Asian Movies Catalogue

After a bullying victim at Higashigaoka middle school named Noguchi attempts suicide, a new teacher named Murauchi (Hiroshi Abe) takes over class 1 for the second term. At first the class is taken by surprise by his severe stutter…

Shusei has a problem. When he graduates from college, he has a fine job waiting for him. Family connections have made certain of that. However, in order to graduate, his thesis professor has to certify him. Since his professor, a …

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the celebrated martial arts master of Bruce Lee, and the first to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun openly. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the prefectu…

The story is of a deaf-mute hitman and his partner who are based in Bangkok. He is friends with his partner's girlfriend who is a stripper at a local club. They go about their assassination business as usual as the boss climbs the…

"Rockers" is an inconspicuous provincial rock band which could brag of empty halls and a single fan only. Jin (group soloist) desperately dreamed of a rock star career instead of a carpenter family business. Bassist Gaku-chan so m…

Detectives Chu Ja-young (Shin Eun-Kyung) and Kim Dong-wook (Eric Moon) are investigating a string of murders involving local high school students. Scraps of a diary are found with each victim, leading the detectives to suspect the…

"Winter Days" (Fuyu no hi) is an anthology of short animation films based on the Renku style of poetry from Japan - a series of linked haiku where each poet uses the last line of the previous poem. Thirty-five animation artists fr…

Soi Cheang, the director behind the nihilistic hit Dog Bite Dog, veers into even more extreme territory with the unique comic adaptation Shamo.Convicted of murdering his own parents in a fit of insanity, Ryo Ishibashi (Shawn Yue) …

Soo Hyun (Lee Byung Hun) attracts women like a magnet, and his latest catch is hot young thing Mi Young (Kim Hyo Jin). An experienced player herself, she's ready to trade in short affairs for a long relationship with Mr. Right thi…

Swing Girls falls in line with those "other" Japanese films that build a storyline around obscure hobbies and activities (recent years has seen, to name just a few, ping pong, lacrosse, synchro-swimming and power-pop music). The …

Thunder (Ronald Cheng) is a god who likes to boast about his intelligence. One day, he is reminded by his girlfriend that he has pledged his guardianship to Don, a boy he saved 30 years ago. The boy will face death on New Year’s E…

Kim Ki-Duk's second film is the story of two illegal immigrants in Paris, a North-Korean former soldier and a South-Korean street painter, as they both struggle for survival in the French metropolis. Eventually, they develop a str…

With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a smal…

A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident. After learning that their spouses have been having an affair, the two begin one of their own.…

A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people's souls.…