Mardaani (2014)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A cop's search for a missing teenage girl leads her to the depraved world of child trafficking. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the fearless cop and a ruthless crime lord.
Starring: Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Anil George, Sanjay Taneja
Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013)
Documentary | Drama
A documentary that documents Taiwan from an aerial perspective. It offers viewers a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization to our environment.
Starring: Xiang Hong, Cing-Soong Lai, Nolay Piho, Nien-Jen Wu
Director: Chi Po-lin
The Next Generation PatLabor Chapter 4 / 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
Home: The House Imp / Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi (2012)
Drama | Family | Fantasy
A middle-aged father cannot find his place at work or home. He is transferred to Iwate from Tokyo. The father takes his wife, two kids and mother with him. They settle down in a 100-year-old house. There in the countryside they meet Zasikiwarasi and begin to unite together as a family.
Starring: Yutaka Mizutani, Narumi Yasuda, Ai Hashimoto, Tatsuomi Hamada, Mitsuko Kusabue
Director: Seiji Izumi
Toiretto / Toilet (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Ray is a 30 something engineer obsessed with Gundam toys. He has a motto not to become close to anyone. During his mother's funeral he showed no emotions. His life is further turned upside when he is forced to live with his older brother Maury and younger sister Lisa. Older brother Maury was a pianist but is now a recluse. Younger sister Lisa is a college student who tends to look down on those around her. Also in there home is their Japanese grandmother who doesn't speak English at all.
Starring: Masako Motai, Alex House, Tatiana Maslany, David Rendall, Sachi Parker
Director: Naoko Ogigami
The Chart of Love / In His Chart 2 / Kamisama no karute 2 (2014)
Drama
Dr. Ichito (Sho Sakurai) works at Honjo Hospital. His longtime friend Dr. Tatsuya Shindo (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who comes from Tokyo, begins working at Honjo Hospital. In their university days, Tatsuya was referred to as "the conscience of the medical school". Ichito notices a difference in Tatsuya now, as he leaves work on time. Then, Ichito's senior colleague Dr. Nukita (Akira Emoto) collapses.
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Aoi Miyazaki, Tatsuya Fujiwara
Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa
Kundo: Age of the Rampant / Kundo: min-ran-eui si-dae (2014)
Action | Drama
A period action film centered on a militia group who turn against an unjust nobility.
Starring: Jung-woo Ha, Ye-ri Han, Man-shik Jeong, Dong-won Kang, Hae-suk Kim, Seong-gyoon Kim, Kyeong-yeong Lee
Director: Jong-bin Yun
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow / Se ying diu sau (1978)
Action | Comedy
A young orphan, bullied by school mates, befriends an old beggar and is rewarded by being taught a new form of martial arts.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Siu Tin Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Dean Shek, Roy Horan, Hark-On Fung, Lung Chan
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
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
