Asian Drama

A young Korean-American man works to reconcile his obligations to his struggling immigrant family with his burgeoning sexual desires in the underground world of gay hookups at Korean spas in Los Angeles.

Otomichi Takako (Koike Eiko) is a strong-minded detective. She joins in the investigation of the murder of a fortune teller’s entire family as a member of its mobile investigation unit. Although Takako is a female, she is the type of person who likes to win and will rush to a crime scene immediately when there is a case so that she will be assigned to the mobile investigation unit which conducts the initial investigations. But Hoshino Hideo (Abe Tsuyoshi), the detective partnered with her, is known for being a skirt chaser. When Takako curtly rejects his advances, she is abruptly treated indifferently. He also reports an important clue that she had found as his own achievement. This makes Takako shake with anger. To make matters worse, Hoshino orders Takako to act alone in a violation of rules. She has no choice but to do legwork on her own. As chance would have it, Takako locates the new address of men who are believed to be a gang of criminals and heads to the house. During the investigation, Nakata Kaeko (Nishida Naomi), a housewife who was a victim in a previous bag-snatching case, appears. Takako knows her. Kaeko is going through a hard time. She has to care for her elderly father, but is also the sole breadwinner instead of her unemployed husband, juggling two jobs as a nurse and part-time employee at a bar while raising two children. Unable to leave Kaeko alone after Kaeko talks about the emptiness she feels every day, Takako follows her. But she gets drugged with sleeping pills and kidnapped by the hidden criminal … … Meanwhile, former fellow detective Takizawa Tamotsu (Takahashi Katsumi) is unable to contact Takako and worries about her. He presses Hoshino for an answer but Hoshino does not confess the truth. He finally pins down an apartment from a small lead and breaks in with Hirajima Maki (Shinoda Mariko). However, they discover the body of the criminal who has died in cold blood down there. Takizawa tries to find new clues, but Takako’s own life is in danger with each passing moment

Short 1930 American slapstick comedy in which the troublemaker J. Effingham Bellweather goes golfing with the house detective's wife and their caddy.

One Week (1920) is a short comedy film, the first that Buster Keaton released on his own. Newly weds, Buster and Sybil, try to put together a portable house that they received as a wedding gift.

When a young child walks home from school, he encounters a strange-looking man in a full bunny costume lying in his backyard. The man is not moving and appears to be dead. Instead of fleeing, the child is intrigued and engages in a silent conversation. Little does he know, the man is not dead. On the contrary, he's quite alive.

“Cops” is a 1922 classic American silent film written and directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton and stars Keaton. The comedy short is about a young man who clashes with the entire Los Angeles Police Department through a series of unfortunate events at a parade, leading to a chase all over town.

Two men have different aspirations and expectations about their careers in Hollywood. As little people, Marty (Verne Troyer) and Gus (Phil Fondacaro) are preparing for a scene where they are cast as Oompa Loompas in the movie “Willy Wonka an the Chocolate Factory.” Will they be able to break out of being cast as anything but comic relief in any film? “Bit Players” is a 2010 American indie film

A newspaper peddler named Patrick Prendergast has delusions of greatness. Evidently slighted by the mayor, this self-anointed messenger prepares for a glorious rise from ignored lobbyist to influential icon. Prendgerast sees himself as a martyr, serving God with a noble purpose. The reality is far different. “The Assassination of Chicago’s Mayor” is a historical account of late 19th century Chicago, full of rhetoric that feels eerily contemporary. Prendergast follows his brand of ideological righteousness to its hateful end, an end where justice and revenge are one in the same.

A short W.C. Fields film (1933).

The Pharmacist is a 1933 short American comedy film in which a pharmacist deals with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.

A 1947 short starring The Three Stooges. If Shemp, a voice teacher, marries by 6 o'clock, he could inherit a huge fortune. None of his students accepts his proposal until Shemp proposes to one particularly unattractive student. When his other students hear about the inheritance, they flock to the ceremony, and chaos ensues, but Shemp manages to marry in the nick of time.

“Disorder in the Court” is a short subject film made by the Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures in 1936. It is the 15th of 190 total shorts made by the comedy team for the movie studio between 1934 and 1959. The film is about the Three Stooges being called as key witnesses in a murder trial when their friend Gail Tempest (Suzanne Kaaren), a dancer at the Black Bottom café, is accused of killing a man. Can the bumbling brothers prove their friend’s innocence?

American slapstick comedy team, The Three Stooges, made this short subject film in 1949. In this short, the Stooges run a restaurant in the desert where they overhear their customers hatching a plot to rob a precious diamond from the tomb of King Rootintootin. But when they find out that the emir of Schmow has already gotten his hands on the diamond, all three arrive at the emir's palace dressed as Santa Claus, and manage to sneak away with the diamond.

A boy working at a small-town coffee shop notices an old man repeatedly pocketing sugar packets. The boy attempts to solve the mystery of the stolen sweetener, and when the answer isn't at all what he expected, he is forced to deal with some of life’s most basic questions.

“Dubstep Dispute” is a 3D-animated short film set in the distant future with a cast of disgruntled droids along with their vocal apartment. Driven by the sounds of electronic music, of the genre dubstep, the short takes a literal interpretation of the syncopated rhythms and aggressive sounds of dubstep and translates it into a language used by arguing robots.

In this 1937 short, The Three Stooges are tailors who are massively in debt, and try to solve their financial woes by capturing a fugitive bank robber for a large reward.

A funeral home employee saves a dead woman from the killer who’s closing in to complete the job.

Historically possible. Completely Fictional. In this 2010 American indie film, we enter the world of the “what if” by imaging that young starlets Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn meet for the first time when they are both struggling young actresses in Hollywood. But after a run-in with the law, will the two soon-to-be-legends become friends or foes?

In this slapstick comedy short film, a young couple who are neighbors in tenements try to be together despite the fighting between their families.

Ostracized by his village for being different, Fisher is a lonely being who lives in a small cabin at the edge of the sea. His world is turned upside down one day when in a twist of fate, he is forced out of his comfort zone and thrust into a journey of self discovery.

Two women, one in a bridal gown and the other in a bridesmaid's dress, are placed into the same bridal fitting room and reconnect while discovering how different their lives have become in the eight years since they last saw each other. Can the bride-to-be help the always-the-bridesmaid to be able to wear a wedding gown of her own?

“Convict 13” is a 1922 American short comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Keaton gets knocked out while playing golf with his girlfriend and an escaped convict switches clothes with him. He finds himself in prison, but manages to foil the plans to hang him.

Short Film / 13 min) When Tim's girlfriend won't marry him because he's not Korean, there's just one way to win her back... become Asian. 'Egg' is a romantic comedy about just how much a person will change to hang on to the one they love. DIRECTOR: Chris Martin / FESTIVALS: Palm Springs International Shortfest (Audience Favorites: Best of Fest Comedies); Newport Beach Film Festival; Hawaii International Film Festival