Category: Eastern
Posted on July 5, 2016 |
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For Love's Sake / Ai to makoto (2012)
Musical | Romance | Teen
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu , who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko , a gang member who eyes Makoto. Also Gamuko's leader, Yuki have eyes for Makoto too. Who will get Makoto?
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Takumi Saitô, Ito Ohno, Sakura Andô
Director: Takashi Miike
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Posted on July 4, 2016 | Comments Off on Sumo Do Sumo Dont (1992) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't / Shiko funjatta (1992)
Comedy | Sport
Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger generation is more interested in "Western" sports like baseball and basketball. Professor Anayama, a former university sumo champion, blackmails graduating (and slim) student Shuhei into joining the decimated university team, or he doesn't graduate. Along with a pro wrestler, an unpopular, chubby guy, and a gaijin (white guy), the team begins training for competition, even though none of them cares about sumo at all. Gradually, they develop a love and respect for the traditional sport.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Kaori Mizushima, Hiromasa Taguchi, Robert Hoffman
Director: Masayuki Suo
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Tags: Akira Emoto, Hiromasa Taguchi, Kaori Mizushima, Masahiro Motoki, Masayuki Suo, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Robert Hoffman
Posted on July 3, 2016 | Comments Off on My So-called Love (2008) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
My So-called Love / Ai de fa sheng lian xi (2008)
Romance
Raised in a broken family, Cat (Barbie Hsu) runs away from home as a teenager to escape her stepfather. In high school, she begins living with boyfriend Liam (Eddie Peng), but puppy love eventually ends in betrayal. While Liam is in the army, Cat, feeling lonely and poor, meets an older man through the Internet; Xiao Gu (Joseph Chang) is looking for sex, Cat is looking for money. From lust comes love, until Cat discovers Xiao Gu is actually married. After ten years of ups and downs, Cat begins anew at age 28 when she meets the rich and kind-hearted Sunshine (Easton Tung), but is he really her heart's final home?
Starring: Barbie Hsu, Eddie Peng, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Ming-hsiang Tung
Director: Leading Li
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Posted on July 3, 2016 | Comments Off on The River (1997) BluRay 720p x264 DD2.0-HDChina
The River / He liu (1997)
Drama | Romance
In Taiwan, Xiao-kang, a young man in his early 20s, lives with his parents in near silence. He is plagued by severe neck pain. His father is bedeviled by water first leaking into his bedroom and then flooding the apartment; rain is incessant. Xiao-kang's mother is overcome by sexual longing for her son, sometimes making seemingly incestuous overtures. They try virtually every intervention for Xiao-kang's neck: Western medicine, a chiropractor, acupuncture, an herbal doctor, and a faith healer, Master Liu. Are the family's silent dynamics and Xiao-kang's neck pain connected? And what about the body floating in the Tamsui River: is everything dead?
Starring: Tien Miao, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Ann Hui
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
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Posted on July 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Vive lAmour (1994) BluRay 720p x264 DD2.0-HDChina
Vive l'Amour / Ai qing wan sui (1994)
Drama
The film focuses on three city folks who unknowingly share the same apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Starring: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
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Posted on July 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Rebels of the Neon God (1992) BluRay 720p x264 DD2.0-HDChina
Rebels of the Neon God / Qing shao nian nuo zha (1992)
Crime | Drama
Defying his parents, Hsiao Kang drops out of the local crammer to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a pretty hood and their relationships is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.
Starring: Chao-jung Chen, Chang-bin Jen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Tien Miao, Yu-Wen Wang
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
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Posted on July 2, 2016 |
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Girl's Step / Gâruzu suteppu (2015)
Drama | Teen
Azusa and Narumi are 2nd grade high school students. They lack confidence and also any kind of ambitions. Hazuki, Tamaki and Mika are also unnoticed students at the same high school. These five girls form a dance club and begin to dance to get credits. They soon learn the joys of dancing and also learn to express themselves.
Starring: Anna Ishii, Fûka Koshiba, Karin Ono, Mika Akizuki, Miku Uehara
Director: Taisuke Kawamura
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Posted on July 2, 2016 | Comments Off on Nobi (1959) 720p BluRay AAC2.0 x264-VietHD
Nobi / Fires on the Plain (1959)
Drama | War
It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to worse and in the face of the brutal conditions facing the men, some go insane and resort to murder and cannibalism. In the midst of this, Pvt. Tamura tries to survive without giving up his principles.
Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Hikaru Hoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Masaya Tsukida, Yasushi Sugita, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Tags: Eiji Funakoshi, Hikaru Hoshi, Kon Ichikawa, Mantarô Ushio, Masaya Tsukida, Yasushi Sugita, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Posted on July 1, 2016 | Comments Off on Killer Brides Perfect Crime (2009) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Killer Bride's Perfect Crime / Kirâ vâjin rôdo (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Hiroko is soon to marry when disaster strikes. On the road to Mount Fuji a woman falls on the hood of her car. The woman is Kobayashi Fukuko, and she attempts suicide again and again. The two women become friends, but Hiroko will meet disaster once again.
Starring: Juri Ueno, Yoshino Kimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Sôichirô Kitamura
Director: Gorô Kishitani
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Posted on June 30, 2016 | Comments Off on Buddy Cops (2016) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Buddy Cops / Ying ging hing dai / Shen shou ba da (2016)
Action | Comedy
Fei and Johnny are two rookie cops, raised in single-parent families. They are constantly bickering and can't stand the presence of each other. Not only are they loggerheads at work, their lives further intertwined when each of their parent fell crazily in love and got married! Soon, the "brothers" are assigned to investigate a murder case that leads them to a big conspiracy, where hilarious happenings await.
