Country: South Korea
Genre: Drama
Professional GO a.k.a. baduk player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his seven-year sentence he gets in touch with his brothers former associate Tricks hermit and blind master player The Lord and skillful junkyard...
Country: China
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Wuxia
When their husbands were killed by the Song army two pregnant women found safe haven in foreign lands. Li Ping gave birth to Guo Jing a sturdy but blockheaded young man who roamed the Mongolian prairie with the family of Temujin. Bao Xi Ruo gave birth to Yang Kang a smart and crafty young man who became the son of Wanyan Hong Lie a successor of the Jin empire. When a pact between their...
Country: United States
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal...
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Comedy
The Eagle Shooting Heroes 1993 A parody of Louis Chas novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes thats the literal translation. Story begins with the Queen of Golden Wheel Kingdom had an affair with her cousin West Poison and they planned to take over the Kingdom....
Country: China
Genre: Historical Fiction
Before she was the most famous female ruler in Chinese history Wu Mei Liang was a woman vying for her husbands’ love. While her first husband kept her at arm’s length by a prophecy foretelling a woman of Wu stealing the Tang Dynasty her second husband welcomed her with open arms. During her time as a minor consort to Li Shi Min she learned how an effective Emperor rule his court. Using...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
The penultimate film by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu examines the difficulties faced by the Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. As the familys generations-old sake making business begins to fail in the face of increasingly fierce competition Manbei the incorrigible elderly patriarch rekindles an affair with an old...
Country: United States
Genre: Reality-TV
Having left Los Angeles for the bright lights of Las Vegas former Girl Next Door Holly Madison sets out to make her mark on the strip by starring in a Vegas...
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