The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.
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The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.
45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission has been protecting humanity and justice from the threat of Shocker. His name is Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider. After a long battle overseas, Hongo hears a certain girl is in danger and immediately returns to Japan. He then meets Takeru Tenkuji, Kamen Rider Ghost, who had been investigating the girl's whereabouts.
From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated community? Despite the fact that Mayor Amano and the other all male residents have enthusiastically welcomed her and the other three coeds attending Professor Ashihara’s overnight seminar, Mikoto can’t shake the sense of increasing dread that consumes her. Something horrible has happened here. Something that is about to happen again. Because the town has been waiting for her. And the other girls. From the pages of the hit online manga published in Web Comic Gamma, the nightmare is about to begin!
Hung, a 40-year-old security guard of a commercial building, lives in a cramped sub-divided flat with his wife, Ping, a part-time waitress in a Cha Chaan Teng, and son, Pak Yin. Amidst all the struggles for affordable accommodation, Hung never succumbs and hopes they will eventually move into a public housing unit. Yet, the lives of three get even rougher when Ping finds herself pregnant while they are being forced to leave but unable to find a new flat. Meanwhile, Pak Yin chooses to endure silently for the sake of his parents. Trapped in such a vicious cycle, are love and companionship the way to resolve?
Hashire Melos! is the title of two Japanese animated films. The first was directed by Tomoharu Katsumata and released on Japanese television on February 7, 1981. It was either 68 or 87 minutes long, and its official title did not include the exclamation mark on the end. The second, with the exclamation mark, was a 107-minute remake of the first and was released on July 25, 1992. It featured direction and screenplay by Masaaki Osumi, music by Kazumasa Oda, art by Hiroyuki Okiura and Satoshi Kon, and background art by Hiroshi Ohno. Both were produced by Toei Company Ltd. Visual 80, and both were based on the original short story written by Osamu Dazai in 1940.
Worried about her husband being allergic to dust, Nat, a recently-dead woman, returns as a ghost possessing a vacuum cleaner to clean the house and protect her family from other vengeful ghosts in the house. To become a useful ghost, she needs to get rid of the useless ones.
A former boxing champion takes decides to break a few rules and train orphans from China's remote countryside in order to give them a future.
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
At the end of life, an old female moneylender faces a financial crisis. She still chose to do for her own desires, ignoring the warnings from the last remaining family member.
Sun Xiaolei, a drama school student, is facing the first important competition in his life, but the delay in changing his voice makes him anxious. In the process of preparing for the competition, Xiaolei accidentally became friends with two competitors - Shi Jiahui, a boyish old girl, and Xie Tianci, who was born in a famous Beijing opera family. In the long summer, the three teenagers are about to face a "reversal" of puberty.
Follows a female poet dealing with the grief of the recent death of her boyfriend.
Legendary chef Mo Yik-Tin is notorious for turning animals into spectacular dishes – tastes always rule over lives under the butcher's knife. Equally thoughtful and fascist, Mo is a fascinating mentor in the eyes of his apprentice. In subtle tension with the TV programme's host, Mo is poised to present his greatest culinary dishes which set off an intense debate with the programme host. A reflection on the general public's food-obsessed culture and celebrity worship, this feature also highlights human's decadence and corrupt excess through the aesthetics of food.
In-ah (Son Eun-seo), Yoo-ri (Oh Da-eun) and Nana (Shin So-yul) are 3 women who are attractive enough to be called the 3 Angels. They decide to bring out the passion inside them as much as they want and go on a trip to Okinawa. On the first day, Yoo-ri easily falls in love with a gentle and attractive young man Min-seok and calm-looking In-ah feels dangerously attracted to a fund manager who is about to get married to Sarah. Sarah looks at her in a queer way. Nana who wants to make a memory she can't forget, is asked to for a threesome by Yoo-ri's boyfriend Min-seok...
Having been happily married to Jae-hyun, Na-yeon accidentally learns about Jae-hyeon's wishes from her former sex partner Min-woo. Na-yeon, who is a little nervous after hearing Min-woo's words, confirms with Jae-hyeon and spends another night with Min-woo in anger. Min-woo, who had long been interested in Na-yeon, now begins to approach her as a real man, not as a sex partner, and she begins to open her heart little by little. The love story of two men surrounding a woman is just beginning.