Starring: Bosco Wong, Gang Jin, Kate Tsui, Charmaine Fong, Eric Tsang
Director: Peter Chih
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Posted on June 30, 2016 | Comments Off on Ki and Ka (2016) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
Ki & Ka (2016)
Comedy | Romance
Follows a young, married couple whose relationship challenges the gender roles placed upon women and men in Indian society.
Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor
Director: R. Balki
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Posted on June 29, 2016 | Comments Off on Cemetery of Splendor (2015) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-IDE
Cemetery of Splendor / Rak ti Khon Kaen (2015)
Drama | Fantasy
Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including colored light therapy, to ease the mens’ troubled dreams. Jen discovers Itt’s cryptic notebook of strange writings and blueprint sketches. There may be a connection between the soldiers’ enigmatic syndrome and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen’s tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.
Starring: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi, Tawatchai Buawat
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Posted on June 26, 2016 | Comments Off on Kites (2010) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
Kites (2010)
Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
J, a streetsmart, carefree young guy on the wanted list is mortally wounded and left to die in the harsh Mexican desert. The only thing that keeps him alive is his quest to find Natasha, a woman engaged to another man, but destined to be his. While Natasha speaks only Spanish, J does not understand a word of it but the two are able to communicate through the language of love and passion.
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori, Steven Michael Quezada
Director: Anurag Basu
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Posted on June 25, 2016 |
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Living with My Mother / Nagasaki: Memories of My Son / Haha to kuraseba (2015)
Drama
Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the civilians in the southern city of Nagasaki. However, upon returning home she is visited by an apparition. which continues to return in order to commiserate and reminisce with the woman about the past, family, affection and war.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazunari Ninomiya, Haru Kuroki
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Posted on June 25, 2016 |
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The Face of Jizo / Chichi to kuraseba (2004)
Drama
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
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Posted on June 24, 2016 | Comments Off on From Vegas to Macau III (2016) 2016 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
From Vegas to Macau III / Du cheng feng yun III / Ao men feng yun 3 (2016)
Comedy | Drama
Interpol arrest Ken and Mark as they find out the USD 15 billion dirty money of DOA has been deposited into their secret bank accounts. They suspect both Ken and Mark have embezzled the illicit money while pretending to assist in the investigation. Ken and Mark are then sent to jail, where they are attacked by some mysterious mercenaries. Luckily, Michael comes to their rescue in the nick of time with the help of Kitty, the cousin of Ko Chun and Long Wu Jr., the son of Long Wu. Ken?s head is injured, he wakes up to find himself at Michael?s home in Singapore. A beauty named Kammy, together with her boss, a mysterious tycoon, J.C. appear to invite Michael and Ko Chun to a charity casino night. Ken disguises himself as Ko Chun to accompany Michael to the party held at the Paradise Island in Thailand. And Ken finds his beloved one Molly in a high-tech lab. Who is the mastermind setting Ken up behind the scenes?
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Andy Lau, Nick Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Carina Lau, Yuchun Li
Director: Jing Wong
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Posted on June 24, 2016 | Comments Off on Trivisa (2016) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Trivisa / Chu tai chiu fung / Shu da zhao feng (2016)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Three notorious criminal rivals cross from Mainland China to Hong Kong in search of fortune.
Starring: Jordan Chan, Ka Tung Lam, Kwong Leung Wong, Suet Lam, Richie Ren
Director: Jevons Au, Frank Hui, Vicky Wong
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Posted on June 24, 2016 | Comments Off on You Call It Passion (2015) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
You Call It Passion / Yeol-jeong-gat-eun-so-ri-ha-go-it-ne (2015)
Comedy
Ra-Hee (Park Bo-Young) applied for jobs at numerous companies, but failed to find work. She finally lands a job at a sports newspaper. She begins to work as a reporter in the entertainment division. Soon, she find herself surrounded by chaos.
Starring: Jae-yeong Jeong, Bo-yeong Park, Kyung Jin, Seong-woo Bae, Deok-Hwan Ryu, Hyeon-kyeong Ryu, Dal-su Oh, Kyun-Sang Yoon, Seong-oh Kim
Director: Gi-hoon Jeong
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Tags: Bo-yeong Park, Dal-su Oh, Deok-Hwan Ryu, Gi-hoon Jeong, Hyeon-kyeong Ryu, Jae-yeong Jeong, Kyun-Sang Yoon, Kyung Jin, Seong-oh Kim, Seong-woo Bae
Posted on June 23, 2016 | Comments Off on My Wife Is a Superstar (2016) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
My Wife Is a Superstar / Wo de lao po shi ming xing (2016)
Comedy | Romance
The movie company owner Jeff has recruited a new actress Chu Kei as the leading actress of a major Chinese-New-Year-themed movie. Chu Kei soon becomes the attention of the public and all the media go after her for interviews. It has always been her dream of becoming a famous celebrity that she even promised Jeff she will not date anyone. However, she is in fact married to a reporter named Lai Mo. All the sudden, she has to hide her marriage from the public which leads to a big fight with her husband…
Starring: Annie Liu, Pak-ho Chau, Alex Lam, Jacky Cai
Director: Shirley Yung
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Posted on June 22, 2016 |
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Bittare!!! (2015)
Comedy
Tsutomu (Kei Tanaka) belonged to an organized crime group. He left the gang and now raises his niece Karin (Miku Iwasaki) alone. His older sister, who worked as a judicial scrivener, passed away. He spends his days peacefully. Then, Tsutomu's friend goes through an unfair dismissal and the family of Tsutomu's helper, Eiko (Kanna Mori), are forced to move out from their house due to an unfair deal. Karin becomes hostage.
Starring: Kei Tanaka, Kanna Mori, Miku Iwasaki, Kôji Yamamoto, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Satoshi Kaneda
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