200 Pounds Beauty / Minyeo-neun goerowo (2006)
Comedy | Romance
A vastly overweight woman who works as a "ghost singer" for a famous pop star is in love. One day, she decides to resort to drastic surgery in order to make herself thin and attractive.
Starring: Ah-jung Kim, Jin-mo Ju, Yong-geon Kim, Dong-il Song, Hyeon-shik Lim
Director: Yong-hwa Kim
Paradise Kiss / Paradaisu kisu (2011)
Drama
A chance encounter leads Yukari, a burnt out high school student, to a group of dedicated fashion design students. She becomes their model for their graduating exhibition and discovers her talent for modeling.
Starring: Keiko Kitagawa, Shunji Igarashi, Kento Kaku, Natsuki Katô, Fumino Kimura
Director: Takehiko Shinjo
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Re-Cycle / Gwai wik (2006)
Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Re-Cycle, a romance novelist (Angelica Lee) announces the title of her next project – Land of the Dead. After running out of ideas, she deletes all drafts from her computer. Then she starts seeing a strange woman over and over again and stories described in her drafts all come alive. She decides to follow the woman, who leads her to an unknown land.
Starring: Angelica Lee, Siu-Ming Lau, Zeng Qi Qi, Rain Li, Lawrence Chou
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Oh My Friend (2011)
Romance
Chandu is passionate about music and he wants to become a lead singer and guitarist. His father is a government employee and wants his son to become a corporate employee. Siri is ChanduΓÇÖs childhood friend and neighbor. Both of them are extremely close friends. Siri has a boy friend Uday and Chandu falls in love with Ritu Sharma. The rest of the story is all about the confusions and conflict between and love and friendship.
Starring: Siddharth, Shruti K. Haasan, Hansika Motwani
Director: Venu Sriram
Romancing in Thin Air / Gao hai ba zhi lian II (2012)
Drama | Romance
A Hong Kong movie megastar jilted at the altar by his actress bride finds true love in a neurotic fan while licking his wound in high-altitude Yunnan in China.
Starring: Louis Koo, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao, Yi Huang, Wilfred Lau, Guangjie Li, Niu Tien, Baoqiang Wang
Director: Johnnie To
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Shinobi / Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005)
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
The year is 1614. Japan is finally a unified country under the first shogun, Tokugawa. Gennosuke of Kohga and Oboro of Iga, are the last hope of two isolated ninja villages wracked by endless tragedy and a cycle of revenge. The blessing of their love should have brought peace to the suffering people. However, the conspiracy brought by Tokugawa once again tears the two villages apart. Gennosuke constantly speaks in favor of peace, while Oboro takes the choice to fight to resolve the conflict. With each Ninja having super human powers, the battle is set to fight off each other for their own existence. Now destined to meet as enemies, will Gennosuke and Oboro find a way to pursuit their star-crossed love?
Starring: Jô Odagiri, Yukie Nakama
Director: Ten Shimoyama
Battlefield Heroes / Pyeong-yang-seong (2011)
Comedy | Drama
This story unfolds 8 years after 'Battle of Hwangsanbeol', which destroyed Baekjae, when Silla-Tang Dynasty union attacks Goguryeo.
Starring: Jin-yeong Jeong, Mun-shik Lee, Seung-yong Ryoo, Woo-seon Seon, Jeong-geun Sin, Ha-neul Kang
Director: Jun-ik Lee
All's Well, Ends Well / Baat seng bou hei (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Four men go on a heroic mission to help four women and wind up experiencing a series of mishaps.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Louis Koo, Mini Yang, Sandra Ng, Chapman To, Kelly Chen, Bak-Ming Wong
Director: Hing-Ka Chan
A Tale of Legendary Libido / Garoojigi (2008)
Comedy | Fantasy
Hidden in the ancient Korean folklore lies a tragic character with a massive inferiority complex. Byun Kang-se's problem stems from his seriously impaired libido due to a freak accident when he was young. He lives in a small village deep inside a mountain where women's estrogen flows freely and men do not possess much control. The women tease and ridicule Byun, a man who's without manhood within, and he hides himself in the mountains. There he encounters a traveling monk and attains the ultimate male power of never-ending erection and arousal. Around this time all men are grouped and sent off to war and only Byun remains to satisfy the women of the village who are only happy to line up outside his home and quench their sexual desires and fantasies.
