The Snow White Murder Case / Shirayuki hime satsujin jiken (2014)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
A young woman who work at cosmetic company become a prime suspect,after her beautiful co-worker was murderer.
Starring: Mao Inoue, Gô Ayano, Nanao, Misako Renbutsu, Nobuaki Kaneko, Shihori Kanjiya, Erena Ono, Mitsuki Tanimura, Katsuhisa Namase, Shunsuke Daitô
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Holiday / Pistol (2014)
Action | Romance | Thriller
Virat (Akshay Kumar) is among a battalion of military officers that comes to Mumbai on vacation. Virat is also a secret Defence Intelligence Agent who cannot lie low, much to the irritation of his friend and sub inspector. During a bus ride, an attempt to frisk passengers for a lost wallet leads Virat to something much bigger. Within minutes, the bus is blown into pieces and he helps cops nab the carrier of the bomb, who escapes from the hospital only to be caught by Virat again. Using tact, Virat follows one clue at a time hoping to track down the terrorist on whose orders the sleeper cell terrorists plan to cause mayhem in Mumbai.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghvan, Zakir Hussain, Govinda
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
My Little Sweet Pea / Mugiko san to (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Snce her father died, Mugiko (Maki Horikita) lives with her older brother (Ryuhei Matsuda). Her mother Ayako (Kimiko Yo) left home when Mugiko was little. Mugiko has not heard from her mother since that time. But one day, her mother Ayako comes back. Mugiko has mixed feelings with her mother's sudden appearance again, while Ayako hides the fact that she is gravely ill.
Starring: Maki Horikita, Ryûhei Matsuda, Kimiko Yo, Yôichi Nukumizu, Yumi Asô, Gadarukanaru Taka, Eri Fuse, Amane Okayama, Sayaka Tashiro
Director: Keisuke Yoshida
Election 2 / Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai (2006)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
Starring: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Ka Tung Lam, Suet Lam, Andy On
Director: Johnnie To
Election / Hak se wui (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Rival gang leaders are locked in a struggle to become the new chairman of Hong Kong's Triad society.
Starring: Simon Yam, Tony Leung, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ka Tung Lam, Siu-Fai Cheung
Director: Johnnie To
City of Life and Death / Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)
Drama | History | War
Centers on the Nanking Massacre that occurred in December, 1937, when Japanese aggressor troops occupied the eastern Chinese city and killed over 300,000 citizens.
Starring: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Wei Fan
Director: Chuan Lu
The Midnight After / Na ye ling chen, wo zuo shang le wang jiao kai wang da pu de hong Van (2014)
Mystery | Thriller
A group of strangers board a late-night minibus in Mong Kok bound for Tai Po. Amongst them are a junkie, a superstitious insurance broker, a computer expert, a gangster, a music geek and several college students. After the bus passes through the Lion Rock Tunnel, the passengers find themselves in a complete ghost town.
Starring: You-Nam Wong, Janice Man, Simon Yam, Kara Hui, Tien You Chui, Suet Lam, Goo-Bi GC, Shing-Cheung Lee, Sam Lee, Cherry Ngan
Director: Fruit Chan
Thread of Lies / U-a-han Geo-jit-mal (2014)
Drama
14-year-old schoolgirl Cheon Ji (Kim Hyang Gi) takes her own life one day without leaving a suicide note. Her widowed mother (Kim Hee Ae) and older sister Man Ji (Ko Ah Sung) are left reeling from the grief and the shock. They never saw the warning signs. Seeking answers, Man Ji begins to approach Cheon Ji's classmates and gradually learns about her sister's peer circle and the class queen bee, Hwa Yeon (Kim Yoo Jung), who befriended then bullied her.
Starring: Hie-ae Kim, Ah-sung Ko, Yoo-Jeong Kim, Hyang-gi Kim, Dong-il Song
Director: Han Lee
The Kung Fu Instructor / Instructor / Jiao tou (1979)
Action | Drama
Huang is a famous martial artist trapped into teaching kung-fu to the wrong clan while the opposing `good` clan tries to save him so he can instruct their members. Besides kung-fu comedienne Wang Yu starring in one of his few serious roles, Sun became the first Shaw Brothers' director to use a Steadicam which gives the film‘s action and editing style a unique brand of tension and rhythm. The pole fights are also out of this world.
Starring: Lung Ti, Yue Wong, Feng Ku, Angie Chiu, Lung Wei Wang
Director: Chung Sun
Apokalips X (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
Chemical warfare has destroyed the world leaving only a handful of teens and youngsters alive, struggling to carve out a place in the ruins. When one clan threatens the truce banning fighting among the survivors, the fate of human existence is in the balance as brother fights brother. Will the lone surviving elder reign in the chaos or watch as the last of the human race fight for ego and pride?
Starring: Farid Kamil, Jehan Miskin, Peter Davis, Zoie Tam, Miera Leyana, Iqram Dinzly
Director: Mamat Khalid
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One Third / Sanbun no ichi (2014)
Drama
The manger of cabaret club "Hanibani" named Shuu (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a worker at the club named Koji (Koki Tanaka) and one of the patrons named Ken (Ryuichi Kosugi) succeed in robbing a bank. They agree to divide the stolen money equally into 3, but they become consumed by greed and try to get more than their share. In addition, a renown figure is after their money.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Mika Nakashima, Kôki Tanaka, Ryûichi Kosugi, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Pîtâ
Director: Hiroshi Shinagawa
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter / Magnificent Pole Fighters / Wu Lang ba gua gun (1984)
Action | Drama
The Yang family was the loyal strong-arm of the Imperial army. But a jealous General betrays the Eilte Spearman and their father to the opposing Mongol army. After an ambush of a battle, only two of the seven sons survive. One remains hidden by the family while the other lives on the run. The traitorous general must find them and silence them before either of them can testify to the Emperor of his treachery.
