2002 ☆ Asian Movies Catalogue

Director Junichi Mori displays a thoughtful hand in this beautifully poetic debut feature. Laundry is a story of scars and healing, of gentle ironies and quiet tragedies, of love and second chances. A young man named Teru, mentall…

Sabu is a television drama from Japan directed by profilic director Takashi Miike that is based on a classic novel by Yamamoto Shugoro. It provides an impressive exploration of the depths and complexities of friendship and loyalty…

Two brothers, Ho-jin and Dae-jin, were the only family they had. The older brother Ho-jin married Eun-soo, extending their family to three, and they all lived happy, tranquil days together. But one day, in spite of Ho-jin's object…

Natsumi loves lunch. By chance she starts working for "Kitchen Macaroni", posing as the fiance of the owner's eldest son, Kenichiro. Kenichiro's father Kenzo and his three younger brothers - Yujiro, Junzaburo, and Koshiro - run th…

From casually encounter to being impressed, Jane and Fung's predestinated affinity is rapidly established. Yet Jane is killed by a sudden accident soon after they separate. Right before the accident, they are thinking of each othe…

Left for dead by his brother after a terrible betrayal, martial arts Master Wen Biao (Zhang Zhen-Huan) lives in seclusion with the young ferry-woman who rescued him, Mandy. When two small-town boys arrive to discover the secret of…

Marriage and promiscuity are the two tough subjects tackled in this provocative Korean film. Jun-young (Kam Woo-seong) is a man in his early thirties who has seen his friends and younger brother get married but has yet to open him…

A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. He is imprisoned, awaiting the death sentence for his crimes. Yet th…

An oddball group of unlikely athletes become Korea's winning force in baseball in director Kim Hyun-seok's YMCA Yagudan (aka YMCA Baseball Team). When Ho-Chang (Song Kang-ho) loses a ball and sneaks into the yard of an American mi…

19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful samurai. Oshin hides him from the authorities…

A group of high school students and teachers are suddenly transported from the year 2002 to a post-apocalyptic 2020. As they struggle to survive, they question the meaning of fate.…

54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda t…

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However his fear of nothing soon causes problems.…

Imagine the world and age that you live in unfolding under slightly different circumstances - what would life be like if our familiar history took a different route? In 1909, Japanese dignitary Ito Hirobumi was assassinated in the…

After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamot…