Discoveries from Asian World Cinema

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu." Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.

A young man, Chan Che, takes a business trip to Bangkok, where he bumps into lovely Thai girl Chuma, who just happens to be a witch, and the daughter of a wizard. She casts a spell on Che, so that he'll love her. Che returns to HK and his wife, and he starts to act strangely. Through her evil statue-god, Chuma turns the man into a raging wife-killer.

Zhu Yanzhi, disguised as a man, seeks to learn martial arts with an elite clan. Once she begins her intense training, Zhu finds herself at odds with her trainer and superior, Liang.

The new era begins! The turbulent era known as the Universal Century has ended. Now, mankind looks towards prosperity and peace in the new era known as the Regild Century (R.C.). One of the most important resources in this era is the Capital Tower - a space elevator which towers over the land connecting Earth to space. Its purpose, to transport the Photon Batteries the Earth relies on for power. It is worshiped as a holy place. Tasked with protecting the tower, one day on a practice mission, young Capital Guard cadet Bellri Zenam is attacked by a high-performance G-Self Mobile Suit. Despite having never before encountered the G-Self, he feels a strange connection to it and its pilot, a space pirate called Aida Surugan. Little does Bellri know that he is about to uncover truths which will shake the entire Regild Century. Go! Core Fighter is the first of five films compiling the 2014 Gundam Reconguista in G TV series, featuring new cuts and alterations.

The Space Kittens Pozi and Nega gave little Yu a magic baton and for a year she possessed the power to transform into grown up idol singer Creamy Mami and use her magic for good. Sometimes her powers caused more problems than they solved, and though everything worked out well she finally returned the baton. Ever since, Mami has been absent from the music scene, but suddenly her return is announced in a blaze of publicity. Yu and her friends uncover a campaign by bad boy Shingo to deceive the singer's many fans.

A teacher and her student compete for the affection of a handsome man.

Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.

Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.

Children in "The Village" go on a pilgrimage when they come of age. Daisy wonders why some of the pilgrims do not return. Daisy heads to "The Origin", a term used by the village people to refer to Earth, to find the missing pilgrims and discover the secrets of her village.

Theatrical release of episodes 7-10 of Yamato 2202.

Kit (Jacky Cheung) accidentally stumbles upon a house after his motorbike went out of control, and a girl (Maggie Cheung) helps him on his feet, then disappears. But Kit soon finds himself juggling more women than he might want after his female friend who has now moved next door (Pat Ha) expresses her interest along with her sister (Dodo).

Three men are possessed by the spirits of ancient samurai determined to build their master's castle, even if they must use cardboard.

Second Break Blade movie. The narration begins by revealing Athens invaded the Krisna Kingdom for allowing the Orlando Empire to cross into their land to attack Athens during their power struggle over Assam but the true purpose of the invasion is to take over the Krisna Quartz mines as Athens is suffering a shortage of Quartz. In the Athens capital of Ilios, Secretary of War Loquis has received news that his brother Zess has successfully reach Binonten. Meanwhile, Rygart manages to get a ceasefire between the Athens invaders and Krisna defenders and speaks with Zess.

In a cone-shaped land named Kikyōgahara in Shin Province, there lives a girl named Hana. She is a gentle girl, who always thinks of her family, in particular her great-grandmother Chiyo, whom she affectionately calls "Granny." One day, a traveling entertainment troupe named the Natsugawa Genzaemon Troupe happens by, and the villagers welcome them warmly. Upon finishing their performance and receiving their acclaim, the troupe's leader spots Hana with some "oyaki," his favorite food, and transforms into a fox in his excitement. It turns out that the leader Genbanojō, and his companions O-Natsu and Shinzaemon, are all foxes who have taken on human forms. Genbanojō hastily negotiates with Hana, telling her that in exchange for keeping their secret, he will grant her one wish. She answers, "I want to let my Granny see the cherry blossoms."

Ga-eun, who has been caring for her ailing boss Min-gyoo, hands over her duties to her successor, Soo-ae, and works with her manager Byeong-jin to find a way to save the company. Soo-ae and Min-gyoo, who often run into each other at work, become increasingly attracted to each other and discover their plan to take over the company.

