Dodes'ka-den / Clickety-Clack (1970)
Drama
Various tales in the lives oh Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yûko Kusunoki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
You Shoot, I Shoot / Maai hung paak yan (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Bart (Eric Kot), a professional contract killer, is requested by his clients to film his killings. He hires aspiring film director Cheun (Cheung Tat-Ming) for the filming.
Starring: Eric Kot, Tat-Ming Cheung
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Treasure Hunt / Wu Jia Zhi Bao (2011)
Comedy
To further her career, elite commercial director Peggy agrees to leave her husband and her young son at home to shoot an ad on an isolated offshore island with alcoholic, incompetent action star Mr. Big. With the star, his family, his manager, and their children, Peggy attracts the attention of gangster Cobra, who is on the island to search for a legendary treasure left from the Ming Dyanasty. Juggling a spoiled superstar, kids, and a team of evildoers, how will Peggy get herself off the island so she can see family again?
Starring: Ronald Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Miaoke Lin, Ekin Cheng, Lucas Tse, Bing Shao
Director: Jing Wong
The Silent Duel / Shizukanaru kettô (1949)
Drama
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Jump Ashin! / Fan gun ba A-xin! (2011)
Drama | Sport
Ashin loves gymnastics. Since a rib, he was quickly hooked and as an adult it’s his quantity single love. Yes, more than girls, and this is despite looking like Eddie Peng and probably having his pick of women in his rural Taiwan town. However, Ashin’s look after (Pan Li-Li) disapproves of gymnastics and asks so as to Ashin go it up to run the folks fruit locate on behalf of, well, eternity. Ashin does, but soon becomes a felon, execution with playmate Pickles (Lawrence Ko Yue-Lun) and getting into all sorts of bother. Pickles becomes a drug addict and the two run afoul of a gang boss’ son (Chen Han-Dian), so Ashin and Pickles flee to Taipei and resume their thug lifestyle. But gymnastics is until the end of time nearby, calling to Ashin like a long-lost love. Eventually, Ashin chooses to return at your house and back to the pommel horse, but can a loser like Ashin still regain it in himself to grow to be a medal-winning gymnast? And hey, isn’t this a wholly nonsensical premise?
Starring: Han Dian Chen, Lawrence Ko, Chen-Shi Lin, Eddie Peng
Director: Yu-Hsien Lin
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The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Lower Depths / Donzoko (1957)
Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Origin: Spirits of the Past / Gin-iro no kami no Agito (2006)
Animation | Anime | Drama | Romance
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary. The machine, which has preserved a beautiful girl named Tula from the past, is activated. Tula has a "mission" that had been entrusted to her by the past…
Starring: Ryo Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yûko Kotegawa, Masaru Hamaguchi, Toshikazu Fukawa
Director: Keiichi Sugiyama
Troubleshooter / Hae-gyeol-sa (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama
Ex-detective and now private eye Kang Tae-Sik (Sol Kyung-Gu) enters a love motel to take pictures of a couple for an unknown client. Kang Tae-Sik is then shocked to discover a bloody slain woman on the bed. Kang Tae-Sik flees the scene when the police arrive and mistakenly believes he is the killer. A mysterious man then calls Kang Tae-Sik and offers to clear his name if he kidnaps a high-profile lawyer embroiled in a political scandal. Even more mystifying, the caller is constantly aware of Kang Tae-Sik's every move. Kang Tae-Sik must now use all of his muscles and the bevy of technological gadgetry at his disposal to clear himself and find the mastermind behind this intricate conspiracy.
Starring: Kyung-gu Sol, Jeong-jin Lee, Dal-su Oh, Sae-Byeok Song
Director: Hyeok-jae Kwon
Krrish (2006)
Action | Adventure | Romance
Singapore-based Dr. Siddhant Arya recruits a superhumanly powerful Indian-born man named Rohit Mehra, who was given special powers by a blue-skinned alien named Jadoo, to build a computer that can forecast the future, which results in an accident that kills Rohit. When this news reaches Rohit's mother, Sonia, in India, she passes this on to Rohit's wife, Nisha, who has just given birth to a son named Krishna. However, Nisha, unable to handle this devastating news, passes away, leaving Krishna to be brought up by Sonia. When Krishna is enrolled in school, she notices that he has the same intellectual and physical powers that his father possessed, so in order to shield him from any harm, she moves to a secluded and remote area in a mountainous region of the country, where he grows up. Years later, Krishna has matured, has acquired the same special powers that his father had, and is also able to communicate with animals. He meets with a camper named Priya and is attracted to her. When she returns home to Singapore, she phones him to visit her so that she can introduce him to her mother so that they can get married. A thrilled Krishna travels to Singapore, despite Sonia's pleas; meets with Priya; and is all set to meet her mother, get married, and return home. What Krishna does not know is that Priya has lured him there so that she can exploit his superhuman powers on her TV network, Star Plus–and not only maintain her job but also get a promotion. It looks like the naïve and overly trusting Krishna may now be propelled straight into the hands of Dr. Arya, who is still alive and on the verge of creating a supercomputer that can forecast the future–and is quite capable of doing anything in his power to achieve this nefarious goal and project himself as the one and only God of the universe.
