Category: Eastern
Posted on August 6, 2013 |
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Gu Gu the Cat / Gou-Gou datte neko de aru (2008)
Drama
Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, who brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.
Starring: Kyôko Koizumi, Juri Ueno, Ryo Kase
Director: Isshin Inudô
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Posted on August 5, 2013 |
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan / J.T.H.J. (2012)
Drama | Romance
A young immigrant falls in love with a NRI who wanted to marry any British person, not a typical brown Indian. But she falls in love with that young musician, but this love story ends with a breakup. Then that man, fed up with life with vast emotion joins Indian army bomb squad, where he flirts with death everyday. A young discovery channel journalist approaches his team to cover bomb squad story but falls in love with him.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Yash Chopra
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Posted on August 5, 2013 |
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The Story of Qiu Ju / Qiu Ju da guan si (1992)
Comedy | Drama
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society.
Starring: Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei, Zhijun Ge
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Posted on August 5, 2013 |
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Gangster / Gangster: A Love Story (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya – who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed – a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut, Gulshan Grover, Vicky Ahuja
Director: Anurag Basu
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Posted on August 5, 2013 |
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Branded to Kill / Koroshi no rakuin (1967)
Action | Crime | Drama
Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself.
Starring: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Tags: Anne Mari, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Tamagawa, Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Mariko Ogawa, Seijun Suzuki
Posted on August 4, 2013 |
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Antapal / The Gangster (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this violent lifestyle is more and more difficult for Jod. He tries to avoid violence when he can but is soon put aside by more violent youngsters. When some of his friends die in internal wars, he decides to take his revenge on the gang.
Starring: Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Supapprom, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Wasu Sangsingkaew, Boonsong Nakphoo, Nantharat Chaowarat
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri
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Tags: Boonsong Nakphoo, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Krisada Supapprom, Nantharat Chaowarat, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Somchai Kemglad, Wasu Sangsingkaew
Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Chungking Express / Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Acclaimed Hong Kong New Wave director Wong Kar-Wai presents a kinetic, offbeat look at his city in these two stories. The first concerns a young woman who has been double-crossed in a heroin deal and her budding romance with a lovelorn cop. The second deals with another officer whose girlfriend has left him and the young waitress who tries to help him without his knowledge.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Director: Kar Wai Wong
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Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Rumble in the Bronx / Hung fan kui (1995)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Morgan Lam
Director: Stanley Tong
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Tags: Anita Mui, Bill Tung, Françoise Yip, Garvin Cross, Jackie Chan, Marc Akerstream, Morgan Lam, Stanley Tong
Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Mr.Lee vs Mr.Lee / Lee Dae-geun's Family / Yi daegeun, Yi daikeun (2007)
Drama | Family
An old widower Mr. Lee plans a family reunion on the three-year anniversary of his wife’s death, but faces a series of adversities in the way. His eldest son goes through a scandalous divorce, his daughter is tied up in a car accident, and the youngest son has been missing for years after declaring bankruptcy. Finally the big day arrives and as the clock strikes midnight, the secrets of the troubled Lees begin to unfold.
Starring: Dae-geun Lee, Lee Doo Il, Kyung Soon Jung, Sun-young Ahn, Cheol-min Park
Director: Kwang-jin Shim
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Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Behind the Yellow Line / Yuen fan (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The Chinese title for this entertaining romantic drama is 'Destiny', which is fitting because it features remarkable new talent whose destiny was to become some of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers. There then 20-year-old Miss Hong Kong Pageant first runner-up Maggie Cheung. There's Leslie Cheung, before he became an award-winning singer/actor icon. There's Anita Mui ('The Chinese Madonna'), who won the Hong Kong Film Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance. And there's co-scripter Gordon Chan, destined to become a top writer/director.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Anthony Chan
Director: Taylor Wong
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Posted on August 1, 2013 |
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Tokyo Family / Tokyo kazoku (2013)
Drama
An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama (Isao Hashizume) and Tomiko ( Kazuko Yoshiyuki) live on a small island in the Inland Sea. They go to Tokyo. The couple have 3 children. The eldest son Koichi (Masahiko Nishimura) runs a hospital. The first daughter Shigeko (Tomoko Nakajima) runs a beauty salon. The second son Shuji (Satoshi Tsumabuki) works in stage art. The families ask the parents to take a rest in Tokyo, but the parents do not like staying in Tokyo. One day, Tomiko visits Shuji's apartment. There, Tomiko is introduced to Shuji's fiance Noriko (Yu Aoi), but Tomiko collapses at Koichi's house…
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yû Aoi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Isao Hashizume
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Posted on July 31, 2013 |
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Miracle in Cell No.7 / Gift from Room 7 (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Successful Ryoo Seung-yong comes back as a fool Yong-gu for his daughter! Outsiders not allowed! In room number 7 of the prison where all kinds of criminals are gathered, comes Yong-gu, a father with the sense of a 6 year-old and his 7 year-old daughter Ye-seung. The mission of these criminals in room number 7 is to protect these two who can never stay apart for a single moment. Will they succeed?
