Category: Eastern
Posted on January 26, 2015 |
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Perfect Blue / Pafekuto buru (1997)
Animation | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Pop star Mima, her fame and fortune beginning to slide as fashions change, is persuaded to turn actress, reluctantly accepting an ill-defined role in a television soap opera. However, Mima's grip on reality begins to loosen as a result; she imagines that she has an identical twin who has maintained a singing career, and becomes increasingly paranoid after her friends are either threatened or killed. Can Mima unravel the truth before she is driven completely over the edge?
Starring: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto
Director: Satoshi Kon
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Posted on January 10, 2015 |
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Bang Bang! (2014)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
A young bank receptionist gets mixed up with Rajveer Nanda, a man who has a mysterious background.
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif
Director: Siddharth Anand
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Posted on January 8, 2015 |
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Fairy in a Cage / Ori no naka no yôsei (1977)
Drama
During World War II, the tyrannical Judge Murayama uses his military power to imprison and torture innocent people. Suspected of helping an anti-government movement, the lovely Namiji Kikushima is captured, along with a local kabuki actor. Helpless and unable to escape, the two are subjected to a grueling series of tortures including rope bondage and physical assault. As the Judge and his evil assistant Kayo revel in their perverse fetishes, a new military recruit they have hired named Taoka may be the key to the prisoners' freedom. He loves Namiji and will do whatever he can to help her, even if it means betrayal to organize an escape.
Starring: Rei Okamoto, Naomi Tani, Reika Maki
Director: Kôyû Ohara
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Posted on January 7, 2015 |
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Little Witch Academia (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Short
Akko Kagari is an ordinary girl who joins the renowned witch academy for witch girls, Luna Nova Academy. When she was younger, she went to Magical Festa, a magic show hosted by a witch named Shiny Chariot. Akko was so mesmerized and inspired by Shiny Chariot's performance that she dreamed to someday be a "cool" witch like her. This young and impressionable Akko takes Shiny Chariot's words as her own motto: "Never forget, a believing heart is your magic." As part of a class, Akko and her classmates go into a labyrinth under the Tower of Luna Nova. There, a sealed ancient dragon was unleashed by one of her classmates. Akko tries to stop the dragon, but…
Starring: Megumi Han, Fumiko Orikasa, Michiyo Murase, Yôko Hikasa, Chinatsu Akasaki, Eri Nakao
Director: Yô Yoshinari
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Tags: Chinatsu Akasaki, Eri Nakao, Fumiko Orikasa, Megumi Han, Michiyo Murase, Yô Yoshinari, Yôko Hikasa
Posted on December 25, 2014 |
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Airport 2013 / Daikûkô 2013 (2013)
Comedy
An airplane lands due to bad weather. A family, who rode on that airplane, goes through various troubles and it gets worse.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Katsuhisa Namase, Erika Toda, Jô Odagiri, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Kôki Mitani
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Tags: Erika Toda, Jô Odagiri, Katsuhisa Namase, Kôki Mitani, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûko Takeuchi
Posted on December 25, 2014 |
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Friend: The Great Legacy / Friend 2 / Chingu 2 (2013)
Action | Drama
17 years after the events of first movie, Choi Sung-hoon, Lee Han Dong's son, who grew up in abusive family, and has fallen to life of petty crime, ends up in jail, same one where Lee Jeong-suk is serving his sentence. Choi Sung-hoon's mother there visits Lee Jeong-suk and begs him to take her son under his protection. Being Lee Han Dong's childhood friend he agrees, and Choi Sung-hoon who never had any sort of proper role model in his life, is quickly swayed by this senior. But what will happen when Choi Sung-hoon learns why is Lee Jeong-suk sentenced in the first place?
Starring: Oh-seong Yu, Jin-mo Ju, Woo-bin Kim
Director: Kyung-Taek Kwak
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Posted on December 25, 2014 |
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Han Gong-ju (2013)
Drama
Chun Woo Hee plays the eponymous heroine, a glum high school girl who has been forced to transfer to a school in another city. With her own family nowhere to be found, Gong-ju is placed into the care of a teacher's mother while matters are being sorted out. She quietly starts up school again, only hoping to keep to herself and not stand out. When Gong-ju's new classmates discover her singing talent, they try their best to recruit her into the choir. Just as Gong-ju begins to smile again and open up to new friends, the past catches up and the harrowing reason for her transfer gradually comes to light.