Starring: Tae-gyu Bong, Jin-ah Kim, Dal-su Oh, Yeo-jeong Yoon, Ong Jae-ho
Director: Han-sol Shin
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The Viral Factor / Jik zin (2012)
Action | Drama
Jon and Yeung are two brothers, who due to family circumstances, are led down different paths in life – one of them a recalcitrant criminal and the other an Interpol agent.
Starring: Carl Ng, Nicholas Tse, Bing Bai, Jay Chou, Andy On
Director: Dante Lam
Chak De India! (2007)
Drama | Family
Kabir Khan lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his widowed mom in Delhi, India, and is the Captain of the Indian men's hockey team. He fails to score at the last tournament resulting in Pakistan winning the World Cup amidst allegations that he was more inclined toward his opponents due to his religion. Kabir and his mom move away and virtually disappear for seven years. Thereafter Kabir surfaces to be a Coach for the women's hockey team, consisting of 16 players from all over India, some of who do not communicate well. Kabir's disciplinarian style ends up offending the players, lead by the militant Bindia Naik, who decide not to participate unless he resigns amidst allegations that he is having an affair with soon to-be married Vidya Sharma, who he appoints as the new Captain. Things change after a brawl with eve-teasers at the local McDonald's, the girls accept Kabir…
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan
Director: Shimit Amin
I Do / Wo Yuan Yi (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Beijing, the present day. Tang Weiwei (Li Bingbing) is a well-educated, high-earning career woman who works as sales director for an image design company. Now 32, she has had only one love affair in her life, which lasted from the age of 18 to 25, and since then she has been very, very single, devoted to her career. Pragmatically deciding it is time to find a husband, her best friend Jin Xiaoling (Xu Jianing) arranges some blind dates, all of which turn out to be useless. However, during one group blind date she meets Yang Nianhua (Sun Honglei), a divorced, former owner of a publishing company, who gradually insinuates himself into becoming her confidant and friend. Weiwei is devastated to discover that Jim Wang, CEO of her company's new client, NASDAQ-listed jewellery firm Jinxiu, is in fact Wang Yang (Duan Yihong), the boyfriend who suddenly disappeared seven years ago after she'd supported him through hard times. Now Wang Yang has returned from the US to China as a wealthy businessman and is looking to patch things up with Weiwei. She, however, still can't forgive him, and Wang Yang also has to deal with the persistent Nianhua, whom Weiwei has put on a "trial period" as a potential husband.
Starring: Bingbing Li, Honglei Sun, Yihong Duan
Director: Zhou Sun
Big Blue Lake / Da lan hu (2011)
Drama
Unemployed 30-something actress Cheung Lai Yee returns to the town where she grew up, rural Ho Chung Village in Hong Kong's New Territories hinterlands. Cheung has been away for ten years, and everything about home seems different. Her mother is showing signs of Alzheimer's disease; the village is showing signs of being modernized and “developed” out of its old character. Both mother and village have an increasingly tenuous hold on their memories, their sense of place, the very thing that grounds them to their histories and their identities. While taking a series of very odd odd jobs (pretending to be a disabled customer to test shopkeepers' reactions), Cheung determines to reconnect with her mother. She has a plan for the old villagers she meets, as well, built around reviving and reenacting stories from their youth. When she meets an old classmate Lin Jin who has stayed behind in the town (who has his own unresolved girlfriend-history problems), shared backgrounds click and new intimacies begin to form.
