Patlabor 3: The Movie / Patlabor 3 / WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002)
Action | Animation | Crime | Sci-Fi
Two police detectives and SV2 investigate a series of mysterious acts of deadly destruction occuring in and around Tokyo Bay.
Starring: Katsuhiko Watabiki, Hiroaki Hirata, Atsuko Tanaka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa
Director: Takuji Endo, Fumihiko Takayama
Patlabor 2: The Movie / Patlabor 2 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: The Movie 2 (1993)
Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The date is 2002, three years after the events of Patlabor: The Movie. The destruction of a United Nations Labor team in South East Asia begins the build-up to a deadly terrorist plan that threatens to send shockwaves throughout Japan's military. With evidence of an impending military takeover, the scattered members of the original SVD (Special Vehicle Division) must gather to defend the city against danger.
Starring: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata, Daisuke Gôri, Shigeru Chiba, Osamu Saka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Tomomichi Nishimura
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Patlabor: The Movie / Patlabor 1 / Kidô keisatsu patorebâ: Gekijô-ban (1989)
Action | Animation | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 1999. Japan has concentrated 45% of its entire labor force in the ambitious Babylon Project, designed to save the Tokyo Bay area from being submerged as an effect of the sea level increment. For this purpose, a 500-meter wide and 150-meter high multy-level platform, called the Ark, has been built on the sea. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the eventual destruction of Tokyo. What is the connection between the suicide, the new Mobile Police AV-X0 Zero Labor, and a military prototype Labor suddenly gone berserk?
Starring: Toshio Furukawa, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Yô Inoue, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Duresori: The Voice of East / Du-re Sori Story (2012)
Drama | Music | Teen
Seul-Gi and Ah-Reum are 3rd year students at the National High School of the Traditional Arts. They are also best friends. Seul-Gi majors in pansori (Korean traditional music) and Ah-Reum majors in Gyeonggi Folk Music. During their summer break, the girls struggle with pressures and anxiety. They then take a special summer school class due to a lack of attendance. Meanwhile, the Education Burea informs their school that they will take part in a chorus contest. The school selects Teacher Ham, a composer, to make up the school's chorus team. The pool consists of students from the special summer school class. A conflict also ensues between Ms. Ham, who majored in western music, and the students, who are majors in traditional Korean music. Can the students compete in the chorus performance?
Starring: Jo Ah-Reum, Choi Eun-hye, Choi Eun-Yeong, Lim Ha-nee, Ham Hyeon-Sang, Kim Seul-gi
Director: Cho Jung-Rae
Waterboys (2001)
Comedy | Sport
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Kôen Kondô, Takatoshi Kaneko, Aya Hirayama
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Chichi yo haha yo! / The Young Rebels (1980)
Drama
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents. Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.
Starring: Kaneko Iwasaki, Gô Katô, Kunitaro Kawarazaki, Junko Mihara, Hiroyuki Nagato
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Ghost / Gôsuto (2010)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A man tries to solve his lover's murder by communicating with her spirit through the help of a medium.
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Seung-heon Song, Kirin Kiki, Sawa Suzuki, Satoshi Hashimoto
Director: Tarô Ohtani
Aurangzeb (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A cop goes undercover into a gangster's family as his son. This sets in place a chain reaction of complications and increasingly uncontrollable events.
Starring: Arjun Kapoor, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Jackie Shroff, Rishi Kapoor, Sasha Aagha
Director: Atul Sabharwal
The King of the Streets / Jie tou zhi wang (2012)
Action | Drama
The film is about a boy who seeks revenge for the death of his parents who were killed eight years ago. He fights the local gangsters and finally achieves his goal.
Starring: Song Yue, Yufei Li, Junping Yang, Changhai Li, En Kang, Jianping Yang
Director: Song Yue
Paper Moon / Zhi yue liang (2013)
Drama | Romance
Paper Moon is inspired by the popular The Iron Lady which has won 5 Golden Awards. The movie is centered around The Iron Lady who has showcased her iron fist in winning the race in business world. Song, a boy from a poor family which produced kites had a crush on a girl from a wealthy family, who later become the iron lady. The pure love between young couple subsequently evolved into a romantic yet dreary epic.
