The Izu Dancer / Izu no odoriko (1974)
Drama
Based on Yasunari Kawabata real life sotry in which he had a brief time of romance with a girl dancer.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Yaariyan (2014)
Drama | Romance
A college student must win an inter college competition to save his college from being demolished by property builders.
Starring: Himansh Kohli, Vivek Bhatnagar, Nicole Faria, Gulshan Grover, Aditya Kohli, Dev Sharma, Rakul Preet Singh
Director: Divya Khosla
Jai Ho / Mental (2014)
Action | Drama
An ex-army officer initiates a unique idea of propagating social responsibility among ordinary people and in doing so, crosses paths with a powerful political family.
Starring: Salman Khan, Tabu, Sunil Shetty, Pulkit Samrat, Genelia D'Souza
Director: Sohail Khan
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion / Gekijôban Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica Shinpen: Hangyaku no Monogatari (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Madoka Kaname. Once a normal girl who led a happy life, she sacrificed herself to save other magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them. Unable to let her memories of Madoka die, magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the world that Madoka left behind, dreaming of meeting that nostalgic smiling face one more time…
Starring: Aoi Yuki, Chiwa Saito, Kaori Mizuhashi, Eri Kitamura, Ai Nonaka, Emiri Katou, Kana Asumi
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Yukihiro Miyamoto
Daily Lives of High School Boys / Danshi Kôkôsei no Nichijô (2013)
Comedy | Romance
At an all boys high school, Tadakuni (Masaki Suda), Yoshitake (Shuhei Nomura) and Hidenori (Ryo Yoshizawa) are close friends and think usually all day about girls. Their high school then co-hosts a school festival with an all girls high school.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Shûhei Nomura, Ryo Yoshizawa
Director: Daigo Matsui
On His Majesty's Secret Service / Dai noi muk taam 009 (2009)
Comedy
Intrepid inventor Royal Dog (Louis Koo) is part of the elite imperial bodyguard team tasked with protecting the inept Emperor (Liu Yiwei) and Empress (Sandra Ng). Unlike his brother Royal Tiger (Tong Dawei), however, Royal Dog can't fight if his life depended on it. What he lacks in kung-fu prowess though, he makes up for with wacky (untested) weaponry concocted in his workshop. When the Emperor decides to hold a competition to choose a suitor for Princess Rainbow (Song Jia), Royal Dog becomes an unexpected top contender, much to the displeasure of his sassy girlfriend Faithful (Barbie Hsu). There's nary time for romance though when there are so many people out to kill him and the Emperor, including a cross-dressing female assassin (Liu Yang), head eunuch Lord Unicorn (Fan Siu Wong), and even the Empress herself!
Starring: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Sandra Ng, Siu-Wong Fan, Yang Jiang, Yiwei Liu, Jia Song
Director: Jing Wong
Humanity and Paper Balloons / Ninjô kami fûsen (1937)
Drama
Humanity and Paper Balloons, unlike most other Japanese films of this period, is a historical film with a critical edge. Refusing to glorify samurai, the film instead deflates the myth around them with a gentle humanity. The film opens directly after a penurious ronin samurai has taken his own life. At his funeral his neighbors from his slum mourn his death. Here the film introduces another ronin samurai who lives in equal poverty. Having pawned his sword for food, the samurai searches for work but to no avail. The family's only income comes from the little balloon children's toys made by the wife. Out of desperation, the samurai abets in an attempted kidnapping. After finding out, the wife kills him in his sleep and then takes her own life, closing the film's narrative circle.
Starring: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Sukezo Sukedakaya, Shizue Yamagishi
Director: Sadao Yamanaka
Gonza the Spearman / Yari no gonza (1986)
Drama
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannajo sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
Starring: Hiromi Gô, Shima Iwashita, Shôhei Hino, Misako Tanaka, Haruko Kato, Takashi Tsumura
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Carmen Falls in Love / Carmen's Innocent Love / Karumen junjo su (1952)
Comedy
Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masao Wakahara, Chikage Awashima, Toshiko Kobayashi, Eiko Miyoshi
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Big Joys, Small Sorrows / Shin yorokobimo kanashimimo ikutoshitsuki (1986)
Drama
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Starring: Gô Katô, Hitoshi Ueki, Reiko Ôhara, Yoko Shinoyama, Hayao Okamoto
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Being Two Isn't Easy / I Am Two Years Old / Watashi wa nisai (1962)
Comedy | Drama
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional thoughts of the child. They initially live in an apartment building, and then move into the doting grandmother's house.
Starring: Hiro Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kumeko Urabe, Misako Watanabe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Ballad of Orin / Melody in Gray / Hanare goze Orin (1977)
Drama
This unsentimental Japanese tragedy chronicles the lonely life and quiet death of a blind Geisha girl whose desire for sexual freedom causes her to become an outcast.
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Tomoko Naraoka, Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura, Tôru Abe, Yoshio Harada
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
The Way We Dance / Kuang wu pai (2013)
Drama | Teen
Fa leaves behind her unsatisfactory life working at her parent's shop to enter a university. Fa's true calling is to dance and she joins the school's hip-hop club. Soon, Fa falls into the heated world of dance competitions and becomes involved in a complicated romance.
Starring: Babyjohn Choi, Janice Fan, Tommy Ly, Cherry Ngan, Lok Man Yeung, Goon Chung Wong, Singh Hartihan Bitto
Director: Adam Wong
Hindsight / Poo-reun so-geum (2011)
Action | Crime | Romance
Retired mob boss Du-heon enrolls in a cooking class with the hopes of making a fresh start as a restaurant owner. In the class he meets a quirky girl, Se-bin, and finds himself drawn to her. Despite his determination to wipe the slate clean, Du-heon is summoned back into the criminal fold by his old colleagues.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Se-Kyung Shin, Jeong-myeong Cheon, Min-jun Kim, Jong-hyeok Lee, Yeo-jeong Yoon, Roe-ha Kim, Dal-su Oh
Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Documentary of AKB48: No Flower Without Rain (2013)
Documentary
Documentary follows the group after Atsuko Maeda's graduation announcement. The other members are shaken and a fierce fight for the center position takes place. The girls also deal with a clause that prevents members from dating and popularity gaps between the membrs.
Starring: AKB48
Director: Eiki Takahashi
Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend / Figyua na anata (2013)
Drama | Erotica | Fantasy | Romance
A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.
Starring: Kokone Sasaki, Tasuku Emoto, Mitsu Dan, Yuki Mamiya
Director: Takashi Ishii
Countdown (2012)
Horror | Thriller
Three Thai teens in New York City are planning the New Year's Party of their lives. They called Jesus, a drug dealer, to drop off some stuff at their apartment so they can celebrate and countdown the end of the year in style. Little did they know that Jesus' visit that night will change their lives forever.
Starring: Pachara Chirathivat, Jarinporn Joonkiat, Pattarasaya Kreuasuwansri, David Asavanond
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
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A Touch of Sin / Tian zhu ding (2013)
Drama
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Baoqiang Wang, Wu Jiang, Sanming Han, Hongwei Wang
Director: Zhangke Jia
The End of Summer / Summer's End / Natsu no owari (2013)
Biography | Drama
Tomoko (Hikari Mitsushima) is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo (Kaoru Kobayashi), who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita (Gou Ayano), but Tomoko is not satisfied.
Starring: Hikari Mitsushima, Kaoru Kobayashi, Gô Ayano
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Snowpiercer / Snow Piercer / Seolgungnyeolcha (2013)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
After a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.
Starring: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner
Director: Joon-ho Bong
