Asian Drama

Plagued by bulling from the Lu family, Lin Dong decides to enter the competition in Qingyang Town. By chance, he acquires a mysterious ancestral talisman and becomes a kung-fu master overnight. As the young man takes on the role of...

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

When a bloodthirsty spirit possesses a young girl in a remote village, her older brother leads the charge to banish it before she's consumed by evil.

In the absence of their parents, Johnny (15) and Jennifer (17) are being brought up by their "big sister" Tanya, an overdressed transvestite who eats and smokes too much and causes both kids endless embarrassment. It's a situation ripe for problems (actually, more complicated than I've made it sound), and Tanwarin's debut feature - as director, writer and star - explores those problems with unbridled determination. Both kids mess up their pursuit of romance, in the ways that teenagers do, and both look for ways to break away from the family home and become independent. For Johnny, this entails going into male prostitution, which is as much an attempt to erase his own self-esteem as a way of earning some fast bucks. Jenny makes other mistakes, but both of them wind up deeply dissatisfied. And Tanya? When Johnny catches her trying to seduce one of his buddies, things start to go downhill for her too.

(Short Film / 11 min) Cahaya, a 10-year old trash-picker from the slums of North Jakarta dreams of owning a bicycle. One day, while searching for recyclables, her wish comes true through an unexpected, fantastic find. Yet soon enough, the other children see her treasure and want it too - especially a neighborhood bully named Hasan, who corners Cahaya and steals the bike. Vowing to get it back at all costs, Cahaya goes to Hasan's house to reclaim what is hers. Yet when she arrives, she discovers Hasan's secret. DIRECTOR: Jean Lee / FESTIVALS: 64rd Berlin Film Festival; Seoul International Women’s Film Festival; Kyoto Children’s Film Festival; DC Shorts Festival

The delightful comedy Tropical Fish (Redai yu) was the debut of a young Taiwanese director, Chen Yu-shun, and marked his transition from television to movies. The hero of the movie is A-chiang, a junior high schoolboy facing tremendous pressure to pass the annual entrance examination for entrance to senior high school. A-chiang has been struggling with his grades, and he has suffered the many punishments meted out by his disappointed father and strict school teacher. A-chiang finds refuge in his imagination. Since he was a child, he has been fantasising about a superhero, King Saloman, and his rival, One-Thousand-Year-Old Golden Shark. A-chiang might have read or heard the story a long time ago, or perhaps he just made it up in order to amuse himself, but somewhere down the line he has come to believe in it. Throughout the movie, A-chiang's daydreams become entangled with reality, creating surreal humour. We see A-chiang (dreaming of himself as King Saloman) accidentally kidnapped by two gangsters (representing the Golden Shark) as a result of his attempt to rescue a little boy, Dao-nan, whom the gangsters meant to kidnap in the first place. Unfortunately, though, Dao-nan's stepfather does not want him back, so A-chiang becomes the kidnappers, only potential source of ransom money.

Ren has trouble accepting the death of Kaoru, his best friend growing up. When he finds a painting of a woman that Kaoru left behind, he begins a journey to find her. This film depicts Ren's radiant rediscovery of life as he works through his friend's death. It presents a poetic portrayal of his sorrow, his insuppressible feelings, and the momentum of other lives affected by Kaoru's passing.

Keito Myose (Yuya Yagira) and Yuichi Saeki (Masato Yano) were involved in a horrible case when they were young. They are now all grown up, but still suffering from that incident. At night, Keito and Yuichi meet again. A woman who is an acquaintance of Keito is killed in Keito's room. While the police investigates, a detective tells him "... you know Yuichi Saeki is a suspect and is on the country's most wanted list..."

Rumors spread that on the night when the new Imperial Palace in Luoyang was constructed, a divine dragon appeared, breathing fire, and burning down the palace. The carpenters involved either died or went missing. Di Renjie was promoted, unusually, and appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Justice to handle this "palace arson case." Throughout the investigation, he faced obstruction from mysterious forces, and he gradually uncovered the truth.

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Nakee 2 is the story of “Sroi” a young girl who was born and has lived in Don Mai Pah Village, Ubon Ratchathani Province in the northeastern region of Thailand. She grew up with the belief and faith in Jao Mae Nakee. She has helped her grandma sell flowers to people who comes to worship to Jao Mae Nakee as well as taken care of the stone shrine of Jao Mae Nakee since she was just a little child. Therefore Sroi extremely feels a bond with Jao Mae Nakee. But right after “Police Captain Pongprap” was transferred to Don Mai Pah Police Station, there have been a lot of dreadful crimes occurred. Many cases are unbelievable and full of unsolved mysteries. Villagers strongly believe that Jao Mae Nakee did all those and she is going on a rampage once again. Moreover, many things that happened makes villagers totally believe that Sroi is the psychic medium of Jao Mae Nakee. Even Inspector Pongprap who never believed in mysterious and supernatural beings also uncertain about the allegation on her. So he decided to find out the truth behind all those mysterious crimes in Don Mai Pah Village.

A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.