Boy / Shônen (1969)
Drama
A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
Starring: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Tales from the Dark 2 / Qi huan ye (2013)
Horror
The project of TALES FROM THE DARK was initiated as a result of the recent commercial and critical success of a string of local productions. By assembling six remarkable Hong Kong filmmakers, each of them well crafted and diversified with their own style, it brings viewers to a uniquely mystical realm of wickedness. Adapting from the horror novel series by best-selling author Lilian Lee, it delivers audience six different dimensions of horror.
Starring: Fala Chen, Kelvin Kwan, Teddy Robin Kwan, Ka Tung Lam
Director: Lawrence Ah Mon, Gordon Chan, Kelvin Kwan, Teddy Robin Kwan
Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer / Tenchi meisatsu (2012)
Drama
A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Aoi Miyazaki, Kiichi Nakai, Kojiro Matsumoto, Ryûta Satô
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Platina Data / Platinum Data (2013)
Mystery | Sci-Fi
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura (Kazunari Ninomiya) is a top scientist in the field of DNA analysis. He works at the DNA analysis institution run by the National Police Agency. When the inventor of the DNA analysis system is murdered, Ryuhei Kagura's own DNA is found at the murder scene. Ryuhei Kagura becomes the prime suspect and then he becomes a fugitive. Veteran detective Reiji Asama (Etsushi Toyokawa) goes in pursuit.
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Etsushi Toyokawa, Honami Suzuki, Katsuhisa Namase, Anne Watanabe, Kiko Mizuhara
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
7 Days of Sunflower & Her Puppies / 7 Days of Himawari & Her Puppies / Himawari to koinu no nanokakan (2013)
Drama
Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Miki Nakatani, Denden, Masayasu Wakabayashi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Director: Emiko Hiramatsu
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.
Starring: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Blind Detective / Man Tam (2013)
Crime | Drama
A former police detective was forced to retire after he lost his eyesight. He meets a female police officer who wants to take advantage of the blind detective's enhanced senses to solve crime.
Starring: Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao, Tao Guo
Director: Johnnie To
Jan Dara Pachimmabot / Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Drama
In the second film Jan Dara: The Finale, Jan learns the truth behind his birth and returns home to take revenge against Wisanan. Driving Wisanan to ruin, Jan takes over the family, including his stepfather's mistress Boonleung (Rhatha Phongam). In his frightening quest for vengeance, however, Jan finds himself walking the same loathsome path as the man he hates
Starring: Ratklao Amaradit, Savika Chaiyadej, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Mario Maurer, Shô Nishino, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam
Director: M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul
The Outlaw / Mubeopja (2010)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Detective Jung-soo constantly comes face to face with victims of brutal, senseless murders, which makes him outraged. During one investigation, he meets Ji-hyun, a victim that survived a brutal attack. Eventually, she and Jung-soo are wed. One day, Jung-soo's partner, So-young, arrives at the crime scene, where she finds Jung-soo crying out in sorrow. Jung-soo holds his wife and daughter in his arms after finding them both viciously murdered. As the police let a suspect loose because of a lack of evidence, he decides to take vengeance himself on those unpunished killers and the rest of the cruel world.
Starring: Woo-seong Kam, Shin-yeong Jang, Seung-Min Lee, Won-Young Cho
Director: Cheol-han Kim
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Tales from the Dark 1 / Mi li ye (2013)
Horror
The project of TALES FROM THE DARK was initiated as a result of the recent commercial and critical success of a string of local productions. By assembling six remarkable Hong Kong filmmakers, each of them well crafted and diversified with their own style, it brings viewers to a uniquely mystical realm of wickedness. Adapting from the horror novel series by best-selling author Lilian Lee, it delivers audience six different dimensions of horror.
Starring: Jeannie Chan, Kelly Chen, Tony Leung, , Cherry Ngan, Simon Yam, Shaw Yin Yin
Director: Fruit Chan, Chi-Ngai Lee, Simon Yam
The 47 Ronin / 47 Samurai / Genroku Chûshingura (1941)
Action | Drama | History
Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit harakiri. His samurai retinue are dispersed as masterless ronin. The leader of the samurai, Oichi, plots with a loyal band of ronin to seek revenge for their master's dishonor.
Starring: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Haranosuke Bando, Chôemon Bandô, Enji Ichikawa
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Go Grandriders / Bu lao qi shi (2012)
Adventure | Documentary
Would you still dare to dream when you're 80 years old? On average, they are 81 years old, but with dreams only 18-year-old and they dare to dream. They would tell you, through life-long experience, 'Miracles do happen as long as you continue to dream!' Among these 17 'Grandriders', 2 have gone through cancers, 4 need hearing aids, 5 suffer from high blood pressure and 8 have coronary diseases. And every one of them has symptoms of joint degeneration. The challenges officially begin when they decide to straddle on their scooters: Objections from family members, taking driver's license at old age, aging bodies and bodily functions and every possible weather and road conditions along that 1178-kilometer long journey.
