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The Eye Infinity (2005)Gin gwai 10
Whilst visiting their friend in Thailand, four teenagers pass the time by telling each other ghost stories and dabbling in black magic. After following the instructions in an old book that claims to be the key to seeing the dead, they unleash a series of events that cause one of the group to disappear and another to become a complete recluse. Returning to Hong Kong, two of the group try to put the experience behind them, but it turns out that the dead aren't going to let them off that easily. - Director:
- Oxide Pang Chun
- Cast:
- Bo-lin Chen, Yan Kam Ching, Ng Wing Chuen
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Eyes of the Spider / Serpent's Path (1998)Kumo no hitomi / Hebi no michi
When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast, the result was the cinematic equivalent of fraternal twins. Though both 'Eyes of the Spider' and 'Serpent's Path' are gangster films about the desire for revenge, and both films feature a protagonist named Nijima played convincingly by Sho Aikawa, the two films are completely different in tone and plot.
Eyes of the Spider concerns Nijima (Sho Aikawa), a white-collar worker who one day finds the man responsible for his young daughter's brutal rape and murder. He interrogates and tortures the man, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he meets an old high school friend who introduces him to his hapless band of hired killers and his skill in the assassination business catches the attention of a bigger crime boss...
Serpent's Path tells the tale of Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa), a former low level yakuza who has tracked down his child's killer with help of his friend Nijima. They've kidnapped the yakuza member believed responsible for the killing to take out revenge, but vengeance is neither simple nor easy. Another person is soon implicated in the child's death leading the pair farther down a path of revenge and violence...- Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Dankan
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Ab-normal Beauty (2004)Sei mong se jun
After witnessing a horrific car accident and photographing the aftermath, a student Jiney (Race Wong) becomes dangerously preoccupied with both witnessing and capturing death on film. Plagued with flashbacks of the abuse she suffered as a child, Jiney becomes further embroiled in a disturbing sub culture as she begins a rapid descent into madness. Pulled back from the edge by her friend, no sooner has Jiney exorcised her demons when she is confronted by a tape depicting a savage murder. - Director:
- Oxide Pang Chun
- Cast:
- Race Wong, Rosanne Wong, Anson Leung
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Exploding onto the screen in an epic tale of vengeance set against the stunning backdrop of feudal Thailand over 600 years ago, this jaw-dropping new film features some of the most breathtaking fight sequences ever seen. Battling his own demons, Tien (Tony Jaa), must fight to avenge the slaughter of his beloved family. Taken in and trained by a vicious group of bandit outlaws, he evolves into one of the most dangerous and feared warriors in the land, his lethal skills perfected to the point where he is able to exact a terrible revenge on the men responsible for the murder of those closest to him. Following the ground breaking global success of 'Ong Bak' and 'Warrior King', Tony Jaa once again brings his sensational skills to bear in one of the most eagerly anticipated martial art films of recent years. - Director:
- Tony Jaa
- Cast:
- Tony Jaa, Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Sorapong Chatree
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The Eye 2 (2004)Gin gwai 2
In this follow up to the Pang Brothers The Eye a failed suicide victim, Joey, recovers slowly in hospital. Occasionally she wakes from her recovery to see malevolent strangers watching over her. Upon recovery she discovers that she is pregnant to her disinterested boyfriend and realises that the strangers at her bedside were linked to her pregnancy... and are still with her. In her quest to discover what is happening she visits a Buddhist monk. What the monk tells her chills her to the bone as she realises what awaits her and her unborn child. Will she be able to face the certain terror of her child's birth... - Director:
- Oxide Pang Chun
- Cast:
- Lawrence Chou, Qi Shu, Eugenia Yuan
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Time and Tide (2000)Shun liu ni liu
A streetwise young man becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He soon befriends a once disillusioned mercenary determined to make a fresh start with his new wife. Although the two men find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, their partnership is short-lived. Through uncontrollable circumstances, they will unknowingly be propelled toward the opposite sides of a deadly confrontation. - Director:
- Hark Tsui
- Cast:
- Nicholas Tse, Francis Pardeilhan, Hark Tsui
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High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from new student, Monami. Little does know that the chocolates contain traces of Monami's vampire blood. He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she wants to live with him forever as vampires... Keiko, Mizushima's girlfriend, sees the two on the school rooftop kissing and in a Jealous rage, attempts to throw Monami off the roof but instead falls to her death. However her mad scientist father, Kenji Furano, resurrects her as Fran ken girl! The stage is set for a deadly battle between Franken Keiko and Vampire Monami in the name of love. A conflict that can only be solved by fighting, beating, stabbing, chewing, clawing and a blood soaked showdown high atop Tokyo Tower! - Director:
- Yoshihiro Nishimura
- Cast:
- Yukie Kawamura, Takumi Saitoh, Eri Otoguro
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The Eye (2002)Gin gwai
