Moebius (2013)
Drama
In this wordless film a wife fails to exact revenge on her cheating husband so instead takes it out on her son by castrating him. Remorseful, the husband tries his best to make it up to his son.
Starring: Jae-hyeon Jo, Eun-woo Lee, Young-ju Seo
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Commitment / Dong-chang-saeng (2013)
Action | Drama
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister.
Starring: Seung Hyun Choi, Ye-ri Han, Yoo-Jeong Kim, Je-mun Yun, Sung Ha Jo, Seong-Woong Park
Director: Hong-soo Park
Bullet Raja (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance
Bullett Raja is the story of a common man, Raja Mishra, who transforms into a dreaded gangster of the Hindi heartland. A victim of the system and chained by it, Raja's life changes as he takes on those that rule and shakes the very foundations of the nexus of the police, the government, and the industrialists. As he rises and revolts against the system becoming an outlaw, Bullett sets ablaze the nexus and changes the landscape forever. The powers that be, fight back in a compelling struggle for power and money against the backdrop of personal ambitions, greed and revenge. Redefining love, friendship and loyalty, Bullet Raja creates a world, where a common man, tests his endurance and fortitude against the very system he once obediently followed and then declared a war on it!
Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Vidyut Jamwal, Sonakshi Sinha, Raj Babbar, Gulshan Grover, Ravi Kishan, Chunky Pandey, Vipin Sharma, Sharat Saxena
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
The Face Reader / Gwansang (2013)
Drama | History
Set during the seizure of the throne by Sejo of Joseon in the year 1455, the movie follows the life of Nae-Kyung. Nae-Kyung, the son of a ruined noble family, goes all around Joseon and studies physiognomy. He is able to assess the personality, mental state and habits of a person by looking at someone's face. Because of his abilities, he gets involved in a power struggle between Prince Sooyang and Kim Jong-Seo.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Jung-Jae Lee, Hye-su Kim, Yun-shik Baek, Jo Jung-suk, Jong-Suk Lee
Director: Jae-rim Han
Ilo Ilo / Ba Ma Bu Zai Jia (2013)
Drama
Set in Singapore, Ilo Ilo chronicles the relationship between the Lim family and their newly arrived maid, Teresa. Like many other Filipino women, she has come to this city in search of a better life. Her presence in the family worsens their already strained relationship. Jiale, the young and troublesome son, starts to form a unique bond with Teresa, who soon becomes an unspoken part of the family. This is 1997 and the Asian Financial Crisis is beginning to be felt in the region…
Starring: Koh Jia Ler, Angeli Bayani, Tian Wen Chen, Yann Yann Yeo
Director: Anthony Chen
Barfi! (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Set in the Darjeeling and Calcutta of the 70s, Barfi! is the story of three young people who learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's norms of normal and abnormal. Barfi, a hearing and speech impaired boy falls in love with the beautiful, ethereal Shruti. Worlds collide. And in spite of her deep affection for Barfi, Shruti gives in to societal and parental pressure to marry a 'normal man' and lead a 'normal life'. Many years later, their paths cross once again when Barfi, on the run from the police, is in search o f Jhilmil, a mentally challenged girl who he grew up with.
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana
Director: Anurag Basu
Death Note: L Change the World / Death Note 3 / L: Change the World (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura
Director: Hideo Nakata
Death Note: The Last Name / Death Note 2 / Desu nôto: The last name (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself—and get rid of L.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Shidô Nakamura, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Death Note / Death Note 1 / Desu nôto (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
The Client / Eui-roi-in (2011)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Elite attorney Kang Seong-Hee goes up against a top prosecutor over a case involving a man accused of killing his wife.
Starring: Jung-woo Ha, Hee-soon Park, Hyuk Jang, Dong-il Song, Won-joong Jung
Director: Young-Sung Sohn
Lucia (2013)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
From the director of smash hit Lifeu Ishtene, Pawan Kumar, comes Lucia, heralding a new direction for Kannada cinema, being the industry's first crowd funded film. An usher at a decrepit cinema suffers from insomnia. His life changes when he starts getting weird and wonderful dreams but with a caveat. Set in the teeming young metropolis that is Bangalore, the film is a turbulent ride where the lines between dreams and reality are blurred to delirious effect.