Starring: Woo-hee Chun, In-seon Jeong, So-Young Kim, Yeong-ran Lee
Director: Su-jin Lee
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Posted on December 24, 2014 |
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Kano (2014)
Biography | Drama | History | Sport
In 1928, Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The Kagi Agriculture and Forestry Public School (a.k.a KANO) was established to help develop the local agricultural. The KANO baseball team started out as a sports club to improve students’ physique. It never thought that the arrival of Coach Kondo would completely transform them to become legend…
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takao Ohsawa, Maki Sakai, Togo Igawa
Director: Chih-Hsiang Ma
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Posted on December 24, 2014 |
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McDull: Me & My Mum / Mai dou wo he wo ma ma (2014)
Animation
As a child, Bobby Mak was known as Mcdull. Although Mcdull wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, his mother was a different story. Her astounding intelligence and resourcefulness enabled her to, for example, simultaneously run more than six businesses from a space of less than 100 square feet. Mcdull and his mother lived together happily during Mcdull's childhood, but things began to change as Mcdull got older. A distance that never existed before began to grow between him and his mother…
Starring: Babyjohn Choi, Yundi Li, Sandra Ng, The Pancakes, Anthony Wong, Zhang Zhengzhong
Director: Brian Tse, Junmin Li
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Posted on December 23, 2014 |
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Kung Fu Jungle / Yat ku chan dik mou lam (2014)
Action | Thriller
A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Baoqiang Wang, Bing Bai
Director: Teddy Chan
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Posted on December 23, 2014 |
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Kikaider: The Ultimate Human Robot / Kikaidâ Reboot (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
Set in the near future in Japan. Nobuhiko Komyoji is an expert on robots. He leads the "ARK Project" and creates Robot Kikaider (Jingi Irie). After Nobuhiko Komyoji's mysterious death, Robot Kikaider begins to fight against the "ARK Project" which has gone astray from the project's original mission.
Starring: Jingi Irie, Aimi Satsukawa, Yûto Ikeda, Maryjun Takahashi, Shingo Tsurumi, Kazushige Nagashima, Hirotarô Honda, Ryûji Harada, Renji Ishibashi, Daisuke Ban
Director: Ten Shimoyama
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Tags: Aimi Satsukawa, Daisuke Ban, Hirotarô Honda, Jingi Irie, Kazushige Nagashima, Maryjun Takahashi, Renji Ishibashi, Ryûji Harada, Shingo Tsurumi, Ten Shimoyama, Yûto Ikeda
Posted on December 20, 2014 |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno / Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto Taika-hen (2014)
Action
After his ordeal with Udo Jin-e, Himura Kenshin's brief period of peace is interrupted by the presence of Hajime Saito, the former captain of the Shinsengumi who assumed an alias in Tokyo's police force. With Takani Megumi's freedom at the balance, Kenshin learns that he is being enlisted in a covert operation at the city of Kyoto. There, Kenshin deals with a small army under the leadership of Hitokiri Battōsai replacement and successor, who was deemed a great enough threat to the Meiji government's stability that they attempted to burn him alive: Makoto Shishio.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Emi Takei, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yûsuke Iseya, Munetaka Aoki, Yû Aoi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
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Tags: Emi Takei, Keishi Ohtomo, Munetaka Aoki, Takeru Sato, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yû Aoi, Yûsuke Iseya
Posted on December 20, 2014 |
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Zombie Fight Club / Z.F.C / Zhi yao yi fen zhong (2014)
Action | Horror
It's the end of the Century, at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime… Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny's boyfriend being killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive she struggles with Andy to flee danger. The originally kind and warm hearted chemistry teacher, Wu Ming, who is now the zombie leader after the kayos broken out, has transformed into a cruel, vicious and selfish character. Violent activists match prisoners against zombies in a malicious killing game, the good side of humanity has seemingly all but vanished. Now that all order is lost, how will humans create a new century? A world of uncertainty awaits: The end? Hope? Or Death?
