Asian Cinema & Culture

Apartment 1303

After moving into her first apartment, Sayaka invites her friends to come over and celebrate. During...

Arakimentari

Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's most famous and notorious photographer. In a culture where complete femal...

Arang

A veteran female detective, So-Young, and her rookie assistant are investigating a recent series of ...

Breath

Acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk returns with his 14th film as a director, a tender roman...

Caterpillar

Set during the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Caterpillar tells the story of a Japanese soldi...

Divergence

Aaron Kwok (The Storm Riders) plays Suen, a depressed and rundown cop still obsessing over his girlf...

Dorm

Twelve-year-old Chatree is miserable and lonely after his transfer to an all-boys boarding school. H...

Ex-Drummer

Ji-won, played by the popular Korean actress Kim Ha-Neul (My Tutor Friend, The Duelist, and the hit ...

Face

A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid leaving only the bones behind. T...

H

Shin Hyun (Cho Seung-woo) walks into the local police station toting the mutilated bodies of six mis...

Heroic Duo

Tough cop Ken Li (Ekin Cheng) is at the top of his game but still needs some help to solve a grisly ...

Hit Man File

Violent and sensual, Hit Man File is a unique new Asian action film with a distinctive Thai ident...

Matrimony

X Men's Fan Bing Bing stars in this ghostly Chinese love story. When Junchu s girlfriend, Manli, is ...

Mountains May Depart

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama ...

Ab-normal Beauty

Jiney, a photography student, stumbles across a horrible car accident. After shooting the grisly sce...

Pop Aye

A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew...

Pray

Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami ...

Another Public Enemy

When a number of unsolved crimes are linked to an enigmatic foundation, newly assigned prosecutor Ka...

Bloody Reunion

After 16-years pass, a group of former students decide to visit their sickly, wheel-chair bound teac...

Hard Romanticker

Based on director Gu Su-yeon's autobiographical novel, Hard Romanticker is a spectacularly violent g...

3 Seconds Before Explosion

A lightning-paced 60’s crime film from Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios, Three Seconds to Explo...

Chi-hwa-seon

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award, CHIHWASEON is a vivid portrait of the tur...

Blind Shaft

Blind Shaft tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their ...

Eagle Shooting Heroes

Executive produced by Wong Kar-Wai, Jeffrey Lau's "absurd 1993 masterpiece" (Austin Chronicle) Ea...

Hooligan Sparrow

Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) is labeled a troublemaker by the Chinese government – someo...

Horror Stories

Horror anthologies might be everywhere these days, but the Korean entry HORROR STORIES raises the ba...

Sweet Bean

Sweet Bean is a delicious red bean paste, the sweet heart of the dorayaki pancakes that Sentaro (Mas...

A Gesar Bard's Tale

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...

The Coast Guard

Private Kang, a member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, monitors a stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire...

The Butcher

A small group of people lie battered and bound on the floor of a dirty slaughterhouse covered in blo...

Songs from the North

Songs From the North is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a co...

The Heirloom

Twenty years ago, an inexplicable unsolved mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. ...

The Scent of Green Papaya

An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung's "luxuriant, visually seduct...

The Bow

A crusty old man and a beautiful young girl live on a fishing boat, which has been floating at sea f...

The President's Last Bang

"A wildly funny whirlwind of anarchy, violence and sex" (New York Magazine), The President's Last ...

1/3 (One Third)

Based upon Dante's Inferno, 1/3 is a timeless fable of redemption, a gritty, streetwise contemporary...

Bloody Ties

A crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a pow...

The Stairway to the Distant Past

"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masato...

A Touch of Sin

A "brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China" (Jon Frosch, Th...

The Trap

In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand new fax machine prodding ...

United Red Army

In his epic film United Red Army, Japanese auteur Koji Wakamatsu brilliantly depicts the most troubl...

Cops vs. Thugs

In his 1975 masterpiece Cops vs. Thugs, director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) paints a dynamic p...

R-Point (Ghosts of War)

Korean soldiers searching for a missing platoon in 1972 Vietnam end up encountering forces that basi...

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest....

Wonderful Town

Wonderful Town, writer-director Aditya Assarat's "delicate, delightful, and nearly note-perfect d...

Yangsi

Yangsi documents the inspiring life of a young Tibetan boy who is recognized as the reincarnation of...

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the prestigious André Bazin P...

The Cave of the Yellow Dog

A nomadic Mongolian family find themselves in disagreement when the oldest daughter, Nansaa, finds a...

Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk do...

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