Lan yu (2001)
Drama | Romance
A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student
Starring: Ye Liu, Jun Hu
Director: Stanley Kwan
New World / Sinsegye (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An undercover cop finds it difficult to play both a cop and a goon.
Starring: Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Jung-min Hwang, Park Sung-woong, Song Ji-Hyo, Il-hwa Choi, Kim Byeong-Ok, Lee Kyung-young
Director: Park Hoon-jung
The First Girl I Loved / Hei fun nei si nei (2021)
Drama | Romance
On the night before Yuet's wedding, best friends Nam and Yuet recall their time together in school, when they shared a relationship that was more than friendship, but also perhaps not quite love.
Starring: Hedwig Tam, Renci Yeung, Stephen Au, Teresa Mak, Ka-Hung Wai, Kin Long Chan
Director: Candy Ng, Chiu Hoi Yeung
The Sadness / Ku bei (2021)
Horror | Thriller
A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.
Starring: Berant Zhu, Tzu-Chiang Wang, Ralf Chiu, Wei-Hua Lan, Emerson Tsai, Regina Lei
Director: Rob Jabbaz
Steel Rain 2 / Steel Rain: Summit / Gangcheolbi 2: Jeongsanghoedam (2020)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A summit of leaders of South Korea, North Korea, and the U.S. is meant to have them discuss North Korea's nuclear issue and a peace settlement for the Korean peninsula, but instead, the leaders end up being abducted.
Starring: Jung Woo-sung, Kwak Do-won, Yoo Yeon-Seok, Shin Jeong-geun, Wang-do Kim, Soo-young Ryu
Director: WooSuk Yang
And, the Baton Was Passed / Soshite, Baton wa Watasareta (2021)
Drama
Yuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika, is a free spirited person and has remarried several times. She disappeared from Yuko's life at a certain point. Even though Yuko and her stepfather are not blood related, she is fully loved by her him.
Starring: Mei Nagano, Kei Tanaka, Satomi Ishihara, Kenshi Okada, Nao Ômori, Masachika Ichimura, Kurumi Inagaki
Director: Tetsu Maeda
One Summer Story / Child Does Not Understand / Kodomo wa wakatte Agenai (2020)
Family
Two different high school children – a swimmer and an academic – set off on a quest together one summer.
Starring: Moka Kamishiraishi, Kanata Hosoda, Yûdai Chiba, Kanji Furutachi, Yuki Saitô, Etsushi Toyokawa
Director: Shûichi Okita
Mind Game (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Romance
After a deadly encounter with two yakuza, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend goes to heaven and back, embarking on a psychedelic self-discovery experience with her and his friends.
Starring: Kôji Imada, Takashi Fujii, Tomomitsu Yamaguchi, Sayaka Maeda, Seiko Takuma, Toshio Sakata
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman / Du bei dao wang (1969)
Action | Adventure
After defeating The Long-Armed Devil and his armies, our nubbed hero has been living in retirement as a farmer, but circumstances causes him to come out of retirement and take on The Eight Kings, each warrior with their own unique fighting style. The time has come for the one armed swordsman to return.
Starring: Jimmy Yu, Chiao Chiao, Chia Essie Lin, Feng Tien
Director: Cheh Chang
The Wasted Times / Luo man di ke xiao wang shi (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal.
Starring: You Ge, Ziyi Zhang, Tadanobu Asano, Chun Du, Gillian Chung
Director: Er Cheng
Smokin' on the Moon / Niwatori Suta (2018)
Comedy | Drama
Two slackers work at a midnight bar while also selling marijuana; when they get dangerously close to some unhinged yakuza, they follow wildly divergent fates.
Starring: Arata Iura, Ryô Narita, Saramary, Kanji Tsuda, Eiji Okuda, Ryôhei Abe
Director: Yûichirô Tanaka
Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
Starring: Sol Kyung-gu, Park Hae-soo, Dong-kun Yang, Lee El, Jae-rim Song, Jinyoung Park
Director: Hyeon Na
Spiritwalker / Yu-che-i-tal-ja (2020)
Action | Fantasy
A fantasy action film that revolves around a man who loses his memory and subsequently wakes up in a new body every twelve hours.
Starring: Yoon Kyesang, Yong-woo Park, Ji-Yeon Lim
Director: Jae-geun Yoon
Inubu The Dog Club / Inubu! (2021)
Drama | Family
A veterinary student is not just looking for money and a career. He has a genuine desire to help animals. He personally cares and does everything he can. He rescues a dog from a cruel life and founds an association to organize help for these animals. His fellow student, among others, joins him. Years pass until news of the founder spreads.
Starring: Kento Hayashi, Taishi Nakagawa, Sakurako Ohara, Kôdai Asaka, Momoko Tanabe, Tamae Andô
Director: Tetsuo Shinohara
Masquerade Night / マスカレード・ナイト (2021)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Masami Nagasawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Zen Kajihara, Yuki Izumisawa, Toshihide Tonesaku
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? / Teacher, Please Sit Next to Me / Sennsei, Watashi no Tonari ni Suwatte Itadakemasennka? (2021)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Manga-ka Sawako suspects that her husband is having an affair. Instead of confronting him directly, she finds a more creative way to drop the hint.
Starring: Haru Kuroki, Tasuku Emoto, Daichi Kaneko, Nao Honda, Jun Fubuki
Director: Takahiro Horie
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy / Gûzen to sôzô (2021)
Drama | Romance
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
Starring: Kotone Furukawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Fusako Urabe, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Aoba Kawai
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Final / Kaguya-sama: Love Is War 2 / Kaguya-sama wa kokurasetai 2: Tensai-tachi no ren'ai zunôsen final (2021)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War is a 2021 Japanese film. It is the sequel to the first film adaptation of the manga series Kaguya-sama: Love is War.
Starring: Shô Hirano, Kanna Hashimoto, Hayato Sano, Nana Asakawa, Mayu Hotta, Yuuka Kageyama
Director: Hayato Kawai
Saedeu mubi (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Several couples struggle with their relationships.
Starring: Jung Woo-sung, Lim Soo-jung, Tae-Hyun Cha, Son Tae-Yeong, Jung-ah Yum, Yeo Jin-gu, Shin Min-a, Ki-woo Lee
Director: Jong-kwan Kwon
The Merciless / Bulhandang (2017)
Action | Crime | Drama
A young cop finds his loyalties divided after befriending a notorious criminal while undercover in prison.
Starring: Sol Kyung-gu, Si-wan Yim, Kim Hee-won, Hye-jin Jeon, Lee Kyung-young, Jang In-sub
Director: Sung-hyun Byun
