Country: South Korea
Genre: Fantasy ; Romance
Kang Hee Sun is a professor at the Hanbaek Medical School who is called in when Jo Hyun Min the owner of a traditional Korean house finds a mummy preserved in a small room in the barn which was previously sealed off. The two of them feel a strange sense of recognition at their first meeting which they put down to instant attraction until the series of bizarre occurrences that followed lead...
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror
Cheng Li-sheung is a young upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through she is forced to keep her dream alive - even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors...
Country: South Korea
Genre: Romance
Nancy Ko Ah-Sung is a musician unable to open up to anyone due to a prior romance. Nancy decides to take a trip in England. On the trip Nancy meets photographer Jude James Page who becomes her tour guide. They find many things in common during their 15 day...
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Drama ; Romance
The sublime opening sequence of Dust in the Wind follows a nearly imperceptible diffused white speck - perhaps the referential dust of the films evocative title - as it momentarily shifts location near the center of the frame then continues on its inexorable course gradually converging to reveal a light at the end of a tunnel from onboard a lumbering passenger train. It is an indelible...
Country: South Korea
Genre: Drama ; Romance
Seventeen year old high school girl Hitomi posing as a 20 year old university student becomes romantically involed with 42 year old executive Shinji Kajikawa. Hitomi discovers that Kajikawa was her mothers ex love interest and that he left her mother to advance his career. At first Hitomi tests Kajikawas memory of her mother. Eventually she confronts him about her mother and at the same time...
Country: China
Genre: Drama
Year 1941 a roll of film is delivered to Shanghai and a Chinese spy named Gong An Ming Liu Yun Long must decide what he should do with the film which turns out containing a great secret that could shock the whole world. He discovers the plan code named East Wind Rain and passes the information to the American that their territory will soon be invaded by the Japanese. The code is aired...
Country: Japan
Genre: Action ; jidaigeki
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush reminiscent of Miike’s 13 Assassins although pre-dating that incident by 160 years the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by those who hope to install the emperor’s 5th son as military leader of the nation. A cast of big-name stars...
Country: Japan
Genre: jidaigeki
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu the vassal of Kaga Clan’s accounting officer Shinagawa Daihachi demands that Omon serve him tea in his mansion and she refuses the clan’s samurai abduct her setting in motion a series of events that will bring the two firefighters into a world of...
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