Category: Eastern
Posted on June 1, 2012 |
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The Piano Forest / Piano no mori (2007)
Animation | Drama | Music
Amamiya Shu transfers to Moriwaki elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child that goes by the name of Ichinose Kai, who seems to be the only one capable getting sound out of the thought to be broken piano.
Starring: Aya Ueto, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Hiroyuki Amano, Mayuko Fukuda, Chizuru Ikewaki
Director: Masayuki Kojima
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Posted on May 30, 2012 |
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The Allure of Tears / Qing Cheng Zhi Lei (2011)
Drama | Romance
First tear: a beautiful girl suffering from bone cancer to force sister illness was not scared, she was an optimistic spirit of the infection within the hospital each patient. In her appeal, the wishes of the gloomy sadness like a paradise on earth.That day, suffering from brain cancer, second-generation rich play admitted to a hospital, his despair, anger was soon to force sister and the children smile by digestion, the hospital became the joy of their lives last inn; The second of tears: to cultivate numerous talents Lutheran School of Music bankruptcy, in order to save the school, but also the wish of his late wife, Professor Chen has decided to convene a graduate student back to school to hold a concert. Worked with the students – now internationally renowned Violinist Yang Lin D could have fallen in love ordered Yang Lin invited to attend; The third drop tears: a small young Sheng-bottom through hard work hard, and finally with some success in their careers. When he was ready to marry his girlfriend worked hard for many years a small color when a sudden accident
Starring: Qiao En Chen, Shawn Dou, Gigi Leung, Aarif Rahman, Richie Ren, Dongyu Zhou
Director: Chun-Chun Wong
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Posted on May 26, 2012 |
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The Piano in a Factory / Gang de qin (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a loss. He doesn't mind divorcing a woman who has become a stranger, but he can't bear to part with his daughter. Chen has worked hard to give her a respectable life and has taught her his love of music. When asked if she'd rather stay with her father or go with her mother, the girl gives a practical, devastating answer: she'll go with whomever can provide her with a piano. Chen cannot afford such a luxury item, but the piano becomes his last hope to save what little is left of his family. With the help of his loyal friends and the support of his lover – the singer in his band – Chen concocts several plans to fulfill his daughter's wish…
Starring: Wang Qian-Yuan, Hailu Qin, Yongzhen Guo, Shin-yeong Jang, Qian Liu, Tianyu, Xingyu Liu, Er-yang Luo
Director: Zhang Meng, Jae-young Kwak
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Tags: Er-yang Luo, Hailu Qin, Jae-young Kwak, Qian Liu, Shin-yeong Jang, Tianyu, Wang Qian-Yuan, Xingyu Liu, Yongzhen Guo, Zhang Meng
Posted on May 25, 2012 |
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Doraemon: The New Record of Nobita – Spaceblazer / Eiga doraemon: Shin. Nobita no uchû kaitakushi (2009)
Adventure | Animation
Seven years ago, Lopplc and Morina were playing at a park. Suddenly they felt an earthquake on the Koya Koya Planet. The quake was so massive that the planet was destroyed. Everyone had to escape using a giant ship. A sudden bolt of lightning damaged the ship, causing a power failure. The Professor (who was Morina's father) wanted to fix the spaceship, but another lightning strike killed him. Meanwhile Nobita's friends get him to retrieve a ball from a group of tough highschool baseball players, but they chase him and he dropped into a manhole. Nobita started to dream about the things that happen in the alternate universe. Meanwhile, the two alternate universe creatures, Lopplc and Chammy, are escaping from an enemy ship. While Nobita is sleeping, he suddenly feels the floor is trembling like an earthquake. A little rabbit from the alternate universe named Chammy opens the door between the dimensions using a hammer. Nobita wakes up and Doraemon hears somebody steal food from the fridge. Chammy is caught by Doraemon and Nobita. She shows them the passageway through Nobita's floor into the spaceship. After they enter the spaceship, they see Koya Koya Planet, and meet Lopplc (who is now 12 years old). Originally, Nobita, Gian, Suneo, Shizuka, and Doraemon intended to play in the alternate universe, but they are not used to the graviation on that planet. Eventually, Nobita and Doraemon helps the villagers to fight their enemies, along with Gian, Shizuka, Dorami, and Shizuka.