At the age of two, Mun went blind. After eighteen years in darkness, she is given the chance of a risky corneal transplant operation. When the bandages are taken off, Mun's eyes respond to the light around her and it appears that the surgery has been successful. However, when Mun experiences a series of inexplicable and chilling encounters with mysterious strangers, she fears that her newly restored eyesight has brought a different kind of darkness into her life. This fear is magnified when it also comes to light that Mun is not seeing her own face when she looks in the mirror, but that of a total stranger. As this nightmare consumes her, she sets out to discover through whose eyes she is seeing the world, and before long finds a truth more horrifying than anything she could ever have imagined... - Director:
- Oxide Pang Chun
- Cast:
- Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou
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Heroic Duo (2003)Shuang Xiong
When a police officer of irrefutable honour is caught stealing $1,000,000 from a police safe, he claims to have no memory of his actions. The investigating officer, a member of the elite G4 special force, believes that the perpetrator has been hypnotised. Believing the suspect to have been the unwitting target of such devious criminal intervention, the two men begin a search for the man they call the Mindhunter, in a bid to catch him before he strikes again. - Director:
- Benny Chan
- Cast:
- Leon Lai, Ekin Cheng, Francis Ng
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Fulltime Killer (2001)Chuen jik sat sau
For years, O has lived isolated in the world of professional killing. His intensely disciplined regime forbids him any contact with others, and the death of his lover has served only to force him further away from the world around him. Tok, however, is a flamboyant newcomer to this secretive world. Chasing the thrill of the hit, he is driven to become the number one, but there is a significant obstacle: O, and his fierce dedication. Using O's part-time housekeeper, Chin, as a way to get to O, Tok begins his campaign. Soon, Chin is dragged into their dangerous world and, as Tok challenges his elusive rival to duel, Agent Lee at Interpol gets closer to finding O. - Director:
- Johnnie To
- Cast:
- Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Kelly Lin
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Drug War (2012)Du Zhan
A violent lab accident leaves drug manufacturer Timmy Choi hospitalised and in the custody of veteran Police Captain Zhang. Facing the death penalty, Choi agrees to turn informant, giving the Police vital information on his partners and their organisation in order to avoid execution. In a bid to take down the powerful drug ring, Captain Zhang and his team are forced to infiltrate Choi's organisation. But when things spiral out of control, the lines between cop and criminal are blurred as they fight for their survival. - Director:
- Johnnie To
- Cast:
- Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang
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Gozu (2003)Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu
Senior Yakuza, Ozaki, appears to be going mad. What began as minor eccentricities have become major problems endangering not only himself but also members of his brotherhood. There is only one option left to the boss - to dispose of him. He orders Minami to take Ozaki to the Yakuza disposal dump in Nagoya and to report him once the job is done. On the way to Nagoya, Ozaki is killed accidentally. After Minami reports the news to his boss, he returns to the car to find that the body has gone. From here, we enter a surreal world of bizarre characters and unnatural goings-on, where the only people stranger than the lactating inn owner and the autistic spiritual medium are the mysterious cow-headed demon and the Yakuza who can't make love without a strategically placed ladle for added stimulation... If you thought you'd seen it all - think again. - Director:
- Takashi Miike
- Cast:
- Yûta Sone, Shô Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino
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Phone (2002)Pon
"Phone" tells the story of an investigative reporter, Ji-won, who has recently published a controversial article about sex-scandals and has since began receiving a series of menacing phone calls. In an effort to escape the phone calls she changes her number and moves house, but the calls keep coming. When a friends young daughter innocently answers the ringing telephone she begins to exhibit increasingly crazed behaviour. As she tries to unravel the mystery behind the phone calls Ji-won uncovers a secret that will change them all. - Director:
- Byeong-ki Ahn
- Cast:
- Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim, Woo-jae Choi
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Missing (2010)Sil jong
When a film director takes a popular young actress to the countryside to discuss a new role, they stop at an isolated restaurant known for its privacy and discretion. But what they don't know is that the owner is a recluse and social outcast with a very dark secret. Jealous of the starlet's beauty and insulted by her disdainful treatment of him, he ruthlessly strangles the director and imprisons the girl in the basement. Trapped and alone, her mental state is pushed to the verge of madness. Does he want to torture her, use her for sex, or does he have an even darker agenda? Concerned over her apparent disappearance, the starlet's sister contacts the police. A trail of evidence points toward the restaurant, but will they get there in time to save her from the twisted games of the unhinged maniac, or will his evil vengeance be complete? - Director:
- Sung-Hong Kim
- Cast:
- Ja-Hyeon Chu, Min-hee Ha, Gi-ho Heo
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Vampire Hunters (2002)Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters
In the 19th century China, an evil monk awakens a nest of ghoulish vampires hell-bent on devouring human life. Now, a quartet of heroes trained in the Taoist Mao Shan school of magic and their master must use their unique powers to destroy the Vampire King and its lethal coven before its too late. Masters of the martial arts, each of the four heroes specialize in controlling the element of their namesake: Rain, Lightning, Thunder and Wind! - Director:
- Wellson Chin
- Cast:
- Ken Chang, Michael Man-Kin Chow, Suet Lam
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