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A Collection of the best drama movies in Asia from Korea, China, Japan,...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama ; Thriller
Year: 2010
A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together. The woman is in a hotel room with a view of the port. The man is inside of a parked car with a view of the ocean. A man named Colonel appears and hands the man a box with a loaded gun inside. The Colonel states its a present from the witch. The...
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Elevator To The Gallows
Country: China
Genre: Drama
Year: 2004
For no apparent reason a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment he discovers is a shrine to his favorite escape the movies. He finds her diary - a screenplay of her life built around scenes from favorite films - and it sets off his...
2004
Electric Shadows
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama ; Crime ; Thriller
Year: 2005
Every two years senior members of Hong Kong’s oldest Triad The Wo Shing Society elect a new chairman. Fierce rivalries emerge between the two eligible candidates. Lok respected by the Uncles is the favourite to win. His rival Big D will stop at nothing to change this by going against hundreds of years of Triad tradition – influencing the vote with money and violence. When Wo Shing’s...
2005
Election
Genre: Horror
Year: 2007
Ekusute begins in bloody unsettling fashion with the discovery of the body of a young girl whose organs have been harvested and hair shaven to make extensions. The corpse ends up in the hands of morgue watchman and hair fetishist Yamazaki Osugi Ren who excitedly discovers that the girls hair is still growing. He uses her long and silky hair to make extensions which he sells to customers...
2007
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Ekusute
Country: Other Asia
Year: 2013
Story: After winning five awards in the recently held Cinemalaya Awards and now our official participant in this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Ekstra The Bit Player is one of the most buzzed local films of the year.EKSTRA A Bit Player is a drama-comedy film which follows a seemingly usual day in the life of Loida Malabanan as she embarks on yet another taping day of a soap...
2013
Ekstra
Genre: Drama ; Romance
Year: 1989
Ten years after illegally immigrating to America Slim Sammo Hung returns to China to find his family. But he finds that his country has changed beyond recognition and that he needs the help of a woman and her brother to find his way home. Acclaimed at film festivals the world over Mabel Cheungs followup to An Autumns Tale is a bittersweet comedy about the joys and sorrows of a homecoming....
1989
Eight Taels Of Gold
Country: South Korea
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Year: 2012
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2012
Emergency Man And Woman
Genre: Comedy ; Drama ; Romance
A long anticipated princess is born to a Chinese Emperor and his wife. However their joy turns to bewilderment when it is found that the princess suffers from an unusual birth defect-- an overpowering body odor. The princess grows up in a happily naive seclusion until she reaches a marriageable age. When attempts to marry her off fall flat the desperate royal family initiates a competition to...
Elixir Of Love
Genre: Drama ; Sci-fi
Late autumn 2015: The world is in the grips of a mysterious virus nicknamed the Lemming Syndrome because those infected develop a depression so strong they commit suicide. Musicians Mizui the ubiquitous Tadanobu Asano and Asuhara Masaya Nakahara may have found a way to alleviate the diseases symptoms through dissonant...
Eli Eli Lema Sabachthani
Genre: horror ; thriller
Year: 2011
Writers Brando Zheng Hao and his wife relationship was breakdown after the couple divorced their thirteen-year-old daughter left Brando and live together with her mother . in order to ease the relationship with his daughter she take her daughterto the villasthere is only one gardener to take care of the villas. And now the villa owner sister Xiao Hui Kan Kiyoko suddenly visit it...
2011
Enchanted Doll
Genre: Action ; Comedy ; Fantasy
Year: 1980
Encounters of the Spooky Kind is Hungs first stab at the martial arts/horror/comedy hybrid that became very popular in the 80s and sees the talented actor/director starring as Bold Cheung a fearless pedicab driver who is unaware that his wife has been having an affair with Mr. Tam one of his clients. After narrowly avoiding being caught in the act Mr. Tam decides that life would be easier...
1980
Encounters Of The Spooky Kind
Genre: Tokusatsu
Year: 2008
Kamen Rider Den-O 仮面ライダー電王 Kamen Raidā Denō? Masked Rider Den-O is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28 2007 on TV Asahi and concluded airing on January 20 2008. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in...
2008
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Kamen Rider Den-o
Genre: Drama ; Biography
Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari TBS Drama Special 09 July 2012 tells about the brief life of poet and songwriter Kaneko Misuzu real name Kaneko Teru. The story starts in the spring of 1920 Kaneko Teru Ueto Aya has just graduated from high school. She is young and vibrant and has dreams of becoming a poet. Her cousin Masasuke Imai Tsubasa is very fond of her and yearns to tell her of his...
Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari Sp
Year: 1975
This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story an industrialist learns of a medical condition which will greatly shorten his life. He is on a trip to Europe at the time and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues he actually...
1975
Kaseki The Fossil
Genre: Crime ; Science-Fiction
Year: 2015
As criminals become more sophisticated and crimes more complex the police must turn to speedier and more scientific means of weeding through clues and narrowing down suspects. Thats where the forensics labs come into play. Sasaki Mariko is a highly talented forensics scientist who must dodge stereotypes as well as disparaging comments from veteran...
2015
Kasouken No Onna Sp
Genre: Comedy
Year: 2014
Set five years after first film Eight Ranger. A new threat appears for Eight City and its protectors Eight...
2014
Eight Ranger 2
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Adventure ; Fantasy ; Musical
Year: 1971
EIGHT IMMORTALS is an energetic fantasy adventure depicting the famous Eight Immortals of Taoist mythology. Its packed with special effects Chinese operatic music humor and classic good versus evil conflict resulting in sprawling battle sequences pitting sword against sword and black magic against the legendary eight weapons of the...
1971
Eight Immortals
Year: 1987
Actress is not just the story that charts the rise of Kinuyo Tanaka played brilliantly by Sayuri Yoshinaga who mesmerized and illuminated the screen with her charismatic performance of a legend from her naively youthful days in pigtails to coiffed professional veteran of the industry. We see how she started off in the studio system being one of many potential talents available having her...
1987
Eiga Joyu Actress
The winter for third-year university students is the crossroads in their lives. The season where they are confronted with life choices. It is a season that students cannot disregard. There are those who are about to become adults without making any of their own decisions as well as those who have made up their minds. 21-year-old Matsuoka Aoi Arimura Kasumi dislikes making trouble for the people...
Eien No Bokura Sea Side Blue
Genre: Drama ; War
A young man Kentaro Saeki Haruma Miura keeps failing his bar test and does not know what to do any more. His older sister Keiko is a freelance writer. Kentaro and Keiko begin to search for information on their grandfather Kyuzo Miyabe Junichi Okada who died in the special forces during World War...
Eien No 0
Genre: Short
Short Film / 12 min JunKyung struggles to balance her love for her younger sister MinKyung and the temptation of a mans affections. When MinKyungs fiancé comes to visit the sisters strive to keep the secrets which bind them together and now threaten to pull them apart. DIRECTOR: Matte Chi / FESTIVALS: Best Emerging Student Filmmaker at Palm Springs International ShortFest; Kodak Best...
Ehjeung
Country: American
Short Film / 13 min When Tims girlfriend wont marry him because hes not Korean theres just one way to win her back... become Asian. Egg is a romantic comedy about just how much a person will change to hang on to the one they love. DIRECTOR: Chris Martin / FESTIVALS: Palm Springs International Shortfest Audience Favorites: Best of Fest Comedies; Newport Beach Film Festival; Hawaii...
Egg
Genre: jidaigeki
Year: 1961
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu the vassal of Kaga Clan’s accounting officer Shinagawa Daihachi demands that Omon serve him tea in his mansion and she refuses the clan’s samurai abduct her setting in motion a series of events that will bring the two firefighters into a world of...
1961
Edo Purebreed Aka Edokko-hada
Genre: Action ; jidaigeki
Year: 1990
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush reminiscent of Miike’s 13 Assassins although pre-dating that incident by 160 years the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by those who hope to install the emperor’s 5th son as military leader of the nation. A cast of big-name stars...
1990
Edo Castle Rebellion
Year 1941 a roll of film is delivered to Shanghai and a Chinese spy named Gong An Ming Liu Yun Long must decide what he should do with the film which turns out containing a great secret that could shock the whole world. He discovers the plan code named East Wind Rain and passes the information to the American that their territory will soon be invaded by the Japanese. The code is aired...
East Wind Rain
Year: 1985
Seventeen year old high school girl Hitomi posing as a 20 year old university student becomes romantically involed with 42 year old executive Shinji Kajikawa. Hitomi discovers that Kajikawa was her mothers ex love interest and that he left her mother to advance his career. At first Hitomi tests Kajikawas memory of her mother. Eventually she confronts him about her mother and at the same time...
1985
Early Spring Story Aka Soushun Monogatari
Year: 1986
The sublime opening sequence of Dust in the Wind follows a nearly imperceptible diffused white speck - perhaps the referential dust of the films evocative title - as it momentarily shifts location near the center of the frame then continues on its inexorable course gradually converging to reveal a light at the end of a tunnel from onboard a lumbering passenger train. It is an indelible...
1986
Dust In The Wind
Genre: Romance
Nancy Ko Ah-Sung is a musician unable to open up to anyone due to a prior romance. Nancy decides to take a trip in England. On the trip Nancy meets photographer Jude James Page who becomes her tour guide. They find many things in common during their 15 day...
Duet
Cheng Li-sheung is a young upwardly mobile professional finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through she is forced to keep her dream alive - even if it means keeping her would-be neighbors...
Dream Home
Genre: Fantasy ; Romance
Kang Hee Sun is a professor at the Hanbaek Medical School who is called in when Jo Hyun Min the owner of a traditional Korean house finds a mummy preserved in a small room in the barn which was previously sealed off. The two of them feel a strange sense of recognition at their first meeting which they put down to instant attraction until the series of bizarre occurrences that followed lead...
Dream Of 400 Years
Pharmaceutical student Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed she jumps on a train destination anywhere east or west she dont care and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyos remote suburbs. There she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping districts middle-aged men all fall for the young girls charms...
Drugstore Girl
Genre: Action ; Comedy
Year: 1978
Under the guidance of Sam Seed Yuen Siu Tien Wong Fei Hung Jackie Chan endures some of the most torturous training ever devised in a bid to master the devastating art of Drunken Boxing. Overview: Stunning groundbreaking martial arts from the worlds most famous action star. On the year of its original release Drunken Master sent Jackie Chans rising star soaring into orbit and gave...
1978
Drunken Maste
Genre: Action ; Comedy ; Kung Fu
Year: 1994
Wong Fei-Hung knows the rule: no drunken boxing without his fathers permission. Rules however are sometimes made to be broken. So is anything else that crosses Fei-Hungs path. Jackie Chan plays Fei-Hung in the wildly inventive and hilarious comedy / adventure hailed as one of his all-time best. Determined to stop the smugglers of priceless national artifacts Fei-Hung confronts his foes with...
1994
Drunken Master Ii
Genre: Action ; Adventure ; Comedy ; Kung Fu
The White Lotus Sect convinces the Manchu emperor of China that a jade ring that they had given him is a guarantee that hell retain the throne so long as it stays in his possession. Having given the ring to Sum Yu his fiancée the emperor sends for her. She is kidnapped by rebel forces wounded and ends up in the care of Wong Kei-ying and his son Wong Fei Hung. While on the run Sum Yu and...
Drunken Master Iii
Year: 2003
Drunken Monkey is the first real martial arts movie of the new millennium.True martial-arts legend master Lau Kar Leung whose credits include The 36th Chamber of Shaolin Jet Lis Martial Arts of Shaolin And Jackie Chans Drunken Master 2/ Legend of Drunken Master directs martial arts prodigy Wu Jing a younger classmate of Jet Li and newcomer Shannon Yao in real martial arts action...
2003
Drunken Monkey (2003)
“Dubstep Dispute” is a 3D-animated short film set in the distant future with a cast of disgruntled droids along with their vocal apartment. Driven by the sounds of electronic music of the genre dubstep the short takes a literal interpretation of the syncopated rhythms and aggressive sounds of dubstep and translates it into a language used by arguing...
Dubstep Dispute
Genre: Action
In the late Joseon Dynasty counterfeits are circulating around. Detective Ahn Ahn Sung-Ki of Left Security Station and passionate newcomer Namsoon Ha Ji-Won try to trace the source of the counterfeiting. They chase the Secretary of National Security and his man Sad Eyes Gang Dong-Won] as suspects. A predestined battle between the best female detective in Joseon Namsoon and mysterious...
Duelist
Jung-Ae Cha Hwa-Yeon raised her 4 kids by herself. Now her grown up kids want her fortune but none of them really care about...
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Mom (korean Drama)
There is a rock band called Excellent Souls. The band consists of Lee Min-Ki Lee Hong-Ki Kang Hyeok Park Min-Woo Yoo Han-Cheol Lee Si-Un and Han Ki-Joon Kwak Dong-Yeon. The band decides to move to the countryside. There the drama series follows their dreams loves and...
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Modern Farmer
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Mix & Match
Fifteen year old Lee Soo-yeon Kim So-hyun is a victim of bullying at school targeted because her father was a murderer. Through a series of fated events she meets Han Jung-woo Yeo Jin-goo the son of a chaebol and gangster. Jung-woo protects Soo-yeon from the bullies they become friends and soon fall in love. One day Jung-woo was kidnapped and Soo-yeon who witnessed the abduction...
