Housefull 2 (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Four son-in-laws marry four brides whose four father-in laws mistake every son-in law for Jolly.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Shreyas Talpade, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Shazahn Padamsee
Director: Sajid Khan
Tampopo / Dandelion (1985)
Comedy
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka
Director: Jûzô Itami
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Mobile Suit Gundam F91 / Kidô senshi Gundam F91 (1991)
Animation | Sci-Fi
After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation has begun to build new space colonies to house humanity's growing population. But a new force, the aristocratic Crossbone Vanguard, plans to seize the colonies of the newly-constructed Frontier Side for itself. As their home becomes a battlefield, a handful of young civilians struggle to escape the conflict. Armed with the state-of-the-art Gundam F91, Seabook and his friends put up a desperate struggle against the Crossbone menace…
Starring: Kôji Tsujitani, Yumi Tôma, Masaaki Maeda, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Takeshi Kusao
Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino
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Bunty Aur Babli / B.N.B. (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Unhappy with his life and circumstances, Rakesh, the son of a railway employee in India, wants to become rich very quickly. He quarrels with the rest of his family, and leaves for Mumbai city. On the way there he meets with another runaway, Vimmi, a wanna-be model and actress, they end up getting attracted to each other, and together they carry out a rash of daring robberies – prompting the authorities to ask Dashrath, a senior ranking police-man to apprehend them and bring their respective careers to an abrupt halt. Will Rakesh and Vimmi – now known as Bunty and Babli – let Dashrath end their careers that easily?
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji
Director: Shaad Ali
Aftershock / Tangshan dadizhen (2010)
Drama
On July 28th, 1976, a powerful earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan, north-east of Beijing, China, and killed more than 240,000 people. Director Feng Xiaogang's Aftershock recreates the tragic event and the years of painful recovery that followed it.
Starring: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu, Fan Xu, Jingchu Zhang, Zi-feng Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Guoqiang Zhang, Ziwen Wang
Director: Xiaogang Feng
The Warlords / Tau ming chong (2007)
Action | Drama | History | War
During the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, General Pang barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu and Wu Yang. After fighting back attackers from a helpless village, the three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan.
Starring: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Director: Peter Chan, Wai Man Yip
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Samurai Princess / Samurai purinsesu: Gedô-hime (2009)
Action | Horror
When 11 of her friends are raped and murdered, leaving the Samurai Princess (adult video star Aino Kishi) the only survivor, she becomes infused with her comrades' souls. Transformed into an android, she sets out to avenge their deaths. Dai Mizuno co-stars as the princess's human partner in this Kengo Kaji-directed gore fest that features breast grenades, detachable chainsaw limbs, deadly guitar riffs and more.
Starring: Yû Aiba, Takeshi Ayabe
Director: Kengo Kaji
The Bounty / Xuan Hong / Xuan Shang (2012)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Former cop Shifeng Cao (Chapman To), now unemployed and living off of his savings, learns of 400,000 HK bounty placed on a wanted criminal. He then makes a trip out to the Lazy Inn Hotel in hopes to track the criminal's whereabouts.
Starring: Alex Man, Fiona Sit, Chapman To
Director: Chi Keung Fung
P / The Possessed (2005)
Horror
When a young girl from rural Thailand is forced to work in a Bangkok gogo bar, she uses dark Khmer magic for advantage and revenge. But she unwittingly releases an evil that soon she cannot control with horrifying consequences.
Starring: Suangporn Jaturaphut, Dean Barrett, Shaun Delaney, John Kathrein, Chartchai Kongsiri
Director: Paul Spurrier
Fanaa / Im Sturm der Liebe (2009)
Drama | Musical | Romance | Thriller
To choose between right or wrong is simple, but what defines one's life is the decision between the greater of two goods or the lesser of two evils. This is the advice that Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) receives from her father just as she is about to venture out into the world on her own for the very first time. Little does she know that these very words will shape her life. Zooni, a blind Kashmiri girl meets Rehan Qadri (Aamir Khan), a local tour guide and an incorrigible flirt who goes from city to city exploring their architecture as also the women. Her friends warn her against this good-for-nothing roadside-romeo, but she chooses to ignore them. She is not one to be protected. It is now her time to discover life, and love. Is this really the right choice? Rehan is fascinated by Zooni. He truly wants her to see life as it should be seen, in its many colours, and as he promises her, the time spent with him will be the most precious in all her life. Zooni sees Delhi, life and love like she never has before, because of Rehan. What Zooni doesn't know is that Rehan has another side of his life that he has kept from her, something that can not only change her life but can also destroy it…
Starring: Aamir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor, Tabu
Director: Kunal Kohli
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Jia Wu Da Hai Zhan (2012)
Drama | War
Set during the turbulent Qing Dynasty, the film is an epic war drama, and tells the story of Deng Shichang, a navy officer fighting against the Japanese invader in the War of Jiawu.
Starring: Yi Lu, Lixin Yang, Yu Xia, Haiying Sun, Liping Lü, Jiaming Guo, Guang-ze Ma
Director: Xiaoning Feng
Audition / Ôdishon (1999)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A widowed TV producer is encouraged by his teenage son to remarry before he gets too old. Unable to find anyone suitable, he decides to hold auditions for a false movie in order to test out potential wives. He thinks he may have found the one he is looking for when he auditions a former ballerina, but she seems too good to be true and an investigation into her past reveals a horrific secret.
