Empire of Passion / Ai no borei (1978)
Drama | Horror | Romance | Thriller
When the wife of an elderly rickshaw driver begins an affair with a newly discharged soldier, they successfully plot to murder him, but his ghost quickly reappears.
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Oosaravelli (2011)
Action | Comedy | Romance
Tony is a wily youngster who does illegal things for money. He falls in love with Niharika during a freak incident. He keeps following her and proposing to her. But she is engaged to some other rich guy. Tony has a secret mission and he is in hot pursuit of somebody. The rest of the story is all about the love story between the lead pair and how Tony achieved his mission.
Starring: N.T.R. Rao Junior, Tamanna Bhatia
Director: Reddy Surender
Sector 7 / 7 gwanggu (2011)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi
A ship stuck in the middle of a typhoon is attacked by a mysterious sea creature.
Starring: Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn, Ji-ho Oh, Ae-ryeon Cha, Han-wi Lee
Director: Ji-hun Kim
Singam (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama
The story is set in the backdrop of Nallore, a small town in Thoothukudi District, the film revolves around Sub Inspector Durai Singam (Surya), a brave and just policeman who joined the service and serves in his hometown primarily to fulfill his father's (Radha Ravi) wish. Durai Singam settles every dispute in his town patiently with his words of wisdom and resorts to force only when the situation demands it.
Starring: Surya Sivakumar, Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj, Vivek, Bose Venkat, Radha Ravi
Director: Hari
Dookudu (2011)
Action | Comedy
Shankar Narayan (Prakash Raj) is a political leader and a man of masses. He wants his son Ajay (Mahesh Babu) to become a political leader. Shankar Narayan is hurt in an accident and goes into coma. Meanwhile Ajay grows up and goes onto become an aggressive cop. And suddenly Shankar Narayan comes out of coma. The rest of the story is all about how Ajay manages to keep the changes under wrap for his father, and takes revenge on the villains at the same time with some unconventional ploys.
Starring: Mahesh Babu, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Sonu Sood, Srinivasa Rao Kota, Prakash Raj
Director: Srinu Vytla
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Sanbiki no samurai / Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Action | Drama
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Starring: Tetsurô Tanba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kayama
Director: Hideo Gosha
The Dirty Picture (2011)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Imagine a make-up girl who became an extra and then the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of an erstwhile screen sensation, The Dirty Picture is set against the colourful and entertaining backdrop of hte South film industry of the 80s. The quintessential siren, Silk, knew her audiences, and it didn't seem like anything would stop the fiercely ambitious starlet, till it did, in the shape of unrequited love. To the world, she was the queen of sensuality. But at heart, Silk was just another woman craving true love. An unfortunate encounter with deceit and infidelity led to dire consequences!
Starring: Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Milan Luthria
My Name is Khan (2010)
Drama | Romance
"My Name Is Khan" is about a Muslim who suffers from the Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that impacts social interaction abilities, and he is arrested as a suspected terrorist in post-9/11 Los Angeles after authorities mistake his disability for suspicious behaviour.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Sheetal Menon, Katie A. Keane, Kenton Duty, Benny Nieves, Christopher B. Duncan
Director: Karan Johar
Life Without Principle / Dyut meng gam (2011)
Crime | Thriller
On a faithful day, three ordinary people suddenly find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Terence Yin, Richie Ren
Director: Johnnie To
Yumeji (1991)
Drama
Yumeji is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburo Bando
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Godzilla / Gojira (1954)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
A monster is awakened by an undersea explosion and wreaks havoc on the citizens of Tokyo.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Fuyuki Murakami, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
Director: Ishirô Honda
Ocean Heaven / Haiyang tiantang (2010)
Drama
Wang, a maintenance man at an Ocean Park-style water theme park, lives with his 20-year-old son, David. David suffers from autism and is unable to function independently in the outside world. He is a competent swimmer and regularly joins Wang at work, where he is allowed to play in the large aquariums with the dolphins, turtles and other tropical fish. However, when Wang discovers he has terminal cancer and only a matter of months left to live, he must help David assimilate into normal society, or risk him being incarcerated in a hellish mental asylum.
Starring: Jet Li, Zhang Wen, Lunmei Kwai, Yuanyuan Zhu, Yuanyuan Gao
Director: Xiao Lu Xue
War of the Arrows / Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal (2011)
Action | History
During Second Manchu invasion of Korea, one village is attacked by Manchurian soldiers. Manchurian kidnap Ja-in on her wedding day with her childhood sweetheart Seo-Goon. Her brother Nam-Yi defeats the enemy and save his sister and the other Korean victims with only one bow.
Starring: Hae-il Park, Seung-yong Ryoo, Moon Chae-Won
Director: Han-min Kim
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos / Hagane no renkinjutsushi: Mirosu no seinaru hoshi (2011)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
After a mysterious prisoner with only a few weeks left on his sentence breaks out of prison in Central City, the Elric brothers attempt to track him down. The search leads them to Table City in the southwestern country of Creta, where Alphonse rescues a young alchemist named Julia from the very man they are trying to capture. In the thick of the fight, they literally tumble into Julia's home turf, the slums of Milos Valley, and are embroiled in the grassroots rebellion of her people. Takes place after episode 20 of the Brotherhood series.
Starring: Shelley Calene-Black, Rie Kugimiya, Vic Mignogna, Shinichirô Miki, Fumiko Orikasa
Director: Kazuya Murata
Yôjinbô / The Bodyguard (1961)
Action | Adventure
To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Masters of Horror: Imprint (2006)
Horror | Thriller
In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the American journalist Christopher is traveling through the country searching Komomo, the missing love of his life that he had abandoned years ago promising to come back to her later. He arrives in a shadowy island inhabited by whores and caftans, where he has an encounter with a deformed prostitute that tells that his beloved Komomo had passed away. He drinks sake with her and later he asks the woman to tell the story of her life. The prostitute discloses a dark and cruel story about her life and the sad fate of Komomo.
Starring: Youki Kudoh, Michié, Toshie Negishi, Billy Drago
Director: Takashi Miike
Ikiru / Living (1952)
Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Director: Akira Kurosawa
The Guard Post / GP506 (2008)
Horror
Focuses on a mysterious massacre that occurs in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) one rainy day. Twenty armed soldiers at a guard post have been mysteriously killed. One is left alive, but unconscious. The Defense Ministry dispatches an investigation team. Sergeant Major Noh Seong-gyu is given 24 hours to find the body of Yu Jeong-woo, who was in command of the guard post.
Starring: Hyun-jae Cho, Kyoo-Hwan Choi, Ho-jin Chun, Byeong-Cheol Do, Jin-woong Jo
Director: Su-chang Kong
1778 Stories of Me & My Wife / Boku to tsuma no 1778 no monogatari (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A science fiction writer finds out his wife has cancer, and decides to write her a story every day to keep her alive, like a reverse Scheherazade or perhaps to cope with the inevitability of his loss.
Starring: Michiko Kichise, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ren Ohsugi, Yûko Takeuchi, Shôsuke Tanihara
Director: Mamoru Hoshi
Monkey Magic / The Adventures of Super Monkey / Saiyûki (2007)
Adventure | History
Journey to the West comes to the big screen like never before in the 2007 film Saiyuuki! Also known as Monkey Magic and Adventures of the Super Monkey…
Starring: Shingo Katori, Teruyoshi Uchimura, Atsushi Itô, Eri Fukatsu, Asami Mizukawa
Director: Kensaku Sawada