Starring: Andy On, Philip Ng, Terence Yin, Jessica Cambensy, Michael Wong
Director: Joe Chen
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Posted on December 17, 2014 |
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Go to Hawaii / My Hawaiian Discovery / Watashi no Hawaii no arukikata (2014)
Comedy
Minori is a 26-year-old magazine editor who is tired of her work and love life. Minori's friend is about to have a wedding in Hawaii and she asks Minori to help prepare her wedding reception. In Hawaii, Minori meets Akane. Akane's dream is to marry a rich man and she attends parties nightly. Minori also meets Tsutomu, a businessman struggling to pursue his dream, and Tomoya, the son of a wealthy man. The four newly acquainted friends go around Hawaii together.
Starring: Nana Eikura, Rin Takanashi, Kôji Seto, Ryô Kase
Director: Kôji Maeda
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Posted on December 17, 2014 |
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Sea Without Exit / Deguchi no nai umi (2006)
Drama | War
Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, who had won the National High School Baseball Championships enters university, but soon afterwards injures his elbow. He and his teammates work hard to get back on the field placing all his hopes on a new slow-ball, "the magic pitch." However, the outbreak of WWII wipes out the baseball ambitions from everyone. They join the military and in the navy undergo the severe training that prepares them for death. Death awaits them in a "kaiten" (special attack submarine or "human torpedo") within the gloomy ocean depths, but Koji never gives up his dream of the "magic pitch."
Starring: Ebizô Ichikawa, Yûsuke Iseya, Juri Ueno, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûko Kotegawa, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
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Posted on December 16, 2014 |
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Mr. Vampire 4 / Jiang shi shu shu (1988)
Comedy | Horror
A Taoist Priest isn't too happy when his Buddhist Priest colleague moves in next door. They are subject to constant feuds and duels, but soon must overcome their odds towards each other when a vampire breaks loose from his coffin in a nearby procession and threatens to wreak havoc to the countryside.
Starring: Anthony Chan, Ma Wu, Kar Lok Chin, Loletta Lee, Wah Yuen
Director: Ricky Lau
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Posted on December 15, 2014 |
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The Next Generation PatLabor Chapter 5 / The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to handle crimes relating to these machines.
Starring: Erina Mano, Toshio Kakei, Seiji Fukushi, Rina Ohta, Shigeru Chiba, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Yoshinori Horimoto, Kohei Shiotsuka, Shigekazu Tajiri
Director: Mamoru Oshii
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Tags: Erina Mano, Kohei Shiotsuka, Mamoru Oshii, Rina Ohta, Seiji Fukushi, Shigekazu Tajiri, Shigeru Chiba, Toshio Kakei, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Yoshinori Horimoto
Posted on December 14, 2014 |
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Blue Demon / Ao oni (2014)
Horror
Six high school students, including Anna (Anna Iriyama), are locked in the ominous “Jail House”. There is a rumor that a monster resides in the house. While a big blue shadow is getting closer to the six high school students, they desperately try to find a way out.
Starring: Anna Iriyama, Kenta Suga, Shô Jinnai, Seiya, Seika Furuhata, Riku Ozeki
Director: Daisuke Kobayashi
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Tags: Anna Iriyama, Daisuke Kobayashi, Kenta Suga, Riku Ozeki, Seika Furuhata, Seiya, Shô Jinnai
Posted on December 13, 2014 |
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Probation Order / Se qing 298-03 (2014)
Crime | Drama
Run by former social worker Lap, apm café is frequented by a group of troubled youth, each struggling with problems such as drug addiction and prostitution. One day, thanks to a chance that arises from coincidence, Tinky, one of the more troubled café-goers, decides to steal the diamond ring Triad boss Lung intended to give his wife for their third anniversary. When he discovers the ring is missing, Lung descends into rage. The only person Tinky and her friends can turn to for help is Lap…
Starring: Kai Chi Liu, Hanjin Tan, Candy Lo, Michelle Yim, Jeana Ho
Director: Tony Leung
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Posted on December 11, 2014 |
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A Bolt from the Blue / Seiten no hekireki (2014)
Comedy
Haruo (Yo Oizumi) has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns the secret of his birth.
Starring: Ko Shibasaki, Yô Ôizumi, Gekidan Hitori
Director: Gekidan Hitori
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