Asian Drama

Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

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Aruo, the dragon girl from the East China Sea, is determined to find her beloved, and comes to the mortal Wang Sheng at all costs. However, the fox demon Xiaoman wants to get the most precious spiritual leaf from the dragon girl, and designs to break Wang Sheng's heart. Aruo has no choice but to use Lingye made up for Wang Sheng's heart, so the two women started a "heart-stealing" contest with Wang Sheng as the center.

Facing an unacceptable reality, a teacher is trying to reclaim relationships with his family, students and former friends. Reassessing his past, he contemplates how to go on with his life.

When the world is hit with a naturally occuring virus that spreads among all living things, humans begin to turn into insatiable zombies. In a blink, the world as we know it collapses. Furthermore, the few remaining survivors are unable to use the available food resources. They therefore develop a new crop to support themselves. Survivors depend on one profession, their only hope; someone in this profession must brave the dangers to send and recieve food and packages of necessities. These people are called Riders.

The plot revolves around the meaning of life when a young man meets a mysterious beauty who is the incarnation of goldfish.

Adapted from the novel by Ogiwara Hiroshi.

Dae-Gyu is a working man, living a stress free dating life until one day a young boy claiming to be his son pays him an unexpected visit. After much wavering and struggle to make his son go away, Dae-Gyu makes a compromise to go on a road trip after which he would return the boy to his mother.

Chul Soo the son of a national Intelligent Agency Representative is interested in nothing else than flirting with girls all through the night until he has to face the harsh facts of reality. It all happens when his professor sets an ultimatum threatening not to let him pass his university graduation unless he joins South & North Korea discovery team of the historical tomb excavation unit in Yeon Byun, which is located in north-eastern China! On the other side of Korea Young Hee the smart, pretty and intelligent daughter of a North Korean diplomat, faces the dilemma of her father's threat to marry her off. Therefore, she opts to join the discovery team too. After Chul Soo catches sight of Young Ee, he is determined to ask her for her hand immediately, but is everything really as easy as that?

1933. 20 years before, Katsuzo was in love with a geisha who gave him a daughter. They tried to run away together but they were caught and the woman was killed under his eyes. Now he is a zegen aka a pimp who sells girls to the Yokiro, the biggest geisha house in Southern Japan, run by Osode who used to be his mistress. His daughter who was raised by the Geisha House is now a Great Geisha under the name Momowaka. And his girlfriend, Tamako, wants to become a geisha. Momowaka falls in love, one of Osaka's yakuza clans wants to take control of the Yokiro.

This movies tell a story about four ordinary boys faced a crossroads in life, confused, need effort.  Movies are a total of four boys an identity: engineering male, but each person's character and destiny yet so different.  For each of them, the senior year of particularity that they finally have a chance to really confront their own choice; while for the audience, it could be a starting point for us to reflect about education.

A song for my dear is a film with a similar story to The memory of you in the Korean Cinema section. The husband is teaching Korean traditional music at a university with his talent inherited from his parents, pansori singer father and Gokbi—professional wailer at the funeral—mother. His ordinary days come to a halt when his wife begins to show some strange behaviors. Diagnosed with dementia, her condition gets worse fast and he takes care of her before anything else, but he also gets weak and old. In this film, his despair is expressed with Chang (Korean opera), and the more the wife gets ill, the more heartbroken songs become.

Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love:

***My Nickname is Butatchi

***Something Blue / サムシング ブルー

***Asahan no Yuge / あさはんのゆげ

***Kataomoi Supairaru / 片想いスパイラル

***Usotsuki no Koi / 嘘つきの恋

***Ibu no Okurimono / イブの贈り物

***Radio Personality / ラジオパーソナリティ

***Boku no Sabotin / 僕のサボテン