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(95 min)
2003 - Comedy, Romance - South Korea
Ha-young, a high school student, wishes to meet her prince charming, and one day her dream comes true. Sort of. She’s having ‘one of those days’, when she hits Hyung-joon, a university student, who is driving his expensive Lexus430. The car ends up against a wall with a scratch on the front. Ha-young, miraculously escapes the scene and leaves behind a furious Hyung-joon. Hyung-joon is not ready to let this go and decides to track down Ha-young and make her pay for the reparation. Ha-young unfortunately doesn’t have the money Hyung-joon wants, so between them, they sign an agreement. Ha-young has to be Hyung-joon’s slave for the next hundred days. Cleaning his house and his car, carrying his shopping bags and even assisting him with his school reports, it will be a nightmare for Ha-young, until she discovers that Hyung-joon lied about the price of the reparations. From then on, it’s payback time for Ha-young.
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Director : Shin Dong-Yup
Cast : Kim Jae-Won, Ha Ji-Won, Kim Tae-Hyeon
(96 min)
2001 - Action, Supernatural - Hong Kong
(from DVD case) Special Unit "2002" is a designated task force of SPI (Spirit & Paranormal Investigation) in the law enforcement department, ridding the human world of evil deeds of haunting spirits via an execution team comprised of a man and a ghost. Being a psychic, Chiu (Nicholas Tse) is joined by Sam (Sam Lee) to the cause of law enforcement, but Sam's time for reincarnation is approaching. Chiu is learning that Fung (Stephen Fung), a human being with the psychic power of supernatural vision, is destined to be his new partner. Though gifted, Fung is ironically too scared of the dead to contribute during combats. However, an inevitable battle with the might Water Ghost is set to bring the two together and destined to determine the fate and foe of this man and ghost duo. (Isn't this a great summary?)
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Director : Wilson Yip
Cast : Nicholas Tse, Stephen Fung, Law Kar-Ying, Sam Lee, Danielle Graham, Rain Li
(136 min)
2002 - Action, Science Fiction - South Korea
In an alternate future, Japan has won World War II, and has chaged the future as we know it. The outcome has had a great impact on everything, and it’s a completely different world in 2009 Lost Memories. It is a world in which Japan now has Korea under it’s sphere of influence. An artifact exhibition hosted by the Inoue Foundation is layed seige to for an unknown purpose by an underground Korean anti-government group called the Hureisenjin. The two JBI (Japanese Bureau of Investigation) agents assigned to deal with the terrorist situation are special agents Sakamoto Masayuki (Jang Dong-Geun) and his close friend Saigo Shojiro (Toru Nakamura). After the raid, Sakamoto begins to investigate the case and begins to believe he’s caught up in a conspiracy that leads him to believe that Seoul may not be a part of Japan and sets out on his own to find the truth. However what he finds may be beyond even he could imagine.
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Director : Lee Sih-Myong
Cast : Jang Dong-Geon, Toru Nakamura, Seo Jin-Ho
(130 min)
2004 - Romance, Drama - Hong Kong
2046 is about a writer who incorporates his life and those he meets into a sci-fi romance novel series. The novel in turn becomes a narration of the writer’s own life as he deals with relationships and love. Through his interactions with the girls who live next door to him in room 2046, he learns the reality of his situation.
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Director : Wong Kar Wai
Cast : Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Carina Lau
(88 min)
2004 - Drama, Romance, Thriller - South Korea
Young Tae-Suk wanders through the apartments of people on vacation: for a while he enjoys their homes, doing small repair jobs and then leaving quietly, not stealing anything. His ghost-like hauntings of these homes are matched when he encounters a battered woman sulking in a lush, apparently empty house. They become attracted to one another, but there are many obstacles for their unconvential affair: an angry husband, police, murder charges, golf balls...
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Director : Kim Ki-Duk
Cast : Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jin-mo Ju
(94 min)
1995 - Drama - South Korea
In a lonely sky rise apartment building two women live as neighbors; one, a compulsive cook, the other an introverted writer. The story opens with the arrival of a plain clothes police officer. A conversation segues into a full blown interrogation as we find out that the writer neighbor is missing without a trace. As the story progresses, we learn the details that lead up to the disappearance of the writer, as well as the true nature of the two women’s relationship.
