32,444 Matches Found
Studying in Hong Kong but living in Shenzhen, Peipei has spent 16 years in her life travelling between these two cities. To realize the dream of seeing snow in Japan with her bestie, Peipei joins a smuggling gang and uses her student identity to smuggle iPhones from Hong Kong to Mainland. Her family life and friendships begin to fall apart. The daily life of Peipei starts to get out of control.
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Wannabe actor Joon-cheol is living with his girlfriend who wants to get married. He tries to convince her to get married after he's made his debut but she breaks up with him in the end and kicks him out. Joon-cheol has nowhere to go but a friend of his has to go on a business trip and asks him to take care of his pet cat. However, what's waiting for him is not a cat but a girl with aphasia. Joon-cheol quarrels with his friend about calling the cops and comes out of the house. He goes back to his girlfriend but she doesn't accept him so he starts living with the cat girl.
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
A husband learns the importance of expressing his tremendous love for his wife only when it is too late.
Beidiao screenwriter Wei Fei has always dreamed of becoming a pure literature writer, but because of his livelihood, he has no intention of devoting himself to creation. Father Lao Wei came to Beijing to help his son, but he could only make a lot of jokes out of help. The father and son, who hadn't seen each other for many years, gradually understood each other under the brief run-in in Beijing and the encouragement and support of friends, and Wei Fei also retained his persistence in his dream.
After spending several years abroad, Tan Xiaoqiang comes back to his home town in south west China.
Set in a remote and bleak border post during the 1970s cold war between China and Russia, this is a study of boredom and a gradual thawing of relations between opposing guards which leads to a bizarre border incident.
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
A short anime with the theme of earthquake disaster and reconstruction released by Shichigahama, a town in Miyagi Prefecture.
Kung Fu star Dragon Lee appears as 'Golden Dragon', who teams up with 'Silver Snake' to take revenge on the men responsible for his brother's murder...
A girl runs away from her boyfriend. A middle-aged couple brother and sister find her, taking her to their mansion in the woods. They her to become a masochist and introduce her to their younger "brother"...
A nostalgic, coming-of-age story of identical twin sisters who share every aspect of their lives with one another, until one day a boy walks into their lives and puts their strong bond to the test.
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
On the night before Yuet's wedding, best friends Nam and Yuet recall their time together in school, when they shared a relationship that was more than friendship, but also perhaps not quite love.
A man is struggling to keep his beloved bull from being used as sacrifice for his dead wife's funeral rites.
The story follows Shanghai hitman Zhao as he prepares to retire. He receives two kill contracts, both to take place at the same time and the same location: but the target of one contract is the consignor of the other. In order to make up for a mistake he made long ago, Zhao decides to take on both contracts and to make a fortune for his salvation. But what awaits him is a huge and complex abyss.
The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world.
Hiromi Nonoyama is a 2nd grade high school student. She finds herself confined in a strange place with nine of her classmates. They are forced to take part in a game that risks their lives....
Jane lives with her brother Chut with her being the only one doing everything around the house. But Chut will need to learn to take care of himself when Jane becomes involved romantically with a Japanese coworker.
1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as though calm had been restored to the domain, but there is word that Jyuzo Matsumiya, the sword fighting instructor sent by the shogunate, is taking some suspicious actions.
When the villagers in Qingshuilian village along the Xiaoli River in northern Shaanxi have to evacuate to intruding forces of Hu Zongnan, only a stubborn grandfather is left behind.
In a last-ditch attempt to revive their relationship, writer Su Dong invites his ex-girlfriend Zhao Ying on one final trip, planning to woo her at the site of a mythical tree that blooms only once every 100 years. Zhao begrudgingly succumbs to Su’s pestering, but unbeknownst to Su, she has also invited her new fiancé, the older and seemingly dim-witted Gu. Growing increasingly jealous, Su makes Gu his unwilling rival. Between long, arduous hikes and over-the-top romantic gestures, Zhao remains unimpressed. However, an uncanny friendship forms between the two romantic rivals, until the trip takes a sinister turn that eerily mimics the plot of Su’s latest novel.
Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man, however, seems to be on the run from himself, not being able to move beyond his grief and guilt for an accident that took place when he was still in school. He spends his days doing nothing outside of working, essentially just waiting for time to pass, with no particular purpose. Things change when two individuals his age, Yuan Yong and Yang Fan, appear in the shop, searching for a surfing board not to surf, but to take photographs on. An initially aggravated Xiao Fang eventually becomes friends with them, and the three start hanging out, with their relationship finding its zenith on a night out that ends up in a rather eventful karaoke. It turns out that Yuan Yong is trying to escape his parents' arrangements and Yang Fan is looking for a future in a life that seems as vague as Xiao Fang's.
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance.
A middle-aged couple are taking a walk by the harbour and having a fight when they meet an old acquaintance. When they walk past the Mazu temple, where he proposed to her, it reminds them of how things used to be.
Death is a moment whose reverberation endures for the living. Three students from the Audio-Visual team are shooting a documentary on a schoolmate who has recently committed suicide. It is intended to convey a ‘positive message’ to the entire school about the importance of life. During interviews, the students notice some discrepancies in the testimonies, particularly those by a prefect and a teacher, while friends of the deceased seem to be withholding some inconvenient truth. Should the team pursue the truth, or act as the school’s propagandist? Filmed in a mocumentary style, The Handbook of Suicide Prevention challenges and exposes the hypocrisy and suppression that haunt adolescence.
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
An army officer has a chance encounter with a young soldier, the son of an old comrade in arms. The soldier tells the officer he has a sister who is also in the army. When the young soldier is killed in action, the officer visits her to pay his respects, and recognizes her as his own child, given up for adoption 18 years earlier. This presents him with a dilemma, wanting to reconnect with the only child he ever had, yet reluctant to tell her the truth about her parentage ...