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Ryo Ishibashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Takashi Miike
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The Law of Attraction / Wan You Yin Li (2011)
Drama | Romance
Businessman Gao Yuan (Wen Zhang) misses his flight due to the fault of the airport security detectors and he puts the blame on the officer in-charge, Shi Xiao Lin (Bai Bai He). After a series of disputes and misunderstandings, Xiao Lin remembers clearly of his previous trips at the Beijing Airport Terminal 3. And soon it opens up the love between the two. Mathematician Wang Yong (Guo Tao) and his wife Xue Lian (Zhang Jing Chu) are trying hard to conceive a baby until they need to see different doctors to check the fertility of their sperm and ovum respectively. They even tried yogas, assisted reproductive recipes, and even different sex positions. After unsuccessful first few attempts, eventually Xue Lian manages to get pregnant. Ah Mei (Karen Mok) is travelling with an unidentified lover until they got an accident on an intersection. Both managed to survive. What Ah Mei did not know is that the accident was staged as a motive of revenge by her husband Zhou Yun Shan (Leon Dai), as a method of punishment for his unfaithful wife. At the same time both are trying hard to save their crumbling marriage. Hai Qiao (Bowen Duan) and Jia Xin (Huang Huan) are childhood parachute jumping partners. As an adult Jian Xin is forced to quit parachute jumping due of drug use. As a result of this Hai Qiao is depressed and is changing his own way to persuade her to quit drug taking. She manages to quit and both become parachute jumping partners once again with a new beginning.
Starring: Baihe Bai, Leon Dai, Bowen Duan, Karen Mok, Jingchu Zhang, Tao Guo, Zhang Wen, Huan Huang
Director: Zhao Tianyu
Connected / Bo chi tung wah (2008)
Action
Bob (Louis Koo)'s life isn't going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, he's trapped in a job that goes against his usual easy-going helpful nature and he's under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister (Flora Chan)'s threat to move to China with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue. It's a stranger called Grace (Barbie Hsu) who claims a mysterious kidnapper (Liu Ye) is keeping her against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. Is it just a heartless prank? The detective (Nick Cheung) he tried reporting the call to seems to think so but Bob's instincts tell him that he may just be the only thing standing between them and a painful death. But does he have the mettle to rise above his own self-centred concerns and risk everything – including his own son – for two people he has never met and who may not even exist?
Starring: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung, Ye Liu, Siu-Wong Fan, Siu-Fai Cheung, Beibi Gong
Director: Benny Chan
Castle in the Sky / Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Romance
An orphan named Sheeta eludes the clutches of a secret agent named Muska while trying to discern her family's history. After her first escape from Muska, Sheeta meets up with a young boy named Pazu, whose father, a photographer, was disgraced after he took a picture of the legendary flying island of Laputa and had it dismissed as a hoax. When the two realize that a family heirloom Sheeta carries allows them to levitate, the two begin a search for the lost island, trailed by Muska, who is also searching for Laputa.
Starring: Barbara Goodson, James Van Der Beek, Lara Cody, Cloris Leachman, Mike Reynolds, Michael McShane
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Hansel & Gretel / Henjel gwa Geuretel (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!
Starring: Jeong-myeong Cheon, Young-nam Jang, Ji-hee Jin, Kyeong-ik Kim, Hee-soon Park, Eun-kyung Shim, Eun Won-jae
Director: Pil-Sung Yim
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Ballad / Ballad: Na mo naki koi no uta (2009)
Action | Drama | Romance
A movie examining a young boy's first encounter with true fear in his endless pursuit of courage.
Starring: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yui Aragaki, Akashi Takei, Michitaka Tsutsui, Yui Natsukawa
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
April Snow / Oechul (2005)
Drama | Romance
A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident. After learning that their spouses have been having an affair, the two begin one of their own.
Starring: Yong-jun Bae, Ye-jin Son
Director: Jin-ho Hur
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Joyful Reunion / Yin shi nan nü – Hao yuan you hao jin (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells his two daughters, the careerist Wa'er (Huo Siyan) and teenage Xiaolan (Jiang Mengjie), that he has decided to sell his upscale vegetarian restaurant, the centre of his life for 30 years. Wa'er manages a luxury health resort and is dating Chang Chuan (Blue Lan), a computer-games designer from Taiwan. Chang Chuan goes to Taipei to visit his aunt, Pai Ping (Rose Kuei), who effectively raised him, and she ends up accompanying him back to Hangzhou, where she originally grew up but hasn't re-visited since leaving for Taiwan in her teens. Pai Ping meets Wa'er but her forthrightness often proves embarrassing in the sophisticated circles Wa'er moves in. Pai Ping notices, however, that Bei Ming (Chang Hsiao-chuan), general manager of the luxury health-resort group, is also romancing Wa'er, who feels neglected by Chang Chuan in favour of his work. One day Pai Ping tells Wa'er her story – how she was born in Hunan province, moved when young to Hangzhou where she worked in the restaurant business, and finally moved to Taiwan – and the two women bond. When Shizhe reveals the real reason for selling his restaurant, Wa'er resigns from her job to help him out and be with him. Meanwhile, Shizhe, who has not yet met Pai Ping, decides to cook a special meal to welcome her.
Starring: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Siyan Huo, Ya-lei Kuei, Cheng-Lung Lan, Kenneth Tsang
Director: Jui-Yuan Tsao
The Raid: Redemption / Serbuan maut (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A swat team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no go zone it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched.
Starring: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah
Director: Gareth Evans
