A Scene at the Sea / Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.
Starring: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ôshima, Sabu Kawahara, Susumu Terajima, Katsuya Koiso, Tetsu Watanabe
Director: Takeshi Kitano
2 States (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
2 States is a 2014 romantic comedy film directed by Abhishek Verman based on the 2009 novel of the same name written by Chetan Bhagat. It is produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala . The film stars Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in lead roles.
Starring: Arjun Kapoor, Revathi, Alia Bhatt, Amrita Singh, Ronit Roy
Director: Abhishek Varman
The Terror Live / Deu tae-ro ra-i-beu (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Young-Hwa Yoon, once a top national news anchor wants to get his title back through an exclusive live broadcast with a terrorist.
Starring: Jung-woo Ha, Kyeong-yeong Lee, Hye-jin Jeon, Kim So-Jin, Da-wit Lee
Director: Byeong-woo Kim
Look Out, Officer! / Si hing jong gwai (1990)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
Piao (Bill Tung) has been murdered in the line of duty and seeks revenge beyond the grave. He manipulates a new cop Sing (Stephen Chow) to work for him. Sing's senior Chin (Stanley Fung) used to work with Piao, but he is not entirely satisfied with his new subordinate, especially when Sing has a crush on his daughter (Vivian Chan). Piao's spirit agrees to help Sing in getting promotion and Chin's daughter, in exchange for Sing's help in unveiling his own murder case…
Starring: Stephen Chow, Bill Tung, Stanley Fung, Vivian Chen, Amy Yip
Director: Sze Yu Lau
Vital / Vuitaru (2004)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama died, Hiroshi Takagi suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a young woman, and while cutting apart the tissue, he partially recalls his accident. Later, when he sees a tattoo in the arm of the corpse, he discloses that she was his girlfriend and becomes obsessed to go further in the examination of the body.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Kiki, Nami Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Lily
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Kamen Rider 1 GO (2016)
Action
45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission has been protecting humanity and justice from the threat of Shocker. His name is Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider. After a long battle overseas, Hongo hears a certain girl is in danger and immediately returns to Japan. He then meets Takeru Tenkuji, Kamen Rider Ghost, who had been investigating the girl's whereabouts.
Starring: Hiroshi Fujioka, Shun Nishime, Hikaru Ohsawa, Ryôsuke Yamamoto, Takayuki Yanagi, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Osamu Kaneda
Everest: The Summit of the Gods / Everesuto: Kamigami no itadaki (2016)
Drama
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu. Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Pierre Taki, Shunsuke Kazama, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
Dostana (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After the passing of her parents, Neha Melwani lives in Miami with her aunt. She rents out a room in her apartment to two seemingly gay Indian men, Kunal Chauhan and Sameer Acharya, a photographer and nurser respectively. She introduces them to her departing gay boss, Murli, and falls in love with her new boss, Abhimanyu Singh. She will soon realize that she has two rivals for her new love – none other than Kunal and Sameer.
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Kiron Kher, Bobby Deol, Boman Irani, Sushmita Mukherjee, Everlayn Borges
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Three / Saam yan hang (2016)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Realizing that he will be defeated in no time during a police showdown, a thug shoots himself to force the cops to cease fire and take him to the hospital. In the hospital, he claims human rights to refuse immediate treatment in order to bide time for his underlings to rescue him. The detective in charge sees through his scheme but decides to play along so as to capture his whole gang once and for all.
Starring: Louis Koo, Wei Zhao, Wallace Chung, Suet Lam, Hoi-Pang Lo, Michael Tse
Director: Johnnie To
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle / Rippu van winkuru no hanayome (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting with others on "Planet", a new social network service. One day, a young man named Tetsuya messages her and asks to meet in person. The two begin dating and quickly become engaged. When Testuya begs Nanami to increase her guest list for the wedding, Nanami reaches out to online-friend, Amuro, a self-proclaimed jack-of-all-trades, who hires actors to play Nanami's guests on her big day. A few weeks following the ceremony, Tetsuya's mother confronts Nanami with allegations of lying and cheating. Heartbroken and despondent, Nanami checks herself into a hotel and manages to get hired there as a maid. One day, Amuro offers Nanami a housekeeping job in an old mansion, whose sole resident's infectious spirit helps Nanami to open her heart. However, Nanami soon realizes that Amuro, the mansion, and its occupant aren't what they seem – and even dreams have limits.
