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

Wan Joo is a stage actor and also makes money on the side playing roles for clients. He is then asked to act as a witness in a murder case by the victim's mother. Wan Joo doesn't like the idea, but he needs the money and accepts. He goes to the police station and gives a false testimony. But then he realizes that his false statement brands an innocent young man as the murderer. To get the investigation back on track, Wan Joo seeks out the person who asked him to lie, only to discover that she isn’t who she said she was.

Once upon a time, foreign invaders came from distant lands to conquer our beloved country. Time and time again, they’re exorcised by the most elite of the monk-hood. The elite of the elite of these were known as The Masters. When peace was restored, some of their Brothers returned to the sanctity of The Temple. But the Masters stayed behind, bound by an oath to protect the Emperor. Some say they were forced to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. But ask those who have been to battles, once your eyes have seen war, there is no returning home.

Yayoi Kazamaki is a prosecutor in the Kyoto Public Prosecutor's Office, Uji District. She has always been hard on herself, has never made any compromises, and worked hard. Anmitsu is her favorite food, which she often eats with Detective Ishibashi.

Guisari Training Center closed after a mass murder in 1990

And in that place, people disappeared!

In 1990, at a training center in Guisari, a building manager murdered guests and committed suicide. Since then, when suicide and death accidents occurred every year, the training center closed and has been neglected for many years, and ghost stories about the 'guimoon' that people enter but no one comes out begin to be the talk of town.

Meanwhile, 'Do Jin', director of the Psychic Research Institute, who came to the training center to uncover the secret of her mother who died while trying a rite of passage at the training center, and college students 'Hye Yeong', 'Tae Hoon' and 'Won Jae', who went to the training center to shoot a video for a competition were horrified and faced with a bizarre horror...

If you can handle it, try to open 'Guimoon'.

Banks have been closed down, a large number of unemployed homeless living on the streets. A series of bizarre suicides seem to guide the loose Road to explore hidden behind shady bigger. Ten years ago, the village was buried carcasses...

Koji Wakamatsu, who in the past has directed such pungently titled exploitation flicks as Go Go Be a Virgin a Second Time and Violated Women in White, spins this biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Kou Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota). A sort of Sid and Nancy for the free-jazz set, the film opens with Suzuki dialing a wrong number and getting Abe. Instead of hanging up, he asks her out on a date and soon the two are shacked up and living together. Sex, drugs and Ornette Coleman feature prominently in the early phase of their relationship, and soon they realize that they are in fact soulmates. Abe is a romantic artist as well as a self-destructive, self-absorbed manchild prone to angry tirades and epileptic seizures. In turn, Izumi is first presented as a bubble-headed hippie chick who goes through men like tissues, but as her relationship with Abe deepens into marriage and motherhood, Izumi reveals a steel will and pragmatism, refusing to sacrifice herself to Abe's muse. Their tempestuous relationship grows increasingly destructive. "A beautiful late Wakamatsu film about japanese free jazz legend Kaoru Abe.Lots of screeching saxophones, drug taking, booze drinking, abundant nudity and assorted madness.Nice appearances by some of the most iconic figures of japanese underground music – like Haino Keiji with Fushitsusha and writer and critic Teruto Soejima – and nice performances from Shibusashirazu/Fedayien members Naohiro Kawashita, Shiro Ohnuma and Daisuke Fuwa."

A travelling monk and his followers find themselves trapped in a land inhabited by only women.

Yu, a self-assured factory guard, fancies himself a detective and begins poking his nose into a murder investigation.