Starring: Sathish Neenasam, Sruthi Hariharan
Director: Pawan Kumar
Yes or No / Yes or No: Yaak Rak Gaw Rak Loey (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Pie is a sweet girl who moves into a new college dorm room where she finds out that her new roommate Kim, is a tomboy who looks and dress like a boy. As their friendship develops, Pie and Kim begin to wonder if the feeling they feel for one another is just an ordinary friendship or true love.
Starring: Sushar Manaying, Supanart Jittaleela, Arisara Thongborisut, Soranut Yupanun, Inthira Yeunyong
Director: Saratswadee Wongsomphet
Anohana the Movie: The Flower We Saw That Day / Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day – The Movie / Ano hi mita hana no namae wo bokutachi wa mada shiranai (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Teen
She suddenly appeared before us one day… 6 of us…friends…we were always together. I believed that I wasn't afraid of anything. But, then it happened. I didn't mean to hurt her. I'll just tell her sorry tomorrow, that's what I thought. But… That "tomorrow" never came. So, time passed by and then one summer day, a miracle happened. Because of an accident during their childhood, 6 friends' hearts were closed shut, and they grew apart from one another. One summer day, their friend who passed away in the accident appears before them. But, she cannot remember the reason why she came back. The friends meet once more to figure out just what her "reason" was.
Starring: Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Haruka Tomatsu, Takahiro Sakurai, Saori Hayami, Takayuki Kondô
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai / Something Is Happening (1998)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Rahul Khanna and Anjali Sharma were best friends at college. Anjali realizes that she has fallen for Rahul but she's too late because Rahul has already fallen for Tina Malhotra. Heartbroken, Anjali leaves the city. Tina and Rahul get married and soon Tina becomes pregnant, giving birth to a daughter which they call Anjali. Due to complications during pregnancy, Tina passes away. Anjali is brought up by her father, and each year on her birthday he allows his daughter to read one of her mother's letters. Through these letters she learns that her mother (Tina) knew that another Anjali was in love with Rahul, and vows to bring them together again.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji
Director: Karan Johar
Blood and Ties / Accomplice / Gongbum (2013)
Thriller
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might be a monstrous kidnapper. Even though she wants to believe in his innocence, she finds herself searching for evidence to the contrary.
Starring: Ye-jin Son, Kap-soo Kim, Kyu-han Lee
Director: Dong-Suk Kuk
The Grandmasters / Yi dai zong shi (2013)
Action | Biography | Drama
The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Tony Leung, Cung Le, Hye-kyo Song, Chen Chang, Woo-ping Yuen, Benshan Zhao, Shun Lau, Qingxiang Wang, Hoi-Pang Lo, Wang Jue, Shih-chieh Chin, Tielong Shang, Shenyang Xiao
Director: Kar Wai Wong
The Wrath of Vajra / Jin gang wang (2013)
Action | Fantasy | Horror
Japanese assassin's cult kidnaps children and trains them to grow into lethal killing machines. Vajra, the best fighter, escapes to China joins Shaolin and fights to protect against the deadly cult.
Starring: Yu Xing, Sung-jun Yoo, Heon Jun Nam, Baocheng Jiang, Yamei Zhang, Yasuaki Kurata, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Director: Wing-cheong Law
Firestorm / Fung bou (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
'Firestorm' centers on a senior police inspector determined to bring down a violent gang of robbers responsible for a string of violent heists across the city.
Starring: Chen Yao, Ka Tung Lam, Andy Lau, Jun Hu, Shing-Ban Lam, Vincent Sze, Michael Wong
Director: Alan Yuen
Mr. Vampire / Geung si sin sang (1985)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
Starring: Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-hou Chin, Wah Yuen, Anthony Chan, Ma Wu, Moon Lee
Director: Ricky Lau
Cyrano Agency / Si-ra-no;Yeon-ae-jo-jak-do (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Lovelorn Kim Hyeon-gon has fallen for coffee shop worker Seon-ah. He learns about Cyrano Agency, a small organization that claims 100% success in matchmaking. Kim signs on, and the Cyrano team construct elaborate scenarios to help him catch Seon-ah.
Starring: Min-jung Lee, Shin-Hye Park, Tae-woong Eom, Cheol-min Park
Director: Hyun-seok Kim