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang succeed in robbing them blind and though they were supposed to go their separate ways after splitting the money, the five end up being hunt down by a detective hired by the clan and clan members themselves. An ending nobody ever even dreamed of.

"Girls Without a Future" - About five escort girls in misery. Hung is getting to old for the job. Her daughter Ling follow in her footsteps. Wah is Hung's foster daughter. A hot tempered dancer at a night club. Eva is the glamorous top model escort.

Set in 70s Hong Kong, Just One Look actually tells of Fan (Shawn Yu), whose policeman father commits suicide in a cinema toilet, but Fan believes he was murdered by a gangster nicknamed 'Crazy' (Anthony Wong). Ten years later Fan contemplates avenging his father's death. Meanwhile, he and best friend Ming (Wong Yu Nam), who are movie fans and sell their family wares outside the local cinema, decide to enlist for kung fu lessons after spotting the master's beautiful daughter (Charlene Choi). But Fan falls for a mysterious girl who lives in the countryside (Gillian Chung).

Ka-shing has lived his entire life as a luckless guy, until one day he is offered a job by Spring, a gang brother. Spring is a gambler, and turns Ka-shing's bad luck into a Philosopher's Stone. Kau, Spring's enemy, suffers a huge loss at his casino, and vows to get rid of both of them. Kau orders his men to twist Ka-shing's luck by destroying his Feng Shui. But is it all just a gimmick to win the gambling competition, or will Ka-shing surely lose his gambling abilities?

A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, the woman mourns her recently deceased father and struggles to remain connected to the world.

Ho, the driver of Billionaire Lee, met a hooker Fei who was almost look exactly the same with the singer GiGi. Ho told Lee he was relative with GiGi, and able to arrange a sex deal. Then Lee asks Ho to arrange girls for him. From that time he become the agent for billionaires... To become safe, he shot all the billionaires secret photo. When Ho was in his enjoyment of his life, he raped the girl that can't forget about GiGi... Yan Kit

After working as an undercover in a triad for 8 years, Sheng finally arrests the triad leader and resumes his duties as a police officer. However, life does not return to normal as he is faced with suspicions colleagues and even trailed by the investigations team. One day, he meets some triad members whom he has earlier befriended as an undercover agent and is forced into a corner when asked to collaborate with them once again.

Xin Tan has the ability to create happiness for others through sound, but after using it three times on the same person, his life will be bound to that person. Only when the other party is happy can Xin Tang can survive. Incidentally, Xin Tang rescued the school internet celebrity Ji Ze, who was about to commit suicide, and the two bound together.

An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder case will appear at the countdown party Masquerade Night that will be held at Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. Detective Kosuke Nitta must go undercover and work again at the Hotel Cortesia Tokyo. There, he meets Naomi Yamagishi, who works as a concierge. Without any information about the criminal, except that the person will be in attendance, Detective Kosuke Nitta works feverishly to find the criminal among the 500 attendees.

An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Sensual love story about a single woman struggling with romance. Director Morikawa Kei won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival for Makeup Room. Yamagishi Shiori (Maru Junko) is a single 38-year-old woman working in the editorial department of a women's magazine. Workaholic Shiori's only diversion is watching erotic videos for women and indulging in fantasies of romance with her favorite male porn star Shunsuke (Arima Yoshihiko). Then, one day she covers a porn shoot for a feature story about popular male porn stars…

Hello Hijikichiro's original work "Velvet · Kiss" is made into a live-action image. Nitta is still swayed by Hanaoko's selfishness as ever. I was sending my absentee sleep every day with work and "friends" hanging on. While carefully meeting Saeki who I met by chance, there was no musical tone in the service to Hanaoko. Saeki sent me an e-mail so as to care for such Nitta. Nitora becomes ecstatic. And on the date of the day, calling Hanoko also heartlessly....

Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.

In-gu, a drugstore owner, rediscovers love when he meets a humble woman named Hye-ran, who sells knockoff clothing for a living.

