Oshin (2013)
Drama
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family because of her family's financial situation.
Starring: Kokone Hamada, Aya Ueto, Kayoko Kishimoto, Manami Igashira, Ayako Kobayashi, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima, Ryôsuke Nogi
Director: Shin Togashi
No Breathing / Nobeureshing (2013)
Romance | Sport | Teen
A gifted swimmer rediscovers his talent by entering a competition against his long-time rival.
Starring: Jong Suk Lee, In Guk Seo, Yuri, Min-cheol Shin, Jae-young Kim, Cheol-min Park, Jeong-cheol Park
Director: Yong-sun Jo
The Rocket (2013)
Drama
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by the legacy of war, to prove he's not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
Starring: Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Suthep Po-ngam, Boonsri Yindee, Sumrit Warin, Alice Keohavong
Director: Kim Mordaunt
Hwayi: A Monster Boy / Hwayi: Gwimuleul samkin ahyi (2013)
Action | Thriller
A boy with five fathers who is attached to the criminal underworld. A sinister past is about to be revealed as he is forced to join the killing spree.
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Jin-gu Yeo, Jin-woong Jo, Hyeong-seong Jang, Seong-gyoon Kim, Hae-jun Park, Ji-Eun Lim, Ji-hyeon Nam
Director: Joon-Hwan Jang
Ninja Kids!!!: Summer Mission Impossible / Ninja Kids!!! 2 / Nintama Rantarô: Natsuyasumi shukudai daisakusen! no dan (2013)
Action | Comedy
At a time when nations are warring, a sword with mysterious power called "Heaven's Sword" is stolen. The sword is said to give its wielder the power to conquer the world. Various ninja all over Dokutake Castle and beyond also manuevering for this sword of immense power. Rantaro and his classmates are assigned to retrieve the stolen sword, their first real ninja mission.
Starring: Seishirô Katô, Roi Hayashi, Roy Hayashi, Juri Shingetsu, Hiroki Uchi
Director: Ryuta Tazaki
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam / A River Called Titas (1973)
Drama
Based on the acclaimed novel by Advaita Malla Barman, and shot in Ghatak’s childhood home of East Bengal shortly after the independence of Bangladesh, the film captures the songs, speech, rituals, and rhythms of a once self-sufficient community and culture swept away by natural catastrophes, modernisation, and political conflict.
Starring: Rosy Samad, Fakrul Hasan Bairagi, Narain Chakraborty, Kabari Choudhury, Chetana Das
Director: Ritwik Ghatak
Why Don't You Play in Hell? / Jigoku de naze warui (2013)
Action | Drama
Muto (Jun Kunimura) and Ikegami (Shinichi Tsutsumi) are two gangsters who hate each other, but Ikegami is in love with Muto's actress daughter Michiko (Fumi Nikaido). Meanwhile, Muto attempts to make his wife Shizue's (Tomochika) dream come true which is to have their daughter appear in a movie. Koji (Gen Hoshino), who is just a passerby, is mistaken for a movie director. Koji then requests to independent film director Hirata (Hiroki Hasegawa) to cast Michiko as the leading actress in his film. Their situation soon goes completely wrong.
Starring: Jun Kunimura, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Fumi Nikaidô, Tomochika, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino
Director: Shion Sono
The Monkey King / Xi you ji: Da nao tian gong (2014)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Sun Wukong, (The Monkey King) is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to India. Thus, according to legend, Buddhism is brought to ancient China. This much beloved story, is as much a part of Asian culture as The Iliad and The Odyssey or The Wizard of Oz are to the West. This first installment in a trilogy of live action 3-D movies is actually a prequel to The Journey To The West, the much told story of the Monkey King's adventures on the road to India. The Monkey King: Havoc In The Heavenly Palace will be released in the U.S. as The Monkey King. The first movie is the origins story – beginning with the birth of Sun Wukong and ending with his imprisonment for his crimes under the Five-Peaked Mountain. Along the way he acquires incredible powers, battling the armies of the gods and the armies of the demons to find his rightful place in the Heavens.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Yun-Fat Chow, Aaron Kwok, Yitian Hai, Peter Ho, Joe Chen, Xia Zitong
Director: Pou-Soi Cheang
The Best Plan Is No Plan / Kau neoi bat lei saam hing dai (2013)
Comedy | Romance
Chan Wing Sing (Justin Cheung), Yip Lai Shin (Hanjin Chan) and Ma Wei Hung (Sammy Shum) are three friends who find out at their ex-girlfriend's funeral that they were all involved with the same woman at some point in their lives. Feeling at a loss in love, the three of them bond overnight to overcome their future obstacles with women.
