Shaolin Soccer / Siu lam juk kau (2001)
Action | Comedy | Sport
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Wei Zhao, Man Tat Ng, Yin Tse, Yat-fei Wong, Kai Man Tin, Chi Chung Lam, Kwok-Kwan Chan, Mei Lin Mo, Kin-Yan Lee
Director: Stephen Chow
Warriors of Heaven and Earth / Tian di ying xiong (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama
In the tradition of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, Warriors of Heaven and Earth weaves a thread of battle, comradeship and honor. Set in the ferocious Gobi Desert, the story follows Lieutenant Li (Jiang Wen) and Japanese emissary Lai Xi (Nakai Kiichi), both first-class warriors and master swordsmen. After decades of service to the Chinese Emperor, Lai Xi longs to return to Japan, but is instead sent to the west to chase wanted criminals. His only passport back to Japan is to capture and execute Lieutenant Li, a renegade soldier wanted for leading a violent mutiny when he refused orders to kill female and child prisoners. Li and Lai Xi battle, but finally agree to delay their final personal fight until the caravan carrying a Buddhist monk is brought to safety. The monk, however, is carrying a sacred and powerful pagoda that attracts the attention of the region's ruthless overlord, Master An (Wang Xueqi). Lai Xi and Lt. Li, accompanied by Li's former posse of soldiers, who have forsaken their peaceful new lives to return to his side, must face the cruelty of the desert, the region's barbaric bandits and the brutality of the overlord's men before they can finally faceone another.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Wei Zhao, Bagen Hasi, Wen Jiang, Xueqi Wang
Director: Ping He
As the Light Goes Out / Jiu huo ying xiong (2014)
Action | Drama
The firefighters of Hong Kong's Pillar Point division who are expecting a quiet night to see off their retiring chief find their faith in each other stretched to the limits when a small fire at a liquor warehouse threatens to plunge the whole of Hong kong into darkness if it spreads to a nearby power plant supplying natural gas.
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Simon Yam, Jun Hu, Andy On, William Chan
Director: Chi-kin Kwok
Rang De Basanti / Paint it Saffron (2006)
Drama | History
A young woman from England comes to India to make a documentary about her grandfather's diary which was written in the 1920s about the Indian Independence with five young men.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
The Wild Daisy / Nogiku no haka (1977)
Drama
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Osamu Sakuta, Yôko Minamida, Shirô Osaka, Miwa Saitô, Tanie Kitabayashi, Fujio Tokita, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
A Portrait of Shunkin / Shunkinsho (1976)
Drama
Okoto is a rich girl, who was blind since childhood. She has become distant and cold to everyone except her young servant Sasuke, whom she can trust. Without himself realizing it, he grew fond of her. One day, tragedy strikes and Koto was badly scared on her face. Sasuke couldn't bear to see her. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, he went even to take away his own sight of vision…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Moeko Ezawa, Akiko Kazami, Hôsei Komatsu
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Autumn Interlude / Kaze tachinu (1976)
Drama
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Shinsuke Ashida, Seizaburô Kawazu, Jûkichi Uno
Director: Mitsuo Wakasugi
Tiger Cage 2 / Tiger Cage II / Sai hak chin (1990)
Action | Crime
A tough ex-cop and a woman are accused of murder, team up with a unscrupulous lawyer as they intend to solve the case of laundering dirty money.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Rosamund Kwan, David Wu, Robin Shou, Lieh Lo, Cynthia Khan
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
Saving Mother Robot / Ma de 2 hao (2013)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Tells the story of single mother Cao Yi, whose everyday life consists of her finding ways to make money and raise her young son, Xiao Hu. However, Xiao Hu feels that his mother does not have enough time to spend with him, so he frequently acts out in response. He also fantasizes that his mother will turn into the legendary "Madeleine" robot. Coincidentally, Cao Yi's superior sends her to become an assistant to Xiao Tie, an eccentric photographer whose hobby is obsessively searching for UFOs. Because Xiao Tie was also raised in a single-parent home, he interacts with Xiao Hu in interesting ways and ultimately helps the young boy understand his mother's situation.
Starring: Xiaoming Huang, Vivian Hsu, Antoine, Mini Yang, Eric Tsang, Cheryl Yang, Kong Jiu
Director: Jue Ga-Lun
The Lunchbox / Dabba (2013)
Drama | Romance
The film set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between an about to retire, Saajan, also a lonely widower and an unhappy housewife, Ila as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox.
Starring: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey
Director: Ritesh Batra
Hasee Toh Phasee (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra) is a struggling businessman whose girlfriend Karishma (Adah Sharma) is an actress. Nikhil is a guy who believes that once you are committed to a girl, there should be no straying. He is the guy every girl would love to have. Karishma asks Nikhil to arrange 50 million (US$840,000) before marriage, which is 7 days later, to earn a contract. In the mean time, Nikhil meets Meeta (Parineeti Chopra), Karishma's younger sister, with whom he had a brief encounter 7 years ago. Meeta, who is an IITian in Chemical Engineering, is a super intelligent geek, who ran away 7 years ago to China after stealing money from her own father, leading to his heart attack. Now, just a week before Nikhil and Karishma's wedding, Meeta turned up to meet her father, but Karishma was scared that her sister's sudden appearance might ruin their wedding. Hence, Karishma assigns Nikhil to keep Meeta away from her father (Manoj Joshi). During their 7 days of encounter Nikhil and Meeta generate feelings for each other, but Nikhil backs off as he doesn't want to betray Karishma. Meanwhile, Nihkil comes to know that for her research Meeta has taken a heavy loan from a Chinese investor by forging her father's signature. The deadline for payback is in three days. Nikhil helps Meeta to hack her father's account but also convince her to apologize to her family. Meeta reunites with her family as her father forgives her and instead of stealing Meeta asks money from her father. On the wedding day, Nikhil realizes that he is in love with Meeta so after Karishma gets to know about him and Meeta she asks him to run away and when he runs away from the wedding ceremony only to find Meeta standing outside. Both express their love to each other. The movie ends with Nikhil and Meeta traveling to Germany, while at the airport Meeta tells him that there is another problem waiting for them in Germany.