Starring: Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Naseeruddin Shah, Sharat Saxena
Director: Rakesh Roshan
The Robbers / Wo de tangchao xiongdi (2009)
Action
Set during the Tang Dynasty, The Robbers tells the story of two robbers' adventures in a seemingly peaceful Bitter Bamboo Village, where they encounter a beautiful woman, a group of soldiers and a village head scheming to kill the duo.
Starring: Jun Hu, Wu Jiang, Lichun Lee, Xiao Wang, Xiao-lei Yu
Director: Shu-peng Yang
The Makioka Sisters / Fine Snow / Sasame-yuki (1983)
Drama | Romance
This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain). Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.
Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kotegawa Yûko, Jûzô Itami, Kôji Ishizaka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Tokyo Drifter / Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
Action | Crime | Drama
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu's attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryûji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Magadheera (2010)
Action | Drama | Romance
Magadheera is set in the backdrop of divine mysteries of death and reincarnation, The story happens in the year 1609. Kala Bhairava is the protector/cheif guard of Udayghad kingdom. Mitra, the heir princess is in love with him. But there is a bad relative of the king who wants to marry her. Sher Khan plans to invade Udayghad. In the process, all of them die. These people are reborn after after 400 years in the contemporary era. Harsha is a race biker, he falls in love with Indu, and a bad guy called Raghuveer is after her.
Starring: Ram Charan Teja, Kajal Agarwal, Dev Gill, Srihari, Sarathbabu
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Casshern (2004)
Action | Sci-Fi
It is late in the 21st century. After 50 years of devastating war between Europa and the Eastern Federation, the latter has emerged victorious, and the new federation of Eurasia is formed. There can be no glorious peace, however, as the planet has been ravaged by chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons and the entire human race is dispirited and exhausted by half a century of war. The only hope for long term survival lies with geneticist Dr. Azuma and his breakthrough 'neo-cell' treatment that can rejuvenate the body and could regenerate humankind. But when his experiments go wrong, a race of mutant androids is unleashed and only Azuma's dead son, reincarnated as the legendary hero CASSHERN, has the power to lead the war against the super robots.
Starring: Yûsuke Iseya, Kumiko Asô, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Mayumi Sada, Jun Kaname
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Choileefat / Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu (2011)
Action | Drama
Childhood growing up in the United States PALEO (DANNY) won the intercollegiate boxing champion, a moment Mingzao Chinatown, but PALEO Chi not only this, the goal is the world boxing title. After his mother’s encouragement, with a heart of roots and serve the country’s ambitions to return alone, back to the origin of the town – Xinhui, Guangdong.
Starring: Baoqiang Wang, Man Tat Ng, Michelle Ye, Kara Hui, Naijin Xiong, Yut Fei Wong
Director: John Ching
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Drama | Romance
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang). Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man (Ken Watanabe) who is out of her reach. Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi
Director: Rob Marshall
Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night / Paranômaru akutibiti: Dai-2-shô – Tokyo Night (2010)
Horror | Thriller
The Yamano family lives in a secluded home in a remote Tokyo residential area. Their 27-year-old daughter Haruka suffered a compound fracture in a car accident while traveling in America. Haruka returns home in a wheelchair. There to meet her is her younger brother 19-year-old Koichi. Their father is away from the Yamano resident due to a business trip abroad. Koichi is left to take care of his sister until she can walk again.
Starring: Aoi Nakamura, Noriko Aoyama
Director: Toshikazu Nagae
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010)
Action
In the year 2025, Tokyo has been transformed into "Zebra City" and completely covered in black and white. Every morning at 5:00am, the sensational singing voice of a woman called Zebra Queen (Riisa Naka) can be heard resounding throughout the city. Suddenly, a man named Shinichi Ichikawa (Show Aikawa) awakes with no idea of where he is. In his confusion, he's shot in the chest by Zebra Queen's police force and knocked unconscious. He's rescued by a man in a strange costume and soon finds himself in a small commune outside of the city. Their leader recognizes Shinichi as the school teacher turned super hero who saved Earth from an alien invasion 15 years ago before suddenly disappearing. However, Shinichi has no recollection of where he was during that time.
Starring: Shô Aikawa, Riisa Naka, Tsuyoshi Abe, Masahiro Inoue
Director: Takashi Miike
