Drunken Master / Jui kuen (1978)
Action | Comedy
The troublesome son of a martial arts master must learn the art of "Drunken Boxing" when he loses a fight with an assassin hired to kill his father.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Siu Tin Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Linda Lin, Dean Shek
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
The Vortex of Love / Be My Baby / Koi no uzu (2013)
Comedy
Nine men and women gather at a house party. The men are disappointed with a woman's appearance. People try to lighten the mood, but there is an awkwardness. The house party ends. Dates among the nine men and women begin.
Starring: Kenta Niikura, Naoko Wakai, Chihiro Shibata, Yûmi Gotô, Takumi Matsuzawa, Yuki Ueda, Daisuke Sawamura, Kenta Tsumuraya, Aya Kunitake, Sadaharu Matsushita
Director: Hitoshi Ohne
Manuscripts Don't Burn / Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoosand (2013)
Drama
Based on true events, the story revolves around a manuscript detailing a 1995 failed assassination plot by the Iranian regime against twenty-one writers and journalists. Almost twenty years later, the existence of this document remains a threat and the head of the censorship board has hired two killers, Morteza and Khosrow, to collect the remaining copies and silence the participants.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
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HK: Forbidden Super Hero / HK: Hentai Kamen (2013)
Action | Comedy
High school student Kyosuke Shikijo (Ryohei Suzuki) is the most talented member of the school's martial arts of the fist club. His late father was detective and Kyosuke share his father's strong sense of justice. Kyosuke also has a secret. Kyosuke likes to wear female underwear and transforms himself into the alter ego "Pervert Mask," wearing female underwear and gaining superhuman powers. This unusual interest also comes from his parents, with his father a masochist and his mother a sadist. By chance, Kyosuke gets the underwear of female high school student Aiko Himeno's (Fumika Shimizu). With her underwear, he gains various pervert techniques and attempts to protect Aiko from a dirty and heinous teacher.
Starring: Ryôhei Suzuki, Fumika Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Muro, Ken Yasuda, Nana Katase
Director: Yûichi Fukuda
Buddha: The Great Departure / Tezuka Osamu no budda: Akai sabaku yo! Utsukushiku (2011)
Animation
2005 years ago in India, a boy named Siddhartha Gautama of the kingdom Shakya is born. When Siddhartha was born there was a prophecy that the boy would become a king of all the kingdoms. At that time various kingdoms were continuously raging wars with each other. When the boy attained puberty, he associated with people from the lower class like Migaila a girl who was known as a thief. Siddhartha began to have doubts about the strict class system even though he is raised in luxury as a future king. Later, the powerful kingdom of Kosala attacks the kingdom of Shakya. Both sides fight fiercely. The commander of Kosala's army is the general's son Chapra. He is thought of as the most brave soldier in the kingdom of Kosala. Chapra was actually born into slavery but hid his background. By the general's order he came all the way up into his current position. Chapra wants to make a successful career for himself and Siddhartha abondons his family's wealth to find Tao. These two opposite persons meet in the war and changes the fate of their respective kingdoms…
Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masato Sakai, Kiyokazu Kanze, Tomoka Kurotani, Nana Mizuki, Ai Orikasa, Junko Takeuchi
Director: Kôzô Morishita
Fashion (2008)
Drama | Romance
Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture fashion, this is the story of a small town girl with big dreams. Meghna always knew she was meant to be famous, but she was about to find out the hard way that success came at a price. Fashion is the tale of what happens when the price of success becomes too much to pay.
Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Mugdha Godse, Arbaaz Khan, Arjan Bajwa, Raj Babbar, Kiran Juneja
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Kiki's Delivery Service / Majo no takkyûbin (2014)
Dram | Fantasy
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Starring: Fûka Koshiba, Ryohei Hirota, Machiko Ono, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yô Yoshida
Director: Takashi Shimizu
La maison de Himiko / Mezon do Himiko (2005)
Drama
Saori is a young woman who struggles to make a living, with no financial or romantic prospects in her life. One rainy day, she receives a visit at work from a handsome young man called Haruhiko. He claims to be the boyfriend of her estranged father, Himiko, who now runs a seaside rest home for elderly gays. He tells her that her father is dying of cancer. Saori still harbors resentment toward her father for abandoning her and her mother years ago. However, Haruhiko makes her a financial offer she can't refuse, and she agrees to go and work at House of Himiko.
Starring: Jô Odagiri, Ko Shibasaki, Min Tanaka
Director: Isshin Inudô
Homeland / Ieji (2014)
Drama
Jiro has come home. His tiny farming village is now deserted because it lies in the badly contaminated Fukushima zone. Nonetheless, Jiro begins cultivating his land. An old school friend helps him and together they plant rice. "It's like slow suicide", says Jiro's friend. Jiro's half-brother, Soichi, who has evacuated with his family cannot believe that Jiro has moved back into the old home. Soichi's step-mother, who is Jiro's biological mother, had never got over Jiro leaving. Suffused with grief and poetry, the images in this film describes life after the nuclear catastrophe. They also tell us what it means to go home when home will never be the same again.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masaaki Uchino, Yûko Tanaka, Sakura Andô, Takashi Yamanaka, Yôji Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Renji Ishibashi, Tôru Kizu
Director: Nao Kubota
Killers (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
In Tokyo, a serial killer is murdering women and posting his violent crimes on-line. In Jakarta, a rogue vigilante uploads his murdering spree for the world to see. A psychotic game of cat and mouse ensues as the two men battle for notoriety. Soon it becomes clear that it's only a matter of time until the two killers square off, face to face.