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Director : Chul-Soo Park
Cast : Eun-jin Bang, Sin-Hye Hwang
(111 min)
1978 - Kung Fu - China
During the Qing dynasty, a young student named Liu Yu-De feels hopeless because of the oppressive Manchu forces. His school teacher motivates him to join the rebel causes and a patriotic feeling overwhelms him as he can now do something to help his people. Unfortunately for them, the Manchu forces did not take long to discover that something underground was happening in the small town. In the attempt by the Manchu to capture the rebels, Lius fathers and his teacher get killed. Liu barely manages to escape the raid, but now his only goal is to avenge the death of his father. To attain this goal he decides to go learn kung fu in a Shaolin Temple. But his training is much harder than he expected. The rules of Shaolin are very strict and Liu Yu-De will have to pass through all the 35 chambers, in order, before he can finally complete his training. Each chamber is specially designed to challenge an aspect of the human endurance. However, Liu will also discover that not only physical traini
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Director : Chia Liang Liu, Tang Wei Chen
Cast : Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Wing, Lo Lieh, Wilson Tong, Wong Yu, Simon Yuen
(90 min)
1983 - Martial Arts - Hong Kong, South Korea
A monastery holds four books containing the secrets of its powerful martial arts techniques. Everybody wants to get their hands on them, including a band of local evil types. The abbot is killed, and the head students begin to argue over who should keep the books safe.
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Director : Godfrey Ho, Tommy Kim
Cast : Hwang Jang Lee, Dragon Lee, Jacky Kim
(120 min)
2003 - Drama - Japan
Nine inmates begin a small detour towards the inevitable after escaping from prison. Each individual, incarcerated for a different crime, takes their chance at life outside of the box and take the initiative to find happiness once again.
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Director : Toshiaki Toyoda
Cast : Ryuhei Matsuda, Yoshio Harada, Koji Chihara, Mame Yamada, Itsuji Itao, Kee
(89 min)
2000 - Action, Drama - Hong Kong
Chun packs his bags and gets ready to go to Thailand; he is planing to track down his brother so that he can collect the money that he stole from the family. Chun's girlfriend decides to join him, once in Thailand they find one of the men that work for his brother, after a chain of strange event Chun finally meets his brother who is an important man in the Thailandese Triad. His brother gives him the money and tells him to get the hell out of Thailand. At the bus stop Chun changes his mind he puts his girlfriend on the bus and decides to stay behind in Thailand.
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Director : Siu-Fai Mak
Cast : Daniel Chan, Sam Lee, Sheung-Man Lei, Gigi Leung, Francis Ng, Pui-Chi Ng
(99 min)
2001 - Comedy - South Korea
Two girls decide to borrow a car and go on a road trip, but they find themselves getting into escalating trouble. They do not realise that the contains guns belonging to a corrupt cop and two gangsters. The girls meet two other girls who are frustrated with their lives, and before long, they are robbing convenience stores while avoiding the gangsters and the Korean police force. All the girls want to do is get home and pretend that nothing ever happened, but to make things even more tricky, teenagers all over Korea are comiting copycat crimes.
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Director : Shin Seung-Su
Cast : Lee Yo-Won, Kim Min-Seon, Lee Yeong-Jin, Jo Eun-Ji
(108 min)
2001 - Action - Hong Kong
Jacky Chan, after appearing in the news paper for stopping a robbery, is visited by a private detective (Eric Tsang). The detective explains that he is looking for five orphans born in 1958 and he meets the profile. A man who is dying in Korea is looking for his son and hired a company to locate all possible candidates. Jacky decides to go meet this man, he learns that he is an infamous spy, he tells Jacky that he hid a large sum of money, if he could find it after he died it would be all his. After the funeral of the spy, Jacky decides to follow the clues which not only leads him to a possible fortune but into a whole lot of trouble.
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Director : Teddy Chan
Cast : Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang, Vivian Hsu, Kim Min, Wu Hsing-Guo, Cheung Tat Ming
(111 min)
2000 - Comedy - Japan
A car rental clerk accidentally collided into a Yakuza's car and in order to fix the damage he needs to work it off by doing some jobs for him. But when he's at the Yakuza's operation pad, a freak explosion occurs and everyone except naturally the car rental clerk along with the yakuza, whose car he hit, had been killed by it. Then an equally shy female nurse and along with paramedics venture onto the buildings charred remains and stumbles across the two survivors. But before the rental clerk is taken to the hospital he decides to steal an abundant sum of the Yakuza's money and lets the nurse in on the scheme. Everything seems to be harmless and practical until the Yakuza who lived from the explosion sends his youth accomplices and he himself also goes to retrieve his money from the rental clerk and nurse.