Starring: Sammy Sum, Hanjin Tan, Justin Cheung, Jacqueline Chong, Shiga Lin, Angel Chiang, Jinny Ng
Director: Patrick Kong
The Tattooed Swordswoman / The Blind Woman's Curse / Kaidan nobori ryû (1970)
Action | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents' leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a glancing blow to her eyes, thus cutting her badly, and blinding her. Amid the ensuing fight, no one notices that a black cat laps the young woman's wound. Years later, revenge between the two clans continue, plus added dissension amongst Akemi's people, leading to more deaths. A new member comes to help them, but she is a strange woman – and blind. The curse of the blind woman is about to fell on the dragon-lady.
Starring: Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô, Hideo Sunazuka, Shirô Ôtsuji
Director: Teruo Ishii
The Izu Dancer / Izu no odoriko (1974)
Drama
Based on Yasunari Kawabata real life sotry in which he had a brief time of romance with a girl dancer.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Yaariyan (2014)
Drama | Romance
A college student must win an inter college competition to save his college from being demolished by property builders.
Starring: Himansh Kohli, Vivek Bhatnagar, Nicole Faria, Gulshan Grover, Aditya Kohli, Dev Sharma, Rakul Preet Singh
Director: Divya Khosla
Jai Ho / Mental (2014)
Action | Drama
An ex-army officer initiates a unique idea of propagating social responsibility among ordinary people and in doing so, crosses paths with a powerful political family.
Starring: Salman Khan, Tabu, Sunil Shetty, Pulkit Samrat, Genelia D'Souza
Director: Sohail Khan
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion / Gekijôban Mahou Shojo Madoka Magica Shinpen: Hangyaku no Monogatari (2013)
Animation | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Madoka Kaname. Once a normal girl who led a happy life, she sacrificed herself to save other magical girls from the cruel fate that awaited them. Unable to let her memories of Madoka die, magical girl Homura Akemi continues to fight alone in the world that Madoka left behind, dreaming of meeting that nostalgic smiling face one more time…
Starring: Aoi Yuki, Chiwa Saito, Kaori Mizuhashi, Eri Kitamura, Ai Nonaka, Emiri Katou, Kana Asumi
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Yukihiro Miyamoto
Daily Lives of High School Boys / Danshi Kôkôsei no Nichijô (2013)
Comedy | Romance
At an all boys high school, Tadakuni (Masaki Suda), Yoshitake (Shuhei Nomura) and Hidenori (Ryo Yoshizawa) are close friends and think usually all day about girls. Their high school then co-hosts a school festival with an all girls high school.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Shûhei Nomura, Ryo Yoshizawa
Director: Daigo Matsui
On His Majesty's Secret Service / Dai noi muk taam 009 (2009)
Comedy
Intrepid inventor Royal Dog (Louis Koo) is part of the elite imperial bodyguard team tasked with protecting the inept Emperor (Liu Yiwei) and Empress (Sandra Ng). Unlike his brother Royal Tiger (Tong Dawei), however, Royal Dog can't fight if his life depended on it. What he lacks in kung-fu prowess though, he makes up for with wacky (untested) weaponry concocted in his workshop. When the Emperor decides to hold a competition to choose a suitor for Princess Rainbow (Song Jia), Royal Dog becomes an unexpected top contender, much to the displeasure of his sassy girlfriend Faithful (Barbie Hsu). There's nary time for romance though when there are so many people out to kill him and the Emperor, including a cross-dressing female assassin (Liu Yang), head eunuch Lord Unicorn (Fan Siu Wong), and even the Empress herself!
Starring: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Sandra Ng, Siu-Wong Fan, Yang Jiang, Yiwei Liu, Jia Song
Director: Jing Wong
Humanity and Paper Balloons / Ninjô kami fûsen (1937)
Drama
Humanity and Paper Balloons, unlike most other Japanese films of this period, is a historical film with a critical edge. Refusing to glorify samurai, the film instead deflates the myth around them with a gentle humanity. The film opens directly after a penurious ronin samurai has taken his own life. At his funeral his neighbors from his slum mourn his death. Here the film introduces another ronin samurai who lives in equal poverty. Having pawned his sword for food, the samurai searches for work but to no avail. The family's only income comes from the little balloon children's toys made by the wife. Out of desperation, the samurai abets in an attempted kidnapping. After finding out, the wife kills him in his sleep and then takes her own life, closing the film's narrative circle.
Starring: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Sukezo Sukedakaya, Shizue Yamagishi
Director: Sadao Yamanaka
Carmen Falls in Love / Carmen's Innocent Love / Karumen junjo su (1952)
Comedy
Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masao Wakahara, Chikage Awashima, Toshiko Kobayashi, Eiko Miyoshi
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Big Joys, Small Sorrows / Shin yorokobimo kanashimimo ikutoshitsuki (1986)
Drama
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Starring: Gô Katô, Hitoshi Ueki, Reiko Ôhara, Yoko Shinoyama, Hayao Okamoto
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Being Two Isn't Easy / I Am Two Years Old / Watashi wa nisai (1962)
Comedy | Drama
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional thoughts of the child. They initially live in an apartment building, and then move into the doting grandmother's house.
Starring: Hiro Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kumeko Urabe, Misako Watanabe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
