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Newspaper correspondent Kyoko Togakure visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's holding a piece of paper with the mystifying word "Death Water" written on it. Nearby are blood-stained scissors, and his eyes are squashed. She has no idea that this death is just the beginning of a horrendous nightmare.
Writer's block may be the least of rookie filmmaker Ryu Young Jae's problems. His girlfriend ditched him, his first feature production is falling apart, and things are looking like they'll only get worse in this absurd adventure from one of South Korea 's edgiest young filmmakers.
Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?
Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier.
2008 release
Within a few months five family members die in mysterious ways. It all started with their only daughter taking their own life in the sea of trees located at the foot of Mount Fuji in Aokigahara.
Editor Kurata Mari is the new charge of popular female writer Konno Yoshiko. Kako had originally been a pupil of the great writer Shunsaku Okochi. However, according to the editor-in-chief, Obara, Kako was simply a partner for Okochi's perverted play. However, Okochi suddenly disappeared, and when Obara selected Kako to fill the hole in the serialisation, she became more popular than expected. Mari begins to visit Kako's house on a daily basis, and one day begins to feel a strange discomfort in the chair Kako sits in...
Making of Island Times
With over a dozen series of one-man talk shows on his resume since his debut in 1990, Dayo Wong is the first and widely regarded the best stand-up comedian in Hong Kong. He is now in preparation for his upcoming series of gag shows in November 2010, which marks his 20 years in perfecting the performance art form. Last year, Wong did a successful tour with sold-out shows in Hong Kong, China, and North America. His sharp wits and patented sense of humor are showcased in his jokes about every topic from the financial crunch to Facebook, relationships, various social issues, entertainment gossips, and more. Fans can now own the acclaimed show on DVD with "guaranteed" satisfaction (refer to track #1)!
Former classmates Alexandra and Alexis may share the same name, but they couldn’t be more different. Alexandra is beautiful, intelligent, rich, and completely insufferable. Self-centered and patronizing, she’s an expert in quick put-downs, nasty name-calling, and brokering gossip into profit. Alexis is a simple-minded, pure-hearted, and hard-working gal who is constantly bullied by her future sister-in-law’s family with whom she stays. Crossing paths again by chance, the two girls don’t want anything to do with each other – until a freak accident causes them to switch bodies!
Policeman Ted Chan, who doesn't have the best record on the force for cracking cases, suffers from flashbacks after witnessing the suicide of pregnant Irene who dramatically leaps from the roof of her apartment after dousing herself in petrol. When there are two similar deaths in their district, Inspector Yip asks Ted to solve the mystery. The connection is that the victims were all avid users of ICQ and frequently visited the same website. Ted and his colleague Gigi discover that the webmaster is called "God of Death" and that through his chatrooms he enourages his community to commit suicide. While Gigi arranges a meeting with the webmaster, also known as Keith, Ted finds that Inspector Yip has encouraged a young officer to shoot himself in the police toilets...
A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. While gazing out her window one late afternoon, the setting sun creates a vision of a holy figure in the distant mountains.
10 channel video installation. Music:Wang Wenwei. This work tells the end of the story of a soldier going into exile. On a sunny winter's day, the icy ground is stared with snow and life seems as peaceful as the weather. A soldier, escaping from a battlefield, comes to this deserted place which is plagued with the smell of death. He is wandering, attempting to leave this uninhabited world. The only option left to him, however, is walking, ceaselessly and endlessly. What is waiting for him? A hibernating snake is startled awake from its nice dreams and then sees a human, eyes blindfolded and hands bound on the back, kneeling on the freezing ice-covered lake. Who is sentenced to death by the sound of gunshots reverberating around the mountains?
It is the day of the Handover in Hong Kong and a Japanese ex-pat just wants to have some fun before midnight. He gets more than he bargained for.
A review of Dragon Ball Z from the Saiyan Saga all the way to the Trunks Saga.
There are three people: an alien woman who comes up to an alien husband and a government's assassin wife who has to kill the alien woman. The wife is an undercover agent who is in charge of national top secrets. To her, her poet husband is like an alien. The husband has a key inside his head and the wife has a gun by her hand. Also the alien woman has purposeful love. Their mixed-up destiny does not just happen and the devil reveals his real shape and starts to kill people one by one.
Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Yō Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose. The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine telephone operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the city on August 20, 1945.
Several people experience a miracle of love under the spell of a solar eclipse. Se-jin is obsessively in love with a very bizarre young woman named Ju-won. So-hyun confesses her feeling for Ji-wu by clinging to him and asking him how to become a strong drinker. Jeong-seok is a single father working as a copywriter, loved by Su-jeong, whose advances he rejects every time. Jin-man is a free-hug activist who returns to korea to meet his old flame.
Teoh is dumped by his live-in girlfriend who takes all her possessions, including the washing machine. He buys a second-hand machine, which is when things go wrong.
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".
2009 release
41st movie in the series
A struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker returns to his family's laundrette, where he 'borrows' a police officer's shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.
The third and final film in the social erotic suspense series about a lonely man with a traumatic experience who is driven by the urge to abduct and confine.
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.
In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love with a local boy, threatening their chance of a return to the city.
Asumu Adachi imagines if he could be like Kamen Rider Hibiki, and are approached by talking Disc Animals who teach him how to be like Hibiki, eventually allowing Asumu to transform into Kamen Rider Armed Hibiki.
Train otaku Shinpei, his two geeky friends, three jocks, and the school “princess” Tsubaki are trapped in a school together as police, led by Tsubaki’s dad, mistake the boys for kidnappers. Meanwhile, the true culprit orchestrates this tense situation from afar.
A single mistake transformed Shizue, the beautiful and virtuous wife of a professor... While eloping with an unsuccessful erotic novelist, Shizue becomes drawn to the eroticism of rope bondage. Shizue did nothing but face the inevitable and despairing end that was waiting for her...
Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and she has lost the confidence. One day, a student finds a white ship sailing on the sea, far from the school. They begin an investigation and finally identifies the ship. It's a cruiser called Rainbow Love. 'Why don't we write a letter to the captain?' Shizuka proposes. And everyone gets excited...
Four crooks rob a jewelery shop, then head for an abandoned factory where they plan to fence the goods to the Yakuza. Unfortunately, their chosen location happens to be the same place where American scientists had previously experimented on resurrecting the dead.
Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
Mayuko Miwa, a lonely office lady whose routine consists of mechanical paperwork. Returning to her room, updating the homepage she created as a hobby and exchanging emails were her only moments of peace. Then, a shocking email arrives. Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Mayuko flings her mouse and recoils. Meanwhile, Kaede, a woman who night after night provokes men with her wet eyes, seduces a man named Yosuke with flashy outfits and bewitching gestures. She proposes he kill a certain woman. The target, unbelievably, is Mayuko herself... Furthermore, the situation spirals into a series of bizarre murders, drawing in the up-and-coming photographer Murakami, who has become captivated by Mayuko's delicate beauty!?
The Pearl Harbor Attack by Japan in 1941 and the nuclear bomb explosion in 1945 together led to the independence of Chosun (Korea). Behind these historical incidents, there was HAN Gil-soo, the double agent. For Chosun's independence, HAN has stirred the era.
Pursuit of a Killer is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Chin Siu-Ho.
Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of actor Yusaku Matsuda and the 20th anniversary of his death . It is composed of newly shot interviews as well as real voice interviews and treasured videos that were not officially revealed until now.
A child dying of leukemia needs a bone marrow transplant immediately. With only 24 hours, the doctors must fight the usual red tape bureaucracy and political obstacles in order to retrieve the marrow and carry out the transplant before time runs out.
Anna & Anna is a movie about a Singaporean arts saleswoman / alpha female and her subdued doppelganger. Anna One (the arts saleswoman) is very successful in her job, and gets posted to Shanghai, where she used to live before. There, by a coincidence, she finds another woman who not only like her but IS her - Anna Two. This Anna has finished her studies, become a painter, and stayed with Oulang, a depressed musician - the life as Anna One's could have been, had she made another decision at one point of her life.
Premarital sex is not allowed! Despite opposition from her mother-in-law, Tetsuko, Mitsuya becomes pregnant with the child of her lover Tomoya. She is worried, however, after a doll is sent to her similar to those, that were sent to two women that Tomoya previously dated. The doll holds the clue to the fate of the two women...
