Asian Drama

In the early days of the Republic, legendary martial artist Ye Ruzhou suffers a severe injury, losing her memory and winding up in the impoverished alley of Minfu Lane. By a twist of fate, she crosses paths with the carefree Chen Awang, and the two fall for each other. When local tyrant Zheng Juehou intensifies his hold over the neighborhood, Ye Ruzhou rises to defend her new community. Her actions, however, draw unforeseen danger, and together with Chen Awang, she faces the challenge to protect Minfu Lane’s hard-won peace.

A fatigued man wakes up at a bar with a bartender who will forever change his life as he gets to know more about her. Three criminals have somewhat accomplished their task of kidnapping their target, but their overall mission seems to go nowhere in the end. In the late 1970s, a mysterious woman runs a bar where a deadly situation will affect the lives of everyone. Two killers are looking for their faceless victim, who shows up at a diner every day at 6 o'clock sharp. Four incredibly talented Korean filmmakers, four intriguing cinematic visions, four astounding stories revolving around murderers for hire. (Source: fantasiafestival.com) ~~ Adapted from the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway. ~~ Release dates: Jul 24, 2024 (Festival) || Oct 23, 2024 (Cinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 59 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

The story follows a young man who has been single for a year after his boyfriend suddenly disappeared without a formal breakup. One night, while scrolling through a dating app, he encounters someone who looks strikingly similar to his ex. After a spontaneous hookup, he discovers that this new acquaintance is actually his ex’s twin brother. As he navigates this unexpected twist, he finds himself drawn into a complicated web of emotions. Will he end up choosing between the two brothers, or will he find himself entangled with both?

Duration: 11 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

The film depicts a coming-of-age story centered on the two sugar babies, Kotone, who is unemployed, and Sakura, a college student, in the coronavirus pandemic, as they try their best to live at the mercy of frivolous men.

Adapted from the novel "Tsuyu no Ato Saki" (つゆのあとさき) by Nagai Kafu (永井荷風).

Duration: 1 hr. 45 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

A middle-aged professional wrestler who lost his wife recently returns to Osaka, his home town, with his son Kazuo. However, Kazuo hates not only wrlestling, but his father who couldn't be at the death bed of his mother.

Middle school teacher Moriguchi Yoko's life comes crashing down after the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Eventually, Yoko suspects some of her own students to have been responsible for her daughter's death. She comes up with an elaborate plan for revenge against the students who killed her innocent daughter

This is a high resolution rip of a custom DVD created by fenshui@ADC off the French release, but with English subs. See below for details. Includes the musical number that was cut from the Universe version.

Min Ah discovers a scarlet-covered diary as she is hurrying to school. She has a brief hallucinatory experience when she opens it, initiating a series of strange occurrences which eventually draw Min Ah into the eerie world of the diary. In her desire to find out more about the diary, Min Ah feigns an illness, getting permission to lie down in the school's clinic.

There she witnesses the reunion of Hyo Shin and Shi Eun. The day in the girls' high school is half over, and the students are preoccupied with the trauma of getting their physical checkups. Suddenly their hustle and bustle are abruptly interrupted by a sharp scream which announces the death of Hyo Shin. Soon, her ghostly entity will linger over everyone's secret.

Mashio Miyu is a university student. She hopes to become an idol, but her dream doesn't seem to be going anywhere. One day, her mother, who does not like her father anymore, leaves home. Miyu doesn't know what to do. A mysterious man suddenly appears in front of her. The man tells her that he will grant her 3 wishes. He sends her back into time to 1991 and to the university where he parents attended. There, she meets her parents who are now students. Her mother likes her father, but her father doesn't like her mother at all. To get her parents together, Miyu forms an idol group with her mother.

Writers Brando (Zheng Hao) and his wife relationship was breakdown, after the couple divorced, their thirteen-year-old daughter left Brando and live together with her mother . in order to ease the relationship with his daughter she take her daughterto the villasthere is only one gardener to take care of the villas. And now, the villa owner sister Xiao Hui (Kan Kiyoko) suddenly visit, it is the people were in a dense fog rolled into a bizarre horror scrapping ......

Military camp nearby the DMZ of a divided land, where South is the land of freedom, and the opposite side is land of repression. Sergeant Kyu Nam, who has been planning an escape to the South for a long time, gets caught while stopping a common soldier, Dong Hyuk, from escaping. At risk of execution, State Security Department Major Hyun Sang recognizes Kyu Nam from childhood. Instead of accusing him, Hyun Sang decides to make Kyu Nam a hero who caught a deserter. Hyun Sang, therefore, has succeeded in securing his performance records by saving Kyu Nam’s life.

Nevertheless, Kyu Nam wants to live his life by his own will, not the government’s commands. He never gives up on crossing the border. On the other hand, Hyun Sang desperately stops Kyu Nam to protect his life, which has been built by giving up his dream.

(Source: Plus M)

Tags: Starting Over, Defector Male Lead, North Korean Male Lead, Soldier Male Lead, Desertion (Vote or add tags)

Duration: 1 hr. 36 min.

Country:South Korea

Aired: Jul 3, 2024

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Jia Zhang Ke, a master of modern Chinese cinema, returns 10 years after I Wish I Knew with a documentary. This is the third film of his documentary trilogy of Chinese art, covering literature, following Dong on painting and Useless on fashion design. In May 2019, Jia Zhang Ke returns to his hometown of Shanxi and attends a literature festival. There, four writers of different ages converse over Chinese history since 1949. China’s rapidly changing modern history is embodied in writings and the words of the four that are covered by Shostakovich’s musical motif. The solemnity of the faces of ordinary people simultaneously captured on screen reminds us that this is a film by Jia Zhang Ke.