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army.
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she's picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can't help but be curious about why he's done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she's done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.
Yoshiko Mita and Masahiko Tsugawa enthusiastically perform a couple who know each other’s affairs and affairs and still do not part with each other even after various emotional conflicts. A work that is highly supported by women.
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Eight years after the battle for the Book of Omniscience, the peaceful lives of Touma, Rintaro, Mei and Kento are troubled by a mysterious new Falchion who can seemingly erase people from existence altogether!
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a dark side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
Il-young tries to get away from her adoptive mother because she does not want to get involved in her mother's criminal activities.
A young couple and his wife's sister live in a housing complex. When her wife becomes suspicious of the relationship between her husband and her sister, she falls into an unexpected trap.
When Li Weiyang's motorcycle crash left his girlfriend with missing front teeth, he struggled to afford implants by negotiating with the at-fault driver and insurers, upending their modest but stable life.
Woo-seok happens to meet Gyeong-seo on the street and heads to Gyeong-seo's house. Woo-seok against Gyeong-seo while talking to Gyeong-seo in Gyeong-seo's house. But Gyeong-seo is busy, so she doesn't want to meet a man. Rather, Nam-joo, who lives with Gyeong-seo, falls in love with Woo-seok, and the two of them fall in love in a daze. When Nam-joo fell in love, she felt sorry for the longitude of being alone. Nam-joo decides to connect Gyeong-seo and Jeong-woo by making plans with Woo-seok. In the end, Gyeong-seo and Jeong-woo share love with each other through their performances. But Woo-seok can't erase the scripture from his mind.
Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner.
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
The wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey. It is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem. The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert and its people have been forced out of their homes as three major powers wage war with each other in this wasteland. The Knights of the Round Table come together to protect the Holy City and their Lion King. With the whole of his kingdom summoned into a strange land, Ozymandias, the Sun King, quietly plots against the tyranny of this bizarre realm. The mountain people, protectors of those who were stripped of their land, await their chance at rebellion. In order to fulfill his mission, Bedivere heads for the Holy City where the Lion King rules. There he meets humanity’s final Master, Ritsuka Fujimaru, who has come to Jerusalem, accompanied by his Demi-Servant, Mash Kyrielight, in their quest to restore human history.
A simple, hardworking young man who deeply loves his family lives a modest life with his little sister, whose dream is to become a mor lam dancer at least once in her lifetime.
Jun-ho and Min-soo, experience a hard time because of Da-hee who drinks whenever she breaks up with her boyfriend, but they still take care of her. But they heard that Da-hee is meeting her ex-boyfriend again. Actually, the two guys like Da-hee. They’re trying to make sure that Da-hee won't meet her boyfriend again. The love story between the two men, which is invisible to the eye, is just about to happen.
The story is about a young girl named So Siu-siu. Siu-siu's mother had committed suicide when Siu-siu was young. Siu-siu is now being taken care of by her aunt (Diana PANG Dan) and her uncle (Elvis TSUI Kam-kong) who are owners of a brothel. One day, the officer Mang visits the brothel and catches a glimpse of Siu-siu. He becomes interested in her, however Siu-siu has no interest in Mang. Instead, she falls in love with another officer's nephew. Her aunt tries to break the relationship between Siu-siu and her 'Dream Lover'.
A female freelance programmer is teamed up with a high school computer genius for a project. The weather is hot, it’s late, she unbuttons her blouse and leans in close as he tries to program…
Kashou Minaduki, the son of a long line of Japanese confection makers moved out to open his own shop "La Soleil" as a patisserie. But upon moving out, hidden amongst his things were two of the catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla, that the family had been raising. When he tried to send them back, they begged and pleaded until he gave in and now they've opened La Soleil together. With two catgirls who really, REALLY love their master trying their very best and occasionally failing -- a heartful comedy opens for business!
The Qing emperor releases all detained Shaolin disciples, but the vindictive White Lotus clan decides to exterminate all the disciples. One martial artist survives the onslaught, and constantly trains while in hiding for revenge.
