Country: Japan
Genre: Documentary
The film follows the lives of five hafus – the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese – as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation. For some of these hafus Japan is the only home they know. For others living in Japan is an entirely new experience. There are also those caught somewhere...
Country: South Korea
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Filmmaker Jo Moon Kyeong is going to leave Seoul to live in Canada. Days before his departure he meets his close friend and film critic Bang Joong Sik on a nearby mountain. They both drink makgeolli a traditional Korean alcoholic beverage. After a few rounds they find out that coincidentally they have both been recently at the same small seaside town of Tongyeong. They decide to reveal their...
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy
Pao Lung-Sing Stephen Chow a decendant of the famous Judge Pao Ching Tient is a 9th degree corrupt judge lowest degree who changes his tune when he tries to champion a woman Chi Siu-Lin Cheung Man who was framed for killing her husband. As a result Pao is forced to flee and through a series of events often hilarious becomes a 1st degree judge and comes back to wreak havoc and justice...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
On the first day of class a young teacher enters an unruly room and begins his first lecture. To gain the students attention he relates the story of what probably led him into a life of mathematics. Told via flashbacks the young teacher goes back to a time probably 20 years earlier when his mother was hired to look after a professor who suffered brain damage in an auto accident. The brain...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama ; Romance
A young couple start dating but their happy days are interrupted by a single fact: she is planning to apply for a local university but he is not. The girl pleads with her boyfriend not to go away and he starts to think over the priorities in his...
Country: China
Genre: Drama
A former principle Nagatoshi Sakamoto lives in a shut down elementary school. The ex-principle lives peacefully there while repairing the old school. One day a decision to dismantle the school is made. Noda Hidetoshi Nishijima a former student at the elementary school comes back to town to work as a museum employee. He visits his former school to retrieve articles housed in the school....
Country: South Korea
Genre: Drama
Han Gong-Ju Chun Woo-Hee is taken to a home in an unfamiliar area. The home belongs to her former high school teachers mother. The mother wants to know why her son is leaving Han Gong-Ju there even though he promised she will be there for only a week. A police investigation is ongoing back in Han Gong-Jus hometown. Can Han Gong-Ju ever escape from her...
Country: South Korea
Genre: Drama
Upon entering high school two best friends named Hana and Alice notice a boy a year older them while waiting for the train and they both develop a pretty strong crush on him. One day while secretly following him home Hana witnesses the boy walk right into a wall and pass out. When he wakes up she lies and convinces him that he must have amnesia because he doesnt remember the fact that she...
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