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John Woo's melodramatic tragicomedy The Time You Need a Friend (1985) stands at the crucial crossroads in the director's career. Woo had been churning out innocuous comedies for more than a few years, and after establishing the "heroic bloodshed" genre, he'd never look back. But this tale of two comedians - estranged former pals who bury the hatchet for one last show together - blends the pathos and male-bonding of Woo's later dramas with the silliness and pratfalls that marked his early works. At their peak, Ku Ren and Shem Bien were an unstoppable screen comedy team, the undisputed stars of the silent era. But a major falling out has kept the duo offstage for decades. Despite the urgings of family and friends, Ku and Shem refuse to reconcile. As both men approach their twilight years, one last chance for a reunion presents itself in the form of a televised charity benefit. Ku Ren and Shem Bien struggle to come to terms with years of bitterness, and bring the house down once again.

Two teenagers on their way to a marijuana party are capture by two escaped prisoners and are held for ransom.

Jialing County is hit earlier than expected by a flood in 1982 and control measures were not yet implemented.

Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids. The parents work as cleaners in a "love hotel" and send the kids out to work as ticket scalpers, block-buying seats for hit movies like A City of Sadness and reselling them at a profit. Tragedy strikes when the daughter Mei-Hsueh flirts with the idea of prostituting herself and changes her mind at the last moment, leaving her first client with injuries that put him on the critical list. The focus throughout is on the son Ah Tong, who has a latent talent as a writer that is never going to flower.

Datenshi-tachi no Kyōen is an OAV (1985) where the younger sister of a family (who gets in way over their heads) ends up owing the yakuza money. Because she can't pay, she is taken by the gang members to be used as a sexual toy. Then she vows to take gruesome revenge upon her perpetrators.

Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.

A spaceship is lost near the forbidden planet of Inferno II. Some years later, a second ship with a crew of nine gets there and encounters a monster that rapidly makes mince meat of most of them. The sole survivor, Makuro Kitazato, must destroy the monster before it can surprise a third ship that is already en route.

"After perfecting his Kung Fu techniques with an old Shaolin Monk, Lew leaves the Temple in search of an arch criminal - Kam Kong (Crane Fighter), who has mastered Eagle Claw and Iron Armour. To get to him Lew must first fight his army of Foo Fighters." - DVD back of the box description. Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1979 Taiwanese Film The Young Dragon with new scenes.

An evil dwarf sorcerer is buried alive in the jungles of Borneo for practicing black magic: Many years later, a documentary film crew from Hong Kong opens the coffin, and discover that one of them is afflicted with a horrible curse that begins killing off everyone around them.

Eight female members of a high school drama club try various erotic ways to raise money to put on a play.

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.

Taiwanese action film.

When a monk decides to leave his temple in order to defeat the Chinese Imperial Guards who brutally murdered is fellow monk, he collects five men and trains them to help him fight the guards and an old friend of his - a white-haired wizard.

In a convenient world where vending machines offer just about everything, the hero procures whatever he needs from machines on his journey to see the creator. He tries to make a replacement purchase of the earth. But the creator declines his request, saying simply that there's no such thing as a brand new earth. The simplicity of the story illustrates the depths of Osamu Tezuka's despair at the earth's degradation, forming the gist of this 4-minute work.

Pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.

A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.

Mi-hie's affair with her foreign English teacher comes to an end. Feeling that she is ruined for marriage, Mi-hie dubs herself the Queen Bee and begins the life of a prostitute in Itaewon. When she learns that her sister is dating an American, Min-hie decides to make an example of him as a warning to others.

Set in the modern city of Shenzhen, an intoverted young woman slowly moves away from her brash boyfriend and, despite her inhibitions, gets a crush on another young teenage woman.

A rather standard costume action/drama set in medieval China with a few fantasy overtones.

The spirit of a deceased conjoined twin haunts her unknowing sister.

Set in the turmoil years of China, a foreign girl is saved and protected when she suicides because of her Chinese lover has been put into prison for mourning Premier Zhou.

A young girl gymnast is killed in a car accident and a government driver confesses his drunk-driving to the police. But a chief justice finds out that the real culprit is the son of a high-rank official.

The most extreme "molestation train" was born between the Showa and Heisei eras. An abnormal woman who loves outdoor masturbation and a super lewd woman who loves sex... A big collision on a crowded train!

