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Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.
Sisters Aya and Saki put aside their rivalry and go toe-to-toe with Himiko and her band of zombies. The evil Himiko needs the blood of the young girls to restore her youth, while the sisters need to stop Himiko to save mankind ...
Hiroko is about to get married to the handsome Kenichiro when disaster strikes. Her landlord stops by the happy bride-to-be’s apartment where a pair of wayward scissors falls from a shelf and stabs him in the back as he bends forward to pick something up. His body begins to stiffen even before Hiroko realizes what has happened. On the road to Mount Fuji where Hiroko intends to dump the corpse, something falls on the hood of her car out of the blue. That “something” is Fukuko Kobayashi (Yoshino Kimura), who is dying to… die. Fukuko believes that she is irredeemably unhappy and has endeavored to commit suicide again and again. As Hiroko and Fukuko begin their journey to abandon the corpse, a weird friendship begins to build.
While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcoming her initial reluctance to open up to the writer, Emi talks about her busted leg and her childhood friendship with the chronically ill Yuka.
Man lives with his best friend, Cat, to defend others from big bad.
In his last film, DMX is lured to a sinister home in with the promise of meeting his estranged father and finds himself in a deadly web of secrets that could kill him.
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.
A man becomes involved in some extra-sensory experiences after hitting a woman while driving drunk and bringing her home. She has amnesia and cannot speak, but that doesn't prevent her from communicating with him in other ways...
An investigation in two neighboring houses with possible paranormal activity.
Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”
Kotaro, a university student, dreamt of being seduced by a foreign woman...
Kuso no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi (Imaginary Flying Machines) is a 2002 Japanese animated short film produced by Studio Ghibli for their near exclusive use in the Ghibli Museum. It features director Hayao Miyazaki as the narrator, in the form of a humanoid pig, reminiscent of Porco from Porco Rosso, telling the story of flight and the many machines imagined to achieve it.
New Century 2003 Ultraman Legend: THE KING'S JUBILEE is a short movie that was simultaneously shown alongside Ultraman Cosmos Vs Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle. It features all the Ultras who had been introduced up to and including Ultraman Justice. The movie is about the Ultras celebrating Ultraman King's 300,000th birthday.
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit.
Senior Inspector Kit and his policewoman Mun work at the same police station. Behind their backs, Kit's wife is having an affair with Mun's long-time boyfriend. When the truth is uncovered, the two find comfort in each other and soon love blossoms. Elsewhere on the force, Hung a divorced CID officer is mistakenly accused of abusing his daughter ... but fate brings him into the life of Inspector Gigi. And Sam, another respected officer at the station, has the hots for Man, the traffic warden of his dreams.
Maki is a slutty molester investigator working undercover alongside her senior, Tokiko. Yet behind the scenes, in order to avenge her lover—Detective Yaguchi—she uses her sexual wits to seduce and systematically subject each member of a vicious rape gang to a brutal bloodbath. When she finally comes into contact with her last target, she uncovers an unexpected truth behind the case...
A big fan of Chow Yun-Fat who works in an illegal arms sales shop finds one day a huge jar allowing him to transform snails into humans...
This series of interviews with the filmmakers who worked on the 6 Baby Cart movies tells the stories behind the story, as they recount what led up to, and how they created the greatest film series in movie history. From the first interview with original author Koike Kazuo through the behind the scenes journey told by half a dozen noted staff members this specially produced DVD is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in samurai movies at their zenith. Starting with the first meeting that original manga author Koike Kazuo had with Wakayama Tomisaburo and never letting up as other notables including director Saito Buichi, producer Sanada Masanori, stunt choreographer Shishido Daizen, cinematographer Morita Fujio, sound recordist Hayashi Tsuchitaro, screenwriter Nakamura Tsutomu, and the real life son of Lone Wolf, Wakayama Kiichiro share their wealth of knowledge.
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
The play is based off of the 1958 anime Hakujaden, which in turn was inspired by the Chinese folk tale of Madame White Snake.
A painter and a female student form a delicate relationship which exhibits both artistic and evil impulses.
Negotiator Ryuji intervenes in cases where the law cannot be involved. He is supported by four skilled Teito Research employees.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Eighth Route Army officer Ma Ying returns to his hometown to mobilize resistance against Japanese forces and traitors. As enemies plot to turn villagers against each other, Ma Ying must rally the people to prevent a devastating massacre.
A genius con artist puts on the biggest show of her life to protect her beloved husband. Mieko runs a well-established inn with her husband Yoshio and leads a happy life. One day, a man claiming to be the secretary to the president of Yuki Shoji appears at the inn.
Welcome to the Big House! It looks like any other prison, but this specialized penitentiary was designed from the ground up to hold Japan's most ruthless female inmates. That makes it doubly deadly, because while the guards may be brutal and sadistic, the inmates outnumber them by a hundred to one! At any second the final, fatal riot may erupt, stoking the flames of a thousand forbidden desires into an all-consuming inferno where it's every woman for herself! The shocking reality of Japan's secret prison system is exposed in Chain Gang Girls!
Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers until he is visited by his former coach who insists he begin a career as a coach at a high school. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.
Based on the life of pioneering manga artist Shinichi Abe, "Miyoko asagaya kibun" starts from the 1970's in Asagaya District of Tokyo where Shinichi Abe began his career with then model girlfriend Miyoko.
In the backdrop of the 80's China, villagers in the remote countryside will inevitably move to the big cities to continue their dreams. This is the era China has to "march forward to modernization, the world and the future". During those days, school boy Zu Wei lives his village life happily and contentedly until his dream girl, Ming Xin, finally shows up.
They’re beautiful, they’re exotic, and in this particular case, what’s underneath that Maid uniform may not even be human! After all, if you’re an otherworldly spirit and you’re trying to hide your existence from the world, what better way to do it than working at a restaurant where the waitresses dress as maids and pretend to cater to their customers’ every whim? Starring international AV star Maria Ozawa.
An erotic drama starring Momose Emiru, a popular idol known for her school uniform look, as a bus guide.
The good, the bad, and the drop-dead gorgeous. The train en route to Sunshine Hill City holds six very deadly and beautiful women. In the days of stagecoaches, cowboys, and highway robbery. On this particular day when a steam-train hauling valuable cargo is hijacked by rogue bandits, it's up to 6 female strangers to save the day. These ladies prove that you don't have to be a man to stop the bad guys.
A quiet, professional killer, Hyun-jun, arrives at a house to kill a man in his sleep, only to discover a woman alone under the sheets. Jin-young has decided to kill herself after a traumatic break up with her lover of seven years, but she wants to go out with a bang, not with a miserable and lonely dose of commonplace sleeping pills. The most extraordinary love story begins.
Pink film directed by Kyoko Aizome
Single-channel video. Colour, sound.
A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.
The story of a family magnate and Mrs. Ying who has a big father as a consultant. The incident happened when a beloved son named Woak Wak who likes to play with girls, has mysteriously disappeared in order to return safely to the charming child, the magnate does not dare to report to the police, but let bodyguard er with his minions looking for Woak Wak by paying unlimited compensation They also hired a peaceful investigator and Petchtae, the nephew of a peaceful investigator. who had just finished an investigation course from abroad by collaborating with Oung, the older sister of Woak Wak who learned martial arts from Japan and had to fly back from outside to find his younger brother
Seizou, a tattoo artist, dreams of creating lasting works of art that exist long after he passes. One day, he sees the perfect canvas: the unblemished back of a female grad student. A genius in color theory, the young woman studies and experiments with block printing. Seizou kidnaps her, holding her captive in order to carve his artwork into her skin. But the allure of her prints and his enchanting ink-work slowly transform her. She begins to long for his touch. Wanting to surpass the work of his father, Seizou imprints the image of an ancient Japanese princess on her bare skin. But as the tattoo transforms their relationship, their dynamic is reversed, and they become intertwined in an shared destiny.
A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.
In this Thai rendition of the traditional vampire tale, Narudom comes across a strange being in the vacant, eerie castle given to him by his family. Intrigued by the object's power, Narudom sets out to discover more about it, only to have a sadistic vampire named Mekin rise from the dead and wreak havoc on his life and his new home.
A 13-year-old girl named Mai refuses to go to school due to her asthma. Her parents send her to to stay with her British grandmother in the countryside. Thinking her grandmother is a witch, Mai asks for witch lessons. Her grandmother plays along, but instead ends up teaching Mai lessons which help her become more responsible and enjoy the simple aspects of life.
A documentary about Hong Kong cinema mythology via Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud’s experience as screenwriters in the HK film industry, working for Wong Kar-wai, Tsui Hark, Daniel Lee and Johnnie To
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.
A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.
The first film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa"
Just what is the mystery ingredient in the pot stickers at Togen Restaurant? Those who look for the answer have a habit of disappearing. So when body parts start washing up on the beach, police trace the murders to Togen's seemingly innocent owner. But the slaughter of a few curious fans is the least shocking secret coming out of Togen's kitchen! Mihiro, Sakae Yamazaki, Katsuya Naruse and Yusuke Iwata star in this pitch-black comic horror tale.
An unlucky-in-love woman grows obsessed with finding out the writer behind a series of romantic notes inside the library books that she checks out.
Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!
Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things as they are for she fancies her harbor town of Nagasaki as Lisbon, Portugal. But on Christmas, encouraged by the season of romance, she tries to materialize her once-in-a-lifetime love with the man of her dreams.
The dour and volatile Winnie likes to make wooden puppets and write in her diary. After her boyfriend Seth leaves her, Winnie becomes increasingly emotionally and psychologically unstable.