Category: Eastern
Posted on June 8, 2015 |
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Memories of Matsuko / Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Mystery
When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it had any value. What he finds is a revelation. Talented film director, Tetsuya Nakashima ("Kamikaze Girls" 04), wield a host of cinematic tools to make "Memories of MATSUKO" a memorably entertaining and emotionally powerful "fairytale tragedy," weaving together realistic human drama with offbeat comedy and spectacular (Bob Fosse-like) production numbers to tell the heartbreaking story of Matsuko Kawajiri, a starry-eyed woman who spends her entire life serching for a worthy "prince" capable of returning her limitless love. Versatile actress, Miki Nakatani, renders a virtuosic performance in the lead role of Matsuko.
Starring: Eita, Miki Nakatani, Ko Shibasaki, Yûsuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikako Ichikawa
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
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Posted on June 5, 2015 | Comments Off on My Love My Bride (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
My Love, My Bride / Na-eui sa-lang na-eui sin-boo (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Young-min and Mi-young are a young couple who get married after graduating from college. Following the honeymoon period, they begin to bicker with each other. While waiting for her husband at a café one day, Mi-young bumps into her ex-boss. Young-min sees this and gets the wrong idea. As they struggle to make their marriage work, Young-min and Mi-young gradually understand what love really is.
Starring: Jung-suk Jo, Min-a Shin
Director: Chan-sang Lim
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Posted on June 5, 2015 | Comments Off on From Vegas to Macau II (2015) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
From Vegas to Macau II / Du cheng feng yun II / Ao men feng yun 2 (2015)
Action | Comedy
The world renowned "Invincible Hand" Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz's son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool's step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken's only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his "Magic Hand" once again to uncover the evil plan…
Starring: Nick Cheung, Yun-Fat Chow, Carina Lau, Shawn Yue, Michelle Hu, Angela Wong
Director: Jing Wong
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Posted on June 4, 2015 | Comments Off on Sea Fog (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Haemoo (2014)
Drama
Based on true events, the story is about a large 69-ton fishing boat’s crew as they attempt to smuggle in illegal migrants in order to keep their fishing jobs. But their plan goes wrong when they meet a tragic accident while transporting the thirty or so illegal migrants on the ship in a heavy sea fog.
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Yoo-chun Park
Director: Sung-bo Shim
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Posted on June 2, 2015 | Comments Off on Fall Guy (1982) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Fall Guy / Kamata kôshinkyoku (1982)
Comedy | Romance
Kinji Fukasaku's Fall Guy is a moving love story and a heartfelt valentine to the movies. Morio Kazama stars as Ginshiro, a vain and selfish actor whose stardom is threatened by rising star Tachibana (Daijiro Harada).In a desperate bid to burnish his image, Ginshiro compels a devoted member of his entourage, Yasu (Mitsuro Hirata), to marry Ginshiro's pregnant mistress, Konatsu (Keiko Matsuzaka). To support his new wife, the devoted Yasu becomes a stunt man, performing increasingly dangerous stunts. Konatsu is torn between Yasu and Ginshiro, who compels his loyal disciple to perform a death-defying stunt that could save the film and Ginshiro's career.
Starring: Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Mitsuru Hirata, Chika Takami, Daijirô Harada
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Tags: Chika Takami, Daijirô Harada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kinji Fukasaku, Mitsuru Hirata, Morio Kazama
Posted on May 30, 2015 |
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Murder on D Street / D zaka no satsujin jiken (2015)
Mystery
An owner of a soba noodle shop is found dead at the D. Hill. The police concluded the death was an apparent suicide. However, a brilliant but eccentric private detective Kogoro Akechi and his wife Fumiyo sees that it is a murder case, not a suicide, and start their own investigation. They notice something weird is going on in the secondhand bookshop and gradually, hideous love-hate relationships and immeasurable passion and lust surrounding the wife of the bookshop is revealed. What is the truth of the murder case? This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ranpo Edogawa's death and his masterpiece is adapted to the screen for the first time in 16 years.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kawai, Hôka Kinoshita, Yoshimasa Kondô, Kôta Kusano, Takashi Nishina, Eiko Ohtani, Shoko
Director: Shoji Kubota
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Tags: Eiko Ohtani, Hôka Kinoshita, Kôta Kusano, Ryûnosuke Kawai, Shoji Kubota, Shoko, Takashi Nishina, Yoshimasa Kondô
Posted on May 30, 2015 |
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Pale Moon / Kami no tsuki (2014)
Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ohshima, Seiichi Tanabe, Satomi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
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Tags: Daihachi Yoshida, Renji Ishibashi, Rie Miyazawa, Satomi Kobayashi, Seiichi Tanabe, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yoshimasa Kondô, Yûko Ohshima
Posted on May 30, 2015 | Comments Off on The Continent (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
The Continent / Hou hui wu qi (2014)
Drama
Three men go on a road trip to find a new life away from the island they live on.
