Asian Drama

Min Soo unsuccessfully searches for a new job after he is laid off. He keeps this a secret from his fiancé who has plans to take over a café with Min Soo’s money. But when she eventually finds out, she wastes no time showing she has no tolerance for a boyfriend with no job and no money. Pushed to the wall, his girlfriend’s younger brother tips him on how to get his hands on some easy money, and Min Soo, who has a way with opening car doors, starts stealing cars. During a substitute driver job, he discovers he has a talent for murder after killing someone in a fit of anger. Min Soo gradually becomes addicted to the pleasure of murder and crime.

Sun is a 19-year-old boy who is forced to ordain without his consent. His father believes being in monkhood will fix his reckless behaviours. However, Sun’s lack of faith doesn’t help. As a novice monk, he continues to live his life the way he used to do in the outside world, including dating Fai, the local teenager who is yearning for love. But everything is about to change when he gets involved in many mysterious secrets in this temple: the forbidden relationship between a monk and a woman, the encounter with Preta (suffering ghost), the mistakes he is running from, and they’re all coming after him.

Myung Seok has attempted to pass the bar exam for the past 8 years. Dal Soo works at a call center as a contract employee and he is a big fan of a female idol group. Hae Goo is a salesman, selling an impotence drug. These three men are friends. They gather together to spend a carefree weekend at Haeundae Beach in Busan. They then find themselves in the most problematic situation they have ever encountered.

The film is set in the economic fringes of Bangkok and examines the joys and challenges of growing up in contemporary Thailand. After the loss of both parents, 11 years old Oat faces an uncertain future when his older brother must submit to Thailand's annual military draft lottery. Unable to convince his brother to do whatever he can to change his fate, Oat takes matters into his own hands resulting in unexpected consequences. ~~ Based on the stories from the bestselling book Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap.

"Revivre" is about a middle aged man who is stuck between his dying wife and a younger woman he loves. It is based on a novel written by Kim Hoon which is also the Grand Prize winner of the 28th Top Literature Awards.

Vice President Oh is highly respected at his cosmetics company and is a faithful family man. One day, he finds out that his wife has been diagnosed with cancer and later spends every night on the hospital’s extra bed to keep her company after her surgery. Although he is weary from taking care of his wife, he does not show it at work. However, a new female employee, Choo Eun-joo, starts Oh’s mind stirring. Oh dreams of escaping his tedious and suffocating reality with Eun-joo. While in real life he has to go to the hospital and change his wife’s diaper after work, Eun-joo’s existence itself feels like a delight compared to his pitiful existence. Director Im Kwon-taek has directed several films that keenly look into human instinct, and Revivre is another one of them. The will to live, sexual instincts, the light and the darkness of life and fear and desperation about death are illustrated on the screen among other contradictory values, delivering the great director’s wisdom and understanding.

20 years ago, Kei, a 23 year-old highschool teacher, fell for a student, Hitoha, a beautiful girl, but lost her from a tragic car accident. He’s now a middle aged factory worker who has just quit the job to visit Klavan in Ukraine. There lies a beautiful railway called Tunnel Of Love, where people say you can meet with your deceased beloved one. A freight transport runs once a day and it is said that the train takes someone you wish to meet.

55-year-old Kanji Washida (Koichi Sato) has worked as an attorney for the past 25 years in Hokkaido, Japan. He has lived alone all that time. That was his punishment that he gave to himself 25 years ago when he worked as judge.

When Kanji Washida worked as a judge in Tokyo, Saeko (Machiko Ono) appeared as a defendant in a drug possession case. She was his girlfriend when Kanji Washida was a student. After, Kanji passed his bar, Saeko suddenly disappeared. 10 years later, Kanji and Saeko meet again in his courtroom. Even though Kanji was a married father at the time, he began a relationship with Saeko again. A few months after their relationship resumed, Saeko is gone. Kanji wondered to himself why she left him again, but he also realized his sinned. Because of this, Kanji threw away his job as a judge and also left his family. He settled down in Hokkaido, Japan. He has since lived a lonely existence.

Now, defendant Atsuko (Tsubasa Honda) appears in front of Kanji. She reminds him heavily of Saeko. Atsuko begins to have feelings for Kanji.