The second volume of a drama about a new couple's love, starring the sexy actress Yua Mikami. Shujiro Isumi and Haruka, who are in their second year of marriage, lived an ideal married life that people envy. However, one day, Shujiro spits out his accumulated desires toward Haruka.
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Li Zhenghong (Zhang Zhehao) is unwilling to be blind and can only be assigned to do word processing work in a law firm. He strives to participate in litigation, but always hits a wall. One day, he finally received a civil claim suit, but did not expect that the defense lawyer in this case was actually Zhao Dingbang (Ban Tiexiang), the boss of his law firm. If he helped the plaintiff, how should he face his boss? What is more difficult is that this case is not a general lawsuit. It is actually a multinational class action with 531 plaintiffs. Li Zhenghong has not even fought a single lawsuit, and is a blind person. How should he win the lawsuit?
Two rivals betrayed by the same man become feuding friends who compete for a photographer, only to abandon the toxic chase and realize true female solidarity and self-worth.
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.
An omnibus special comprised of four segments: >> Story 1: "Skip" (スキップ) A man receives a unique door key with the power to transport him to the future, but the cost is steep: once he enters, he can never return. >> Story 2: "Yutosei" (優等生) One day, a high school girl receives her first-ever zero score in class. >> Story 3: "Fukkatsu no Jumon" (ふっかつのじゅもん) While cleaning his parents' house with his son, a man discovers the video game "Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line" and a piece of paper with a mysterious phrase, "Fukatsu no Jumon," written in 48-character hiragana. >> Story 4: "Kin no Tamago" (金の卵) One day, a housewife buys eggs at the supermarket and notices they're shining golden.
New York in 1960. The poor student Han Young-Min sees the want advertisement of the sperm bank and offers his sperm for 25 dollars. His sperm is given to two women, and they give birth to a girl and a boy respectively. When they are grown up, they love each other. Dr. No, who is responsible for the operation, comes to Korea in order to solve this problem. He persuades Han Young-Min, who becomes the vice president of a company, to meet the boy and girl. Consequently, he meets them, but he says that there is no relationship between them. Three persons separate from each other.
This film tells the story of three young women from South Korea, Japan, and China who were ravaged after becoming comfort women in the Japanese army.
This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa, a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a legendary giant squid rumored to live in Tokyo Bay. Haruo's uncle Takashi, fallen on hard times, comes to stay with his nephew until he can get back on his feet. Uncle Takashi is addicted to energy drinks, and seduces any woman in sight, including Haruo's girlfriend Rika. While praying at a Shintō shrine, Uncle Takashi is bitten in the scrotum by a poisonous snake and dies. The uncle is destined to spend the afterlife in Hell unless his nephew and girlfriend can rescue him from the King of Hell.
A story combined by the lives of three night clubs girls in. Porsche is a once-famous aging night club girl; May is forced to work in a night club in order to pay her step-father's debt; and GiGi needs a huge amount of money in order to help her fiancé. They all know Night Club Girl is not a good reputation job, and they expect to start over again someday. However, it seems they cannot break the "curse" that "Bad girls never have fortune"
Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally led his army to invade Owari Province territory, now in Aichi Prefecture Nagoya City area, was the leader Nobunaga of this surprising burst of death. After the war, the Imagawa clan who originally dominated the Tokaido region fell away, and the victorious Oda Nobunaga quickly expanded his power in Central Japan and the Kinki region, laying the foundation for his future control of the central government of Japan.
Principal of a reformatory school leads a lost boy back on the right direction.
Soon after a young police officer reports for duty, he is confronted with the unspoken rules. There are people who cannot be questioned and cases that cannot be further investigated. Although he has been sidelined, he refuses to give up the old case. However, having spent so much time and effort, will he find out the truth or some long forgotten conscience?
Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.
Masami and Kasamatsu are passionately seeking each other in an apartment in a corner of the downtown area along the Sumida River. They had an affair. They declared divorce to their respective spouses and began living in this apartment in search of a love nest just for the two of them. However, there was no way that her new life after being unfaithful would go well from the beginning...
A story about the relationship between a young boy and a street dog.
An escaped convict and a woman, who both contracted HIV from the same man, fall in love.
A three-member motorcycle gang spends its time raping women until one member’s sister gets involved.
Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his sword to protect those he loves in this adaptation of a Fujisawa Shuhei novel. As a ”Heya-zumi” (essentially a freeloader living off his family) Sanosuke has one last chance to help his grandniece escape from the cruel samurai of an arranged marriage. Nakadai proves he ”still has it,” when fate forces him into a deadly duel. This award winning samurai drama from the pen of noted author Fujisawa Shuhei is a tribute to one of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen!
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.
Ho Fan started his career as a Shaw Brothers actor, best known for his role as the monk Tang Seng in the classic Monkey Goes West film series. As a director, however, his forte was erotica. Like Li Han Hsiang, Ho Fan was a pioneer of the aesthetic school of erotica, known for his luscious cinematography and seductive lens. He is certainly one of the few Hong Kong erotica filmmakers to have made a respectable name for himself with Category III offerings like Adventure in Denmark, Yu Pu Tuan, and 1977's Innocent Lust. One of Ho Fan's representative works, Innocent Lust stars Ai Fei, Chan Chun Ho, and Lam Choi as college friends who are unlucky in love. They decide to go to a night club, and are surprised to discover that their innocent-looking classmate (Chan Wai Ying) works as a hostess there. When they step up to defend her from a lecherous old man, the encounter sparks off an unexpected journey of love and lust.
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
A piano tuner happens to go to a children´s outdoor concert for business. There, he meets his first lover who he played the piano together with in his childhood.