The Posterist (2016)
Documentary
Documentary of HongKong's Movie banner artist Mr. TaiYung Yuen
Starring: Tai-Yung Yuan, Michael Hui, Kenny Bee, Tung Cho Cheung, Wing-Shing Ma
Director: Seewai Hui
Parks / Pâkusu (2017)
Drama | Family
University student Jun has a lot of free time on her hands. She encounters Haru who is in high school and looks a woman she knew in her past. They meet Tokio, who is the grandson of the woman she knew, and learn that the person is dead. They come across media of the woman's work.
Starring: Ai Hashimoto, Mei Nagano, Shôta Sometani, Shizuka Ishibashi
Director: Natsuki Seta
Where I Belong / Soap Bubble / Shabondama (2017)
Drama
Izumi is an urchin who was set adrift by his parents. He is a thug, a thief and a predator. on the run from the cops he takes to the mountains of Miyazaki in southern Japan where he happens to come to the aid of an older local woman. Staying at the woman's house he is taken in not only by her, but also by the villagers. It can but only affect him.
Starring: Kento Hayashi, Mina Fujii, Kazuyuki Aijima, Katsuhiko Watabiki, Etsuko Ichihara
Director: Shinji Azuma
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love / Nanami, First Love / Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (1968)
Drama | Romance
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
Starring: Kuniko Ishii, Kôji Mitsui
Director: Susumu Hani
Mad World / Yat nim mou ming (2016)
Drama
A mentally ill stockbroker struggles to reconcile with his estranged father and his perturbed ex-fiancée.
Starring: Shawn Yue, Eric Tsang, Charmaine Fong, Elaine Jin
Director: Chun Wong
Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue / Yozora wa itsudemo saikô mitsudo no aoiro da (2017)
Drama | Romance
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a 'girlie bar' hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation, and unable to reach through a hard outer shell that stops her from expressing tenderness to anyone else. Sosuke Ikematsu, one of Japan's most important young actors, stars as Shinji, who struggles as a day-hire construction worker with a sense of impending doom, but who still tries to find the source of an unnamable hope he feels inside. The setting is Tokyo in 2017, where empty words, a sense of doom, and feelings of isolation co-exist with hope, trust, and love. In the sense of real life conjured up in these two people is a new kind of film: the densest kind of love story.
Starring: Shizuka Ishibashi, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Director: Yûya Ishii
Gintama / Gin Tama / Silver Soul (2017)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | History | Sci-Fi
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Masaki Suda, Kanna Hashimoto, Masaki Okada, Masami Nagasawa, Tsuyoshi Muro
Director: Yûichi Fukuda
Crayon Shin-chan: Invasion!! Alien Shiriri / Kureyon Shinchan: Shûrai!! Uchûjin shiriri / Eiga Kureyon Shinchan: Shuurai! Uchuujin Shiriri (2017)
Animation | Comedy | Family
One day, the Nohara family met a mysterious alien from outer space named Shiriri. On being basked by a ray emitted by Shiriri, Hiroshi and Misae became 25 years younger and appeared as kids. To be able to return back into adult form, they must find Shiriri's father, who is somewhere in Japan. This situation, which initially started with Shinnosuke's family and later his friends, gradually involves the entire of Japan.
Starring: Akiko Yajima, Miki Narahashi, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Satomi Kôrogi, Miyuki Sawashiro
Director: Masakazu Hashimoto
Midnight Runners / Chungnyeon gyungchal (2017)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Hwang Ki Joon, Mr Action, and Kang Hee Yeol, Mr Bookworm, are two best friends but contradictory students at Korean National Police University. They accidentally witness a kidnapping and decide to work together to track it down.
Starring: Seo-joon Park, Ha-Neul Kang, Ha-seon Park, Dong-il Sung, Yoo-ram Bae
Director: Joo-hwan Kim
Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi / Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no nankyoku kachikochi daibouken (2017)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Unable to endure the midsummer heat, Doraemon transports Nobita and his friends to a huge iceberg floating in the South Pacific. While creating an amusement parks with the secret tool "Ice-working Iron" the group finds a mysterious golden ring in the ice. Upon closer examination, they determine that the ring was buried in Antarctica 100,000 years ago – before people could have lived there. Doraemon and friends head to Antarctica looking for the owner of the ring and come across the ruins of a huge city buried in the ice. Using Doraemon's Time Belt, the group travels back 100,000 years ago and meets the young girl Kara who is connected to the mysterious ring. But now the group must fight for survival as Doraemon faces the crisis of the entire Earth freezing.