Director: Tian-Hao Hua
Abacus and Sword / Bushi no Kakeibo (2010)
Drama
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki (Masato Sakai) belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works under the declining Kaga domain. Because of this, Naoyuki and his wife Koma (Yukie Nakama) suffer hardships as their stature and wealth dissipates.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Yukie Nakama, Keiko Matsuzaka, Masahiko Nishimura, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yuki Ito, Mina Fujii, Kaito Ohyagi, Masatoshi Nakamura
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Raanjhanaa (2013)
Drama | Romance
A small-town boy needs to break through the class divide to gain acceptance from his childhood sweetheart who is in love with big city ideals.
Starring: Dhanush, Sonam Kapoor, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Swara Bhaskar, Abhay Deol, Shilpi Marwaha, Suraj Singh
Director: Aanand Rai
Fukrey (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The paths of four dream-chasing college friends cross with an array of colourful characters, from a tough-talking Punjabi female don to a Jugaad Baaz college watchman. Mayhem ensues.
Starring: Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Ali Fazal, Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma, Manjot Singh, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathy
Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba
Partner (2007)
Comedy | Romance
The only male child in the family that sired six daughters, Prem has empathy towards the fair sex and decides to assist males to woo women so much so that he becomes popular as the 'Love Guru'. Amongst the men he assists are Bhaskar Chaudhry and Neil Bakshi. Klutz-like Bhaskar has fallen head over heels with his boss, a model and heiress, Priya Jaisingh. A disbelieving Prem refuses to assist him, but subsequently relents. Bhaskar uses his own charm to woo Priya successfully, and is introduced to her dad, Raj. Prem himself falls in love with a widowed single mother, Naina Shahani, a Journalist. Both men are satisfied with her respective lives not knowing that a scandalous secret will surface in the media – changing their lives forever.
Starring: Salman Khan, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Katrina Kaif, Rajpal Yadav
Director: David Dhawan
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship / Sû-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san (2013)
Comedy | Drama
"Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san" follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.
Starring: Kô Shibasaki, Yôko Maki, Shinobu Terajima
Director: Osamu Minorikawa
Fists of Legend / Jeonseolui Joomeok (2013)
Action
On a television show billed as "the greatest fight show on Earth," eager amateurs with lots to prove boldly step into the ring and expect to leave bloody but victorious. The ratings hungry producers seek out "legendary" but largely forgotten streetfighters and mine their desperation for recaptured glory and redemption into ratings gold. Three old friends and rivals from high school days who get their invitation to the big fight for the chance to win $200,000 and much more. 25 years later – Deok-kyu, whose Olympic dreams were dashed, now runs a struggling noodle shop. Jae-seok who always wanted to be number one but still finds himself in a third-rate gang. And Sang-hoon, a thug turned corporate executive who must go back and find his bloodlust one last time.
Starring: Woong-in Jung, Hwang Jung-Min, Yo-won Lee, Jun-Sang Yoo, Je-mun Yun
Director: Woo-Suk Kang
Liar Game: Reborn / Raiâ gêmu: Saisei (2012)
Drama
College graduate Yu Shinomiya is invited to the Liar Game, which has been restarted by funding from new investors. She turns to her psychology professor for help, who is none other than Shinichi Akiyama, former Liar Game champion. He advises her to ignore the invitation, but afraid of the penalty fee should she do so, she decides to participate. Soon, Akiyama is issued an invitation of his own by Fukunaga, who now works for the game. Playing on Akiyama's sympathy for the naive student, Fukunaga manages to get Akiyama to participate as well. The game this time is a diabolical version of Musical Chairs. Once again, Akiyama's cunning and ingenuity is put to the ultimate test.
Starring: Shôta Matsuda, Mikako Tabe, Hirofumi Arai, Mana Ashida, Makiko Esumi
Director: Hiroaki Matsuyama
Ayan (2009)
Action
Deva (Surya) is a computer science post graduate living in North Madras area with his mother (Renuka) who runs a grocery shop and duty free shop in the Bazaar. Instead of getting a government job according to his studies, Deva likes to become a smuggler (Kuruvi-carrier of smuggling goods from abroad) and finally joins Das (Prabhu), a good hearted local smuggler and old friend of his late father. Kamlesh (Akashdeep Saigal) is the only enemy of Das – Deva and always tries to become the number one in the bazaar by using all means. He cant even tolerate their small victories. Soon he sends one of his boy Chitti (Jegan) as a spy in Das' gang. Later Deva finds this and removes him from his gang. But in the meantime Deva falls in love with Chitty's beautiful younger sister. Kamlesh greedy to get rich and powerful starts dealing in narcotics, which is against the principles and ethics of Deva-Das combo. All this leads to bloody clashes and a satisfied climax.
Starring: Suriya, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prabhu, Jagan, Akashdeep Saigal, Karunas
Director: Anand K.V.