Starring: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Yumi Kakazu, Tomokazu Seki, Subaru Kimura
Director: Shigeo Koshi
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Posted on May 24, 2012 |
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Kahaani / Story (2012)
Drama | Thriller
Kolkata is abuzz with the preparations for the annual Durga Puja festival, as seven months pregnant Vidya Bagchi steps off the airplane from London. Her first stop is the local police station to file a missing person report. Weeks ago, her husband Arnab arrived in India for a job assignment. The first two weeks, they talked daily on the phone, and then without explanation his calls stopped. Everywhere Vidya turns, no one can remember Arnab; there is no trace of him at the guest house or his workplace. It is as if he never existed. But Vidya will not give up her search. Somewhere in Kolkata she will discover the dangerous truth.
Starring: Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Darshan Jariwala
Director: Sujoy Ghosh
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Tags: Darshan Jariwala, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Parambrata Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Sujoy Ghosh, Vidya Balan
Posted on May 24, 2012 |
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Madrasapattinam / Madras Town (2010)
Drama | History | Romance
After the death of her husband, Amy Smith, an elderly English woman, decides to return to India to search for her long lost lover and to return a necklace she was given. Through memory flashbacks we see how Amy as a young girl first arrived in Madrasapattinam, India in 1945 to join her father who was the governor of the city. Through some events of fate she meets Paritihi, a young Indian boy. Amy, feeling drawn towards Paritihi and intrigued by Indian culture, asks him to be her guide around the town and to show him the ways of his country. Soon a tender romance develops between them. However, Amy is too be married to officer Robert Ellis, a cruel man appointed by her father, forcing Amy and Paritihi to fight for their love.
Starring: Arya, Amy Jackson, Cochin Hanifa, Alexx O'Nell, Mike Parish
Director: Vijay
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Posted on May 24, 2012 |
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The Incite Mill / Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Haruka Ayase, Satomi Ishihara, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda
Director: Hideo Nakata
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Posted on May 23, 2012 |
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Perfect Two / New Perfect Two / Xin Tian Sheng Yi Dui (2012)
Family
Ah B was once a champion motorbike racer but lost everything in a fixed match. His wife Jiawei left him, and he has since abandoned himself to drinking and gambling to pass the days, turning a blind eye to his neighbor Ma Niu, who quietly admires him from afar. Six years later, Jiawei turns up unexpectedly one day and temporarily puts in his custody a little boy named Bin Bin – the son he never knew of. This adorable kid manages to melt Ah B's cold hard heart, and the rookie daddy gradually finds the will to pull himself together and recover his wasted life. However, just as Ah B has developed a close, inseparable bond with Bin Bin, Jiawei comes back to take him away with her to the United States…
Starring: Vic Chow, Ella, Mi Yang, Xiao Xiaobin
Director: Yen-ping Chu
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Posted on May 23, 2012 |
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Mermaid Legend / Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no ningyo daikaisen (2010)
Adventure | Animation | Family
When Nobita feels like diving, Doraemon uses a simulator to transform Tokyo city into an underwater paradise. Trouble follows when the sharks and other fishes start to attack Doraemon and his friends, so Doraemon returns the city to its normal state. That's when they find a young girl named Sophia in the bushes who reveal to them that she is really the princess of an underwater kingdom. Join Nobita, Doraemon, Sophia and a host of other fishy characters as they journey to the depths of the ocean on an exciting adventure to find hidden treasure and save Sophia‟s underwater world.
Starring: Chiaki, Mayumi Iizuka, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Miki Maya, Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara
Director: Kôzô Kusuba
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Posted on May 21, 2012 |
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A Frozen Flower / King Protector / Ssang-hwa-jeom (2008)
Drama | History | Romance
A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.
