Category: Eastern
Posted on July 22, 2013 |
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The Wedding Banquet / Xi yan (1993)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several complications.
Starring: Ya-lei Kuei, Sihung Lung, May Chin, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein
Director: Ang Lee
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Posted on July 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Pushing Hands (1992) BluRay 720p AC3 x264-HDWinG
Pushing Hands / Tui shou (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Master Chu, a retired Chinese Tai-Chi master, moves to Westchester, New York to live with his son Alex, his American daughter-in-law Martha, and their son Jeremy. However, Martha's second novel is suffering from severe writers' block brought on by Chu's presence in the house. Alex must struggle to keep his family together as he battles an inner conflict between cultural tradition and his modern American lifestlye.
Starring: Sihung Lung, Lai Wang, Bo Z. Wang, Deb Snyder, Fanny De Luz
Director: Ang Lee
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Posted on July 22, 2013 |
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Sakuran (2006)
Drama | History
Set in Edo era Japan, “Sakuran” traces the life of Kiyoha (Anna Tsuchiya) as she rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. Kiyoha was determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Starring: Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Shiina, Yoshino Kimura, Hiroki Narimiya, Miho Kanno, Masatoshi Nagase
Director: Mika Ninagawa
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Posted on July 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Sorry Thanks (2011) HDTV 720p x264 AC3-HDWTV
Sorry, Thanks / Living with the Animals / Dong-mool-gwa Ham-gge Sa-neun Se-sang / Mi-han-hae, Ko-ma-weo (2011)
Drama
"Sorry, Thanks" is an omnibus film containing four short films. The central theme is the relationship between pets and their owners. In Heung-Sik Park's "My Younger Brother" a 6-year-old girl gets separated from her dog when her mother gets pregnant with her second child and the family decides to give the dog away for adoption. Soon-rye Lim's "Catty Kiss" tells the story of an old maid who often takes in stray cats. This has caused a conflict with her father who doesn't understand why she devotes so much money and time into the cats. Jeom-gyoon Oh's "Chu Chu" shows the friendship between the homeless man Young-jin and the stray dog Chu Chu. In Il-gon Song's "Thank You, I'm Sorry" a hard-working mother inherits a dog after the death of her father. Taking care of her father's dog causes her to reflect on her life.
Starring: Seo-Hyeon Ahn, Ji-ho Kim, Young-min Kim, Tae-hwa Seo
Director: Soon-rye Lim, Jeom-gyoon Oh, Heung-Sik Park, Il-gon Song
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Posted on July 22, 2013 | Comments Off on The Beast and the Beauty (2005) HDTV 720p x264 DD5.1-HDWTV
The Beast and the Beauty / Yasuwa minyeo (2005)
Comedy | Romance
Dong-Gun has a serious complex of sorts. He has low self-esteem about his appearance, particularly a scar that sits next to right eye-brow. His world changes when he drives down a street and is flagged down by a beautiful girl that gets into his car. The girl, named Hae-Joo, is blind and mistakes Dong-Gun’s car for a taxi cab and asks him to take drive her to another part of Seoul. He immediately falls for Hae-Joo and realizes that Hae-Joo’s blindness would be perfect for him and his low self-esteem. Dong-Gun soon becomes Hae-Joo’s eyes, taking her to various places and describes what everything looks like to her. When Hae-Joo asks Dong-Gun what he looks like, Dong-Gun inexplicably describes someone from his high school that he looked up to. His name ws Jun-Ha. They soon fall for each other and see each other day for 3 years. Everything changes once Hae-Joo receives a phone call from her doctor. The doctor tells her that a donor has been found and she can soon see again, once she has an operation. Dong-Gun again feels like the Beast and he doesn’t know what to do once the Beauty gets her vision back. Things are further complicated when Dong-Gun’s high school friend, Jun-Ha, randomly crosses path with Hae-Joo and falls for her as well.
Starring: Seung-beom Ryu, Min-a Shin, Sang-tae Ahn, Kang-woo Kim, Kil-Kang Ahn, Jong-shin Yuns
Director: Gye-byeok Lee
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Posted on July 19, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on July 19, 2013 |
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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
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Tags: Daisuke Gôri, Issei Futamata, Mamoru Oshii, Michihiro Ikemizu, Mîna Tominaga, Osamu Saka, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Shigeru Chiba, Tomomichi Nishimura, Toshio Furukawa, Yoshiko Sakakibara
Posted on July 19, 2013 |
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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
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Tags: Issei Futamata, Mamoru Oshii, Michihiro Ikemizu, Mîna Tominaga, Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi, Toshio Furukawa, Yô Inoue, Yoshiko Sakakibara
Posted on July 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Duresori The Voice of East (2012) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-EbP
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
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Posted on July 17, 2013 | Comments Off on Waterboys (2001) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-HDWinG
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
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Posted on July 17, 2013 | Comments Off on Chichi yo haha yo (1980) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-UMAi
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
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Posted on July 16, 2013 | Comments Off on Ghost (2010) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
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
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Posted on July 16, 2013 | Comments Off on Aurangzeb (2013) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-TayTO
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
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Posted on July 14, 2013 | Comments Off on The King of the Streets (2012) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-HDWinG
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
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Posted on July 14, 2013 | Comments Off on Paper Moon (2013) BluRay 720p AC3 x264-CHD
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
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Posted on July 14, 2013 | Comments Off on The Life of Oharu (1952) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay FLAC x264-TayTO
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
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Posted on July 12, 2013 | Comments Off on Graceland (2012) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-HDWinG
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
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Posted on July 12, 2013 | Comments Off on The City of Violence (2006) BluRay 720p DTS x264-CHD
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
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Posted on July 11, 2013 |
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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
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Posted on July 11, 2013 | Comments Off on Sisters On The Road (2008) HDTV 720p x264 AC3-HDWTV
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
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Tags: Eun-jin Bae, Hyo-jin Kong, Jae-won Moon, Ji-young Bu, Kwi-Jung Chu, Min-a Shin, Sang-hyun Kim