Starring: Oka Antara, Rin Takanashi, Kazuki Kitamura, Luna Maya, Mei Kurokawa, Denden, Ray Sahetapy
Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 4 – Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
The anime's story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
Starring: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Shunsuke Sakuya, Ikkyu Juku, Takurou Nakakuni, Yôji Ueda
Director: Kazuchika Kise
Flower and Snake: Zero / Hana to hebi: Zero (2014)
Thriller
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
Starring: Maiko Amano, Noriko Hamada, Rina Sakuragi
Director: Hajime Hashimoto
The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom / Idainaru, Shurarabon (2014)
Comedy | Fantasy
Ryosuke Hinode (Masaki Okada) moves in with relatives the Hinode family, located at Ishibashi Castle in Lake Biwa, as he enters high school. The Hinode family possesses a special power. Tanjuro (Gaku Hamada) is the heir of the Hinode family. He has eccentric tendencies and does odd things to Ryosuke like making him wear a red uniform to go to school. Tanjuro and Ryosuke attends the same high school. Due to an error, they both confront Hiromi Natsume, the first son in the Natsume family. The Hinode family and the Natsume family have been hostile with each other for 100 years.
Starring: Masaki Okada, Gaku Hamada, Kyôko Fukada, Dai Watanabe, Shihori Kanjiya, Shirô Sano
Director: Yutaka Mizuochi
Dil Chahta Hai / D.C.H. / Do Your Thing (2001)
Comedy | Drama
Three young men Akash, Sameer, and Siddharth are close friends, but their tastes and characters are completely incompatible. So when Siddharth falls in love with a much older woman, Tara, a woman who has been unsuccessful in keeping her marriage intact as well as alcohol-dependent, widens the rift between the trio, forcing them to part company. Years later, the trio will be re-united, they will be much mature and understanding, but will they still accept Siddharth love for Tara, especially when they themselves have fallen in love with women around their respective ages.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, Dimple Kapadia
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey / Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Budda – Owarinaki tabi (2014)
Animation
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha continues traveling. Siddhartha is overwhelmed by the sufferings he witnesses around him. Meanwhile, Prince Ruri of Kosara begins his attack on the Shakya clan.
Starring: Kiyokazu Kanze, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Nana Mizuki, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Shin'ya Ohwada, Hiromasa Taguchi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Director: Toshiaki Komura
Hungry Ghost Ritual / Yu lan shen gong (2014)
Horror
After incurring debts from his failed business venture in China, Zong Hua returns to Malaysia after a decade hiatus. The demoralized Zong Hua faces problem finding a job and tries hard to get use to things at home, including his estranged relationship with his step-father, Xiaotian, who runs a Cantonese opera troupe and half-sister, Jing Jing. Jing Jing is hostile towards Zong Hua as she always has this impression that the death of their mother is caused by the excessive fights between Zong Hua and his step-father.
Starring: Nick Cheung, Annie Liu, Carrie Ng
Director: Nick Cheung
Disciples of Shaolin / Hong quan xiao zi (1975)
Action | Drama
Impetuous young martial arts master Kuan takes a job at a textile factory where another disciple of the revered Shaolin discipline warns him about the rival Manchu clan, who run another nearby mill.
Starring: Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Hark-On Fung, Tao Chiang, Ha Huang
Director: Cheh Chang
Puzzle / Pazuru (2014)
Horror | Thriller
High school student Azusa (Kaho) jumps off from the rooftop of a school building, but she survives. One month later, the school is taken over by group of people wearing bizarre masks. A pregnant teacher is imprisoned, while the head director of the school and male students disappear. Azusa then finds pieces of a puzzle in an envelope given to her by classmate Shigeo (Shuhei Nomura). The puzzle pieces holds the key to solve the case. Azusa chases after Shigeo and she sees something which is unimaginable.
Starring: Kaho, Shûhei Nomura, Kazuya Takahashi, Kokone Sasaki, Ryûzô Tanaka, Baku Ohwada
Director: Eisuke Naitô
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji / Mogura no uta – sennyû sôsakan: Reiji (2013)
Action | Comedy
Reiji Kikukawa (Toma Ikuta), who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a "mole," an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
Starring: Tôma Ikuta, Riisa Naka, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Kamiji, Takashi Okamura, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Director: Takashi Miike
7 Assassins / Glory Days / Guang hui sui yue (2013)
Action | Adventure
When social unrest plagues a Kingdom in ancient China, the Imperial Court collects stockpiles of gold from local governments to expand the royal army. However, the gold is robbed while in transport. In a desperate move to retrieve the stolen treasure, elite royal guards are sent on a mission to go after the gold but soon find out they are not the only ones in pursuit of it.
Starring: Eric Tsang, Felix Wong, Gigi Leung, Ray Lui, Tao Guo, Hong-jie Ni, Michael Wong
Director: Eric Tsang, Hung Yan Yan
