Hotel Salvation (2016)
Comedy | Drama
Faced with his father's untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.
Starring: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh
Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani
The Great Buddha + / Da fo pu la si (2017)
Comedy | Drama
Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle's biggest pleasure in life is flicking through the porn magazines Belly Bottom collects in the small hours in the security room. Having late night snacks and watching television are an integral part of their dull lives. One day when the television is broken, their lives are changed forever. The story involves gods, the middle-aged men's sexual desire and the conversation between ghosts and humans. Maybe the audience will find it preposterous, but isn't life itself a farce?
Starring: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chen, Leon Dai, Shao-Huai Chang, Kuo-Lin Ting, Na-Dou Lin, Yi-wen Chen, Mei-Hsiu Lin
Director: Hsin-yao Huang
Mary and the Witch's Flower / Meari to majo no hana (2017)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Starring: Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hikari Mitsushima
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Yoru wa mijikashi aruke yo otome / Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Romance
The story of the titular girl known only as "Otome" and her insanely long night of partying and drinking-complete with a book fair, festival, and many adventures in between. It is also the story of "Senpai," her upper class man who has been attempting to get closer to her by "coincidentally" running into her again and again. However, on this night, meeting up with her may be the greatest challenge of his life.
Starring: Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ryûji Akiyama, Kazuya Nakai
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Peace Breaker / Po ju (2017)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Crooked cop Gao just lost his mother and he is under internal investigation at work. While rushing to his mother's funeral, he accidentally runs over a man on a remote road. In a moment of desperation, Gao hides the body in his trunk, and then his own mother's coffin. A few days later, he is shocked to come across the victim's profile in an ongoing case that may eventually lead back to him and his cover-up. Before Gao can figure out what's going on, another mysterious cop suddenly appears to blackmail him – and demand the return of the body.
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Qianyuan Wang, Tao Liu, Ailei Yu, Ryan Zheng, Jiayi Feng
Director: Yi-chi Lien
7 Guardians of the Tomb / The Nest / Michao (2018)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 B.C. China unearths a two thousand-year-old nightmare, a secret that should have remained buried.
Starring: Bingbing Li, Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Draxl, Stef Dawson, Ryan Johnson, Shane Jacobson, Yasmin Kassim
Director: Kimble Rendall
The Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains / San tin lung baat biu chi tin saan tung liu (1994)
Action | Drama | Fantasy
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Man Cheung, Li Gong
Director: Andy Chin
The Third Murder / Sandome no satsujin (2017)
Drama | Mystery
Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. It looks like an open and shut case, for Misumi has confessed to the new charge. Enter prominent lawyer Shigemori, who harbours other ideas, which could mean the difference between life and death.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Mikako Ichikawa, Izumi Matsuoka
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Foreboding / Yocho (2017)
Sci-Fi
Something's wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It's not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her: mirror surfaces are distorting and people's behaviour is changing. They keep dropping things and their arms seem to be aching. When Miyuki thinks she sees a ghost in her father and newscasters begin predicting incessant rain on a global scale, all the signs seem to indicate that the end of the world is nigh.
Starring: Kaho, Shôta Sometani, Masahiro Higashide
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Love and Lies / Koi to uso (2017)
Drama | Romance
This live-action film is set in a modern Japan where the government combats a low birthrate by matching men and women dependent on an analysis of their DNA. With two men and a girl as the main focus the story revolves around a love triangle.
Starring: Aoi Morikawa, Takumi Kitamura, Kanta Satô
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
The Dragon Missile / Fei long zhan (1976)
Action
An evil gang of martial artists fight for a healing elixir against a specialist that fights with boomerang blades – the Dragon Missiles!
Starring: Lieh Lo, Tony Liu, Nancy Yen, Feng Ku, Chih-Ching Yang, Sha-Fei Ouyang
Director: Meng Hua Ho
The One-Armed Swordsman / Du bei dao (1967)
Action | Drama
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
Starring: Yu Wang, Chiao Chiao, Chung-Hsin Huang, Yin-Tze Pan
Director: Cheh Chang
Dear Etranger / Osanago warera ni umare (2017)
Drama | Family
A 40-year old man sees his life change when his wife gets pregnant. He already has a daughter from his first marriage whom he rarely sees and two step-daughters, from his wife's first marriage. The youngest of his step-daughters is looking forward to a baby brother or sister, but the oldest doesn't welcome the news and suddenly decides that she wants to live with her father. And as if that were not enough trouble, he is forced out of his good office job into an inferior position.
Starring: Rena Tanaka, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Yukiko Mishima
Detective Conan: Episode One – The Great Detective Turned Small / Meitantei Conan: Episode One – Chiisaku natta meitantei (2016)
Adventure | Animation | Crime | Mystery
Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small is the sixth TV Special of Detective Conan. The special is a retelling of the first and part of the second episode of the series
Starring: Kappei Yamaguchi, Wakana Yamazaki, Minami Takayama, Ken'ichi Ogata, Rikiya Koyama, Megumi Hayashibara
Director: Yasuichirô Yamamoto
Yongsoon (2016)
Drama
Yongsoon, an 18-year-old high school student, is a daring, fearless girl who falls in love with the coach of her school's athletics team. When she discovers that he has a lover, the pain is almost too much for her to bear. To make matters worse, her father brings home a new wife. In an effort to bring about a resolution, Yongsoon tells the coach that she is pregnant with his child and decides to meet his lover to finally settle things. They meet in a classroom, together with the coach and Yongsoon's new stepmother. Can Yongsoon win back her love?
Starring: Soo-kyung Lee, Duk-moon Choi, Keun-rok Park, Dong-Young Kim, Yeo-jin Choi
Director: Joon Shin
The Thousand Faces of Dunjia / Qi men dun jia (2017)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
A group of warriors protect the world from a monster invasion.
Starring: Chengpeng Dong, Ni Ni, Arif Rahman, Dongyu Zhou, Wu Bai, Yan Liu
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen
Before We Vanish / The Strolling Invaders / Sanpo suru shinryakusha (2017)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa, Mahiro Takasugi, Yuri Tsunematsu
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tornado Girl / A Boy Who Wished to Be Okuda Tamio and a Girl Who Drove All Men Crazy / Okuda Tamio ni naritai Boy to deau otoko subete kuruwaseru Girl (2017)
Comedy | Romance
Thirty-five-year-old Yuji Koroki likes singer Tamio Okuda. He is useless with women in the tradition of films like Train Man or My life Changed When I Went To A Sex Parlour. He works at a popular magazine and has a difficult time with the banter of those coworkers around. There is Akari though and is lovely and flaunting and hence desirable and attractive to Yuji and all men. With love comes misery however as Yuji is soon deep in both.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kiko Mizuhara, Suzuki Matsuo, Hirofumi Arai, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô
Director: Hitoshi Ône
Railways / Reiruweizu: 49-sai de densha no untenshi ni natta otoko no monogatari (2010)
Drama
Hajime Tsutsui worked for the electric company and recently received a promotion. Due to his mother's illness and the death of a close friend Hajime decides to return to his hometown of Izumo, Shimane to work as a rail car driver.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Reiko Takashima, Yuika Motokariya, Shirô Sano
Director: Yoshinari Nishikôri
The Enchanting Ghost / Gui wu li ren (1970)
Fantasy | Horror
A young couple desperately try to keep their love alive, while living in a haunted house.
Starring: Mei-Yao Chang, Li Hua Yang, Ming Lei, Fu Sheng Tsui
Director: Hsu Chiang Chou
