Category: Eastern
Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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Shield of Straw / Wara no tate (2013)
Action | Thriller
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing. Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad states "Please kill this man Kunihide Kiyomaru and I will pay you 1,000,000,000 yen as a reward." Meanwhile, Kunihide Kiyomaru sees the ad and begins to fear for his life. Kunihide Kiyomaru then turns himself in at the Fukuoka Police Station. Five detectives from the security section (SP) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department travel to Fukuoka to escort Kunihide Kiyomaru back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The distance between Fukuoka and Tokyo is apprixmately 1,200 km. During their fateful trip, a significant portion of the Japanese population plot to kill Kunihide Kiyomaru. Many of those people, actually pursue Kunihide Kiyomaru while he goes back to Tokyo to get the 1 billion yen reward. The lonely fight of the five detectives to protect this man begins…
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Ohsawa, Gorô Kishitani, Masatô Ibu, Kento Nagayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Hirotarô Honda
Director: Takashi Miike
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Tags: Gorô Kishitani, Hirotarô Honda, Kento Nagayama, Kimiko Yo, Masatô Ibu, Nanako Matsushima, Takao Ohsawa, Takashi Miike, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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The Unbroken / The Sun That Doesn't Set / Shizumanu taiyô (2009)
Drama
A drama based on the 1985 plane crash that caused 520 deaths, the worst aviation event in Japanese history.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Erika Toda, Teruyuki Kagawa, Shun Sugata, Tomokazu Miuram, Misa Shimizu
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
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Tags: Erika Toda, Ken Watanabe, Misa Shimizu, Setsurô Wakamatsu, Shun Sugata, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomokazu Miuram
Posted on September 25, 2013 | Comments Off on New Police Story (2004) 720p BluRay x264 DTS 3Audio-HDWinG
New Police Story / Xin jing cha gu shi (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Massive explosions and incredible stunts abound as Jackie Chan makes what many refer to as a comeback with this Chinese release. He plays the burned-out Inspector Wing, whose motivation died when the rest of his police team was wiped out at the hands of a wily and brutal new gang. When, against the odds, a rookie cop rouses the weathered Inspector to go after the gang, however, there is no stopping him until justice has been served.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Dave Wong, Andy On, Terence Yin, Rongguang Yu, Coco Chiang, Tony Leung
Director: Benny Chan
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Tags: Andy On, Benny Chan, Charlene Choi, Charlie Yeung, Coco Chiang, Daniel Wu, Dave Wong, Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Rongguang Yu, Terence Yin, Tony Leung
Posted on September 25, 2013 | Comments Off on Police Story II (1988) 720p BluRay x264 AC3 2Audio-HDWinG
Police Story II / Ging chaat goo si juk jaap (1988)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
His personal war against crime has earned Kevin Chan a demotion from detective to traffic cop just as Hong Kong is hit with a wave of bomb scares. Chan unofficially follows up his own leads and tracks down the bombers, but not before his girlfriend is abducted.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Posted on September 25, 2013 | Comments Off on Police Story I (1985) 720p BluRay x264 AC3 2Audio-HDWinG
Police Story / Ging chat goo si (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A police raid on a drug gang goes awry, and for detective Kevin Chan, nothing seems to go right from there. Even when the gang boss is brought to trial, he is acquitted when Kevin's evidence disappears from under his nose. His attempt to rescue a beautiful but reluctant key witness results in Kevin being wanted for murder and on the run from both the gang and his own squad. To bring the gang to justice he has to find the evidence and the witness–and stay alive long enough to convince his colleagues of his innocence.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Posted on September 24, 2013 |
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A Legend or Was It? / Legend of a Duel to the Death / Shito no densetsu (1963)
Action | Drama
A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of his barbarous acts during the war. She and her family are ousted from the village, but her suitor refuses to give up…
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mariko Kaga, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsutomu Matsukawa, Bunta Sugawara, Yoshi Katô, Kikue Môri, Tatsuya Ishiguro
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
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Tags: Bunta Sugawara, Gô Katô, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kikue Môri, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mariko Kaga, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Tsutomu Matsukawa, Yoshi Katô
Posted on September 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Boy (1969) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-KG
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
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Posted on September 18, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on September 18, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on September 17, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on September 17, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on September 15, 2013 |
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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
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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Dmitri Korshikov, Maksim Munzuk, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vladimir Kremena, Yuri Solomin
Posted on September 13, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on September 12, 2013 | Comments Off on Jan Dara The Finale UNCUT (2013) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-HDWinG
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
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Posted on September 11, 2013 |
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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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Posted on September 11, 2013 | Comments Off on Tales from the Dark 1 (2013) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
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
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Tags: Cherry Ngan, Chi-Ngai Lee, Fruit Chan, Jeannie Chan, Kelly Chen, Shaw Yin Yin, Simon Yam, Tony Leung
Posted on September 10, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on September 9, 2013 | Comments Off on Go Grandriders (2012) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
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
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Posted on September 8, 2013 |
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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
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Tags: Kaito Ohyagi, Keiko Matsuzaka, Masahiko Nishimura, Masato Sakai, Masatoshi Nakamura, Mina Fujii, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yoshimitsu Morita, Yuki Ito, Yukie Nakama
Posted on September 8, 2013 | Comments Off on Raanjhanaa (2013) 720p BluRay DTS x264-TayTO
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
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