An elderly lady in her 60's Yang Mija (Yun Junghee) works as a carer for a disabled man and she also raises her grandson alone. She has to endure the onset of Alzheimer's disease and also learns that her grandson was one of the attackers of a junior high school girl that committed suicide. Through all of tins and to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a poet the elderly woman starts to take a poetry class and starts writing...
Set in Rio, Okinawa and Tokyo's notorious Shinjuku district, the film takes a journey deep into the seedy underside of Japan's gangland, and explores its eccentric characters and extreme violence. When Brazilian-Japanese Mario is unleashed from jail, he sets out to rescue his beautiful Chinese girlfriend, Kei, from being deported from Japan. Back in Tokyo he tries to raise the cash to buy counterfeit passports for him and Kei to flee to Australia. Along the way the couple find themselves face-to-face with violent Yakuza and Triad gangs, and must fight for their freedom.
The second film based on the word of award-winning novelist Yusuke Kishi. When Yukari, a psychic able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a troubled girl named Chihiro who is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. Chihiro has 13 different personalities, and her 13th personality is a revengeful ghost named Isola. Can the psychic find a way to stop Isola without harming Chihiro?
The acclaimed debut feature by celebrated filmmaker Emir Kusturica is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set amidst the uproar of 1960's Sarajevo. As Hollywood movies begin to find their way into the country, sixteen year-old Dino (Slavko Stimac) becomes seduced by the glamour of the gangster films that flash before his eyes at the local cinema and he decides to follow a life of crime. Falling in with a band of petty crooks, Dino's future seems set until a liaison with local prostitute Dolly Bell (Ljiljana Blagojevic) turns his world upside down in a way not even the movies could have prepared him for.
Akemi (Kaji) is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi's gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Kunisada is on a violent and surreal road trip as he searches for those responsible for the death of his gang boss, but with a violent temper and a mouthy demeanour, he's quick to find trouble with enemies and Yakuza allies alike. Can he track down and avenge his fallen master before he's cut down by a bullet himself?
A gambler and underworld mover and shaker by trade, Ocho moves to Kobe when the film begins. She gets off the boat and hopes to start a new life in the city, but before long she’s been kidnapped by a gang of punks who tie her up, rip off her Kimono, and ‘investigate’ her in the most intimate of ways! She wakes from her ordeal and finds herself laying next to a dead woman and holding a bloody knife in her hand. Ocho quickly realises that she’s been set up for a murder and moves fast, determined now more than ever to find the thugs responsible. She sets out into the streets to do some investigations of her own and soon discovers a Yakuza drug ring that involves smuggling drugs by using their female hooker racket to smuggle the drug packages in the most intimate of female places! Ocho’s story unfolds set against a struggle for control of the drug trafficking. With the old boss dead and the recent discovery of the drug lords daughter missing, presumed murdered, all hell breaks lose. This all ties nicely into Ocho’s plan of dolling out some payback and soon an army of killer hookers unite against a common foe in a truly spectacular delirious blend of sword play, sex, violence and pop cinema!
Hiding from an unknown past, suicidal Japanese loner Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) seems destined for a premature rendezvous with oblivion when he meets Noi, a beautiful Thai party girl. Despite speaking different languages and barely able to communicate, Noi begins to seduce Kenji back into the chaos of life.
On his ceaseless journey, Zatoichi crosses paths with an old woman on an ancient bridge. Unintentionally causing her death, Zatoichi charges himself with the task of finding the old woman's daughter, Nishikigi, to give her the tragic news. The blind swordsman sets off to the town of Chosi. There, he finds the daughter working in a geisha house and a bond of fifty ryo has her trapped until it has been repaid. The town is ruled over by an ambitious boss, Mangoro, who has bullied the local fishermen into working for him. Zatoichi fails to notice the injustice around him as he attempts to soothe his own conscience, by caring for the dead woman's daughter. But when Mangoro snatches Nishikigi, the blind swordsman's hands are crippled. Now, unable to even hold his sword, Zatoichi has to overcome those who want him dead...
"Black Peter" is the debut feature from Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus). A wry comedy set in 1960's Czechoslovakia, the film explores the passions and confusions of teenage life. Peter is tentatively taking his first steps into the adult world; he has a new job and a new focus for his burgeoning erotic fantasies -provoking conflict with the older generation. With a cast of mainly non-professional actors, Forman conjures up a naturalistic and witty portrait of everyday life under totalitarianism. Full of charming performances, youthful spontaneity and a rock n roll soundtrack, 'Black Peter' helped launch the internationally acclaimed Czech New Wave.
Based on an extraordinary true story, "Pride" tells how a group of London-based gay and lesbian activists raised money to support the families of miners during the strike of 1984. Identifying a mining village in Wales, they set off to make their donation in person, and in so doing inspired "the Best British film in years".
When an abandoned slaughterhouse is transformed into modern loft apartments it seems like a dream come true for the new tenants. However, soon after moving in they are tormented by a dark secret that has been trapped in the building for over 30 years. As the horror escalates the new tenants start to realize they may never get out alive.
A family of Oregonian loggers, led by patriarch Henry (Hnery Fonda), live and work by the family motto 'never give an inch.' When the townspeople go on strike, the determined Stamper family refuse to join in, and continue logging. When Henry is incapacitated by a broken arm it is left to his son Hank (Paul Newman) to take charge and pull the family together. Whilst Hank is distracted by the family's struggle to meet their targets, his bored wife Viv (Lee Remick), is reconnecting with the errant Leland (Michael Sarrazin), Hank's brother who has suddenly reappeared after leaving the town ten years before. When sabotage by the townspeople destroys vital logging equipment, Henry turns to increasingly desperate methods, and events threaten to build to an explosive climax.
Eric (Jason Sudeikis) is a thirty-something party animal famous among his close circle of friends for his lavish summer theme parties at his father's swanky Hampton's pad. But when members of the crew start settling down, and Eric's dad announces plans to sell the beach house, Eric decides it's time for one last bash to go out with a proverbial bang - a good old-fashioned orgy!
At the height of the Korean War, the remote community of Dongmakgol remains sheltered from the brutal conflict raging in its midst. But when two deserters from the South stumble across it at the same time that a nave girl leads a small Northern unit to the village, a terrible conflict looks set to shatter its peaceful existence. Yet Dongmakgol is an almost magical place. A haven where the beauty of nature and the simplicity of life encourage the warring visitors to set aside their differences and join together in a desperate bid to defend the innocence of its people. Starring Hye-Jeong Kang (Old-Boy), Welcome to Dongmakgol is a beautifully shot epic that contrasts the depth of human courage with the destructive futility of warfare. Set to a sweeping score, it is both moving and uplifting, providing a cinematic experience guaranteed to live long in your memory.
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