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
The Soul of Bread / Ai De Mian Bao Hun (2012)
Comedy | Romance
A love triangle between a handsome young baker and a local bread maker.
Starring: Han Dian Chen, Michelle Chen, Anthony Neely
Director: Pin-Chuan Kao
Love Exposure / Ai no mukidashi (2008)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yuu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking "panty shot" photos of women in public until he discovers Yoko, whom he sees as his Virgin Mary. Yoko, an anti-family, misandrist girl finds that her foster mother will be marrying Yuu's father. Koike, an "original sinner" and the regional leader of a brainwashing cult, co-ordinates a plan to convert Yuu's family to her cult. Under her careful direction, their lives come crashing together in one fateful street fight.
Starring: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka, Sô Hirosawa
Director: Shion Sono
Dancing Queen (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Family
The next mayor of Seoul candidate's wife becomes a dance singer in this movie as Hwang Jeong-min. She takes on the role of a poor lawyer turned politician and Uhm Jung-hwa as the wife who makes an attempt at singing without her husband knowing at first.
Starring: Jeong-hwa Eom, Jeong-min Hwang
Director: Seok-hoon Lee
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Ishaqzaade (2012)
Action | Drama | Romance
Rising from the ashes of hooliganism and small town wars, comes a passionate love story ignited by hatred. A story of two people who were born to hate but destined to love. One kingdom. One throne. Two wild animals. One totally unpredictable and the other… ferocious! A battle… deafened by the sounds of hate, revenge, bullets and deceit. A story about two fiery bloods played by Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra, and their fight for power and supremacy. A love story brewing in a small town… burning with hatred.
Starring: Meeta Bandhu, Akash Bathija, Pravin Chandra, Parineeti Chopra, Aradhana Dhawan
Director: Habib Faisal
Nameless Gangster / Bumchoiwaui junjaeng (2012)
Crime | Thriller
On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Jung-woo Ha
Director: Jong-bin Yun
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Himizu (2012)
Crime | Drama
Sumida and his schoolmate Keiko are 14 year old school kids living a dystopian existence where each of their parents' hopes and encourages them to die. Set in tsunami-hit areas of Japan about May 2011, which is used as a backdrop, the story follows roughly that of the manga of the same name wherein Sumida fights frequently with his father, is abandoned by his mother and tends to reject friendly advances of others. Eventually, he kills his father and then, assuming his life is ruined, attempts to improve society by killing "bad" people. Although not immediately obvious, what instead happens is that he attacks psychotic and violent characters, while he instead learns from Keiko and the Yakuza and people who befriended him that he himself has become "sick", eventually breaking free of the cycle of violence, but without a complete resolution of the issues raised during the movie before its end.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Makiko Watanabe
Director: Sion Sono
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Clash of the Families / Wi-heom-han Sang-gyeon-rye (2011)
Comedy | Romance
When cartoonist Hyun-joon (Song, Sae-Byeok) falls in love with Da-hong (Lee, Si-young), one of his fans, it sets up the archetypal battle between their two families, who are from rival regions. Hyun-joon comes from the politically liberal Honam region (North and South Jeolla) while Da-hong comes from the conservative Yeongnam region (North and South Gyeongsang). When the two declare their intention to marry, they are confronted with a seemingly endless number of barriers that threaten their happiness.
Starring: Sae-Byeok Song, Si-young Lee, Yun-shik Baek, Su-mi Kim, Eung-soo Kim
Director: Jin-yeong Kim
Fairy Tale Killer / Zui hung (2012)
Crime | Thriller
One Day, a medium built stammerer, Jun confesses five murders at police station, but he fails to illustrate the details, after long oral examination the police believes Jun is mentally disorder and his mentioned murder cases do not come from the fact. Soon after, a cold-blooded murder unveils a series of mysterious murders in the district where Detective Han stations in. Each of the victims is executed by different but equally brutal way. Han knows that he is dealing with a serial killer. Instinct tells him Jun is the suspense after he goes over all recent statements. His team goes and rummages around in Jun's apartment, except a pile of old fairy tale books, no criminal evidence is found in the messy apartment.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Baoqiang Wang, Elanne Kwong, Yee-Man Man, Ken Lo, Suet Lam
Director: Danny Pang
Floating City / Fu Cheng (2012)
Drama
In the early 1990s, Bo Wah Chuen, merely 40 years old, has already been promoted to the top management position of the British East India Company in Hong Kong, then a crown colony. Looking back over his beginning, he was raised in a poor, boat-dwelling family of Tanka fishermen – although he doesn't look anything like pure Chinese – and had not received proper education until he reached adulthood. Coming from such humble background, Chuen was met with a great deal of ridicule and discrimination due to class and racial biases. But through his own hard work, the lowly office assistant strove to climb up the ranks and eventually became the multinational trading giant's first ever Chinese taipan. Still, despite his extraordinary achievements, Chuen is confused where his root truly lies…
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Charlie Yeung, Josie Ho, Seth Leslie, Annie Liu, Hee Ching Paw, David Peatfield
Director: Ho Yim
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My Way / Mai wei (2011)
Action | Drama | History | War
Inspired by a true story. Jun Shik works for Tatsuo's grandfather's farm while Korea is colonized by Japan, but he has a dream to participate in Tokyo Olympics as a marathon runner. Tatsuo also aims to become a marathon runner, so the two are in rivalry. But war breaks out and they both are forced to enlist in the army. Tatsuo becomes the head of defense in Jun Shik's unit and he devises a scheme but fails. Jun Shik and Tatsuo are captured by the Soviets. They run away but soon are captured by Germans and forced to separate. In 1944, they meet again at the shores of Normandy.
Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Jô Odagiri, Bingbing Fan, In-kwon Kim, Seung-hyeon Han
Director: Je-kyu Kang
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Love in the Buff / Chun giu yu chi ming (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Cosmetics girl Cherie and ad man Jimmy have been together for six months, and their honeymoon period has ended. After several disagreements, Jimmy decides to move to Beijing to advance his career, causing the two to break up. As fate would have it, Cherie is also assigned to Beijing several months later, and they eventually reunite. Touched by seeing familiar faces in a strange land, Cherie and Jimmy eventually become lovers again. However, Jimmy is now dating gorgeous flight attendant You You, and Cherie is being courted by Sam, a businessman who is clearly more mature and more successful than her ex-boyfriend. As their relationship turns into an affair, the two Hong Kongers now realize that making up is hard to do.
Starring: Miriam Wah, Shawn Yue and Mini Yang, Zheng Xu, Yat Ning Chan, Ekin Cheng, Yang Mi
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
First Time / Di Yi Ci (2012)
Romance
SHI, a college student with terminal muscle illness, comes across with her long-lost high school classmate GONG in the park while Gong is playing a Live Gig. Gong has a crash on Shi, and she falls for Gong immediately. Shi has no short-term memory because of the medicine. In order to remember the moments with Gong, Shi records everything between them in a cassette recorder. Shi always has a dream of being a dancer but her muscle illness stops her from chasing her dream. Gong wants to be supportive so he encourages Shi to sign up a dance competition despite the protest of her worrying mom…
Starring: Angelababy, Mark Chao, Jiang Shan, Allen Chao, Yuan Tian
Director: Yan Han
Grave of the Fireflies / Hotaru no haka (1988)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | War
On the final days of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his four-year-old sister Setsuko are orphaned after their mother is killed during an air-raid by American forces in Kobe, Japan. After having a falling-out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency funds and rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko must struggle to survive their hardships as well as those of their country, which is on the losing end of the war.
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Director: Isao Takahata
A Little Thing Called Love / Sing lek lek tee reak wa rak (2010)
Comedy | Romance
Nam is talented and funny, but with plain looks. She falls in love with the older Shone, one of the best-looking guys in school. Will she get her first love?
Starring: Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon, Mario Maurer, Acharanat Ariyaritwikol, Peerawat Herabat, Khachamach Promsaka Na Skolnakorn, Pijittra Siriwetchapan
Director: Puttipong Pormsaka Na-Sakonnakorn, Wasin Pokpong
The Second Woman / Qing mi (2012)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Hui Bao and Nan, a longtime couple, are both stage drama actors. They are now intensely rehearsing for their troupe's tour of their new play "The Legend of Lady Plum Blossom". After a lot of hard work, Hui Bao becomes the second leading actress of the play. Unfortunately, she falls severely ill right before the last show of the tour, and worries that her failure to perform would destroy her career. Hui Bao's performance, however, totally blows everyone away and is highly acclaimed as her best performance ever….
Starring: Qi Shu, Shawn Yue, Shu Chen, Mengmeng Niu, Meijuan Xi
Director: Miu-suet Lai
My Neighbor Totoro / Tonari no Totoro (1988)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Two young girls, Mei and Satsuki, move into a new home that is close to the hospital that their mother is in. In their yard is an extremely large tree which is home to three Totoros, gods of the forest. Soon after, news from the hospital comes up that their mother can't come home as promised, so Mei (the younger daughter) runs away from home to visit her mom. Satsuki then needs to turn to Totoro for help in finding her sister.
Starring: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Paul Butcher, Dakota Fanning, Frank Welker
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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407 Dark Flight
Horror | Thriller
Ten years ago a young air hostess, New, miraculously survived a plane crash. New insists that a vengeful spirit caused that accident, but her belief unsettled those around her and she had to go through psycho-therapy. Now the woman is ready to fly again. But on her first flight, New is struck by a disturbing feeling.
Starring: Unchalee Hassadeevichit, Peter Knight, Paramej Noiam, Kristen Evelyn Rossi, Jonathan Samson
Director: Isara Nadee
