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A professional hit-man is hired to take out a target -- however, his girlfriend’s pregnancy gives him second thoughts. He decides that after this job, he will renounce his profession and turn himself in. This is the first feature film from Taiwanese director Alex Yang, who participated in script-writing and production on Edward Yang's early films. "The Trigger" has echoes of Yang's "Mahjong." The actors in the film, except for veteran Ngai Man-Yin, are all new faces -- unfortunately, Ngai's death in 2005 also made "The Trigger" his last appearance on screen.

In the mountains north of Chiang Rai an animistic hill tribe follows their ancient beliefs. One such belief is that a widow known as a "Mida" must be appointed to teach men how to have sex before they marry so that they can have lots of children. This is a great honor for anyone that gets this position. One day some young pimps from Bangkok show up with the intention of convincing the local girls to go to work in brothels down there. They employ two locals to help them and pay them with things like tape recorders, watches and clothing. Once they leave the two who got the tape recorders etc. find out they cannot buy batteries up there, have no electricity and realize they have been cheated. The local people then begin to hate outsiders. Another Bangkok man comes up and at first they think he is just another pimp but find out he is a volunteer teacher. What fate awaits him, "Ah Por" and the girls who decided not to go?

Love is Elsewhere is a 2008 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Vincent Chiu.

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

Based on the comic by Mamora Goda.

Monji has earned the title of second generation boss of the Black Black Black Skull Gang. He promised Takumi to conquer the country with the Black Skull Gang but in reality, he has trouble seeing it happen. While confused, he builds friendships with Aoyama and another transfer student, Rei.

Quon Kisaragi was surprised when she saw an illusion of herself floating in midair. This other "self" of her claimed that she is a fragment of Quon. Thus an existentialistic dialogue began between the two.

One day, when three guys and one girl wake up in the morning, they're all in a small room filled with the white powder, naked. Why were they gathered? What does this room mean? Who brought them here? How to escape from it?

Autumn, 1997. Ryuko, her brother Syuwa and their father Matsuo live in a small apartment. Matsuo loses his job after a quarrel and the Kato family's livelihood depends on young Ryuko, who secretly poses nude for various pornographic magazines. Matsuo ends up discovering his daughter's secret activity and throws her out of the house. Despite this, Ryuko continues working in the world of pornography and supporting her little brother and father.

30 years of the band, 30 years of Japanese rock. The story of passion toward the band and music.

Cao Fei explores a virtual metropolis within the online platform Second Life. The work blends real and fictional elements of Chinese identity and urbanism to comment on capitalism and development in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Marxist iconography intersects with modern corporate structures, creating a dystopian yet whimsical reflection on 21st-century economic realities.

A documentation of Nabua altered into a field of lightning. The film, in the manner of an old sci-fi or horror movie, shows a set of mini-explosions creating a synchronised series of bolts of lightning like a downpour of bullets from the sky. The flashes of light reveal the surroundings, then the ground with smoke, dust, and silence.

Aroka Jom-Ya-Kub-Ya-Jai is the name of the episode of the 7th Bird Bird Show concert, held from 15 - 30 April 2000, performed at the main auditorium, Thailand Cultural Center, Huai Khwang District, Bangkok, for 20 shows. Number of spectators: 40,000, a bird's-eye concert. The first and only time that there will be a musical throughout the concert, with Nat Myria, Nicole Therio playing the lead roles and taking turns performing each round.

Do-jin a high school senior had a 'sleep hold operation' with the demand of the mom. But he come to suffer from the side effect although he runs the successful road through that. Finally, he resort to the extremity ....

While the Tribes of Light and Shadow have peacefully reunited and are living together on the surface, life in Astral's household has not gotten any easier as Sharon, Nina and Mew still fiercely vie for his attention - only to have Delta beat them to it!

The always calm and collected Hakuryu rides into Hakata to save his old friend who is caught in a turf war. Hakuryu's chivalrous spirit is a powerful force as he sharply cuts his way through the bloodthirsty Hakata yakuza and the war between the yakuza and a huge organization. Nanshu-gumi and Awami-gumi are the two major forces controlling Hakata. However, the Awakai-gumi, suffering from financial difficulties due to the closing of a coal mine, joins forces with the Hamamoto-gumi, the largest organization in Kobe, and begins to target the Nanshu-gumi's territory. After much deliberation, Hiroi, a young leader of the Nanshu clan, calls on his old friend Tatsuya Shirakawa and decides to fight to protect the clan and Hakata.

Jouji gets a job as a tutor. His student is a beautiful girl Naomi, but she works Jouji very hard. After then, Jouji has a nightmare of the snake.

A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She's a nurse, he's a patient. Problem: a large metal object on his back. While the woman tries desperately to escape, the man experiences an inner struggle on the borderline of dream and reality. What has happened before?

