Hachi-ko / Hachikô monogatari (1987)
Drama | Family
The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshinori Omi, Toshirô Yanagiba, Mako Ishino
Director: Seijirô Kôyama
Gun Woman / Nyotaiju Gun Woman (2014)
Action | Thriller
After witnessing his wife being raped and murdered, a doctor vows revenge by turning a young drug-addicted girl into a ruthless killing machine.
Starring: Asami, Kairi Narita, Noriaki Kamata, Matthew Floyd Miller, Dean Simone
Director: Kurando Mitsutake
Gorgeous / Boh lei chun (1999)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Jackie Chan plays a lonely rich playboy with impressive kungfu skills who falls in love with a country girl played by ShuQi. Intense action scenes and a sweet love story follow.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Qi Shu, Tony Leung, Richie Ren, Ken Lo
Director: Vincent Kok
The Isle / Seom (2000)
Drama | Thriller
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.
Starring: Jung Suh, Yoosuk Kim, Sung-hee Park, Jae-hyeon Jo, Hang-Seon Jang, Yeo-jin Kim
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Lady of the Dynasty / Wang chao de nv ren: Yang Gui Fei (2015)
History
Yang Yuhuan is a wife of Prince Li Mao and the Emperor Tang Ming Huang's daughter-in-law. When Prince Li's mother, Wu commits suicide after her conspiracy against the Emperor fails, Yang is abandoned and is given to the Emperor in exchange for the crown prince. Their affection grew through the political struggle and living together in the palace. But their happiness and good days do not last long when the Lushan Rebellion breaks out.
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Leon Lai, Chun Wu, Gang Wu, Jing Ning, Joan Chen
Director: Shiqing
Strayer's Chronicle / Sureiyâzu kuronikuru (2015)
Action | Sci-Fi
In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their special abilities. The other method involved birth to babies having abilities of animals and insects. The special abilities were derived from gene manipulation. Subaru, Saya and others were born from those experiments. Subaru (Masaki Okada) possesses incredible strength and vision. Saya (Riko Narumi) possesses super hearing abilities. They both grew up in the same facility. They work for Koichiro Watase (Tsuyoshi Ihara) who is the senior Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and has lofty ambitions as a politician. Koichiro Watase then orders them to find the runaway daughter of a powerful politician. The runaway girl has in her possession a secret file. Subaru, Saya and others become involved in the slaughter group "Ageha." The group is led by Manabu (Shota Sometani). Based on the novel "Strayer's Chronicle" by Takayoshi Honda (first published April 5, 2012 by Shueisha Inc.).
Starring: Masaki Okada, Shôta Sometani, Riko Narumi, Mayu Matsuoka, Yuina Kuroshima, Sara Takatsuki, Sh, Hiroya Shimizuun'ya Shiraishi
Director: Takahisa Zeze
Parasyte: Part 2 / Kiseijuu: Kanketsuhen (2015)
Horror | Sci-Fi
The humanity is suffering from murders all over the globe, called Mincemeat murders. High school student, Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Ai Hashimoto, Sadao Abe, Eri Fukatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Nao Ômori, Pierre Taki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
The Pearls of the Stone Man / Ai wo tsumu hito (2015)
Drama
Atsushi (Koichi Sato) and Ryoko (Kanako Higuchi) are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to do with his free time, so Ryoko asks him build a stone wall around their house. Atsushi experiences tragedy, but later gets closer to his estranged daughter, Satoko (Keiko Kitagawa). Atsushi continues building the stone wall.
Starring: Kôichi Satô, Kanako Higuchi, Keiko Kitagawa, Shûhei Nomura, Hana Sugisaki
Director: Yûzô Asahara
Till Death Do Us What? / Wedded Pair Diary / Fûfu FûFû Nikki (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give birth and they try to smile everyday until her very last day. After Yoko passes away, Kota focuses on writing their story via their blog. He drifts away from reality. One day, Yoko appears in front of Kota again.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Hiromi Nagasaku, Tetta Sugimoto, Hitomi Satô, Shûhei Takahashi
Director: Kôji Maeda
The Assassin / Nie yin niang (2015)
Action | Drama
9th century China. 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings. A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.
Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chun Shih
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Knock Knock! Who's There? / You ke dao (2015)
Horror | Thriller
Funeral home is the last stop of the deceased ones. This is also where 'turn undead' take place, the ritual that purifies the soul. The soul hasn't gone through the ritual is usually a haunting one. They still have things undone in human world. In order to finish that, they usually do something disturbing which led to supernatural incidents. Three seemingly seperate stories happen at funeral home intertwine.
Starring: Annie Liu, Kate Tsui, Jennifer Tse, Babyjohn Choi, Wai-Leung Kwok, Rebecca Zhu, Carrie Ng, Simon Lui, Venus Wong, Carlos Chan
Director: Carrie Ng
Yakuza Apocalypse / Gokudou daisensou (2015)
Action | Comedy | Horror
Akira admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but has never died. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treats him like an idiot, Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. Akira becomes disappointed in the yakuza world, because it's not like what he say in the movies. Especially, in terms of loyalty and charity depicted of the yakuza. An assassin is then sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Riko Narumi, Rirî Furankî, Reiko Takashima
Director: Takashi Miike
Crayon Shin-chan: Serious Battle! Robot Dad Strikes Back / Eiga Kureyon Shinchan: Gachinko! Gyakushuu no Robotôchan (2014)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Hiroshi got a slipped disk due to a back injury. He was taken to an Este salon by a mysterious beautiful girl to receive a free trial of beauty treatment as well as a massage. When Hiroshi returned home after a beauty treatment, he was surprised to see himself in the form of a robot. The robot Hiroshi could be controlled by a remote control and pretty much do anything including cooking and cleaning. However, this new change was a dark conspiracy hatched by "The Association of Fathers" to create a strong father figure for all the fathers in Japan.
Starring: Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Keiji Fujiwara, Satomi Kôrogi, Emi Takei, Korokke
Director: Wataru Takahashi
Crayon Shin-chan: Very Tasty! B-class Gourmet Survival!! / Eiga Kureyon Shinchan: Bakauma! B-kyu gurume sabaibaru!! (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Shin-chan and the Kasukabe Defense Corps undertake a mission to carry the legendary sauce of B-class Gourmet to the B-Class carnival. The sauce is very important for B-class Gourmet. A mysterious A-Class Gourmet group led by Gourmet-Poy has taken over the carnival. Can Shin-chan and the Kasukabe Defense Corps carry out their mission and bring happiness to the ordinary people?
Starring: Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Keiji Fujiwara, Satomi Kôrogi, Hiroshi Kamiya, Yûichi Nakamura, Saori Hayami, Naomi Watanabe
Director: Masakazu Hashimoto
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
