Drama
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(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
(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
(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
(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
(67 min)
1998 - Drama - Japan
Uzuki Nireno has left Hokkaido, her small rural home in the very north of Japan, to pursue her studies at a University in Western Tokyo. Even though her transition to city life is hard, she begins to get use to her new situation. Even with her very shy nature she manages to meet some new friends and finally join a fishing club. But what is the real reason why Nireno absolutely wanted to be admitted to this particular University? Does the floppy-haired young man who works at the local book store has something to do with her decision?
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Director : Shunji Iwai
Cast : Takako Matsu, Kahori Fujii, Kazuhiko Kato, Seiichi Tanabe
(80 min)
2003 - Swordplay, Drama - Japan
Two samurai end up on death’s doorstep after they are wounded in battle. Only one of them (Takao Osawa) survives the night to wake up and discover his wounds are healed and he has gained a special ability. After meeting his savior (Masaya Kato), the samurai is forced to pay his debt by engaging in battle with his powerful host. But only a worthy adversary has the power to defeat the demon known as Aragami.
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Director : Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast : Takao Osawa, Masaya Kato, Kanae Uotani, Hideo Sakaki, Tak Sakaguchi
(112 min)
2002 - Drama, Romance - South Korea
After Mi-heum discovers her husband’s infidelity, she begins one of her own.
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Director : Young-joo Byun
Cast : Yoon-jim Kim, Jong-won Lee, Seung-Ri Ha, Min-kyeong Kim, Seong-Yong Kye, Byung-ho Son
(94 min)
1988 - Drama, Gangster, Romance - Hong Kong
Take Scorsese's Mean Streets,I read somewhere on a Wong Kar-Wai website that he received the inspiration from Scorese's but I don't know if it's legit, and you've the basis of the film: Triad Brother Wah (Andy Lau) has to consecutively lookout for his little brother Fly (Jackie Cheung) who causes trouble whenever he's around. Wah's cousin Ngor (Maggie Cheung) just recently arrived and is staying in his flat so that she can continue receiving treatment at the hospital for her illness. The two unexpectedly fall in love but before Wah furthers his relationship with her he must help Fly one last time.
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Director : Wong Kar-wai
Cast : Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Kau Lam, Alex Man, Ronald Wong
(99 min)
1994 - Swordplay, Drama - Hong Kong
Ouyang Feng runs a small inn at the edge of the desert, he is also known for being a problem solver, in other words he arranges murder for the right price. Every year during the season in which peach trees blossom a close friend visits him, Huang Yaoshi. This year Huang brought something for his friend Ouyang, a magical wine that would make one forget the past. Ouyang could not bring himself to drink the wine while Huang drank without worry. Over the next year many travellers pass by the inn each bringing their stories, many of them being about lost love and why would one wish to forget the past.
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Director : Wong Kar-wai
Cast : Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony eung, Jacky Cheung, Li Bai
(89 min)
1999 - Comedy, Drama, Asian Related - France
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin, an obscure young actor of bits-parts and advertisements, has only one ambition, to play the lead role in a kung fu movie. But only watching kung fu movies and a couple of hours of Kung fu practice alone in his room are not enough to become a kung fu star. Augustin knows that he must pack up and start a new life where all the roots of kung fu come from, in China. But because of a limited budget he decides that Chinatown in south-east Paris will probably do the same. After subscribing to a kung fu school, Augustin has to face another problem again, his morbid fear of physical contacts prevent him from having proper kung fu training. He will then be referred to Ling, a young Chinese doctor who practices acupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body has never dreamed of.
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Director : Anne Fontaine
Cast : Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Maggie Cheung, Darry Cowl, Bernard Campan, Paulette Dubost, Pascal Bonitzer
(106 min)
2001 - Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action - Japan
In the not so distant future videogames will take on a new form, technology has been refined to the point that the videogame experience has become truly lifelike. But this new technology does not come without risks, if one dies in one of these games they may never recover and thus essentially becoming vegetables. These games quickly become illegal but many still play for the extreme thrill that awaits them and for the very best players there is great profit to be made. One of these incredible players is a woman named Ash who has now set her sights on a secret mission where none has ever returned from.
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Director : Mamoru Oshii
Cast : Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski, Bartek Swiderski, Michal Breitenwald
(90 min)
1999 - Drama - Japan, Hong Kong
Asano searches for the comfort he had when he was a young boy growing up in Okinawa. For him, objects and actions have different meanings, mostly associations with numbers. Sometimes "twenty seven cops" is "boxes on the road" and everything in between. The way his mind works makes it hard for Asano to express himself to others in a spoken fashion, but emotionally he is able to touch those who let him in. After traveling for a long time, yearning for that particular safe haven, Asano finds himself in a dive bar in Hong Kong. There, he relives his childhood dreams and befriends Kevin, a flamboyant and outspoken gay Australian who lives life fast, beautiful, and always carelessly. And then there is Mavis, a somber and angel-like fashion designer who cleans up after their messes. In and outside the bar, the three share a relationship that becomes undeniably lovely and enriching
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Director : Christopher Doyle
Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock, Mavis Xu, Georgina Hobson, Christa Hughes
(142 min)
2003 - Swordplay, Drama - Japan
A warrior, who's son was slain during a pointless battle, is assigned a private mission by a high priest. It is up to him to try and stop the madness of wars that wreak havoc upon feudal Japan. To compose a team of assassins, he goes and recruits young children who's parents were murdered. Retreating into a secret location in the mountains, he trains these children to become skilled and deadly assassins. When the children became young adults, their master announces that they are ready to engage in their "mission." For the first time ever, these assassins, who knew nothing but the way of the sword, are let out into the real world. Together, they must assassinate three warlords who threaten the land of Japan with the agenda of war. With numerous obstacles standing between them and their mission's success, it is up to their instincts and dexterity to complete what could very well be the peace-bringing mission to mend together a nation on the brink of war.
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Director : Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast : Aya Ueto, Yoshio Harada, Masato Ibu, Aya Okamoto, Joe Odagiri, Naoto Takenaka
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