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Yeong-shin, the son of Shin-ho and Hye-yeong, cannot stop thinking about his mother who left him in his father's care while she went to work in Japan. Meanwhile, his father's business is failing and he finds it increasingly difficult to support his family.

Chan Wai-Man stars as a Triad boss trying to expand his empire, Wilson Tong plays the rival out to stop him.

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

An anthology of tales from Hong Kong.

UNK, an UFO film, tests the limits of the 8mm medium with light, color and multiple exposures.

The notorious bandit, Shi Wen Lung breaks out of a California jail and flees back to China to carry on his life of crime. Eventually the Country sheriff catches up with him looking for the bounty on his head.

Toei yakuza film.

Ah Niu, swindled of his fortune by cunning crooks, hits rock bottom. A fateful encounter with devious thugs reunites him with Uncle Chou, prompting their escape to the vibrant city of Singapore. Their journey is riddled with absurd mishaps, including a comical episode with a baby and a frantic pursuit by the relentless thugs. This final instalment of the series offers a colourful, wide-ranging tour of Singapore in the mid-1970s, brimming with slapstick humour and heartwarming moments.

Alpha Star is approaching Earth at a rapid pace to destroy humanity and conquer Earth. Taekwon V fights against the Green Queen, the leaders of that star, and General Max. Before Alpha Star collides with Earth,

Hye-seon grew up in an orphanage with Myeong-gu. They marry when they get older but strain on there relationship tears them apart. Pregnant and alone, Hye-aeon wonders where to turn.

A divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the beautiful company secretary (Brigitte Lin)...

Directed by Sum Cheung.

A classic wuxia about the dragon magic sword

The Scholar Swordsman Shih Yen-wen and the Good Daughter Pai Chun loved one after another deeply and became husband and wife. Unfortunately, Hell Town Robbers ambushed them and blinded them two, their son also went missing. Longing for Shih’s love for sometime, the Peach Lady seduced Shih to take the “merciless pill” and resulted in Shih’s memory loss and became a puppet controlled by her, causing a commotion in the martial arts world. Adapted from Huang Chun-hsiung’s popular hand puppet show TV series, The Scholar Swordsman, the whole film is permeated with a strong puppetry style. The plot is full of twists and turns, and the fight scenes were creatively designed. Moreover, Shaw Brothers’ martial arts star, Chen Hung-lieh guest-starred in the film. It is a real treat for the sight and sound.

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

The Japanese are at it again but this time a hero stands in their way: Ching Yi!

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the port city of Yokohama, where more than 6000 people were struggling to get by without any means of survival, exposed to industrial accidents and diseases. The result is one of the most moving films produced by the collective, a series of beautifully filmed portraits, voicing the silenced stories and songs of a group of people living in this community. Credit: ICA London

An aimless American translator gets involved with a series of Hong Kong women.

Fan Kao-to is a worker who had enough of corruption in Shanghai. He tries to crush the organization alone. An attempt has been made before but ended up with the big Axe Gang, several of their brands in the man. The man's sister arrives in Shanghai at the same time as Fan Kao-to go out on one-man war, and she wants to do her in the fight, also, she takes the war personally.

Six crippled kung fu students are each given an Imperial Decree starting an anti-Ching rebellion, and are instructed to deliver them to the Commander-in-Chief.

Chiu Ling introduces his girlfriend Ma San to work for his uncle Chiu Chi. Ma San and Chiu Chi gradually fall in love with each other.

Based on the song by Mari Henmi

A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong, an inspector of Japanese Higher Police Department, is in agony of difficulties between Korea and Japan. Shin Yun-Il, a member of the council falls in love with a kisaeng whose name is Jeong-Mi. All of these are going their way under the influence of phases of the times such as carrying out colonial policies and each of them is linked complicatedly and causes troubles. After all their efforts concentrated on Independence of Korea, and Park No-Hun carried out his mission with help of 5 kisaengs of Myeong Wol Kwan. Finally he leaves for Shanghai with them.

A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets along well with the gallery owner's grown son and daughter. In order to keep their family united, his son and daughter ask her to withdraw from her love relationship, and she promises to do so to save the gallery owner's marriage.

The story of a revolutionary Tibetan youth who discovers and defeats an old landlord and tribal leader who is plotting against the Communist government’s plan to end the locust plague.

Those who grew up in Hong Kong in the 1970s definitely remember the Wynners, a band formed by Alan Tam, Kenny Bee, Bennett Pang, Danny Yip, and Anthony Chan. They first dabbled into the film industry with Let's Rock in 1975, and in 1978 Taiwanese director Chen Yao Chi created another Wynners movie Making It. With a script tailored for the Wynners, youth film Making It is an updated Chinese version of The Prince and the Pauper. Five up-and-coming young music lovers, played by none other but the Wynners, overcome a lot of difficulties before they have a chance to perform at a restaurant. However, one of the band members, Alan (Alan Tam), suddenly feels ill and is hospitalized. His four friends fortunately come across the rich Sylvester (also Alan Tam) who looks exactly like Alan, and the four desperate band members ask him to take Alan's place for the performance. Meanwhile, Sylvester's parents, busily fetching Sylvester to fulfill an arranged marriage, mistake Alan as Sylvester...