A fierce scout who thinks of women only as money. The first time he forgave his heart was Juri, whom he scouted in Shibuya. The story of a man and various women who live as scouts in Shibuya.

A woman named Yuri who works in a love hotel is raped by three coworkers and kept in the SM room until she enacts her blood-soaked revenge.

The four elements referred to as "water", "flame", "wind" and "earth" in this film all exist individually while responding to each other, by fighting and loving each other, foster the concept of a world in each individual's "subjectivity".

A young monk catches a train to a temple in a hill. On the way, he meets Pol and Tangmo, two people who trying to escape from their personal problems. Later, the threesome becomes friend, but they have to separate to find their goals.

B'z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No.20~ is a home video by B'z, released on DVD on December 10, 2008. The three-disc, three hour set serves as a compilation of previously unreleased and uncollected footage from past LIVE-GYM concerts along with special footage not included elsewhere in the band's catalogue.

2009 release

Hong Kong movie

The thirteenth 'Road to the Don' film.

Before World War II, Ikego village was an idyllic agriculture community. The Imperial Navy took over the village and the hills to build the largest ammunition preserve in Asia. When Japan lost, these facilities were taken over by the US Navy, and are now housing for the American soldiers.

Kei keeps her truck rolling day after day, always thinking of her young daughter, Iku, who lives apart from her. Kei’s protégé, Maako, also drives a truck to pay her little sister Mio’s school fees. One day, Kei spots Mio taking money from a middle-aged man. Not long after, word comes that Maako has quit her job…

A couple of men and women who look happy. However, each of them was living another life that the other did not know. Their words, which at times seem to betray their own feelings, crystallize into a dry ending.

Something's brewing on the desk. Battle is commencing. Will Kungfu Bunny always be invincible?

The first half of the true story of Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza gang

Yuko Mizushima encounters an alternate version of herself, and subsequently explores her sensuality in a series of connected vignettes.

Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".

A hacker named Intoxicant is threatening to destroy a famous internet forum. While people are gathering in the system and expecting something to happen, six different users begins to suspect each other. When the countdown of annihilation begins, the chaos between trust and truth is about to grow.

In July 2006, Kelly Chen and Jordan Chan held a joint concert at the La Kwok Concert Hall. During the grand finale of the seventh show, they performed a mini musical, where Kelly portrayed a high-profile celebrity and Jordan played an ordinary person. Throughout the concert, they each performed their own hit songs. In the final part of the show, they joined forces to sing together, delivering a memorable closing to the performance.

This is the seventh volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region.

Sayaka has been married to Shuji for seven years. One day, she happens to meet Takashi, who she dated before they were married. Since then, Sayaka has visited him almost every day. That day, while they were having sex, his wife comes to clean the room. Sayaka takes the opportunity to leave the room. The next day, she calls Naomi, a friend from her school days, and confesses about her sexless relationship with Shuji and her affair with Takashi. Sayaka's heart is shaken, and she unconsciously heads to Takashi's room.

Directed by Shinji Aoyama, this NHK documentary follows avant-garde jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo as he traces the footsteps of the poet Matsuo Bashō. Blending music, landscape, and literature, the film captures Kondo’s improvisational soundscapes against the spiritual terrain of Kumano, evoking a dialogue between past and present, poetry and performance.

This is the fourth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV from July 2003.

The main character finds a ticket and a small box in "a room in an apartment" on the boundary between dream and reality. I wake up after sleeping, and when I fall asleep again, I'm on the "Sannokan Railway". A ticket transports him to the city of fantasy, "Sannohako Peninsula". Products of the past and scenery seen somewhere. The main character is led to a nostalgic place where he saw someone at the Hyakushiki Ryokan "Soran no Ma", which overlooks the sea. Full of sorrow and full of hope that they might be able to get it back. Through the journey, the man faces his deep sorrow.

Two men diligently unload equipment and materials from a truck, put pipes together, and build a stage for a puppet theater. No matter how few people are in the audience, the show starts and ends as it always has. Convincingly, as if to impress it on our minds, the camera registers from a corner the dust-covered projector and film lying idle in a warehouse, and the presence of the men steadily going about their business. Quietly criss-crossing people and places with the camera onboard, giving way to cars on the farm road, the traveling puppet theater carries with it the ambience of a bygone era in Taiwan.

The second volume of the action horror drama starring popular idol Minako Komukai.

Sawaki Shohei (Yabe Kyosuke) is a strong fighter with a strong manly spirit and a weak heart. He is asked by his classmates to help them in a fight, and in no time at all he knocks out the rival Morikawa and his friends, but a few days later, his friends are turned back by a boxer who calls himself Azuma (Motomiya Yasukaze).