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.

A serial murder case rocks a small town in China's semi-rural Hebei province. The film explores the case from the viewpoint of a teenage schoolgirl, Jing (Su Xiaotong), who becomes entangled with the case while struggling with her own burgeoning...

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.

A teenage boy who is overly obsessed with online role-playing games gets his account hacked while playing. When he's finally able to connect to the game again, the character that he has spent so much time leveling up and searching rare items for is stripped of all it's experience and items. He then decides to rectify this matter by finding the other player who stole his inventory and weapons. This other player named Viagra apparently lives in a building called Paradise Villa. The people who live in this particular building all seem to have problems of their own.

The directorial debut of Joe Lee, Spin Kid, which boasts itself to be the country’s first feature film that combines the local techno culture with deity belief, made its premiere at the Miramar Cinemas in the evening on November 9. Lee, leading man Blue Lan, lead actress Nikki Hsieh, Tai Pao, Ni Tzu-chun and Yeh Tien-lun made their appearance at the cinema house to boost morale.The debut had attracted high attention, and some of Taiwan’s famed filmmakers showed up to provide support. They include Night Market Hero cast, director Wang Shaudi, director Kevin Chu, director Cheng Yu-chieh, actress Lin Chen-hsi, singer Nick Chou and Jeff Huang. Famed model Bianca Bai, undaunted over rumors about her and Blue Lan’s relationship, dressed in eye-catching backless dress and created a buzz when she appeared at the premiere. Blue Lan, who co-produced the film, told the media he felt the pressure of Spin Kid debut, saying it was much easier to be a star than a producer.

Min Ho works as a counselor at a psychology counseling center, which is run by the government. He gets tired of his daily life and listening to the complaint of his clients. The stress that he feels affects his relationship with other people including his family. At his apartment, which he just moved into, he finds post-it notes written by the former occupant of the apartment. The notes are written explanations about the apartment. He learns that the former owner is a woman. Min Ho wants to meet her.

An aspiring hair dresser (Kuriyama) becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that comes alive, driving those who use the extensions insane or killing them.

Winnie, a Beijing lady in her late twenties, is regarded by her elder brother and sister-in-law as an old maid. From time to time, they exert pressure on Winnie to get married so that she will move out to vacant her room for their kids. However, given the rocketing property prices in Beijing, she cannot afford to buy an apartment of her own. Misfortune always strikes twice: Winnie is then abandoned by her boyfriend, and becomes the target of malicious gossip in D.O.G., the company where she works. She is very depressed indeed.