Hong Kong drama film.

Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate even though she had given him a hard time. They soon fell in love and decided to get married but due to Yuan-yuan's heart problem, there is a possibility that she may not conceive.

Considered the first biopic of the legendary Bruce Lee, fact blurs with fiction in this low-budget, loose interpretation of the great martial arts expert's life starring Bruce Li, the most well known Lee impersonator. The film takes a look at Bruce's humble beginnings as a paperboy to his rise in fame as a martial arts phenom, who later gets tangled up in a love affair with actress Betty Ting-Pei.

A depiction of the life and fate of a physically weak woman who has strong maternal love.

Fluxus artist and composer Takehisa Kosugi assembled a crew of young musicians and hit the road in a VW bus from Rotterdam to the Taj Mahal, playing a series of shows along the way in which the band used traditional instruments run through a series of electronic effects to create long sheets of drone both pulsing and timeless. Filmed by Takehisa Kosugi's mentor Matsu Ohno (perhaps best known in the States for his sound effects/score work on the television series Astro-Boy), the film moves at the same pace as the music itself, a pastoral road movie following a band far more likely to play temples than clubs.

Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.

In 1944 Chang Chin's father was murdered by the Japanese with the help of Ching Tang and Fan Hsi-Shang, two collaborators led by Fung Mu. Now a grown up and a master of kung fu, Chang is ready to revenge his father.

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.

If there are many photos taken at different times and places, and the same person appears in each photo, then by taking stop-motion pictures of those photos, it will become an animation of the same person moving. It would be fun to force the person to move. Furthermore, the large differences in the elements of each photo must produce something intense. The trigger for making this work was when I noticed that there were many photos of one person that gave me such expectations.

Hong Kong movie

Roc Tien plays a top swordsman, who goes after a league of professional assassins and kung fu masters who are trying to upset the balance in the martial world.

At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the target of a criminal organisation.

An emperor assigns his two superintendents Lung & Hu to wipe out the heads of the famous Justice Escort Service whom he sees as a threat to him in achieving total reign over the land.

Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Taiwanese horror film.

Li Yung-Chieh and his adopted sister Li Mei-Ling deal with the return of his criminal past and her obsessed childhood friend in this Shaw Brothers film shot in South Korea with a mostly South Korean cast and crew.

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.

This film is in the style of Liaozhai, consisting of three ghost stories. The first story, "The Horse Girl," depicts the turbulent relationship between a young woman living alone in the suburbs and her beloved horse. The second story, "The Ancient Temple," tells of an assassin hunting down the exiled emperor of a previous dynasty in an ancient hall during a time of political upheaval. The third story, "The Child in the Mirror," portrays a hypocritical old monk who, unable to bear the guilt of his actions, meets a tragic end.

In the early Shōwa era, university student Gōji Murata boards with the Itō family, old friends of his late father. One day, the family's daughter Tomiko catches him reading an erotic book. Rather than being shocked, she’s intrigued, and soon gives herself to him. That night, her older sister Kyōko, having learned what happened, quietly slips into Gōji’s room..."

Hong Kong superstar Jimmy "One Arm Boxer" Wang Yu stars as the Bamboo blade, China's top swordsman. His services are rendered by the Imperial treasury who want him to infiltrate a powerful gang of Highwaymen and get back the stolen silver bullion. After numerous deadly encounters the gang are beaten by the bamboo sword and only the gang leader remains, however he is a lot tougher than was originally bargained for.

In an exotic bright and clean apartment, an oriental woman is dreaming at dawn. In the dream, she meets a western-looking man in a park. She wakes up to find him packing up in the apartment. On the spur of the moment, she stabs him with a knife. The clock tick-tocks, but time stands still.

Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign affairs section newly established in the sales department. Masaaki Sakata, Yasushi Inoda, Osamu Yamabe, and Jiro Oi were assigned to this foreign affairs section. Hirayama, a former soldier, is suddenly enthusiastic when the company orders him to join the Self-Defense Forces. One day, in the library where the records of the former army are displayed, Hirayama recalls his memories of that time. It turned out that the bundle of bills that the captain had made a mess of was packed in a box and buried somewhere.

A wife murdered by her husband borrows the forms of her supposedly dead sister and a cat and takes revenge.

After 14 years in Japan, a gangster returns to the Seoul neighborhood where he grew up and is forced to confront some difficult truths.

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Triple play of passion! Three bodies entwined in a dizzying rapture! In the bedroom, Tomoko, Hiroshi, and Yukie's naked bodies intertwine, writhing in agony and rapture, and Tomoko's voice echoes, "Who shall we visit tomorrow?"

The ninth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.

A sailor has an affair with a teenager mistakenly thinking she’s a prostitute.

Classic slapstick comedy set in a Taiwanese apartment building.