Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend / Figyua na anata (2013)
Drama | Erotica | Fantasy | Romance
A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.
Starring: Kokone Sasaki, Tasuku Emoto, Mitsu Dan, Yuki Mamiya
Director: Takashi Ishii
Countdown (2012)
Horror | Thriller
Three Thai teens in New York City are planning the New Year's Party of their lives. They called Jesus, a drug dealer, to drop off some stuff at their apartment so they can celebrate and countdown the end of the year in style. Little did they know that Jesus' visit that night will change their lives forever.
Starring: Pachara Chirathivat, Jarinporn Joonkiat, Pattarasaya Kreuasuwansri, David Asavanond
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
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A Touch of Sin / Tian zhu ding (2013)
Drama
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Baoqiang Wang, Wu Jiang, Sanming Han, Hongwei Wang
Director: Zhangke Jia
The End of Summer / Summer's End / Natsu no owari (2013)
Biography | Drama
Tomoko (Hikari Mitsushima) is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo (Kaoru Kobayashi), who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to be recognized by the public. Tomoko then enters into a sexual relationship with younger man Ryota Kinoshita (Gou Ayano), but Tomoko is not satisfied.
Starring: Hikari Mitsushima, Kaoru Kobayashi, Gô Ayano
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Snowpiercer / Snow Piercer / Seolgungnyeolcha (2013)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
After a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.
Starring: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Hello Babies / Liu fu xi shi (2014)
Comedy
Torn between the All's Well Ends Well and the I Love Hong Kong series every year Lunar New Year? This year you don't have to! Director Vincent Kok unites Eric Tsang and Raymond Wong for the jubilant movie Hello Babies, a Lunar New Year comedy that has everything from a wacky plot to lowbrow jokes to make you laugh. High in holiday spirit, the comedy features Sandra Ng as a famous midwife who helps a couple (played by Ronald Cheng and Fiona Sit) to conceive. As the tradition goes, the Lunar New Year movie has a plethora of star cameos including Alex Fong, Alex Lam, Karena Chin, Lynn Xiong, Jan Lamb, Miriam Yeung and Louis Koo as well as a great deal of hilarious references to movies like Ip Man and The Grandmaster. Lui Ming (Raymond Wong) and Yeung Ah Wei (Eric Tsang) are lifelong rivals who challenge one another to just about everything that they can think of, and now they're competing over the birth of an heir. Lui Ming, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, threatens his nephew Scallop (Ronald Cheng) to have a child with wife Suet (Fiona Sit) as quick as possible after finding out about the baby girl carried by Yeung's son Alex (Alex Lam) and wife Shan Shan (Karena Chin). Hiring midwife Kung Sham (Sandra Ng), who has incredible reproducing skills, to help Scallop and Suet conceive, they eventually come up with a make-do plan to cope with their father-in-law Lui Ming's constant request.
Starring: Bak-Ming Wong, Eric Tsang, Sandra Ng, Ronald Cheng, Fiona Sit, Lynn Hung
Director: Vincent Kok
The Four 2 / Si da ming bu 2 (2013)
Action | Adventure
The movie sees the return of Heartless, Iron Fist, Hunter and Cold Blood, four detectives who dedicate their unique and special skills to the service of Master Zhuge in solving crimes and apprehending powerful criminals.
Starring: Chao Deng, Yifei Liu, Anthony Wong, Collin Chou, Ronald Chengs
Director: Gordon Chan
Mortician / Lin Zhong Jiong Shi (2013)
Comedy | Horror
Mortician is a heartfelt story about life and death wrapped in the package of a horror comedy produced by Man Cheun and director Cub Qian ( Lost on Journey, A Happy Chinese New Year). The film revolves around a timid mortician who lost his ability to laugh, but in his line of work he encounters kindhearted yet odd people who help him become a better person and overcome his childhood fears. Due to injuries to his nerve system, orphan Siu Bo (Bao Bei'er) lost his ability to laugh when he was young. Feeling guilty for what happened, his uncle Qing Song (Kim Chim) arranges a position for him in a funeral home in the city. Haunted by what he sees every night there, he braves his fears with the support of his uncle who always reminds him of the meaning of their work for the deceased. Along the way, he also finds a way to cope with death when it finally knocks on his door.
Starring: Sui-man Chim, Bei-Er Bao, Janice Man, Shui-Fan Fung, Monica Mok, Gangshan Jing, Kristy Yang, Chi Chung Lam, Chao Zhang
Director: Cub Chin
Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)
Drama
A mystery unfolds with a woman named Madoka (Maki Horikita), who is a killer, and Ataru (Masahiro Nakai). The woman possesses the same extraordinary memory and deductive reasoning abilities as Ataru.
Starring: Masahiro Nakai, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yûta Tamamori, Maki Horikita, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Hiroaki Murakami
Director: Hisashi Kimura
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
