2004 movies ☆ Asian Movies Catalogue

An odd foreign woman comes to Japanese provincial temple to attend an abbot's funereal. Nobody knows where is she from and why she arrived here. But it is clear that she have no place to go. She stayed in the temple to assist for …

Min-jae is in his final year of high school and has the two biggest problems of being a teenager: he needs to decide what he would like to do with his future, and he has a crush on Soo-jin - a teenage girl who lives in the same bu…

When a live TV news crew broadcasts an embarrassing defeat of Hong Kong’s police department by just five bank robbers, public opinion of the force plummets and the department vows to capture the robbers at any cost.Detective Cheun…

A war rages on, its end unknown, covering the world in despair. At a military field hospital, a group of soldiers bring in one of their own, wounded by a large, vicious, bite-like wound, along with a large box. The soldiers are vi…

Mio Aio's death leaves husband Takumi and 6 year old son Yuji fending for themselves. Takumi occasionally suffers fainting spells, is disorganized, and fears that his health hindered Mio's happiness. Yuji overheard relatives specu…

Every 19 years, during "Kagen no Tsuki", or Last Quarter of the Moon, a miracle is set to happen and a romance is set to brew. Muzuki (Kuriyama) breaks up with her boyfriend Tomoki on her 19th birthday. Feeling lonely and having n…

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…

Romantic comedy Too Beautiful To Lie tells a hilarious tale of serendipitous misunderstanding.On her way to her sister's wedding, Young-ju (Kim Ha-neul) runs into Hee-chul (Kang Dong-won), a guy heading to see his girlfriend to pr…

"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with…

When a thief driving a motorcycle steals a purse of a pedestrian, the clumsy, naive and honest rookie policeman Sang-hwan runs after him, but the skilled specialist in martial arts Wi-jin captures the criminal and Sang-hwan is sev…

The 43rd NHK Taiga Drama is Shinsengumi!.The arrival of Commodore Perry’s "Black Ships" rudely awakened Japan from 300 years of peaceful isolation from the world. Men set their eyes beyond Japan and began to demand change in socie…

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositione…

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 …

Country girl Han Kyung's life undergoes a drastic change after she moves to Korea's pulsating capital Seoul to spend more time with her beloved mother. It doesn't take long before her life is turned topsy-turvy in the form of a fl…

To trumpeter Hyeon-Woo, life seems to remain forever locked in winter. In desperation, Hyeon-Woo signs up for a position teaching a children's wind ensemble at a small junior high school in a distant Dogye village. Worn-out instru…