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...

The family of Nug-rob and Rutai-rat have two teenage sons, Rit who has a very sensitive temper and addicted to gambling, and Ron a violent young boy who loved to hang around with the neighborhood teenagers. Sai, a pretty young girl who is a distance relative also live in the house. One day, after the two brothers watched and X-rated video.

A elusive thief nicknamed 'King of Terror' can disguise himself as anyone, and targets only first-class artworks. His next target is the 'Tears of Anastasia', a treasure belonging to Ryoko, a beautiful violinist's prestigious Kobayakawa family. The great detective Kogoro Akechi is asked by Inspector Namikoshi to provide security.

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

Best friends Ji-hye and Mi-yeong, fall in love with Jeong Woo-jin. Mi-yeong seduces him to end the love triangle and the two soon marry. Ji-hye leaves but returns 5 years later with a child in tow whom she claims is Woo-jin's.

A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love.

Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.

Lan Hua Hua and Brother Yang are childhood sweethearts and playmates, and the relationship between the two is sincere and passionate. However, Lan Hua Hua was forced to marry a greedy and cunning landlord. Lan Hua Hua, who was unwilling to succumb to fate, decided to elope with Brother Yang on the wedding night.

In a factory that prioritizes profits amid economic downturns, a female worker criticized for her poor performance commits suicide, prompting her colleagues to strike and demand improved working conditions.

As befits the telling of the story of perhaps the most universally beloved hero of modern-day Chinese history Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925), this lavishly produced biographical film uses techniques culled from Chinese Opera to dramatize the great man's political history. Concentrating on the period following his rise to political prominence in 1894 until his death in 1925, the movie is couched in terms of heroes who look heroic and villains who look villainous. Huge numbers of extras and vast battle scenes dot this production, and well-known Hong Kong and Taiwan-based movie stars appear in many cameos.

The stud may be sued for divorce by his wife and cheated on by his mistress, but the nympho may be in even more trouble if she trusts someone who is actually a murderous lunatic.

After a kind-hearted woman saves a python from being hunted and killed, the snake protects her in turn. When that same woman gives birth to a baby girl, scorned by the people in her village, the snake's protection extends to her as well, being taken in and protected by the snakes of the jungle when the village no longer welcomes them.

A shadowy figure roams the attic of an old Western-style mansion every night. A famous detective takes on the mystery surrounding a woman who was once the lover of a former member of the nobility.

A man spies on an upper class woman having an illicit affair and blackmails her for sex. But she’s not the delicate flower that she appears to be.

Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his uncle's house, part of which is rented out while his uncle is abroad on business. A realtor's mistakes leaves Tasiro sharing the house with Kei Yamaba, the most beautiful girl in the school, who is also his classmate. There is the risk that their unexpected 'co-habitation' will be discovered by the school authorities.

Chan Chuen directed this story about the many problems besetting Hong Kong youth when they reach that "energetic" age of 21.

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.

Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for the island, Seok-ho realizes that the island is a fantasy of an insane man so he runs off with the woman. Left behind, Hong-ik is disheartened but he gets together with the elderly innkeeper couple whose own son died of a mental illness. They head for the deserted island on a boat.

On the vietnamese border, a soldier is saved by a local girl.

This is an outrageous comedy about seven days in the life of two girls Leung and Ling, who want to skyrocket to the top by entering a beauty pageant. Both girls are ballyhooed as the hottest contestants, but at the end neither can make it to the top 5! What's more, Ling is dumped by her boyfriend, and gets fired at the same time. Being afraid of going home to get along with her father. Leung gives her a hand, inviting Ling to stay with her in her roof-top bungalow. Then they begin their days of similar conscious degradation, which force them to become best friends. But their friendship becomes short-lived when they run into a handsome and well-built young man Wong. They start to vie for his attention and his sex. However, before the climax of their war comes, they find out that he's a dawdler. Shattered by the fact, the two girls eventually come to team with one another.

Fresh from his smashing directorial debut comedy, "Let's Make Laugh", Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting returns to the screen with this seriocomic look at the clash of cultures which result when a Mainland Chinese peasant brings his family to Hong Kong. "Family Light Affair", whose Chinese title literally translates as "City Lights", is the director/writer's warm-hearted memoir of street life in the early 1980s, featuring an eclectic cast of pop music and kung fu stars who shine in their poignant roles.