Starring: Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Adah Sharma, Manoj Joshi, Sharat Saxena
Director: Vinil Matthew
The Suspect / Yong-eui-ja (2013)
Action | Thriller
Dong Chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he is abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China.
Starring: Yoo Gong, Hee-soon Park, Da-in Yoo, Seong-ha Jo, Jae-yun Jo, Seong-gyoon Kim
Director: Shin-yeon Won
The Harmonium in My Memory / Organ of My Heart / Nae maeumui punggeum (1999)
Drama | Romance
Hong-yun is a teenage girl in a small mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a new teacher, Mr. Jang. Between taking care of her baby brother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become special for Mr. Jang. He only seems interested in the other new teacher, Miss Yang.
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Jae-in Kim, Byung-hun Lee, Mi-yeon Lee, Hye-rin Seo
Director: Young-jae Lee
Queen (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Queen is a movie about growing up. Rani (Kangana Ranaut) is a Delhi girl from a conservative family who is ditched by her fiancé just before her marriage. Shocked by this, she decides to set out on the planned honeymoon alone. As she travels the world and meets new people, she gains new experiences and discovers her own identity.
Starring: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon, Mish Boyko, Jeffrey Chee, Sabeeka Imam
Director: Vikas Bahl
The Human Trust / Jinrui shikin (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Yuichi Mafune is known as a finance broker, but he's actually a conman. One day, two men show up in front of Yuichi. One man is "M" and the other is his underling Yuki Seki. They ask Yuichi Mafune to steal the "M funds". The "M funds" is thought to be a longheld legend that massive amounts of gold and other stolen loot from World War II were hidden in the basement of a Japanese bank. The loot was then taken by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces to fund secret operations. Yuichi accepts the proposal after hearing of the large fee offerred if successful. In order to steal the "M funds," which Yuichi isn't even sure if it exists, "M" plans an unprecedented money game which brings in interests from the U.S., Russia and other places.
Starring: Kôichi Satô, Shingo Katori, Mirai Moriyama, Arisa Mizuki, Vincent Gallo, Ji-tae Yu, Jô Odagiri
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Like Father, Like Son / Soshite chichi ni naru (2013)
Drama
Would you choose your natural son, or the son you believed was yours after spending 6 years together? Kore-eda Hirokazu, the globally acclaimed director of "Nobody Knows", "Still Walking" and "I Wish", returns to the big screen with another family – a family thrown into torment after a phone call from the hospital where the son was born… Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not 'their' son – the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between 'nature' and 'nurture.'
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Rirî Furankî, Keita Ninomiya, Shôgen Hwang
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Bends / Guo jie (2013)
Drama
BENDS straddles the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and tells the story of ANNA, an affluent housewife and FAI, her chauffeur, and their unexpected friendship as they each negotiate the pressures of Hong Kong life and the citys increasingly complex relationship to mainland China. Fai is struggling to find a way to bring his pregnant wife and young daughter over the Hong Kong border from Shenzhen to give birth to their second child, even though he crosses the border easily every day working as a chauffeur for Anna. Anna, in contrast, is struggling to keep up the facade of her ostentatious lifestyle into which she has married, after the sudden disappearance of her husband amid financial turmoil. Their two lives collide in a common space, the car.
Starring: Carina Lau, Kun Chen, Yuan Tian, Stephanie Che, Lawrence Cheng
Director: Flora Lau
Eden no umi / Sea of Eden (1976)
Drama | Romance
A jovial young man from Tokyo, Nanjo, comes to teach at a girl highschool on the coast of Setonaikai. He captures the heart of all the girls right away except a rebellious one, Tomoe.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Yutaka Nanjo
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Ring 2 / The Ring 2 / Ringu 2 (1999)
Horror
In the third film in the "Ring" series, Reiko takes Yoichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.
Starring: Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Satô, Kyôko Fukada, Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada
Director: Hideo Nakata
Josh / Against the Grain (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, has her life shattered when her nanny, Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Though her friends and family beg her not to disturb the status quo and confront the powerful feudals in Nusrat's village, Fatima travels there to investigate. Will the trials and tribulations deter Fatima's resolve? Will the quest challenge an already complicated romantic relationship? Josh (Against the Grain) is the story of Fatima's search for a dangerous truth in Nusrat's feudal village. It is the story of the biggest challenge to Pakistan's still reigning feudalism: the country's youth.
Starring: Khalid Malik, Mohib Mirza, Aamina Sheikh, Salim Mairaj, Khalid Ahmed, Faizan Haqquee, Adnan Shah, Navin Waqar
Director: Iram Parveen Bilal
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