Bo Hee works at a toy company. She is viewed favorably at work and is set for a promotion, but when she made a stupid mistake, she was then fired from her job. Bo Hee opens her eyes to the world of ‘real’ joy with the help of her neighbor who runs an adult toy shop, CASA AMOR. Now she bursts out ideas as a marketer to promote adult toys instead of children’s, she then starts an adult products business with Nan Hee.

8 girls gather in an abandoned church in the forest. The girls do not know why they are there. Suddenly, a frightening masked man appears in front of the girls. The man kills one of the girls. All of this happens due to the revenge site "Find." The girls are now enveloped by fear of death and they begin to disappear one by one.

A high school photography club dedicated to capturing this paranormal phenomenon.

Set 4 years after movie "Unfair: The Answer."

Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigation #1 of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to take on the organization, but Natsumi becomes involved in a new case. She gets closer to the final enemy.

Everyone’s favorite grumpy samurai and cute white cat are back! Once feared as “Madara the Devil,” master swordsman Kyutaro Madarame returns home from Edo a lowly ronin, living with his mother-in-law. When she tells him of an opportunity to work as sword instructor for the Tosa Domain on the island of Shikoku, he reluctantly sets off on a journey with his feline companion Tamanojo. Soon, Kyutaro encounters more than he bargained for. When a ninja heads them off he should know things are not what they seem.

First of May is about a middle-aged man looking back at his teenage years, dreaming of his first and possibly only love.

After leaving an abusive relationship, Shino decides to quit her job and move away to a new area. She gets a part-time job at a local shop and discovers the manager is also her new neighbor, Kyoshiro. Shino finds herself quickly becoming attracted to Kyoshiro, but also knows he lives with his girlfriend Akari, who is almost immediately suspicious of Shino's intentions. With the failure of her last relationship in the forefront of her mind, Shino is hesitant to make more mistakes involving her love life, but must also weigh that against her own desire to find happiness.

Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give...

Miss Happy stars Pancake Khemanit as a happy-go-lucky woman named Happy, who often annoys her best friend Golfie. Unfortunately, Happy is diagnosed with having an irregular heartbeat that will likely cause her death within a month. In an effort to survive, Happy looks up information and finds a YouTube video made by Tul, played by Jitpanu Klomkaew. Tul's video claims that Happy can stay alive if she dances in the way shown in the video.

Billion-dollar company Jones & Sunn is going public. Chairman Ho Chung Ping has promised CEO Winnie Cheung, who has been his mistress for more than twenty years, to become a major shareholder of the company. As the IPO team enters the company to audit its accounts, a series of inside stories start to be revealed.

Lee Seung, a new hire at Jones & Sunn, brings with him youthful ideals and dreams. Within the neoliberal market, the logic of intrigue rules, complicated by entanglements of love-hate relationships, which weaves a power play and a pathos-laden tragedy inside the office.

To marry the affluent girl he loves, a country boy heads to Bangkok in search of wealth to appease her parents in this adaption of the ‘70s romcom.

One day, high school girl Yamamoto Yukari finds an 'f' written on the nameplate to the apartment building she lives in. Following this, her friends die in mysterious accidents, her mother tries to commit suicide and her father disappears. Yukari...

The craziness of our times, depicted through old television shows. Haruko is a girl who prefers to cuddle up to her old-fashioned TV set. In this wondrous story, a television can transform into a man: and this is by no means the end of the strange cheerfulness. A masterpiece of the imagination. Angry girl Haruko is in the habit of bitching at her television. It’s an old, analogue set, which one day breaks down - then starts talking back. The television set becomes a man and Haruko falls in love with him. Absurd situations stack up in colourful images in a startling mix of pop absurdism, drawing on cult TV shows and romantic children’s television. Beneath all the craziness, however, a love story unfolds. Haruko can’t believe her TV man is real. She thinks he must be a Yokai (a Japanese poltergeist) and that she must have paranormal talents. Haruko would prefer to keep her lover at home, but one fine day he goes out in search of work. It turns out he has a striking talent: he speaks twelve different languages. His manliness also proves to be more than satisfactory. He gets a role in a TV show and is then tricked into becoming a curiosity in a circus. Haruko loses him, but finally gets him back. Then there is even a wedding, which culminates in a hilarious martial arts scene.

