Colorful / Karafuru (2010)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A sinful spirit is granted the opportunity to prove worthy for rebirth, inhabiting the body of a student who killed himself.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Keiji Fujiwara, Aoi Miyazaki, Kazato Tomizawa, Akina Minami, Katsumi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Nakao, Jingi Irie
Director: Keiichi Hara
Bad Guy / Nabbeun namja (2001)
Drama | Erotica
A thug traps a woman into prostitution and gradually becomes more and more protective of her.
Starring: Jae-hyeon Jo, Won Seo, Yun-tae Kim, Duek-mun Choi, Yoon-young Choi, Yoo-jin Shin, Jung-young Kim
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
Comedy | Drama
A man with a magnanimous spirit helps a mute girl from Pakistan return home.
Starring: Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Harshaali Malhotra, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sharat Saxena
Director: Kabir Khan
Farewell to the Ark / Saraba hakobune (1984)
Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Su-e and her cousin Sutekich, a descendant of one of the village clans, live together but have been forbidden by her father to have sexual contact. Like other villagers, he believes that if cousins have children together, the children will suffer serious birth defects. His remedy is to make Su-e wear a large, ugly chastity belt. Unable to take the ridicule of his fellow villagers, Sutekichi stabs the head of the clan to death and then runs away with Su-e. After some time elapses, the two make their way back to the village, but by then Sutekichi is suffering the effects of his actions.
Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi
Director: Shûji Terayama
Pastoral: To Die in the Country / Den-en ni shisu (1974)
Drama | Fantasy
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Starring: Kantarô Suga, Hiroyuki Takano
Director: Shûji Terayama
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets / Sho o suteyo machi e deyou (1971)
Drama | Music
In this highly political Japanese film, a family's disintegration is shown as an analogy for the Japanese descent into heartless materialism. Though his family members have resigned themselves to their downward spiral both socially and economically, the son of the household has not. He is ambitious to attain something and to strike out on his own. What happens instead is that he grows increasingly disillusioned about his life and his world.
Starring: Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi, Fudeko Tanaka, Sei Hiraizumi, Keiko Niitaka
Director: Shûji Terayama
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie / Kôkaku Kidôtai (2015)
Animation | Sci-Fi
Set after the events of Arise, the film involves the assassination of the Prime Minister of Japan which is publicly described as the "greatest event since the war". It is up to Public Security Section 9, lead by Major Motoko Kusanagi, to discover the true nature of the murder. They are aided by the Prime Minister's son, Osamu Fujimoto.
Starring: Maaya Sakamoto, Tarusuke Shingaki, Kazuya Nakai, Miyuki Sawashiro, Shunsuke Sakuya
Director: Kazuchika Kise, Kazuya Nomura
No Touching At All / Doushitemo furetakunai (2014)
Drama
Toshiaki (Kosuke Yonehara) is a young gay man. On the first day of work, he meets Yosuke (Masashi Taniguchi) in the elevator. Yosuke is Toshiaki's new boss. Toshiaki is attracted to Yosuke. Toshiaki can't be honest with his feelings due to a traumatic incident from his past.
Starring: Kôsuke Yonehara, Masashi Taniguchi, Shou Tomita, Shôichi Matsuda, Yuya Mito
Director: Chihiro Amano
About Elly / Darbareye Elly (2009)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that she has to return to Tehran because her mother has been recently submitted to hospital for heart surgery, but Sepideh asks her to stay and hides her luggage. The children are playing in the sea and one mother asks Elly to watch them. Out of the blue, Sepideh's daughter calls to some men playing volleyball to rescue one of the children from the water. After rescuing the little boy they seek out Elly, questioning whether she has drowned or returned to Tehran. What has happened to Elly?
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Merila Zare'i, Peyman Moaadi, Mani Haghighi
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Kaidan / Kwaidan / Ghost Stories / Hoichi the Earless / Weird Tales (1964)
Fantasy | Horror
This film contains four stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": A woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea…
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Aratama, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Action | Adventure | History | War
A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.