Starring: Leila Tong, Lawrence Chou, Amy Chun, Joman Chiang
Director: Jessey Tsang
The Recollections of a Certain Pilot / To aru hikoushi e no tsuioku (2011)
Animation
As a beautiful daughter of the noble family del Moral, Fana was proposed by Prince Carlo, who is the crown prince of their country Levamme. However, since Levamme is at war with Amatsuvian, the marriage had to wait until the war ends. Meanwhile, as a bestado, the lowest caste in Levamme, Charles had always dreamed of flying and eventually became the ace pilot of the air force. Although he was often mistreated, a glorious chance came about when the Amatsuvian bombarded del Moral's home in order to get rid of the future empress. Charles was then entrusted with the top secret mission of delivering the princess to the prince.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Daisuke Ono, Takeshi Tomizawa
Director: Jun Shishido
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A Tale of Two Sisters / Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by a Korean legend, this is the odyssey of two sisters, who after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Their recovery is affected by their stepmother's increasing cruelty, together with appearances of the ghost of their mother, which creates an atmosphere of strange occurrences and irrespirable fear.
Starring: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim, Geun-Young Moon, Seung-bi Lee
Director: Jee-woon Kim
The Great Magician / Daai mo seut si (2012)
Drama | Mystery
In 1916, China was in turmoil with warlords battling against each other and Japanese conspirators lurking in the dark. One day, a mysterious man named Zhang Xian takes the capital city by storm with his mesmerizing magic tricks. He soon catches the attention of ruthless warlord Commander Lei, who is eager to please his seventh wife Liu Yin by taking her to see Zhang's performance. Unbeknownst to Lei, his favorite concubine was once the fiancée of Zhang, and approaching him to earn his trust is just the first step in the vengeful illusionist's secret agenda…
Starring: Tony Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Xun Zhou
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Wasao (2011)
Drama
WASAO, a story of the love for nature, the people and animals, a tear-jerking story of a speechless dog with a pure heart. WASAO makes a screen debut as himself in this film that tells a sentimental yet heart-warming story of a 'busakawa-ken' (ugly but cute dog) and his past that has never been told. Wasao, has made a name for himself with his adorable appearance, with close to 2,000 tourists who travel to Ajigasawa, Aomori Prefecture in the northenmost of the Tohoku region in Japan on weekends and public holidays, causing traffic congestions. People wrote about his distinct presence and charms in their blogs, resulting in WASAO being an idol in Japan as well as starting a new craze. He has been featured in over 30 magazines and appeared in over 50 television programs in Japan.
Starring: Kai Inowaki, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Shirô Sano
Director: Yoshinari Nishikôri
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Five Element Ninjas / Ren zhe wu di (1982)
Action | Drama
When a quintet of nasty ninjas hell-bent on world domination nearly massacres an entire clan, its lone survivor must take the path of revenge. He meets up with an old master well versed in the ways of the ninja. Now armed with secret knowledge and newfound friends, he must battle the awesome power of the Five Element Ninjas, who harness the powers of gold, wood, fire, water, and earth.
Starring: Tien-chi Cheng, Tien Hsiang Lung, Meng Lo, Wai-Man Chan, Pei Hsi Chen, Li Wang, Ke Chu
Director: Cheh Chang
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
Action | Western
During "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Yûsuke Iseya, Masanobu Andô, Takaaki Ishibashi, Kaori Momoi
Director: Takashi Miike
King of Comedy / Hei kek ji wong (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
King of Comedy is a 1999 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Lee Lik-Chi and Stephen Chow. Unlike Stephen Chow's typical mo lei tau films, King of Comedy verges on comedy drama, describing the trials and tribulation that an aspiring actor experiences on his way to stardom. Some commentators[who?] say the story is based on Stephen Chow's early career, as he started off as a temporary actor, before becoming a successful and popular comedy actor over the course of a decade. The film does retain some of bizarre visual gags Chow is known for, such as Chow's character bleeding from the nose and eyes during a singing number.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok, Cecilia Cheung, Man Tat Ng
Director: Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee
