2003 movies ☆ Asian Movies Catalogue

Azusa Moribe was just a small boy when his father was killed and his mother hanged herself. He was brought up by clan Renji boss and Azusa faithfully served him, respecting him as a father. When the boss and two bodyguards were ki…

Life is full of surprises; even two parallel lines may one day meet.John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is an aspiring violinist and Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) is a professional translator whose true passion is translating love poems. They l…

Haruko Takanashi (Fukatsu Eri) is 30. She works at a radio station. She is approaching middle management where good looks alone aren't enough. She isn't very romantic so she devotes herself to work and play and suddenly finds hers…

This film is inspired by an actual technological competition opened every year in Japan since 1988.Satomi (Nagasawa Masami) is a student of a technical college. She is a lazy girl and poor at both study and club activities. One da…

Picture a bent on self-destruction, a girl seeking despair, a man wishing to be happy, and a corps wanting to be noticed. These three distressed people and a dead body rush forward. This is a hard hitting romantic hip-hop movie, w…

A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman…

"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…

“Bright Future Glows”- Michael Atkinson, Village Voice“An enchantingly cryptic, ethereally photographed slice of somber surrealism that should definitely appeal to fans of David Lynch and Luis Bunuel. A darkly spellbinding fantasy…

Following the success of My Sassy Girl, Korean cinema scored another runaway hit in 2003 with My Tutor Friend. Based on an internet novel, the whimsical, over-the-top romantic comedy launched heartthrob Kwon Sang Woo (Stairway to …

Battlefield Baseball is a combination of several genres, mixing martial arts action with the clichés of the sports film—particularly skewering baseball, one of Japan's most popular high school sports—and the violence and brutality…

"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…

From the mind of writer Ryu Murakami (AUDITION) comes the satirical tale of two groups of outsiders who make war on each other set to a soundtrack of retro karaoke hits.A gang of young slacker guys (the Gakis) idle away their time…

Two twentysomethings -- one suffering from cerebral palsy -- develop a touching relationship in quirky love story "Josee, the Tiger and the Fish." Angling fests will find a good catch, with troika of provocative subject matter, as…

This 2003 movie, written and directed by Japanese indies director SABU, stars all six members of V6 as unlucky guys having a very unlucky day. Ikeyama Tdashi (Sakamoto Masayuki) and Kishimoto Kenta (Nagano Hiroshi) are two busines…

The setting was a year after the TV series. Bussan is still alive and was given another six months to survive, and Bambi just won "Mr. Kisarazu" 2 years in a row and still dating the not-so-irritating Mohko. Basically, its the con…