Starring: Man-shik Jeong, Dal-su Oh, Shin-Hye Park, Won-sang Park, Seung-yong Ryoo, Kal So-Won, Kim Jung Tae
Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
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Tags: Dal-su Oh, Kal So-Won, Kim Jung Tae, Lee Hwan-Kyung, Man-shik Jeong, Seung-yong Ryoo, Shin-Hye Park, Won-sang Park
Posted on July 29, 2013 |
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Shao Lin xiao zi / Shaolin Temple 2: Kids from Shaolin (1984)
Action | Comedy
Two rivaling families live on opposite sides of a river. One of them practices Shaolin kung fu and has only sons, while the other has only daughters and practices the Wu-Tang sword. The father of the Wu-Tang family is so paranoid about the Shaolin kids stealing his sword style (besides, he wants a son to teach it to, and the closest thing he has is a lesbian daughter) that he is taken off guard when some real bad guys come along to kill his family, but the Shaolin family helps them out. All the while, everyone is desperately trying to get the lesbian girl to marry Jet Li.
Starring: Jet Li, Lan Ding, Qiuyan Huang, Chia Hui Liu, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu
Director: Hsin-yan Chang
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Posted on July 29, 2013 |
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Shao Lin Si / The Shaolin Temple (1982)
Action
The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor, who killed his father. The monks have to help him, and in the process, they save the true emperor, who rewards them greatly. Based on a true story from Shaolin folklore, but highly fictionalized.
Starring: Jet Li, Lan Ding, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu, Chun Hua Ji, Hu Jian Qiang, Wang Guang Quan
Director: Hsin-yan Chang
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Posted on July 29, 2013 |
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Love Me Not / Sarang-ttawin piryo-eopseo (2006)
Romance
Julian (Kim Ju-Hyeok) has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Ryoo Min (Moon Geun-Young), the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Ryoo Min’s eyesight relapsed, threatening her life.
Starring: Ju-hyuk Kim, Geun-Young Moon
Director: Cheol-ha Lee
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Posted on July 27, 2013 |
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Twilight Gangsters / Yukhyeolpo kangdodan (2010)
Comedy | Crime
For eight years three grandmothers saved their money for a VIP tour packages to Hawaii. The grandmothers have all had difficult experiences and used their dream vacation as a beacon of hope in their lives. Jung-Ja (Na Moon-Hee) was once imprisoned and suffered the ordeal of giving up her son for adoption. Young-Hee (Kim Soo-Mi) has finally broken free from her cheating husband & heartbreak. Shin-Ja (Kim Hye-Ok) is a widow with a son that steals her money. Yet the three grandmothers have finally saved enough money for the dream vacation. The grandmothers then go to the bank to wire their money, but at that moment the bank is held up by robbers. The grandmothers lose their savings and the bank can't offer any assistance. It is at this moment that the grandmothers set off track the robbers down themselves. Using their guile and wisdom the grandmothers are able to track one of the thieves down named Joon-Suk (Im Chang-Jung). Unfortunately for the grandmothers, Joon-Suk was swindled by his gang and is now completely broke. The grandmothers are not willing to give up their dream vacation. They then make Joon-Suk train them in the art of bank robbing and the grandmothers then set out to rob banks themselves…
Starring: Mun-hee Na, Su-mi Kim, Hye-ok Kim, Chang Jung Lim, Eun-woo Lee
Director: Hyo-jin Kang
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Posted on July 26, 2013 |
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Christmas Rose / Sheng dan mei gui (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Paralyzed at a young age, Jing is a kind piano teacher who leads a quiet life. One day, she is allegedly molested by her doctor Zhou, who is promptly arrested and charged. The prosecutor of the case is Tim, an idealistic lawyer who join the law world to punish the guilty. However, as Tim's investigator Nam helps him peel back the pieces, the more complex the case becomes. Soon, Tim begins to question the truth surrounding Jing's story.
Starring: Chen Chang, Pat Ha, Aaron Kwok, Kai Chi Liu, Gwei Lun-Mei, Yu Xia
Director: Charlie Yeung
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Posted on July 26, 2013 |
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9-9-81 (2012)
Horror
A bride-to-be jumps to her death after becoming convinced that a tragic accident has claimed the life of her groom-to-be. But, the end of her life is the beginning of the story when her groom-to-be is alive and his false death turns out to be his and her best friend's plan to get rid of her. Distraught by the betrayal, the spirit of the bride-to-be is craving for vengeance.
Starring: Patitta Attayatamavitaya, Supachai Girdsuwan, Setsit Limkasitdej, Thiti Vechabul
Director: Rapeepimol Chaiyasena
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Posted on July 26, 2013 |
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Land of Hope / Kibô no kuni (2012)
Drama
An elderly couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a small residential area. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents learn they must evacuate, but the elderly couple owns a farm, with the evacuation line draped across their front yard. The father wants to stay, but the son wants him to go. Meanwhile, the son's wife Izumi (Megumi Kagurazaka) learns she is pregnant.
Starring: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ohtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka, Hikari Kajiwara, Yutaka Shimizu
Director: Shion Sono
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Posted on July 26, 2013 |
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Porco Rosso / Kurenai no buta (1992)
Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Romance
When "Porco" — whose face has been transformed into that of a pig by a mysterious spell — infuriates a band of sky pirates with his aerial heroics, the pirates hire Curtis, a rival pilot, to "get rid" of him. On the ground, the two pilots compete for the affections of the beautiful Gina. But it is in the air where the true battles are waged. Will our hero be victorious?
Starring: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Sanshi Katsura, Greg Ellis, Tsunehiko Kamijô, Akemi Okamura, Akio Ohtsuka, Hiroko Seki
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Tags: Akemi Okamura, Akio Ohtsuka, Greg Ellis, Hayao Miyazaki, Hiroko Seki, Sanshi Katsura, Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Tsunehiko Kamijô