After falling in love with Han Liren and giving birth to an "illegitimate child", Han Liren abandoned her and married a rich girl and cheated her out of the child. Huang Su then left the country, changed her name to Lin Luping, and became an actress. Sixteen years later, Huang Su was so popular that she was invited to perform in Shanghai. The young actor she worked with, Han Chen, was withdrawn and hated everyone, and everyone discriminated against him because he was an abandoned "illegitimate child". On stage, Han Chen played Lin Luping's son and was very successful. Later Lin Luping finds out that he turns out to be her biological son who was cheated away by Han Liren years ago. At this point, the theater owner Han Liren appears and wishes to get back together with Lin Luping, but is rejected by Lin Luping's mother and son.
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.
Depicts the day that Naruto Uzumaki became the 7th Hokage.
Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese competitor who runs the Black Bear school. The harassment leads to intense conflicts between them.
A movie adaptation of the TV series Afro Samurai. The tale of Afro Samurai is one of bloody hardship and pain. Along his solitary path of revenge for his murdered father, he sheds no tears and knows no love. Forever chased by powerful enemies in a lawless technology-speckled dystopia, he evades bullets and blade to reach his final prey: a man who will not die. But Afro will reach his quarry - even if it means painting a road of blood and brains from here to the bitter inevitable end.
Tells the story of the disappearance of a female college student that was traced back to the source of a kidnapping case years ago. It seems to be foggy, but in reality it is intertwined. The police compete with criminals in a treacherous storm that is difficult to distinguish between false and true. Launch the 10-hour limit "Death Hunt" mission.
Arunprapai is a perfect woman who has the looks and the quality. She married to Kongkai, the man she didn’t love, because she wanted to escape the rumor about her having an affair with one of her best friend. But her family life is not as happy and smooth as some other peoples, the same with Kongkai, because Prungchat, his former lover is still coming around. So, getting a divorce seems to be the obvious choice.
Chi Keung is a local born Pakistani teenager. He works in his relative’s restaurant as a delivery boy. On this hot summer day, he delivers food with his bicycle as usual, weaving through the network of old and new streets in the Central and Western District. However, he loses the bicycle during a ride, but this eventually leads him to discover new scenery, encounter different people and things.
The film adapts and expands the Planetarian visual novel by Key. The story is set in a dystopian future where biological and nuclear warfare has left a once prosperous civilization in complete ruin. The film tells the story of an old man travelling around with a mobile planetarium projector to show people the stars.
Growing up without parents, Ma Sha has always worked as a lookout in a red-light district. When he is imprisoned for manslaughter following a customer's death, he breaks out of jail but is soon caught again and sent to a correctional institution on Orchid Island. Guided by his former elementary classmate, who is now a penal officer, Ma finally repents his wild past, writing down his stories and eventually publishing them.
The story of Ho, a Chinese peasant/slave worker who escapes to Hong Kong and becomes one of the most feared gang bosses in Hong Kong.
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, suddenly vanishes.
Min-jeong lives a simple but happy life until it's in ruins because of the man that moves in next to her. The man is Deok-man, someone she wants to erase from her memories. She knows what he's up to next and she plans to take revenge on him.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Jin-hong dreams of being a great actress but for the moment has to be content with running the auditions. She lands a small call girl role that requires her to shoot naked.
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
After his marriage falls apart, Wang Dali (portrayed by Zhang Luyi) continues to live under the same roof as his ex-wife Zhang Jing (portrayed by Qi Xi), yet an insurmountable "emotional time lag" has grown between them. However, a bird-searching experience and the shared responsibility of taking care of their family gradually bridge the gap between them. How will Wang Dali seize this chance to win back his lost love and family?
After the death of her father, a divorce and a long period of absence and solitude, a woman is reborn obsessed by a man. Jin Hee learns that she can be satisfied by love, she want to be sure that the relationship between a man and a woman is not a one-way possession, but of consideration and delicacy.
Continuing their journey from Record Country (the place that held the book of memories), Syaoran and company land into Tokyo Country, a blood-filled country under war from opposing factions for natural resources and survival. While reluctantly involved in the race to live, the group faces their own problems as certain revelations are made, changing their journey forever. A shocking betrayal and a battle that risks all of their lives. After this revelation, they will never be the same again.