Human Lanterns / Yun pei dung lung (1982)
Action | Horror
A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.
Starring: Tony Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Ni Tien, Linda Chu, Hsiu-Chun Lin
Director: Chung Sun
Headshot (2016)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.
Starring: Iko Uwais, Chelsea Islan, Sunny Pang, Julie Estelle
Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Guilty of Romance / Koi no tsumi (2011)
Drama | Horror | Romance
A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo – a love hotel district – a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.
Starring: Miki Mizuno, Makoto Togashi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Kazuya Kojima, Satoshi Nikaido, Ryûju Kobayashi
Director: Sion Sono
The Old Capital / Koto (2016)
Drama
Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing of times.
Starring: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Ai Hashimoto, Riko Narumi, Reina Aoi, Anna Aoi, Shôno Hayama, Asahi Kurizuka, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Eiji Okuda
Director: Yûki Saitô
Ghost Train / Otoshimono (2006)
Horror
On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
Starring: Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto, Itsuji Itao, Miyoko Asada
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Badrinath Bansal from Jhansi and Vaidehi Trivedi from Kota belong to small towns but have diametrically opposite opinions on everything. This leads to a clash of ideologies, despite both of them recognizing the goodness in each other.
Starring: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Sahil Vaid, Swanand Kirkire, Ritu Raj Singh, Yash Sinha, Rajendra Sethi
Director: Shashank Khaitan
Duckweed / Cheng feng po lang (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
In the near-death after an accident, a sports car driver time-travelled back to the 1990s to meet his severe father and never-seen mother in a small Chinese town.
Starring: Chao Deng, Eddie Peng, Liying Zhao, Zijian Dong, Shih-Chieh Chin
Director: Han Han
10,000 Miles / Yi wan gong li de yue ding (2016)
Drama | Romance
Kevin, a young, fearless runner from a rough neighborhood in Taiwan, falls in love with his tough coach Ellie. When Ellie becomes sick and distant, Kevin fights to survive and conquer the famous 10,000 Miles Silk Road Ultramarathon in order to win her heart.
Starring: Darren Wang, Sean Huang, Megan Lai
Director: Simon Hung
Cheap Flight!! / Chiipu Furaito (2013)
Comedy
Miharu Aizawa receives an order to work for Cherry's Airlines from major airline. Cherry's Airlines is a low cost, budget carrier. The concept for Cherry's Airlines is to provide little to no service, all for the lowest cost to the passenger. Miharu struggles with her new job, because she is trained to provide excellant service from her previous company. Miharu begins to feel gloomy from struggling with her amateur colleagues and against the low cost policy of her company. Nevertheless, Miharu works hard for Cherry's Airlines first flight.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Osamu Mukai, Mirei Kiritani, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Reina Triendl, Erika Asakura, Masumi Nomura, Michiko Kichise, Ai Katô, Eiichirô Funakoshi
Director: Satoru Nakajima
The Power of Kangwon Province / Kangwon-do ui him (1998)
Drama
Helmed by one of Korea's leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again.
Starring: Jong-hak Baek, Jaehyun Chun, Sunyoung Im, Yoosuk Kim, Yun-hong Oh, Hyunyoung Park
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Dangal (2016)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters struggle towards glory at the Commonwealth Games in the face of societal oppression.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana, Zaira Wasim, Suhani Bhatnagar, Ritwik Sahore, Girish Kulkarni
Director: Nitesh Tiwari
Okinawa Rendezvous / Luen chin chung sing (2000)
Drama | Romance
One day, Jenny discovers that she doesn't love her boyfriend – a Japanese triad leader – any longer; therefore, she walks away with a bag of money to secure her life. In reality, that bag of money is the triad leader planning to trade in a secret diary with a notorious thug, Kit; however, just to find that the money has gone. In the meantime, Tak is a HK police officer on vacation, and spots Kit in Okinawa. Undercover as a ruffian himself, Tak approaches Kit and would like to arrest him at any given time…
Starring: Tony Leung, Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong, Stephanie Che, Vincent Kok, Gigi Lai
Director: Gordon Chan
No More Cry / Nakumonka (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Two brothers are separated as young boys and vow not to cry at their separation. They are unknowingly reunited as adults thanks to fate. Find laughter through the tears.
