Asian Drama

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.

Saeba Ryo is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact, his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them. Thankfully he's got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check.

(Source: Mangaupdates)

Adapted from the manga series "City Hunter" (シティーハンター) by Hojo Tsukasa (北条司).

Duration: 1 hr. 42 min.

Ratings: 8.1

After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in LA summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, Hwa Rim senses a dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'.

In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath.

(Source: showbox.co.kr)

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to 'execute' or 'pass over'. Getting his work quickly out of the way, he goes to the listening booth of a CD shop and indulges in his favorite pastime, listening to 'humanity's greatest invention': music. He is...a Grim Reaper. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki, 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It's time for the Reaper to go to work.

A glorious, delightful and touching romantic comedy that unveils the truths behind the year's most anticipated celebrity wedding, THE WEDDING GAME begins when Jack (Christopher Lee) publicly proposes to Vikki (Fann Wong) during the live telecast of a regional awards show. Surprised but happy, Vikki accepts - much to the delight of the public who has been following and rooting for the two superstars' much publicized romance. What the public doesn't know is that the entire love affair is an elaborate and meticulously planned ruse designed to further the careers and fortunes of the two ‘lovebirds' by their ambitious managers May and Tom. In reality, Jack has disliked Vikki from the first day they met and vice versa! But through it all, the two stars keep up with the charade. Both of them are sure they have nothing to lose - not when they've signed a pre-nuptial agreement to protect themselves and their fortunes. Just when everything is going so well, an incident has rattled some of the fans and the media. There is doubt now lingering about the authenticity of this love match. Will they succeed in fooling a nation, and come away richer but not wiser? THE WEDDING GAME will have you rolling down the aisles with laughter and touch your hearts with tender moments of emotional truth. Ironically, the film stars (Wong and Lee) are actually long-time couple who plan to wed following the release of this movie.

In an 18th century setting, a Naga sadhu in India sets out on a journey across Bundelkhand to seek revenge for an injustice committed in the past.

Trinh, a mercenary, must complete a series of organized crime jobs for her boss in order to win the release of her kidnapped daughter. She hires several mercenaries to help, including Quan, who she becomes attracted to. Trinh and Quan's...

In February 1972, five members of the Japanese Red Army lock themselves up in a mountain lodge in Karuizawa called Asama Sanso, taking the wife of its proprietor hostage. Sassa Atsuyuki (Koji Yakusho) of the National Police Agency is put in charge by his chief (Makoto Fujita), and rushes to the scene. The case is supposed to be resolved in a few days, but the police do not get permission to use guns, and in addition, there is the severe cold and continuous antagonism between the Metropolitan Police Department and the Prefectural Police, making things extremely complicated. On the tenth day, in an attempt to force a breakthrough, they eventually use a wrecking ball that is operated with a crane truck to break down the outside wall of the lodge, then start to charge in. However, the crane breaks down halfway through, hampering the continuation of this strategy and the ranks fall into confusion. After the head of the riot police sacrifices his life, Sassa takes his place at the forefront and continues the siege. Under his command, the riot police finally raids the room where the kidnappers are. The radicals are all arrested on the spot, and the hostage is safe and unharmed.

A Malay horror film based on a true story about a pregnant lady who lost her unborn child while she was attempting to escape by running through the oil palm estate. After a group of people found her unconscious in...

Picture book author Kwon Yoon-duk decides to join the 'Picture Books for Peace Planning Committee' with other authors from Korea, China and Japan to created a picture book on ‘comfort women’ to the Japanese colonial army. But as she proceeds, past wounds forgotten for years start to haunt her. Meanwhile Korean and Japanese authors start a heated debate over her sketch and the completion of the picture book seems to drift further out of reach.

After five years of working on it, writer Xiao Ai (Mei Ting) has her horror novel rejected by her patient publisher (Ma Shuliang). She also hears that her ex-husband, Qi Kun (Wu Chao), who was imprisoned for domestic violence, has been released and is looking for her and their asthmatic young son Xiao Xin (Zhu Jiangdi). A doctor friend, Yinan (Guo Jingfei), offers them an old, remote house so she can work peacefully. But unexplainable events begin to happen when Xiao Ai finds some faded photos of a young woman and her child whose faces have been cut out and decides to use them for inspiration. Although the movie has the same director and name as the 2004 South Korean horror, it is not a remake. [filmbizasia]