Category: Eastern
Posted on July 4, 2014 |
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Miss Granny / Su-sang-han geu-nyeo (2014)
Comedy
Oh Mal-Soon (Na Moon-Hee) is a 74-year-old widow that realizes she is becoming a burden on her family. As she is roaming the streets, she comes across a photo studio and dresses up for a self-portrait. When she walks out, she mysteriously regains her physical appearance from the age of 20. Making the most out of this one in a lifetime opportunity, she changes her name to Oh Doo-Ri (Shim Eun-Kyung) and decides to enjoy the best out of her youth…
Starring: Eun-kyung Shim, Mun-hee Na, In-hwan Park, Dong-il Song, Jin-wook Lee
Director: Dong-hyuk Hwang
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Posted on July 2, 2014 |
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Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 3 – Ghost Tears (2014)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
The anime's story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
Starring: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Shunsuke Sakuya, Ikkyu Juku, Takurou Nakakuni, Yôji Ueda
Director: Kazuchika Kise
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Posted on July 2, 2014 |
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Spirited Away / Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
From one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animated cinema comes the most acclaimed film of 2002 and Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature. Hayao Miyazaki's latest triumph, filled with astonishing animation and epic adventure, is a dazzling masterpiece for the ages. It's a "wonderfully welcoming work of art that's as funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful and deep" (Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal). SPIRITED AWAY is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.
Starring: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tatsuya Gashûin
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Posted on July 2, 2014 |
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Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro / Arsene Lupin and the Castle of Cagliostro / Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
When master thief Lupin III, a.k.a. "The Wolf" inadvertently steals a fortune in counterfeit bills from a casino, he is quick to realize the high-quality printing plates that made them are worth even more. Tracing the source of the money to the small European country of Cagliostro, Lupin and his team of colorful outlaws cross swords with the nation's mysterious monarch over his forthcoming marriage to the last princess of the Cagliostro family. It's fast-paced adventure as Lupin must battle fearsome ninjas, rescue a damsel in distress and uncover the key to the lost Cagliostro fortune. Written and directed by Academy Award-winning anime pioneer and visionary Hayao Miyazaki (SPIRITED AWAY, PRINCESS MONONOKE, HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE), everyone will enjoy this lighthearted romp which Steven Spielberg once called one of the greatest adventure movies of all time.
Starring: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio Inoue, Gorô Naya, Sumi Shimamoto
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Tags: Eiko Masuyama, Gorô Naya, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio Inoue, Sumi Shimamoto, Yasuo Yamada
Posted on June 30, 2014 |
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The Spiral / Ring: The Spiral / Rasen (1998)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Following the events of Ring, the body of Ryūji Takayama, former husband of Reiko Asakawa and father of Yōichi Asakawa, is examined by his friend and rival, pathologist Mitsuo Andō. After he finds a cryptic note in Takayama's stomach, Reiko and Yōichi also turn up dead. Andō soon learns of a mysterious cursed videotape, haunted by the spirit of a murdered young woman. Rumor has it that anyone who watches the video will die exactly one week later. Despondent over the death of his own child, and believing that he is being guided by his rival's ghost, Andō decides to see the video for himself. After watching the tape, strange things begin to happen around him, and he soon discovers that the tape's restless spirit has different plans in store for him.
Starring: Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kôichi Satô, Hinako Saeki, Shingo Tsurumi, Shigemitsu Ogi
Director: Jôji Iida
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Posted on June 30, 2014 |
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Gurren Lagann – The Movie 02 – The Lights in the Sky are Stars / Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan: Lagann-hen / Gekijô ban Tengen toppa guren ragan: Ragan hen (2009)
Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
Seven years after the defeat of the Spiral King, Simon and the Dai-Gurren brigade must set out to the vastness of space to defeat a new threat and save the universe. The last high-stakes battle for Simon and his team is about to begin.