Starring: Tedd Chan, Chrissie Chow, Ka Tung Lam
Director: Stanley Law
The Life of Oharu / Saikaku ichidai onna (1952)
Drama
A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They were discovered, thus Oharu and her family were exiled. From there on, Oharu lived the rest of her life filled with sorrow and humiliation.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Graceland (2012)
Crime | Thriller
A desperate father risks everything to save his kidnapped daughter.
Starring: Arnold Reyes, Menggie Cobarrubias, Dido De La Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara
Director: Ron Morales
The City of Violence / Jjakpae (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. At the funeral, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it each in his own way. Both of their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing and the two embark on a difficult battle.
Starring: Jae-mo Ahn, Kil-Kang Ahn, Seok-yong Jeong, Deok-hyeon Jo, Doo-hong Jung
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
The Boy Inside / The King and I / Ôsama to boku (2012)
Comedy
On the night of Mikihiko's (Tori Matsuzaka) 18th birthday, Mikihiko thinks of childhood friend Morio (Masaki Suda). Morio has been in vegetative state since the age of 6 after being involved in an accident. One day, Moria awakens from his vegetative state. Morio still has the mind of a 6-year-old…
Starring: Masaki Suda, Tôri Matsuzaka, Hiroki Aiba, Fumi Nikaidô, Masataka Nakagauchi, Miyuki Matsuda
Director: Tetsu Maeda
Sisters on the Road / Jigeum, idaeroga joayo (2008)
Drama
The sudden death of her mother brings Myeong-eun back home to Jeju island. There she meets her sister Myeong-ju and her daughter Seung-a, still living at their old home, and Hyeon-a who has lived with them for over 20 years like a relative. With the absence of her father, and her complex about being an illegitimate child, Myeongeun tells Hyeon-a she will start looking for her father after the funeral. Myeong-ju accompanies her sister because of Hyeon-a’s persuasion and her sense of duty as an older sibling.
Starring: Hyo-jin Kong, Min-a Shin, Sang-hyun Kim, Kwi-Jung Chu, Jae-won Moon, Eun-jin Bae
Director: Ji-young Bu
Woman / The Lady / Onna (1948)
Drama
An ambitious work shot entirely on location in Hakone and Atami that follows a dancing girl as she tries to escape from a persistent rogue and make a new start in life. Their suspenseful duel reaches its climax in a breathtaking sequence that takes place during a fire in an inn town.
Starring: Mitsuko Mito, Eitarô Ozawa
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
The Last Chushingura / The Last Ronin / Saigo no Chûshingura (2010)
Drama
An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba, Kôji Yamamoto, Jun Fubuki, Kunie Tanaka, Masatô Ibu, Yoshi Oida, Narumi Yasuda, Nizaemon Kataoka
Director: Shigemichi Sugita
Kai po che! (2013)
Drama
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Starring: Amrita Puri, Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Sushant Singh Rajput, Amit Sadh, Raj Kumar Yadav
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Rage of the Undead / Zomvideo / Zonbideo (2011)
Comedy | Horror
Aiko and Hashimoto discover among some VHS tapes a video called "A Guide to Surviving from Zombies". It is a video with a series of indications that will help them face the invasion of living dead taking place in Japan. Who knew it might really happen!?
Starring: Saki Nakajima, Jtarô Sugisaku, Miyuki Torii, Maimi Yajima
Director: Kenji Murakami
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 3 – Descent / Berserk: Ohgon jidai hen 3 – Kôrin (2013)
Action | Animation | Fantasy | Horror
Guts and the remainder of the Band of the Hawk join forces once again to try to rescue Griffith from the depths of Midland. This is just the prelude of a nefarious ritual intended to brand the end of the Golden Age arc.
Starring: Kevin T. Collins, Marc Diraison, Takahiro Fujiwara, Hiroaki Iwanaga, Yûki Kaji
Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka, Michael Sinterniklaas