Starring: Shaofeng Feng, Wallace Chung, Bo-lin Chen, Joe Chen, Zhangke Jia, Luodan Wang
Director: Han Han
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Posted on May 29, 2015 |
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Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic / Miracle: Debikurokun no koi to mahou (2014)
Drama | Romance
Hikari (Masaki Aiba) works at a book store. He is a kind person, but his kindness often makes him look pathetic. Hikari hopes to become a manga writer. At night he spreads mysterious flyers "Debikuro Communication". One day, he meets someone via fate. Anna (Nana Eikura) has been Hikari’s friend since they were children. So-Young (Han Hyo-Joo), who is a world famous lighting designer, happens to know Hikari. Kitayama (Toma Ikuta) graduated from the same university as Hikari. Kitayama is also a popular manga writer. The love lives of these four people makes a miracle at Christmas night.
Starring: Masaki Aiba, Nana Eikura, Hyo-ju Han, Tôma Ikuta, Gekidan Hitori
Director: Isshin Inudô
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Posted on May 29, 2015 |
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A Courtesan with Flowered Skin / Hanayoi dôchû (2014)
Drama | Romance
The New Yoshiwara pleasure district, in the twilight years of the Edo Period. Popular prostitute Asagiri (Yumi Adachi) will soon be freed from her indentured service. One day at a local festival, she meets young artisan Hanjiro (Yasushi Fuchikami) which changes her destiny. Asagiri feels love for the first time in her life, but history involving Hanjiro's client (Kanji Tsuda) leads to tragic circumstances.
Starring: Yumi Adachi, Yasushi Fuchikami, Ena Koshino, Tomochika, Saki Takaoka, Kanji Tsuda, Yôko Mitsuya, Hanako Takigawa, Ayano Tachibana
Director: Keisuke Toyoshima
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Tags: Ayano Tachibana, Ena Koshino, Hanako Takigawa, Kanji Tsuda, Keisuke Toyoshima, Saki Takaoka, Tomochika, Yasushi Fuchikami, Yôko Mitsuya, Yumi Adachi
Posted on May 29, 2015 | Comments Off on Swordsman 3 The East Is Red (1993) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Swordsman III: The East Is Red / Dong Fang Bu Bai: Feng yun zai qi (1993)
Action | Fantasy | Romance
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself. The official discovers that the Portuguese are actually after the sacred scroll, and then finds Invincible Asia him/herself, who is not actually dead. Invincible Asia seeks to destroy all the imposters or 'false Invincible Asias' who have assumed his/her place leading cults, whilst the Portuguese, a mysterious Japanese warlord and others search for Invincible Asia and the Sacred Scroll.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Joey Wang, Rongguang Yu, Jean Wang, Shun Lau, Eddy Ko
Director: Siu-Tung Ching, Raymond Lee
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Posted on May 29, 2015 |
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Swordsman II / Xiao ao jiang hu: dong fang bu bai (1992)
Action | Fantasy
With an entirely new set of actors, this movie continues the story from Swordsman (1990). Blademaster and his martial arts school decide to retire to a distant mountain. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. He finds that they have been attacked, and their leader, Princess Yin-Yin, toward whom he has some romantic feelings, has been abducted. The attacker is her evil uncle Fong, who years before overthrew Yin-Yin's father and took over their sect. Fong also has possession of a sacred scroll which tells how to achieve ultimate martial arts power. Blademaster decides to help Yin-Yin and her imprisoned father, and his romantic complications deepen when his childhood chum and Yin-Yin are joined by a new rival. Blademaster thinks she is an innocent village girl he has saved, but in fact she is Fong! The process of gaining ultimate martial arts power requires self- castration and transmogrification into female form.