Starring: Sadao Abe, Eita, Yûko Takeuchi, Takashi Tsukamoto, Sarutoki Minagawa
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
To a Brighter Place / Akarui hô e akarui hô e: Dôyô shijin Kaneko Misuzu (2001)
Biography | Drama
With an elder brother and an adopted younger brother who doesn't know it, Teru grows up in her father's bookstore. After she has graduated from girls school at the age of 17, her younger brother, Masahiro, suggests that she write about her observations in life. She begins to write poetry under the pen name of Misuzu Kaneko and her life as a poet begins making her famous. But what follows is a failed arranged marriage, Masahiro's broken heart, and a debilitating illness.
Starring: Takako Matsu, Ken Miyake, Hironobu Nomura, Yoshiko Nakada, Kyôko Kagawa, Atsuro Watabe
Director: Makoto Kiyohiro
A Hero Never Dies / Chan sam ying hung (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama
Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Both of their gang leaders like to get advice from a fortune teller living in Thailand. On one such trip, Martin's gang ambushes Jack's at a Thai hotel. There is a spectacular shootout, in which both Martin and Jack are severely wounded. The leader of Jack's gang was at the hotel, unlike Martin's, and escapes. Afterwards, both gang leaders, Mr. Fong of Martin's and Mr. Yam of Jack's, go to a general and make peace. Meanwhile, both Jack and Martin are hospitalized. Martin's legs are amputated, and his girlfriend whores herself in order to get them back into Hong Kong…
Starring: Leon Lai, Ching Wan Lau, Fiona Leung, YoYo Mung, Henry Fong
Director: Johnnie To
Shinjuku Swan II / Shinjuku suwan II (2017)
Action
Based on the manga series "Shinjuku Swan Kabukicho Skauto Sabaibaru" by Ken Wakui (first published 2005 in Weekly Young Magazine). Tatsuhiko Shiratori (Gou Ayano) works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki (Tadanobu Asano) who is the CEO of a scout company.
Starring: Gô Ayano, Tadanobu Asano, Yûsuke Iseya, Motoki Fukami, Nobuaki Kaneko
Director: Sion Sono
Under the Dog (2016)
Animation | Sci-Fi | Short
The story takes place within Neo Tokyo in the year 2025, five years after a severe terrorist attack at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Students possessing special abilities are forced into serving an elite anti-terrorist unit created by the United Nations, fighting against threats including other ability users. If these agents fail their mission, they will be killed along with their families, who have bombs planted within their heads. One member of this covert ops unit, a Swedish girl by the name of Anthea Kallenberg, seeks to find who she really is.
Starring: Koki Uchiyama, Naomi Ohzora, Rumi Okubo, Haruka Takahashi
Director: Masahiro Andô
Haruko Azumi Is Missing / Japanese Girls Never Die / Azumi Haruko wa yukue fumei (2016)
Comedy | Drama
Haruko Azumi is a 28-years-old woman. She is a single and works at an office. One day, she suddenly disappears on a typical street with retail stores lined up. After her disappearance, her missing person poster is spread across the city.
Starring: Yû Aoi, Mitsuki Takahata, Shôno Hayama, Taiga
Director: Daigo Matsui
Oh My Zombie! / O Mai Zetto! (2016)
Comedy | Horror
5 years after a zombie panic took place in Japan, life has returned to normal. One day, a zombie appears out of nowhere and walks into the Hanada's home. Daisuke Hanada and others talk about they will do with the zombie.
Starring: Akihiro Kakuta, Rie Tomosaka, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Marie Machida, Reiya Masaki, Riku Hagiwara
Director: Yoshihiro Kamimoto
Enthiran / Robot (2010)
Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
An android constructed by a scientist falls in love with the bride-to-be of his creator.
Starring: Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Danny Denzongpa
Director: S. Shankar