Starring: Haru Kuroki, Cocco, Gô Ayano, Sôkô Wada, Tomoko Mariya
Director: Shunji Iwai
Lost and Found / Hoshigaoka wadârando (2016)
Drama | Mystery
Atsuto was abandoned by his mother (Yoshino Kimura) when he was young. He now works in the lost and found department at the Hoshigaoka Station. He spends his days imagining about the owner of the lost item, how the item became lost and found. One day, Atsuto learns that his mother committed suicide. His life begins to move…
Starring: Tomoya Nakamura, Hirofumi Arai, Nozomi Sasaki, Masaki Suda, Anne Watanabe, Hayato Ichihara, Yoshino Kimura, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Show Yanagisawa
Udta Punjab / Flying Punjab (2016)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Udta Punjab is a 2016 Indian crime-drama film co-written and directed by Abhishek Chaubey. It is based on drug abuse in the Indian state of Punjab. Produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor under their banner Balaji Motion Pictures, in association with Anurag Kashyap's production house Phantom Films, it features Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and, Diljit Dosanjh in lead roles.
Starring: Alia Bhatt, Shahid Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh, Kareena Kapoor
Director: Abhishek Chaubey
Bitter Honey / Mitsu no aware (2016)
Drama | Fantasy | History
Based on novelist Muro Saisei's 1959 book, Bitter Honey narrates the story of a poet who informed by his physician of his impending death finds renewed flights of fantasy. He is visited by a thin and attractive girl in red who becomes a catalyst for romance. The girl has to vie with competition for the artist's attention, however, as other women work in the wings. Bitter Honey's story is coloured by gorgeous photography as it explores sex, love, life and immortality.
Starring: Fumi Nikaidou, Ren Ohsugi, Yôko Maki, Kengo Kôra, Masatoshi Nagase
Director: Gakuryû Ishii
Raman Raghav 2.0 / Psycho Raman (2016)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.
Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala, Mukesh Chhabra, Anuschka Sawhney, Vipin Sharma
Director: Anurag Kashyap
The Shell Collector / Sheru Korekuta (2016)
Drama | Fantasy
A blind man works as a conchology scholar. He became attracted to the beauty and mystery of shells and then devoted himself to the field of conchology. He is now a world-renowned expert in the study of shells. The scholar lives separately from his wife and child. He lives a peaceful, but solitary existence picking shells alone on a remote island in Okinawa. One day, a female painter, Izumi, appears in front of the blind scholar. The woman suffers from a rare disease. The scholar is able to treat the woman's disease by using poisons from certain shells. Word of the miraculous treatment spreads and more people gather on Koto Island to receive treatment. The scholar's peaceful days are thrown into chaos.
Starring: Lily Franky, Shinobu Terajima, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ai Hashimoto, Akira Fukuhara, Masahiro Arakaki
Director: Yoshifumi Tsubota
Terra Formars / Terafomazu (2016)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Due to depleting natural resources and overpopulation, humans look to Mars as their next habitat. Terraforming is the project to change Mars' environment to accommodate humans. For this project, cockroaches are sent to Mars and mutated to walk. In the year 2599, 15 poor Japanese are sent to Mars to take out the cockroaches. They are unaware of what they are up against.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Emi Takei, Takayuki Yamada, Shun Oguri, Kane Kosugi, Rinko Kikuchi
Director: Takashi Miike
The Actor / Haiyû Kameoka Takuji (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old actor. He usually plays supporting roles and is referred to as the "best supporting actor." He is also performs in big budget commercial films to indie films. Takuji Kameoka then falls in love with the female owner of a bar. He reaches a turning point in his life.
Starring: Ken Yasuda, Kumiko Asô, Shôhei Uno, Hirofumi Arai, Shôta Sometani
Director: Satoko Yokohama
The Stare / Nozokime (2016)
Horror
Ayano Mishima works as an AD at a TV broadcasting station. She covers the mysterious death case of a young man. Before he died, he said that somebody was watching him. Covering the case, Ayano Mishima realizes that the mysterious eye is also coming after her.
Starring: Tomomi Itano, Shun'ya Shiraishi, Mari Iriki, Chizuru Azuma, Kôtarô Yoshida
Director: Kôichirô Miki
The Treacherous / Gansin (2015)
History
The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.
Starring: Ji-hun Ju, Kang-woo Kim, Ho-jin Chun, Ji-Yeon Lim, Young-chang Song, Han-Cheol Jo, Han-Cheol Jo
Director: Kyu-dong Min
A Snake of June / Rokugatsu no hebi (2002)
Drama | Erotica | Mystery | Thriller
A married phone counselor finds herself the blackmail victim of a mysterious caller who takes her through an odyssey of sexual exploration. When her husband becomes the stalker's target as well, things take a bizarre turn.
Starring: Asuka Kurosawa, Yûji Kôtari, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