Starring: Tetsuya Kakihara, Yukari Fukui, Marina Inoue, Kishô Taniyama, Mitsuki Saiga, Nobuyuki Hiyama
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
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Tags: Hiroyuki Imaishi, Kishô Taniyama, Marina Inoue, Mitsuki Saiga, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Tetsuya Kakihara, Yukari Fukui
Posted on June 30, 2014 |
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Gurren Lagann – The Movie 01 – Childhood's End / Gurren Lagann / Gekijô ban Tengen toppa guren ragan: Guren hen (2008)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
Simon and Kamina, brothers in arms, take upon themselves to venture beyond the borders of their world, reality and imagination. Venturing further and further into a hidden truth that has kept humanity prisoners for millennia.
Starring: Tetsuya Kakihara, Katsuyuki Konishi, Marina Inoue, Yukari Fukui, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Mitsuki Saiga
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Koto the Ancient City / Ancient City / Koto (1980)
Drama
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Kishi, Jun Izumi, Yuuki Kitazume
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Hot Young Bloods / Pikkeulneun Chungchoon (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Teen
A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980's.
Starring: Young-kwang Kim, Jong-Suk Lee, Se-Young Lee, Bo-young Park
Director: Yeon-woo Lee
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Tags: Bo-young Park, Jong-Suk Lee, Se-Young Lee, Yeon-woo Lee, Young-kwang Kim
Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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The Liar and His Lover / Kanojo wa uso wo aishisugiteiru (2013)
Romance
A love story between a 25-year-old sound engineer and 16-year-old high school student who possesses a gifted voice.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Sakurako Ohara, Shôhei Miura, Masataka Kubota, Kôki Mizuta
Director: Norihiro Koizumi
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Tags: Kôki Mizuta, Masataka Kubota, Norihiro Koizumi, Sakurako Ohara, Shôhei Miura, Takeru Sato
Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Soul / Shi hun (2013)
Drama | Thriller
An unsettling thriller which takes an unflinching look at demonic possession. A-chuan is a quiet 30-year-old chef working in a Japanese restaurant. One day he abruptly collapses unconscious and is rushed to a hospital. He is then sent back to his father’s home in the mountain to recuperate, where he remains catatonic and mute, until one day…
Starring: Yu Wang, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Shiang-chyi Chen, Shih-Chieh Chin, Leon Dai, Pong Fong Wu
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
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Tags: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Leon Dai, Mong-Hong Chung, Pong-Fong Wu, Shiang-chyi Chen, Shih-chieh Chin, Yu Wang
Posted on June 23, 2014 |
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SPEC: Close~Incarnation / SPEC: Closed – Zen no hen (2013)
Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie "SPEC: Heaven".
Starring: Erika Toda, Ryô Kase, Raita Ryû, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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Tags: Chiaki Kuriyama, Erika Toda, Kazuki Kitamura, Raita Ryû, Ryo Kase, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Posted on June 23, 2014 |
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Temptation of Angle / Tenshi o yûwaku (1979)
Drama | Romance
This story of the everyday life of a couple living together is made all the more powerful by the lead's real off-screen romance.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Toshiya Fujita
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Posted on June 23, 2014 |
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The Raid 2 / The Raid 2: Berandal / The Raid: Retaliation (2014)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
Starring: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Julie Estelle, Arifin Putra, Donny Alamsyah, Oka Antara, Tio Pakusodewo
Director: Gareth Evans
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Posted on June 23, 2014 |
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The Wind Rises / / Untitled Hayao Miyazaki Project / Kaze tachinu (2013)
Animation | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Inspired by the aesthetics of design, and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi only dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age, and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927. Having dreamed of creating an elegant and flight worthy plane since childhood, Jiro's life-long labor finally pays off in adulthood, when he creates the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. What Jiro never imagined, however, not even in his wildest dreams, was the fate that would befall his beloved creation – that his labor of love would eventually be used for something beyond his wildest expectation: war.