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Director : Shinobu Yaguchi
Cast : Hikari Ishida, Masanobu Ando, Jovi Jova, Kazue Tsunogae, Kirina Mano, Yu Tokui
(150 min)
2001 - Drama - Japan
The story revolves around the adolescent lives of Yuichi Hasumi and his friends, chronicling their lives from age 13 to 15. Yuichi is a huge fan of pop idol Lily Chou Chou, and frequents her fansite "Lily Philia" under the handle "Philia". As the story progresses, many of his closest friends undergo changes in personality and everything gets turned completely upside down as some of the most berserk and effed up moments emblazened on cinema are thrown at the viewer in rapid succession.
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Director : Shunji Iwai
Cast : Hayato Ichihara, Takao Osawa, Shugo Oshinari, Miwako Ichikawa, Yu Aoi, Izumi Inamori
(117 min)
1994 - Horror, Thriller, Drama - Japan
A rash of murders taking place on subways at exactly 6 P.M. strikes up fear in the population of Tokyo. The mark of a serial killer is left on these seemingly random murders and a professional, Dr. Setsuko Suma, is called in to solve the case. However, she is just as baffled about the crimes and seeks the help of her ex-lover, Rei Aku (a cult deprogrammer). Things begin to tense up as Suma feels she is becoming more and more like the serial killer and as Aku tortures her with mind games.
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Director : Shogo Ishii
Cast : Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryoko Takizawa, Masayuki Shionoya, Toshinori Kondo
(60 min)
1978 - Drama, Pinku - Japan
Three no good gangsters are terrorizing and assaulting unsuspecting students. But the leader seems to be putting on a front…he seems to actually have compassion. He saves a girl from potential rape, must to the dissatisfaction of his loose-cannon friend. To prove his worth to the gang, he must assault and rape the very girl he saved. Does he have it in him to continue on with his atrocious ways?
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Director : Chusei Stone
Cast : Tatsuma Higuchi, Tsutomu Hori, Shin Kagayama, Kenji Kasai, Megu Kawashima, Maya Kudou
(60 min)
1978 - Drama, Pinku - Japan
To Muraki, nude women are just an everyday affair, a hassle, a job. Behind every naked woman there stands a man with a camera and a business. While the pictures capture a women being pleasured or forced into uncompromising positions, it all stays within the frame of the camera. The people that take these pictures have set up a loving and caring environment to always make sure the women are comfortable in the otherwise very uncomfortable situations. But when Muraki finds a film where the pain seems so real, he takes it upon himself to find the truth behind it’s making…and also to save the actress on screen. What he finds is the underbelly to the porn industry where the women in the pictures is a mirror to their very own lives.
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Director : Chusei Stone
Cast : Yuuki Mizuhara, Keizo Kanie, Jun Aki, Kenji Kawanishi, Ryoichi Kusanagi, Minako Mizusima
(60 min)
1988 - Drama, Pinku - Japan
A woman discovers that her lover has been cheating on her. She thought that with this man, her world was complete. Realizing that everything she thought was safe and secure in her life has crumbled, she roams helplessly in the streets. Across town, a man has is beginning to suffer for the financial mistakes he made at work. His wife has left him, his friends have become his enemies, and he is constantly barraged by angry business people. A chance encounter between these two hopeless people summons them on a journey to re-discover the beauty and joys of life.
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Director : Takasi Ishii
Cast : Mayako Katsuragi, Naoto Takenake, Hirofumi Kobayashi, Jun Izumi, Kazuyo Ezaki, Akira Otaka
(132 min)
2000 - Horror, Gore - Japan
The police discover a mysterious murder, a man with the top of his head cut off and his brain gone. During the coming week many other similar murders are committed each more gruesome than the next. A suspect is found but the murders continue and the police suspect a copycat but two detectives, closely following the case, believe something of a more supernatural nature is going on. (Take note, the story in the review was keep to minimum to not expose any spoiler)
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Director : George Iida
Cast : Yousuke Eguchi, Miwako Ichikawa, Yoshio Harada, Takashi Kashiwabara
(106 min)
1995 - Drama, Gangster - Japan
A strung out yakuza from Osaka finds it difficult to adjust to life after being released from prison for murdering a rival gang boss.
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Director : Rokuro Mochizuki
Cast : Ryo Ishibashi, Asami Sawaki, Tatsuo Yamada, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Tetsuya Yuki, Yukio Yamanouchi
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