Say it ain't so… Doggie is a criminal! For the first time in 10 years, Dekaranger assembles for a crisis on Earth Station! Ten years after Dekaranger saved the planet from devastation, Ban is continuing to work for the Space Police F.S. (Fire Squad). The other members of Dekaranger have all gone their separate ways. But the illegal sale of investigation information by Earth Station Chief Doggie Kluger to the Space Mafia leads to the shocking murder of witnesses. In addition, Doggie is shot and hospitalized, remaining in a coma. The aftermath of these incidents have shaken everyone. Two new members at Earth Station, Assam and Mugi have been assigned to Dekaranger. One day, a person named Carrie whom they rescue in another case, is revealed to have been a witness of the incident involving Doggie… but she absolutely refuses to talk about it except directly to the Space Public Prosecutor’s office. The appearance of this witness forces the six original members of Dekaranger to reunite to discover the truth of the case involving Doggie! They were once said to have the best teamwork in the universe… can the six detective minds once again become a team, and fight coolly with a burning heart?

Eden Lake is a little known British Horror-Thriller back from 2008. Its big claim is that it stars Michael Fassbender. Rest of the way, it was a textbook thriller, with Slasher and Snuff elements. There were a few good things about the movie and you'll find almost all in Anushka Sharma's latest NH10. The inspired story, is adapted to an Indian setting. Certain changes are actually pretty good. But once you know the movie is inspired, it just robs you of all the drama and fun. It would be safe to say, if you haven't heard about the original then you're in for a decent surprise. These kind of Indie horror thrillers have never been attempted in Hindi cinema. You wouldn't have seen something like this before.

It's pretty evident, the film won't score any marks on its borrowed concept. Where it does deserve a critique is its execution and treatment. The story deals with a young couple driving out to their vacation. Unfortunately they run in to a group of Jats out on an honour killing. Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam) is swayed by adrenaline and a saviour complex. He decides to meddle with the gang of unruly and angry North Indian men. And that's where the fatal chase begins. The basic story has been tweaked here to include elements of honour killings and women empowerment. That's what makes this movie worth while.

It's good to watch a woman who's more level headed than her better half. Who can smoke a cigarette just for the sake of having one. Who can drive a car better than any tom, dick or harry in Delhi. And one who doesn't take things lying down. That's Anushka Sharma's character, the spirited Meera. Everything about her makes this film better than a run-of-the-mill DVD replica. Having said that, Eden Lake's big punch to the gut comes from the sense of peril experienced by its female lead. In NH10, that sense of despair doesn't hit you. You've got a regular Delhi girl on the run from ruthless men. If apprehended, she'd mostly be raped and killed. But the film never quite manages to establish that tension. Anushka's character sails through the challenges with too much ease. In movie formula terms, the bad guy never gets his moment. That's never a good sign in a thriller.

Director Navdeep Singh's treatment of the film is slick. The visuals are appropriately dark and murky. The sense of gloom prevails throughout. It sets the right mood. But when it comes to the final act, he drops the ball. That Anushka's character is not the clichéd victim is great. But when it comes to believing in her struggle, its a bit pat. Her sense of loss and her on-the-edge situation are too incidental. Anushka handles the myriad emotions with aplomb. She's great in the action scenes too. The actress is the main reason you connect with the character. Her performance reverberates the right kind of energy into the film. But then you have the creative making her do ludicrous things like killing a man with just a ball pen. It just defeats the whole purpose of things.

Performances by Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumar and Deepti Naval are credible. None of them falter, not even a bit in convincing you about their characters. As for the film itself, it does not offer the same conviction. It has the trappings to sway the average Hindi movie buff, some might even see a great leveller in it. But to the Hollywood regular this one's just another release.