Starring: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Steve Alpert, Morio Kazama
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Posted on June 21, 2014 |
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Bhoothnath Returns / Bhoothnath 2 (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Horror
Bhoothnath Returns takes Bhoothnath's story forward. As he returns to 'Bhoot World' he is greeted with taunts and condemnation from other ghosts for bringing disrepute to the ghost-community for getting bullied by a kid on Earth. Post the humiliation, Bhoothnath decides to redeem himself and come back to scare a bunch of kids. Bhoothnath's search for kids brings him to Akhrot, a slum kid who is also the only person who can see him. Together they agree to help each other and their friendship sees them get involved in a cause that is bigger than they had ever imagined. To move ahead they will need to take on one of the country's most powerful and corrupt politician Bhau. The Lok Sabha elections are nearing and Bhau's victory is a mere formality, or is it? In a world, where a common man is afraid of politics, will a common man's ghost overcome his fear to stand up for what's right and fight against injustice? Bhoothnath Returns is an entertaining tale of good against evil, weak against powerful, past against future.
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani, Parth Bhalerao, Sanjay Mishra, Usha Jadhav
Director: Nitesh Tiwari
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Posted on June 20, 2014 |
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Doomsday Party / Mo ri pai dui (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A college dropout, a bank clerk, a cop, a middle-aged woman and a retired teacher are caught up in an armed bank robbery. Their fates become entwined with one another's forever since that fateful day. The robbery changes their lives forever, but will they get a fresh start or have they already passed the point of no return?
Starring: Goon Chung Wong, Kay Tse, Chor-yiu Kwan, Teddy Robin Kwan, Wilfred Lau, Kwok Keung Cheung, Maggie Chan, Fish Liew, Kyle Tse
Director: Ho Hong
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Tags: Chor-yiu Kwan, Fish Liew, Goon Chung Wong, Ho Hong, Kay Tse, Kwok Keung Cheung, Kyle Tse, Maggie Chan, Teddy Robin Kwan, Wilfred Lau
Posted on June 20, 2014 |
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Iceman / The Iceman Cometh / Bing fung: Cung sang zi mun (2014)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | History | Sci-Fi
He Ying is a loyal Ming Dynasty bodyguard in the Ming Dynasty. While returning from a mission in India, he is accused of working with Japanese pirates by comrade in arms Sao. During the ensuing chase, an avalanche buries He Ying, Sao and other soldiers, keeping them frozen in ice for centuries. In 2014, a mysterious man orders He Ying and Sao to be brought to Hong Kong and resurrected. However, a traffic accident causes He Ying to return to life prematurely. While He Ying roams the city like a fish out of water, Sao has also been resurrected and is determine to make He Ying pay for his crimes. With the help of a kind bar waitress, He Ying sets out to evade capture and clear his name.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Shengyi Huang, Yu Kang, Simon Yam, Hoi-Pang Lo, Suet Lam
Director: Wing-cheong Law
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Tags: Baoqiang Wang, Donnie Yen, Hoi-Pang Lo, Shengyi Huang, Simon Yam, Suet Lam, Wing-cheong Law, Yu Kang
Posted on June 20, 2014 |
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White Love / Howaito rabu (1979)
Romance
A pimp has an adulterous affair with a Japanese girl who studies flamenco dancing.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiju Kobayashi, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani
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Posted on June 19, 2014 |
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story / Bushi no kondate (2013)
Drama | History
Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu (Aya Ueto) is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her cooking talents, she marries Yasunobu (Kengo Kora), who is an heir in the Funaki family. The Funaki family serves as the cook for the Kaga Domain. Nevertheless, Yasunobu himself is a terrible cook. With the help of Oharu's mother-in-law Mitsuru (Kimiko Yo), she begins to teach Yasunobu how to cook.
Starring: Aya Ueto, Kengo Kôra, Kimiko Yo, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Yûzô Asahara
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