Starring: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Oohara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Atsushi Takahashi
Pure White / Mashiro no koi (2016)
Drama | Romance
In the snowy cold of Toyama Prefecture in Western Japan lives teenaged girl Mashiro who spends time with her small dog and also works at her father's bicycle shop. Attending he older brother's wedding at a local shrine the girl with the mild disability meets a Tokyo-based photographer and gets to know his camera. This leads to her getting to know the photographer.
Starring: Miyuki Satô, Seiko Iwaidô, Yûsuke Fukuchi, Hatsunori Hasegawa, Shifumi Yamaguchi
Director: Yoshihiro Sakamoto
Blame! (2017)
Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Kiri the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world.
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa, Sora Amamiya, Mamoru Miyano, Aya Suzaki, Nobunaga Shimazaki
Director: Hiroyuki Seshita
The Tenants Downstairs / Lou xia de fang ke (2016)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A sadisitic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building.
Starring: Simon Yam, Yu-Wei Shao, Xing Li, Kang-sheng Lee, Kaiser Chuang, Yan-xi Hou, An-Shun Yu, Angel Ho, Akio Chen
Director: Adam Tsuei
What a Wonderful Family! II / Kazoku wa tsuraiyo 2 (2017)
Comedy | Family
In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with the father, grandfather and husband has taken up driving, albeit not without a few bumps. The family revokes his privilege, which leads to an intra-family conflict.
Starring: Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa, Shôzô Hayashiya, Tomoko Nakajima
Director: Yôji Yamada
Blade of the Immortal / Mugen no jûnin (2017)
Action | Drama
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine – the 100th film by master director Takashi Miike.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi, Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama
Director: Takashi Miike
Nobody Knows / Dare mo shiranai (2004)
Drama
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Starring: Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Last Cop: The Movie / Rasuto koppu: The Movie (2017)
Action
30 years ago, Kosuke Kyogoku was a young police officer. He went after the dangerous criminal Kagura, but had an accident and fell into a coma. Now, 30 years later, Kosuke wakes up from his coma. He is now in his 50's and the world has completely changed. He begins to work again as a cop and partners with young detective Ryota. Ryota is geeky and timid, while Kosuke is brash and aggressive. Their new story begins.
Starring: Toshiaki Karasawa, Masataka Kubota, Nozomi Sasaki, Tomoka Kurokawa, Satoru Matsuo, Ryôsei Tayama
Director: Ryûichi Inomata
Wu Kong / Wukong / Wu kong zhuan (2017)
Action | Fantasy
The story tells the story of Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen, who comes to the Immortal Mountain to cultivate their skills. They gained friendship, experienced love and ultimately betrayal, growing throughout their life journey.
Starring: Eddie Peng, Shawn Yue, Ni Ni, Feihong Yu, Hao Ou, Shuang Zheng
Director: Chi-kin Kwok
The Sinking City: Capsule Odyssey / Xi huang ji luo zhi tai bao tai zi tai kong cang (2017)
Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Hong Kong, the 3rd biggest financial centre in the world, is also a place with distorted living environment (and values). A story about 4 'losers' living in the infamous 'coffin' room have their own issues. Four sad stories with sugar coating, entertaining the audience for 100 minutes. A cult movie nicely directed and plotted. You can just consume the sugar or savour the hidden bitterness.
Starring: Pak-ho Chau, Andrew Lam, Babyjohn Choi, Shing-Ban Lam, Kai-Chung Cheung, Ava Liu, Shiga Lin, Joyce Cheng
Director: Nero Ng, Stephen Ng
Heart Attack / Freelance: Ham puay… Ham phak… Ham rak mor (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A hard-worker freelancer who falls in love with a doctor. While his life is getting worse every second. He must find the way to release his life to the beyond of everything.
Starring: Sunny Suwanmethanont, Davika Hoorne
Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