Starring: Jin-mo Ju, Ji-hyo Song, In-seong Jo
Director: Ha Yu
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Posted on May 21, 2012 |
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Love Strikes! / Moteki (2011)
Comedy
"Moteki" is…a period in one’s life when a person is most attractive to the opposite sex. Fujimoto, 31, has no money, no aspirations and no girlfriend. Leaving his temp job, he decides to finally get a life and lands a job as a writer for an Internet news site. But love eludes him. At the height of his loneliness and social isolation, out of nowhere springs his season of irresistibility – the arrival of "moteki". Miyuki, a fun and gregarious magazine editor, who shares a lot of Yukiyo’s interests but has a boyfriend. Rumiko, Miyuki’s close friend, a pretty but obsessive office worker. Ai, a gaudy young bar hostess. Motoko, Yukiyo’s senior colleague, a cool beauty with an acid tongue. Between these four very different women, Yukiyo gets pushed and pulled in all directions. But will Yukiyo reach the elusive promised land of true love?
Starring: Mirai Moriyama, Masami Nagasawa, Kumiko Asô, Riisa Naka, Yôko Maki
Director: Hitoshi Ohne
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Posted on May 21, 2012 |
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Harakiri / Seppuku (1962)
Drama
Set in 17th-century Japan, director Makaki Kobayahi's HARAKIRI stars Tatsuya Nakadai (RAN) as masterless samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo. Structured in a series of flashbacks, the film opens in a period of serenity that has brought about a consolidation of power in Japan, resulting in the release of many samurai from their feudal obligations. These men–Hanshiro included–are in desperate straits, struggling to avoid poverty and starvation. According to their code, they must appear at clan estates and offer to commit seppuku, or ritual disembowelment, and often the clan retainer will offer them work or alms. When Hanshiro arrives at such an estate, the chief retainer Kageyu Saito (Rentaro Mikuni) tells him a cautionary tale about the fate of samurai Motome Chijiiwa (Akira Ishihama), who was forced to commit seppuku with a dull bamboo sword as punishment for dishonoring the samurai code.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba, Masao Mishima
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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Posted on May 19, 2012 |
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A Good Rain Knows / Ho woo shi jul (2009)
Drama | Romance
A traveling architect meets an old friend from his student years; the pair realize their connection has always been a romantic one.
Starring: Woo-sung Jung, Yuanyuan Gao
Director: Jin-ho Hur
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Posted on May 19, 2012 |
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld – The Seven Magic Users / Doraemon: Nobita no shin makai daibôken (2007)
Animation
Nobita requests of Doraemon the Moshimo-box and wishes for the world to become a place where the use of magic is possible.Witchcraft replaces science and technology and everyone makes use of it on their daily lives, except for Nobita, who, like usual, isn't very good at conjuring spells. Frustrated, he plans on returning things to their past state, but his mother threw the Moshimo-box away.
Starring: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki, Saki Aibu
Director: Yukiyo Teramoto
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Posted on May 17, 2012 |
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Sword in the Moon / Cheongpung myeongwol (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A series of high-ranking officials are being systematically eliminated by a sleek assassin and his female assistant, and arrogant master swordsman General Choi (Jo Jae-hyeon) is charged with putting an end to the carnage. During a previous time of political upheaval, the Clear Wind, Shining Moon martial arts school was caught in the middle and its members ruthlessly slaughtered. Top student Choi swore allegiance to the usurpers and was spared; now, his former friend, Yun (Choi Min-su) is exacting vengeance on behalf of the victims.
Starring: Min-su Choi, Jae-hyeon Jo, Bo-kyeong Kim, Jong-su Lee
Director: Ui-seok Kim
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Posted on May 15, 2012 |
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Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina / Ekusu makina (2007)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Following the non-nuclear war that killed half the world's population, the city-nation of Olympus stands as a beacon of hope in a world of chaos and conflict. The utopian metropolis is governed by Gaia, a vast artificial intelligence, and administered by genetically engineered humanoids known as Bioroids, whose designer DNA suppresses strong emotions. With Bioroids being half of its population, peace and order are easily maintained. Deunan, a young female warrior, and Briareos, a veteran cyborg-soldier, are both partners and lovers. As members of E.S.W.A.T., the elite special forces serving Olympus, they are deployed whenever trouble strikes. The two fighters find their partnership tested in a new way by the arrival of a new member to their ranks – an experimental Bioroid named Tereus. Created by Gaia using DNA from Briareos, Tereus uncannily resembles Briareos before the wartime injuries that led to his becoming a cyborg. Not only does this trouble Deunan, but Briareos's DNA gives Tereus more than top-notch fighting skills; this battle-ready Bioroid is like Briareos in another way – he has also strong romantic feelings for Deunan!