A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective Utsumi Kaoru's final case before she went to Oklahoma for further training.

An insecure waitress (Yvonne Yung Hung) who thinks all her problems will be solved if she has plastic surgery to become beautiful. Initially it actually does work. She becomes a model and starts dating a billionaire at once after her surgery.

When Koryu's childhood friend Shurei is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails stranger to join her for a dangerous rescue mission.

Ishimori Uka is very shy and has a hard time making friends. When she was a middle school student, students made fun of her by calling her "stone". Around that time, she met Miura Kai with lemon color hair. Because of him, she entered the same high school. Uka now wants to overcome her shyness and have friends. Kai is a popular student at the school, but he doesn't talk much or seem interested in others. He doesn't know why, but he becomes concerned with Uka. Uka has admired Kai, and she now has feelings for him. Kai has a secret, which no one knows.

When a naive sculptor spills blood on his newest statue, he awakens a mass-murdering crystalline spirit in the underworld. Along with his trusted companion Fatty, he backflips his way through mystical realms to uncover who is trapping souls in his statues..

In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There, he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy.

A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.

The beloved children’s superhero has his hands full after he saves Dollie, who comes to life and annoys others with her non-stop search for fun times!

On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an irreversible crime. But the following day, the island is besieged by a tidal wave which wipes out everything. Twenty-five years later, Shinji has a wife and daughter. A childhood friend, Tasuku, presents himself to Shinji and discloses the real truth of his hidden past. Shinji will have to try and protect Haruka again.

A martial arts master, Tseng Tien-Tu, is employed by master criminal Lung Tung Chien to transport a valuable jade horse. When the horse inexplicably goes missing, Chien demands Tseng's life savings as recompense, driving the uncomprehending Tseng insane. Two conniving con men, Li and Lung, try to convince Tseng that he was double-crossed by Chien, in an attempt to lead them to Chien's stockpile of swindled fortunes.

The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic of China.

Min-soo is about to get married when his fiancée suddenly admits that she is allergic to dogs. Now the guy's best friend, the golden retriever Rooney, needs a new family. With the help of his cousin and social media, Min-soo starts looking for a new home for Rooney.

The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her...

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.

Modern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.

Wen Yuwen, a cute and naive high school girl, loves Chinese far more than math. She tentatively steps into billiard halls, clothing stores and hotels — places of the adult world. She also begins to confront growing pains: relationships with the opposite sex, studying abroad, and her father’s infidelity. Confused yet brave at times, she embarks on a stumbling adventure of youth.

A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition.

In 1920s Shanghai, a group of brave young individuals band together to carry out a dangerous mission, and amid political turmoil, they grow through sacrifice and resilience.

It's been a long time since the domination of a new virus, the streets are reminiscent of mixed baths with men and women. This is the story about Ji Hwa-ja, Jo Jin-ah and Ahn Il-goo who never went out and lived disconnected with the outside world. Hedonistic sex has become the only life for young men and women, and the people infected with the modified virus are slowly turning into zombies, and the world turns crazy as they attack people with sex like beasts.

Three young women struggle to survive on the streets of Hong Kong via any means necessary.

An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

Miki's lying in bed in the school's nursery after being hit in the face by a ball, supposedly asleep when Yuu comes in. Yuu asks her if she is asleep but she does not answer, so he looks at her as she sleeps. Then he kisses her and leaves. As soon as he has left, Miki jumps up, surprised and wonders what he is up to, since they have just met... or have they?

Minato studies piano at a music academy. One day, he falls head over heels in love with fellow student Yukino, who harbors a tragic secret that will put their romance to the test.

Seventeen years ago, an assassin ambushes triad boss Yau. Yau’s wife, Nam, sends Chai, Kam and others to find the assassin. Chai catches the assassin and discovers that he is Meow, Chai and Kam’s childhood best friend. To save his friend, Chai helps Meow flee Hong Kong. Though Yau survives the attack, the injuries leave him crippled for the rest of his life.