Starring: Prabhas, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Nassar
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Key of Life / Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
Sakurai is an aspiring actor who becomes frustrated with his life. Sakurai then decides to kill himself, but before committing suicide Sakurai heads off to a public bathhouse. At the bathhouse, Sakurai then witnesses a man named Kondo collapse and lose his memory in front of Sakurai. On a sudden whim, Sakurai switches locker keys with Kondo and pretends to be Kondo. Sakurai soon finds himself in trouble with the yakuza.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue
Director: Kenji Uchida
No Risk, No Gain / Casino Raiders – The Sequel / Ji juen gai jong yuen choi (1990)
Comedy | Drama
As an adviser of a Renown U.S. Casino and a Prominent Gambler, "The Supreme" Ray has encountered many adventurous challenges in his career. "Tiger Eye" Chiang has made Ray undertake to contest with him in Macau. Ray's adventure begins again. Via Hong Kong, Ray meets his female cousin's friend snakey, "Big Dee" and his schoolmate Janey. Unfortunately, he is cheated by these two guys and loses all his possession. The two guys pretend to be Supreme's identity to Macau, and the card competition are beginning.
Starring: Pak-Cheung Chan, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Sung Young Chen, Michelle Reis, Christine Ng, May Lo
Director: Jimmy Heung, Taylor Wong
Pieta in the Toilet / Toire no Pieta (2015)
Drama
Hiroshi (Yojiro Noda) has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai (Hana Sugisaki) appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.
Starring: Yôjirô Noda, Hana Sugisaki, Rirî Furankî, Saya Ichikawa, Shinobu Ohtake, Rie Miyazawa
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Legal High SP 2 / Rigaru Hai Supesharu (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Attorneys Kensuke (Masato Sakai) and Machiko (Yui Aragaki) receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kuzyo who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit
Starring: Masato Sakai, Yui Aragaki
Director: Junichi Ishikawa
Don't Laugh at My Romance / Hito no sekkusu o warauna (2007)
Comedy | Romance
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Murume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man.
Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yû Aoi, Shûgo Oshinari, Morio Agata, Yôichi Nukumizu, Harudanji Katsura
Director: Nami Iguchi
Deadman Inferno / Z airando (2015)
Action | Horror
Hiroya Munakata (Sho Aikawa) is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi (Shingo Tsurumi) is released from prison, but Takashi's daughter, Hyuga (Maika Yamamoto) says she does not want to meet her father and runs away from home. Hiroya, Takashi and Hiroya's subordinate Shinya (Red Rice) go to Zeni Island where Hyuga is headed to. Something they never expected is waiting for them.
Starring: Shô Aikawa, Shingo Tsurumi, Sawa Suzuki, Daisuke Miyagawa, Red Rice, Kunihiro Kawashima, Yûichi Kimura
Director: Hiroshi Shinagawa
Casino Raiders / Ji juen mo seung (1989)
Action | Crime
This is the story about the friendship between Asia's King of Gamblers, Law, and the Magic Hand, Chan. Law meets a girl Tung, who is willing to go straight with her father's help. Meanwhile, Chan tricked the Japanese Yakksa leader a large sum of money and resulted with the death of himself and his lover, Po-po. In order to take revenge, Law finally fights a life and death cardgame with the Yakusa…
Starring: Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Idy Chan, Rosamund Kwan
Director: Jimmy Heung, Jing Wong, Corey Yuen
Last Hero in China / Iron Rooster vs. the Centipede / Wong Fei Hung V: Tit gai dau ng gung (1993)
Action | Comedy | History
Master Wong tries to protect his randy students from the corrupting influence of the brothel next-door, while investigating a gang of perverted Shaolin monks who have been abducting young women.
Starring: Jet Li, Sharla Cheung, Dicky Cheung, Pak-cheung Chan, Ka-Yan Leung
Director: Jing Wong, Woo-Ping Yuen
The Golden Cane Warrior / Pendekar Tongkat Emas (2014)
Action
The Golden Cane: a relic of incomparable force, coveted by all. And with it, the training of a technique so unrivaled, it vanquishes all who dare oppose its power. As Master Cempaka and her four disciples – orphans of her enemies, now heirs to the Cane – prepare for the new warrior guardian to ascend, an act of villainous betrayal threatens to destroy the clan and destabilize the realm. Their only hope to restore order lies in finding the elusive White Dragon, the only remaining pupil still equipped to unlock the mysteries of the Golden Cane.
Starring: Tara Basro, Christine Hakim, Eva Celia Latjuba, Reza Rahadian, Nicholas Saputra
Director: Ifa Isfansyah