Detective Kuroha Yu (Anne) is a sharp shooter who works for the Mobile Investigation Unit of Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s headquarters. Her unit would rush to the scene and conduct the initial investigation when a case occurs. One day, the bodies of 14 men and women are found frozen to death in rental containers in the harbour district. Kuroha, who was the first person to make the discovery, is assigned to the investigation task force for the mass suicide. During the investigation, a suicide note is found. The task force leader, Kaga Kota (Ikeuchi Hiroyuki), believes this case is a straightforward mass suicide. However, Kuroha insists that they should search for the mastermind who assisted the suicides, and has a confrontation with him. That night, Kuroha asks her elder sister, Ryo (Konishi Manami), who is a psychiatrist, for her opinion on the unnatural suicides. Ryo’s advice that there should have been other suicide notes equal to the number of people, spurs Kuroha to set out to investigate on her own. There is a group on the Internet called “Wisdom of the Deep Forest” which talks freely about crimes at night. Kuroha interacts with the anonymous online citizens under the pseudonym, Ageha. One night after the case, a man who introduces himself as Raiun (Kobayashi Naoki) joins the group. The topic that night is euthanasia. Raiun expounds his own theory on euthanasia when a member called BJ (Red Rice) says he cannot understand it. Raiun’s views draw Kuroha’s attention. Kuroha’s low-profile investigation turns up one suicide note more than the number of dead bodies. Realising that there is a person who has not committed suicide yet, Kuroha and the rest of the task force search for this remaining person. But as they get closer to the heart of the case, something sinister beyond all imagination takes root … …

Earth has regained peace but is attacked by a new enemy with space-time powers. Musashi, Cosmos' host tells the UPG that the Ultra Warriors along with his Ultra, Ultraman Cosmos, have been sealed inside an evil space-time castle by a warrior woman named Arina. The fate of the entire world will be at stake.

Yuki is introverted and not very good with love. She has a crush on somebody, but he already has a girlfriend. Kou is in the same art club as Yuki and has feelings for her.

Yuna has a crush on Haru. She sees him on the train every morning when she goes to school. She doesn't know anything about him, and he goes to a different school from her. One morning, she wakes up and finds Haru sleeping right next to her.

In an empty street, a car secretly delivering a moneybag encounters an unexpected accident. Ji Noo, following after the car, Na Mi, a tow truck driver patrol around the scene, and Yakuboo from an auto junkyard chance upon the money bag and decide to split the money, thus becoming involved in a dangerous case. While they get chased by the ruthless money bag owner, Ji Noo and Na Mi get attracted to each other. Now a thrilling race of feisty, bold and intimate friend begins.

Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the demonstration. A 20-year-old police officer and a 16-year-old boy, who is the son of a demonstrator, die during the melee. The boy's father is also arrested. Later, the father insists that he tried to protect his son from being beaten by the riot police. The deaths of these two people are then brought to court.

Takeharu Takami is a bank teller who becomes allergic to money. Because of this, he decides to quit his job and move to a poor village in the Tohoku region where he can live a humble existence without having to deal with money at all. However, when he arrives he discovers the local villagers are some of the strangest people he’s ever met. Can he really handle living without money?

"Summer Snow" is an omnibus film featuring three stories, about the one and only moment for different couples to test their chances by confessing their true love to their neglected, special ones.

#1 Myung-hwan, a devoted detective, ran to the crime scene forgetting about a rendezvous with his daughter. While waiting for daddy to come, his daughter Chae-yoon gets killed in a hit-and-run accident. Feeling guilty about her death and determined to get her revenge, Myung-hwan embarks on the search for the hit-and-run driver by himself.

#2 As a scandal breaks about the romance between Korean wave star Jong-hyuk and actress Seo-jung, the latter’s long-time manager Tae-jung tries hard to split two lovers as he doesn’t approve this romance. Then suddenly, Tae-jung finds out that his days are numbered and starts to make a bucket list.

#3 Gang-chil is a former boxing champion who once had it all going for him. He enjoys spending his time at the hospital room bragging about his glorious past to other patients. One day, when his rival Jong-gu, who gave him the only defeat of his career then left the world of boxing forever, comes in the same ward, the last showdown between old rivals is set to begin.

A young woman named Ichiko returns to her rural mountain village of Komori after being unable to find her place in the city. While there, she lives self-sufficiently, taking advantage of local seasonal ingredients for the meals she prepares for herself. The film will depict both the blessings and harshness of nature as Ichiko continues surviving on her own through the changing seasons.

Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.