessment of him.
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Ôsugi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Posted on March 21, 2015 |
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When Marnie Was There / Omoide no Mânî (2014)
Animation | Drama
A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.
Starring: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima, Toshie Negishi, Ryôko Moriyama
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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Tags: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Ryôko Moriyama, Sara Takatsuki, Susumu Terajima, Toshie Negishi
Posted on March 20, 2015 |
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The Con Artists / Criminal Designer (2014)
Action | Crime
Ji-hyuk is an expert safe-cracker who lives the highlife stealing antiques and jewellery with his team. Cho, a powerful and cruel gang boss threatens them to steal $150 million with him. Ji-hyuk plans to get revenge on Cho, but ends up falling into his trap. However, Cho later realises it was all part of Ji-hyuk's scheme. When Ji-hyuk, who was thought dead, reappears, hidden secret relations between the technicians also surface.
Starring: Woo-bin Kim, Yeong-cheol Kim, Chang-Seok Ko, Lee Hyun Woo, Yoon-Hee Cho, Dal-hwan Jo, Ju-hwan Lim
Director: Hong-seon Kim
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Tags: Chang-Seok Ko, Dal-hwan Jo, Hong-seon Kim, Ju-hwan Lim, Lee Hyun Woo, Woo-bin Kim, Yeong-cheol Kim, Yoon-Hee Cho