Starring: Chia-Hui Liu, Sheng Fu, Lily Li, Kara Hui, Ching-Ching Yeung, Lung Wei Wang
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
The Sentimental Swordsman / To ching chien ko wu ching chien (1977)
Action | Drama
Due to his own extreme ideals, famed swordsman Li has lost everyone dear to him. After his life is saved by a rival swordsman, Li's overwhelming pride means he forsakes the woman he loves and lets her marry his saviour. Li's only comfort is alcohol and the simple life he has now accepted. On one such journey, the lonely swordsman befriends the exceptionally skilled, yet secretive Fei who has his own pressures to contend with. The person behind Li's troubles proves to be elusive, though all the clues seem to point to the legendary 'Plum Blossom Bandit', a disguised figure whose identity has long proved elusive to the martial world.
Starring: Lung Ti, Li Ching, Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu, Hua Yueh
Director: Yuen Chor
The Flying Guillotine / Xue di zi (1975)
Action | Drama
The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head.
Starring: Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku, Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu, Ti Ai, Wei Tu Lin, Yue Wong, Yang Chiang
Director: Meng Hua Ho
Z Storm / Z fung bou / Z Feng bao / Fan tan feng bao (2014)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
This is a story about the biggest financial fraud attempted in Hong Kong, directed at the Government of Hong Kong and involved all 7 million Hong Kong citizens… no one is free from the scheme. Within the four decades of guarding Hong Kong's financial integrity, the ICAC has never come across an opponent so huge and so well organized as in the Z Torrent file… shadowy figures from the underworld of South America, Italy and Europe all ready to plot against the estimated 150 million dollars of Hong Kong citizens' tax money which was pooled in a fund called the WELFARE FUND. High profile chartered accountants, high ranking law enforcers, power lawyers, the super entrepreneurs; they all have their shares of play but none can really grasp the big picture; they are there only for what they desire most. When the wife of an up-rising star Superintendent of police force reported his corruption simply out of bitterness for being ill-treated, little did she know she is about to pull the head string from a very well weaved web of deceive, greed, sex, power, and last but not least, fear. The ICAC agent LOK who took charge of the simple complaint felt otherwise… it's his passion for justice that has been driving him all these years in the battle against bribery and corruption, even after losing his beloved wife. Further investigation soon revealed many unanswered questions and loose ends…the death of an ex-godfather status accountant of Hong Kong, the threats to even the seemingly harmless witnesses and informers, and the surfacing of a mysterious lady that has all connection with LOK's wanted list but with a background as simple and as tragic as a girl next door with terminal illness… As Lok dug deeper into the web, he is being hunted by trained foreign mercenaries; a tactic very seldom or never heard of in the history of Hong Kong's underworld! With the support of his superior the old but streetwise Deputy Chief of ICAC, Lok eventually unlocked the door to the plan, but only after a bloodbath gun battle that almost cost him his life and that of the attractive mysterious woman, Angel.
Starring: Louis Koo, Ka Tung Lam, Dada Chan, Janelle Sing, Michael Wong, Hoi-Pang Lo
Director: David Lam
The Tale of Nishino / Yukihiko Nishino's Love and Adventure / Nishino Yukihiko no koi to bouken (2014)
Drama
Yukihiko Nishino (Yutaka Takenouchi) is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihiko seeks out his true love.
Starring: Yutaka Takenouchi, Machiko Ono, Riko Narumi, Fumino Kimura, Tsubasa Honda, Kumiko Asô, Sawako Agawa, Yurika Nakagawa
Director: Nami Iguchi
The Next Generation PatLabor Chapter 3 / The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to handle crimes relating to these machines.
Starring: Erina Mano, Toshio Kakei, Seiji Fukushi, Rina Ohta, Shigeru Chiba, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Yoshinori Horimoto, Kohei Shiotsuka, Shigekazu Tajiri
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Mourning Recipe / Shijuukunichi no reshipi (2013)
Drama
Through the mother's recipe for living happily, a family is able to overcome their personal wounds and move on with their lives. Ryohei's (Renji Ishibashi ) wife suddenly passes away, leaving Ryohei without the strength to live. Two weeks after her death, a woman visits Ryohei and gives him a recipe which was left by his late wife. Meanwhile, Ryohei's daughter Yuriko comes to visit him. Yuriko's own marriage is about to end.
Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Renji Ishibashi, Fumi Nikaidô, Masaki Okada, Taizô Harada
Director: Yuki Tanada
Deep Red Love / Sekiseki renren (2013)
Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
High school student Juri (Tao Tsuchiya) leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother & classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.
Starring: Tao Tsuchiya, Fumika Shimizu, Ryô Yoshizawa, Yô Yoshida, Narimi Arimori, Ren Ohsugi, Naomi Akimoto
Director: Kazuya Konaka
Love's Whirlpool / Ai no uzu (2014)
Romance
From midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex.
Starring: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Mugi Kadowaki
Director: Daisuke Miura
