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Bodyguards and Assassins (2009) Shi Yue Wei Cheng

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

1906, City of Victoria (British Colony of Hong Kong).In the distance of thirteen blocks, the one man who holds a nation's fate must survive relentless attempts on his life with only five bodyguards to protect him. Against hundreds…

Action, Drama, History

China, Hong Kong

JIN (2009) Jin

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The story follows a brain surgeon named, Minakata Jin, who has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and awakens to find …

Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Serial

Japan

Help Me, Eros (2007) Bang Bang Wo Ai Shen

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

This is an autobiographical story, Le Kan Shen seems trying to show intolerable burden of loneliness with bright, contrasting, shocking scenes.Ah Jie has lost all his money in the stock market due to a severe economic crisis. He i…

Drama, Erotic

Taiwan

Our Town (2007) Uri Dongne

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The film is set in a small, unnamed town in Korea where four dead women, from an eight-year-old girl to a middle-aged businesswoman, have been found in as many months, strung up and displayed in public places. The killer is much t…

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

South Korea

1, 000, 000 (2009) A Million

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Eight lucky people of different backgrounds are chosen to take part in a sensational survival reality tv-program. They all have come to Australian Outback for one thing, to win a million bucks in a harsh condition of competition. …

Thriller

South Korea

Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker, The (2007) Ahiru to Kamo No Koinrokka

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Shiina, a newcomer at a university in Sendai, meets his new neighbor, the tall and quirky Kawasaki. Stylish, sociable and smiling Kawasaki is taking Shiina into not only his apartment, but his confidence right away. He tells his n…

Drama

Japan

Blood (2009) Buraddo

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Police Detective Hoshino, who specialises in long open unsolved cases, travelling to the mansion of the reclusive Miyako Rozmberk to investigate the murder of a sixteen-year-old maid at a house she previously owned some years back…

Action, Horror, Erotic

Japan

Fish Story (2009) Fisshu Sutorî

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Back in 1975, one year before Sex Pistols debute, the first Japanese punk band recorded a song entitled "Fish Story". The song did not hit any attention in their own time, the single ended up on desolated shelfs of record stores, …

Comedy

Japan

Treasure Hunter, The (2009) Ci Ling

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Legend about ancient treasures of past dynasties buried beneath the northwest desert in a famed lost city attracted treasure-hunters and tomb rides for centuries. The lost city is guarded by fierce spirits of dead warriors, who ke…

Romance, Sci-Fi

Taiwan

Sophie's Revenge (2009) Fei Chang Wan Mei

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sophie is an eccentric, a bit cranky, talented illustrator with a difficult temperament and habit to extremes. Her perfect fiance, Jeff, leaves her for another girl ― the glamorous and bitchiness actress Anna, right after his marr…

Comedy, Romance

China, South Korea