Starring: Ai Kobayashi, Kouichi Yamadera, Yûji Kishi, Miyuki Sawashiro, Naoko Kouda
Director: Shinji Aramaki
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Posted on May 15, 2012 |
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Security Unlimited / Mo deng bao biao (1981)
Comedy
Chou Sai-Cheong. a bitter supervisor of a Hong Kong private security company, teaches unusual guard tactics to new recruits such as electric mats, parachuting off burning buildings and counter-attacking gunfire. He was secretly observed by his new boss (Stanley Fung) and, unimpressed by his work, the new boss demotes Chou and promotes Chou's assistant Sam (Sam Hui). Under the leadership of Sam, Chou and new recruit Bruce Tang (Ricky Hui) encounter a slew of misadventures, including pursuing stowaways on a party boat. Bruce ultimately falls in love with one of the stowaways. Finally, they all get entangled in a plot to steal one of China's most prized treasures on display in Hong Kong, and in a plot involving some missing government money that the security officers were guarding.
Starring: Michael Hui, Samuel Hui, Ricky Hui, Shui-Fan Fung, Hoi Sang Lee, Bill Tung
Director: Michael Hui
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Posted on May 15, 2012 |
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White Night / Baekyahaeng: Hayan eodoom sokeul geolda (2009)
Mystery | Romance
A pawnbroker is found murdered in a remote town in a derelict building. three people come under suspicion but all of them have perfect alibis and the investigation comes to a standstill. Almost fifteen years pass and the lead inspector decides to re-investigate. Fifteen years earlier, the victim's son killed his father to save his beloved from being raped by him. And the girl killed her mother when she found out the boy had killed his father. For fifteen years, the boy has been eliminating anyone that tries to interfere with her life. He exists as a shadow, requiring nothing from her in return. She knows what he has done for her sake but looks away from it. As their love grows, more crimes happen. As their sin grows, the inspector's chase comes closer to them.
Starring: Suk-kyu Han, Ye-jin Son, Soo Go
Director: Shin-woo Park
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Posted on May 15, 2012 |
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A Chinese Tall Story / Ching din dai sing (2005)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Taking place in the younger days of the famous monk, Tripitaka (known for bringing the sacred Bhuddist sutras from India to China), the film tells a fantastical adventure of the monk and his three disciples. On their way to the city of Shache, the monk narrowly escapes an attack from a group of demons. While trying to think of a way to rescue his disciples, he is captured by the king of reptiles and placed under the vigilance of Meiyan, an ugly demon who falls in love with the monk. Luckily, a princess from another galaxy rescues the monk, deeply affecting Meiyan, who pursues the two. In a twist of fate, the ugly Meiyan decides to help her beloved and teams up with the princess to rescue Tripitaka's three disciples.
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Charlene Choi, Bingbing Fan, Bo-lin Chen, Isabella Leong, Kenny Kwan, Steven Cheung
Director: Jeffrey Lau
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Posted on May 14, 2012 |
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Night Market Hero / Ji Pai Ying Xiong (2011)
Comedy
At the bustling "Ba Ba Ba Night Market," vendors deal with rivalries, unspoken romances and disputes over trivial matters, while working hard to sell their tasty delicacies. Things come to a screeching halt for the vendors when they learn of a real estate company (in cahoots with local politicians) are planning to takeover the land and deprive the vendors the opportunity to sell their food. Now that their very livelihoods are at stake can the vendors work together to fight off the developers?
Starring: Cheng Pin Chao, Guang Yao Fan, Yu-Chen Hsieh, Cheng-Lung Lan, Alice Ko, Chia-yen Ko, Esther Liu
Director: Tien-Lun Yeh
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Tags: Alice Ko, Cheng Pin Chao, Cheng-Lung Lan, Chia-yen Ko, Esther Liu, Guang Yao Fan, Tien-Lun Yeh, Yu-Chen Hsieh