The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
One day, a deaf photographer, Miki Yamashina, happens to meet a young man, Makoto Shibata, on the street. Shibata had been averse to human contact ever since he ran over a child, but Miki finds an unexpected way to support him.
A group of students attempt to make a phoney "snuff" film but accidentally kill an innocent peer. They dispose of the body without anyone learning of the incident. A year later, comeuppance is provided by a mysterious man with murderous intent who hunts down everyone complicit in the cover up of the prank gone wrong.
China's top stars come together in a short film spoofing popular movies of the past year during the opening of the Chinese academy awards ceremony (aka Golden Rooster Awards).
In the early 80s, in a small barbershop on the outskirts of Seoul, there is a barber with a small stature just like the size of the barbershop. When there are no customers, he cleans up the barbershop, drinks tea, and enjoys listening to the radio, which reads sad stories, and is moved. The neighbors of the neighborhood visit him without any burden and share their stories. Sometimes, the neighborhood trio (Mr. Gu, Mr. Jeon, Mr. Park) tease him for being a woman, but the barber just smiles. One day, the barber gets into an argument with Mr. Gu, the owner of the hole-in-the-wall shop, due to a misunderstanding, and when Mr. Gu blurts out the word “woman,” the barber has a big fight with Mr. Gu. Morning comes as always. As usual, the barber’s wife tightly bandages the barber’s bulging chest. And the barber, she, rides her bicycle to the barbershop, hiding her hidden chest.
When a comet that comes back once in a hundred years, Dream Suisei, is travelling by Earth, everybody sees the same dream of a foreign world. Melonpanna saves an egg from being crushed and wakes up to find out that the egg has followed her home. A kitten hatches from the egg, and Melonpanna names her Nyanii and starts caring for her. But soon they find out that Nyanii is needed back on Dream Suisei, and if she doesn't return there, she will vanish. Melonpanna struggles with the upcoming hard goodbyes, but the real trouble starts when Baikinman accidentally awakens the evil monster Muuma.
After being "created" by a dog, Doggy Poo meets various living and inanimate things. No one wants to be his friend, and Doggy Poo becomes sad as he tries to find his purpose.
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford to go to school, but however hard the situation is, Sota never holds a bad feeling against anyone around and keeps his dream alive to become a painter. He has been friends with Sayo, a girl brought up in a wealthy family, ever since they were little despite the difference of their family position, which Sayo’s father has uneasy feelings against. In spite of the difficulties he faces, Sota manages to complete a piece of painting which he wishes to give Sayo. He and Chibi goes down a snowy night path to Sayo’s house to find that her father’s storage is on fire... What waits for Sota and Chibi gently reminds that genuine happiness always exists in your heart.
An archaeological site in China was selected to send two teams, North and South Koreans, and students to collaborate and continue reconciliation of the two countries. But the team leader of the South decided to dredge the leader of the North group.
A rookie reporter is trying to overcome his lack of experience. An uptight reporter is seeking to find the good in people, and willing to forgive and forget the insults of her job. A middle-aged reporter uses his connections through many higher offices to make his stories come together. Dealing with modern journalism, the movie tries to do justice to both sides of the newspaper industry. On one side, the reporters are trying to do a good job in reporting the news, and for some, bringing resolution to problems. On the other side, the "victims" of reporters, who believe they are entitled to their privacy, are preventing the reporters from doing their job.
It's school festival day and Min-hyuk is busy dancing and singing. However, it is not the stage but a toilet that binds his destiny. He is bewitched by a daring high school girl, Mi-hyun, who comes into the men's room because the women's room is full. From that day on, Min-hyuk woos her, escorts her home at night, stuffs her locker with roses, and clears passages for her in the morning after a snow fall. For all his efforts, he doesn't get much more than a tender glance from Mi-hyun. When she suddenly vanishes "sorry" are the only words she leaves behind.
An alternative interpretation of the series' start.
Bruce Lee in G.O.D. is a "docudrama" about the filming of Game of Death. The first 40 minutes of the film is a dramitisation of events before Lee dropped filming for GOD to do Enter the Dragon, with interviews with people associated with the film. The remainder of the movie is an alternate cut of the found Game of Death footage. It uses archive footage from the original film and recreated scenes with stand-ins and the plotline of Bruce's screen notes to bring us what some would call a more complete version of Lee's Game of Death.
