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A Tale of Two Donkeys

An involving, beautifully modulated yarn about a young intellectual's "war" with two equines in a mountain village during the Cultural Revolution. A young student, Ma Jie, who is sent to a tiny Beigao village in Shanxi Province and has the mundane task of watching over livestock during the Great Cultural Revolution. Surrounded only by the extreme boredom, he initiates a war against two donkeys. What ensues as a result, is an impressive feature debut by director Li Dawei who manages to infuse a believable quirky and black humorous universe within a realistically grim setting.

A Tale of Two Donkeys

6.9 2009
The Strait Story

The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of ...

The Strait Story

4.5 2005
Mother and Daughters

Nam-hee (Shim Hye-Jin) is going about selling fruit from her truck, when she nearly runs over a young gentleman, Joon (Lee Sang-Woo). Joon finds his way to Nam-hee's house, where he meets her mother Gan-nan (Kim Su-Mi), and her 20-year-old daughter Na-rae (Da-hee Lee). Through a series of circumstances, Joon comes to live with the three women, and with the introduction of a handsome man in their house, the three use their own skills to vie for his attention and compete for his affection.

Mother and Daughters

7.0 2008
Toriko: The Yakuza Wife’s Extreme Sex

Mika, the sultry hostess who rescues the bruised, penniless manga artist Keichi from a seedy, neon‑lit rip‑off club. After he’s beaten for failing to pay an outrageous bill, Mika can’t abandon him—she slips him into her private sanctuary. By the glow of candlelight, her cool fingers trace every bruise, her lips press soothing relief to his aching flesh. Each gentle caress ignites a fierce heat between them, awakening carnal desires neither expected. As Mika’s hair brushes his cheek, her eyes dark with secret longing, Keichi surrenders to the intoxicating pull of her world—where mercy turns into a heady, forbidden passion that neither can resist.

Toriko: The Yakuza Wife’s Extreme Sex

NR 2001
A Little Monk

A nine-year old monk, Do-nyum, has lived most of his lonely life in a quiet mountain monastery under his elderly master. Though put under a strict regimen of Buddhist teachings, meditation and chores, the child cannot help but to think of his mother, whom he cannot remember but misses dearly and hopes to be reunited with one day. He also wishes that he could be like the other children who live nearby and play games and attend school. Do-nyum's other companion is an older monk named Jung-sim, who is also struggling with staying on the path of enlightenment. The temple's groundskeeper keeps reassuring Do-Nyum that his mother will come back someday. But Do-nyum, sick of waiting for a mother who may never return, agrees to be adopted by the monastery's benefactor, a wealthy widow who visits the temple every year to mourn her late son.

A Little Monk

7.1 2003
A Decade of Love

A handful of Hong Kong filmmakers explore their feelings on the ten years since 1997 in A Decade of Love, an omnibus film premiering at the 2008 Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival. A Decade of Love crosses multiple genres for its nine segments, from comedy to drama to satire to fantasy, with each director utilizing different actors. Each segment runs roughly ten minutes, and each uses that time to share something unique, personal and precious about post-Handover Hong Kong life.

A Decade of Love

NR 2008
Oh! Happy Day

Hee-Ji (Jang Na-Ra) is a girl who isn't afraid to stand up against injustice. She goes to the Club Med's office after her friend is excluded from a party for single persons. Hee-Ji is about to tell them off when Club Med's director Hyun-Joon (Park Jeong-Cheol) appears in front of her. Hee-Ji falls in love immediately. Hee-Ji then sneaks into the hotel room where Hyun-Joon is staying and takes his diary. She now knows everything about him including his schedule and hobbies. Hyun-Joon is soon annoyed by the persistence of Hee-Ji, but he also begins to have feelings for her. At the moment when his fiance appears, Hee-Ji is about to propose.

Oh! Happy Day

7.7 2003
Ghost Dance

A third-year high school girl who lives in Kawasaki City. She secretly has feelings for her classmate Shinya, but Shinya dies in an accident without being able to tell her. When she is wandering around the city in her dazed state due to shock, she is invited by a young man (Ishida) to a gathering to hold a Native American ritual called "Ghost Dance" to meet the deceased. Children who lost their parents, parents who lost their children, old men who lost their comrades, husbands who lost their wives, and many other "leftovers" gathered there.

Ghost Dance

NR 2006
The Fallen Wife: Chastity Violated

Yōko and her husband, Teruhisa, run a café—yet lately his attentions have drifted to a young school girl named Haruko, leaving Yōko feeling abandoned. Beneath her composed exterior, a simmering lust has been growing: memories of Teruhisa as the passionate first lover she once knew, and a secret craving for something more depraved. Haunted by Yōko disappearance, Teruhisa retraces their past, until his search leads him into Shinjuku—to a “peep room.” There, through a peephole, he catches sight of his wife swaying in nothing but her slutty lingerie, every move an erotic confession of the desire she’s kept hidden. Yōko surrenders to the pulsing rhythm of hidden lust. Each sway of her hips is an invitation—slipping into the abyss of pleasure. Teruhisa realizes there was once something she tried to say on the night they first made love. Now, driven by a mixture of longing and guilt, he must hear the truth of her yearning before she plunges irrevocably into the depths of her darkest desire.

The Fallen Wife: Chastity Violated

NR 2000
Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying "I will try to find out if this woman is a bodhisattva or a demon." After meeting Katsutoshi Heizo, felt embarrassed and ordered Gorozo to inquire about her just in case. Gorozo, in turn, sends secret detective Rihachi to Yamabukiya with the task of keeping an eye on Katsutoshi...

Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya

NR 2005