Starring: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee, Rosamund Kwan, Kar Lok Chin, Fennie Yuen, Shi-Kwan Yen
Director: Siu-Tung Ching, Stanley Tong
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Posted on May 23, 2015 | Comments Off on From Beijing with Love (1994) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
From Beijing with Love / Gwok chaan Ling Ling Chat (1994)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
Hong Kong comedy icon Stephen Chiau stars in this wild and wooly parody of 007 spy thrillers. Ling Ling-chat (Chiau) leads a double life, living both as a modest street vendor in Beijing and a suave international spy. When a priceless dinosaur skull is swiped from China, a rogue criminal known only as "The Man With the Golden Gun" is the prime suspect. Ling is called away from dispensing pork products and sent to Hong Kong to investigate. There, a paid assassin named Siu-kam (Anita Yuen) has Ling in her sites. Yet Ling's utter stupidity and dumb luck makes him seeming invincible and she switches sides. When the duo return to China, Ling realizes that his real enemy is none other than his boss.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen, Kar-Ying Law
Director: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee
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Posted on May 22, 2015 | Comments Off on Scarlet Innocence (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Scarlet Innocence / Madam Ppang-Deok (2014)
Romance | Thriller
Shaken by a scandal, literature professor Ha Kyu leaves Seoul for the peace of teaching in a small town. He meets the young and trusting Deok Yi and they develop an intimate affair, a relationship that the devoted Deok Yi takes far more to heart than he does. When Ha Kyu is reinstated to his university position, he leaves Deok Yi behind and returns to Seoul and his family. Eight years later, Hak Kyu is gradually going blind and Deok Yi reappears in his life looking for revenge.
Starring: Woo-sung Jung, Esom, So-young Park
Director: Pil-Sung Yim
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Posted on May 22, 2015 | Comments Off on Who Is Undercover (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Who Is Undercover / The King of Brand / Wang pai (2014)
Drama | Thriller
Five women have been arrested and kept in a prison because one of them is suspected to be "Ace," a core figure in the resistance movement. As the five women are tortured and played against each other for the identity of "Ace," a resistance fighter risks his life to rescue the women from captivity.
Starring: Chiling Lin, Tony Leung, Gillian Chung, Vivian Wu, Meng Tingyi, Christopher Lee, Kent Cheng
Director: Jianhui Fan
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Posted on May 22, 2015 | Comments Off on The Soong Sisters (1997) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
The Soong Sisters / Song jia huang chao (1997)
Drama | History | Romance
The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling (the oldest) married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling (the youngest) married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Vivian Wu, Winston Chao, Hsing-kuo Wu, Zhenhua Niu, Elaine Jin, Wen Jiang
Director: Mabel Cheung
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Tags: Elaine Jin, Hsing-kuo Wu, Mabel Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Vivian Wu, Wen Jiang, Winston Chao, Zhenhua Niu
Posted on May 20, 2015 | Comments Off on The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
The Taking of Tiger Mountain / Zhì qu weihu shan (2014)
Adventure
Tsui Hark's thrilling adaptation of Qu Bo's beloved adventure novel stars Tony Leunk Ka-fai as a ruthless bandit, ruling the lands of Northeast China from his fortress on Tiger Mountain. A captain of the Liberation Army (Lin Gengxin) launches a counter-insurgency against the dictator with a skilled investigator (Zhang Hanyu) sent to destroy the gang from the inside.
Starring: Hanyu Zhang, Tony Leung, Nan Yu, Kenny Lin, Liya Tong, Geng Han
Director: Hark Tsui
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Posted on May 20, 2015 | Comments Off on A True Mob Story (1998) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
A True Mob Story / Long zai jiang hu (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama
Chueng Dee has everything he needs to be a good gangster: good looksm charisma, and a black belt. But he also has a traits that don't work so well in the underworld: empathy, amiability, and a certain lack of intelligence.
Starring: Andy Lau, Gigi Leung, Suki Kwan, Mark Cheng, Alex Fong
Director: Jing Wong
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Posted on May 18, 2015 |
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As the Gods Will / Kamisama no iu tôri (2014)
Horror | Thriller
A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mio Yûki, Sôta Fukushi, Hirona Yamazaki, Shôta Sometani
Director: Takashi Miike
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Posted on May 17, 2015 |
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Clover / Kuroba (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Saya Suzuki (Emi Takei) is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge (Tadayoshi Okura). Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.
Starring: Emi Takei, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Kento Nagayama, Natsuna, Masahiko Nishimura
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
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