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
Gandu / Asshole (2010)
Drama
Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can Gandu survive?
Starring: Anubrata Basu, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Rii, Kamalika Banerjee, Shilajit Majumdar
Director: Kaushik Mukherjee
An Empress and the Warriors (2008)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
Set during the Warring States Period,the story centers on Princess Fei'er who is commanded by her dying father on the battlefield to defend their country with General Xuehu. The princess is later attacked and injured by the treacherous official Wu Ba, but is rescued by Duan Lanquan, whom she falls in love with. Faced with continued attack from outside and within, the princess must make some important decisions to ensure the survival of herself and her country.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai, Xiaodong Guo, Zhenghai Kou
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Blades of Blood / Goo-reu-meul beo-eo-nan dal-cheo-reom (2010)
Action
Korea, 16 Century: The whole country is about to collapse. While the corrupt cabinet gambles the power of the Emperor, an attack from Japan is imminent. The cunning swordsman Lee Mong-hak (Cha Seung-won) forms an alliance to destroy the corrupt regimes and even to come to power. His former companion, the blind swordsman Hwang Jung-hak (Hwang Jung-min), stood in his way. He is assisted by the young Kyun-ja, who has a score to settle with Mong-hak. In the palace of the Emperor, surrounded by Japanese troops, there is a furious showdown…
Starring: Seong-hyeon Baek, Seung-won Cha, Kim Chang-Wan, Ji-hye Han, Jeong-min Hwang, Hae-Yeong Lee
Director: Joon-ik Lee
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Udaan / Flight (2010)
Drama
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.
Starring: Sanjay Gandhi, Manjot Singh, Rajat Barmecha
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
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Guns N' Roses / Huang Jin Da Jie An (2012)
Action | Comedy | Drama
A city in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, mid/late 1930s. Impoverished thief and amateur magician Xiao Dongbei (Lei Jiayin), 28, from Taiyuan, is arrested by the police after stealing some money from the collection box of the local priest (Fan Wei). Temporarily imprisoned, he's put in the same cell as Bai Murong (Sun Chun), an anti-Japanese revolutionary who was arrested in a cinema after receiving a message from a fellow revolutionary (Huang Bo). Xiao Dongbei steals his shoes and in them later finds the message: "The gold will arrive on the 10th at Yamato Bank." Xiao Dongbei is then kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries, led by film actress Fang Die (Tao Hong), and forced to reveal the contenst of the message. Fang Die tells him the 8 tons of gold will be used by the Japanese to buy weapons from the Italians, in a deal to be signed by visiting Italian ambassador DeNiro (Jean-Michel Casanovas). The revolutionaries, all working as film-makers, decide to steal it on its way to the bank. Xiao Dongbei is eventually taken on as Fang Die's driver but almost compromises a mission one night when the gang tries to steal the map of the gold convoy from the home of bank president Gu Xianming (Yang Xinming), a Chinese collaborator. Later, Xiao Dongbei redeems himself by getting the map after he by chance saves Gu's daughter, Xixi (Cheng Yuanyuan), during an air raid. As the revolutonaries are all film-makers, they decide to use some movie artifice during the hijacking of the convoy. They successfully make off with the gold, but Japanese security chief Toriyama Konosuke (Yamazaki Keiichi) is hot on their trail after Xiao Dongbei's greed gets the best of him.
Starring: Jiayin Lei, Yuanyuan Cheng, Wei Fan, Tao Guo, Bo Huang, Hong Tao, Chun Sun, Hua Liu, Keiichi Yamasaki
Director: Hao Ning
Million Dollar Crocodile / Bai wan ju e (2012)
Comedy | Thriller
Xiao Xing, a general little boy lives in little town, Mei Jia Wu, is his in grade four. He has a best friend named Amao, who is an eight-meters long crocodile. They get alone with each other, peacefully.
Many years, Amao has been living in a local crocodile farm ran by tough Bald Liu who caught Amao from Thailand. But this year, Bald Liu has to sell all the crocodiles cause the poor management. Unfortunately, the notorious tricky businessman Zhao Da Zui bought them all for developing a series crocodile meals. When the crocodiles are going to be killed by slaughters, Amao pulled apart the ropes angrily, and lead all crocodiles fighting for their lives and killed the chef and escaped.
This incident breaks the little town, Mei Jia Wu’s quiet and easy life. Xiao Xing and his father Da Wei Wang were all involved.
Starring: Barbie Hsu, Tao Guo, Zhaoqi Shi, Suet Lam
Director: Lisheng Lin
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island / Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima (1956)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Daisuke Katô
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
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