Plot: Based on a smash hit comic strip series by Yoshiie Gouda, this visually striking dark comedy is about a woman married to a violent unemployed ex-gangster who has earned her unconditional loyalty despite his frequent temper tantrums.
Plot: Satoru is a heartbroken boy who, through his remote-controlled robot Hinokio, goes to school and meets a girl called Jun. Jun deeply desires to meet directly with the real Satoru, but Satoru is unable to do so without exposing himself to moral threat.
AKA: Hollywood * Hong Kong Hong Kong: 2001
Chow Shun, Glen Chin (Ying Ming), Wong You Nam, Ho Sai Man Drama / Dark Comedy
Plot: The film follows a prostitute, who wreaks havoc on the lives of several people in the neighborhood. This is the second film in Fruit Chan's "Prostitute Trilogy", and was preceeded by "Durian Durian" in 2000.
Plot: After his family gets evicted from their apartment, a junior high school boy decides to part company with his father and two older siblings to fend for himself in this movie based on Hiroshi Tamura's best-selling memoir.
Despite solid performances and a seemingly interesting story, the director fails to relay the significance of the characters' experiences. The period-inappropriate musical score only further undermines this film, whose many critical accolades baffle us.
Plot: Rick was kicked out of his home because of his homosexuality, and takes refuge in the home of his friend Mark. Living under the same roof, these youths realize they have mor ein common than they thought.
AKA: Icerain; Snow Shower; Icy Rain; Ice Shower Korea: 2004
Lee Seong-Jae, Kim Ha-Neul, Song Seung-Heon Drama / Action/Adventure
Plot: Two men are trapped in an ice cave in the freezing mountains of Alaska. To keep each other conscious, they begin talking to each other about themselves and their past loves; but they soon discover they have more in common than they thought...
Plot: After covering up one patient's death due to their own negligence, and another patient dying of bizarre symptoms, the doctors involved begin acting strangely...then one by one develop the same mysterious and deadly symptoms.
Plot: Based on the manga by Shuichi Shigeno, published by Kodansha Ltd. A gang of Japanese teens street race souped up cars to pass the time and get an adrenalin high.
Plot: Based on the true story of screenwriter Oscar Torres's childhood, "Innocent Voices" is the poignant tale of Chava; an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the "man of the house" after his father abandons the family in the middle of a civil war.
Plot: Dreampia Department Store is preparing its grand reopenening. But inside the store, a series of horrific serial murders are discovered. The only commonalities in the cases are their location in front of mirrors, and the severe shock of the victims.
AKA: The Inugami Family; Inugamike; Inugamike No Ichizoku; The Dog Of Flander [Alternate Malaysian DVD Title]; Murder Of The Inugami Clan Japan: 2006
Kyoko Fukada, Ittoku Kishibe, Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Nakadai Horror / Thriller
Plot: Acclaimed Japanese director Kon Ichikawa revisits his 1976 film, "The Inugami Family", in this 2006 film, which is also based on the same popular novel that inspired the original, as well as a TV series.
Plot: When Marcus and his girlfriend Alex go out to a party, they are plunged headlong into a nightmarish world of darkness, where an act of extreme sexual and physical violence will serve as the spark for yet more violence.
Plot: Yoji Yamada's 80th film is set in 1940 Tokyo. An outspoken professor, critical of Japan's invasion of China, is jailed by the government. Now friends and neighbors all pitch in to help his wife to make ends meet and care for their two daughters.
AKA: The Story Of Richard O France: 2007
Mathieu Amalric, Ludmila Ruoso, Stephane Terperaud Drama / Erotica
Plot: Richard O. meets a young woman whose fantasy is to be raped, and asks him to fulfill her desire. He accepts, then refuses. Violence erupts, and Richard is killed. Several weeks earlier...
Plot: A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a slovenly Thai woman through a tragic chain of events. Slowly and entertainingly, more is revealed about the man.
France: 2004
Stephane Freiss, Berenice Bejo, Peter Coyote, Lionel Abelanski Comedy / Drama
Plot: An actor who has recently been rejected for a role in a big production, decides to lie to his wife and tell her that he has gotten the part, since she is dying of cancer and he can't bear to tell her the bad news.
AKA: Legend Of 7 Monks; Ultimate Battle Of The Seal And Demon; Master Of Thunder (?) Japan: 2006
Sonny Chiba (J.J. Sonny Chiba), Yasuaki Kurata (Shoji Kurata) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
AKA: Textiles France: 2004
Barbara Schulz, Alexandre Brasseur, Zoe Landron, Felix Landron Comedy
Plot: Sophie and Olivier are a young, ordinary couple living in Paris. But after they purchase a beach house sight-unseen for an incredibly low price, they find that they are now the happy owners of a home in a nudist village...
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