E21
Missing You
Kotoko Honoka Miki loved Naoki Yuki Furukawa for 6 years and finally married him. Now Kotoko transfers to the department of nursing in her studies and struggles...
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Mischievous Kiss 2: Love In Tokyo
Misaki Tenoji Karina is the number one hostess at a Roppongi Hills club. One day the madame who Misaki Tennoji is in debt too asks Misaki to teach at the prestigious Mido High School for only 3 months. The class is for students who are bullies or previously failed. Its now up to Misaki to make them go in the right...
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Misaki Number One!!
Meguru Yoshida Kyoko Fukada is an English instructor at a cram school who is forced to support her family after her debt-ridden father disappears. Meguru has a strange condition. Whenever she eats too much she has visions of what the future holds for those in her presence. One day while eating barbecued beef she realizes that her boyfriend Yuki will become bald and fat 20 years down the...
Mirai Koshi Meguru
One day Taichi an ordinary university student meets Mioka a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka who lives freely as she wishes without holding back and they eventually fall in love. However Mioka tells Taichi of her shocking truth. She has an incurable brain disease with no medicine or treatment that can help her.The progressing disease.The loss of control over...
Mioka
Year: 215
Mind Games is thriller-romance drama with many unexpected twists and suspense. Liang Wen Jie Tay Ping Hui is a paralegal at a law firm; he is in-charge of many mysterious cases that requires thorough investigations. In each case suspects are extremely careful as they plot elaborate lies to escape from detection. However none of them can escape from Wen Jie who has a sharp analytical mind and...
215
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Mind Games
What would you do if you were suddenly only 16 cm tall? What would you do if your loved one was suddenly only 16 cm tall? A best selling sentimental love story is dramatized for the second time! Everything started when a high school couple Chiyomi Fukada Kyoko and Minami Ninomiya Kazunari had a mysterious and ominous fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant… If you stay close to him he...
E11
Minami-kun No Koibito
Shunichi Minami Taishi Nakagawa possesses good looks and does well academically in high school. Chiyomi Horikiri Maika Yamamoto is a bright girl who likes dancing. They were childhood friends and also their first loves but after Shunichi Minami’s father disappeared they hardly talk. On a storming night Chiyomi Horikiri has an argument with her parents over her future course and leaves...
Minami Kun No Koibito: My Little Lover
Katayama Yoshitaro became a police detective after having followed the will of his father who had been known as a great detective. However Yoshitaro can never step into murder scenes because he faints whenever he sees blood and criminals are able to easily slip away because he is afraid of heights. He also has phobias of women and ghosts. Moreover he hates to doubt people more than anything...
Mikeneko Holmes No Suiri
A late night restaurant opens at midnight and closes at 7am. The owner and chef of the restaurant makes whatever his customers ask...
Midnight Diner (2015)
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Meteor Shower
Year: 2002
The story opens with the graduation of F4 from Ying De University and subsequently focuses on their life after graduation. It follows the blossoming love story of Shan Cai Barbie and Dao Ming Si Jerry. The story takes the group to Barcelona Spain where Dao Ming Si meets an accident and suffers memory loss. He then meets another girl Ye Sha Michelle Saram and falls in love with her. Shan...
2002
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Meteor Garden 2
In an interrogation room at the police station Shimada Hiroshi Yamamoto is questioned about a theft case. The theft occurred 10 days ago but Shimada hardly says a word. Inspector Goto Mirai Suzuki struggles with Shimada. At this time Detective Tachibana Jiro Sato walks into the interrogation room. Out of the blue he asks Shimada what he would like to eat. Shimada says he wants tempura...
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Meshibana Keiji Tachibana
The story revolves around three ordinary girls named Asahi Nami and Hinata who are aiming to become idols but they repeatedly fail in their auditions. One day they witness a serious crime and they are forced to flee from the culprits. Fortunately they are saved by a producer who is willing to let them debut but they have to hide their true identities and dress up as boys...
Mendol
When this trope is in effect Real Men dont cry no matter what. Not while facing the camera at least. In older anime stolen food or an Armor-Piercing Slap may still evoke Ocular Gushers but tears of sadness would always come from well hidden eyes or as a Sparkling Stream of Tears over a mans turned shoulder or even in a spontaneous downpour of rain. Sometimes its passed off as only sand in...
Men Don't Cry
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Melon Premiere Showcase
All Men Are Brothers is a Chinese television series adapted from Shi Naians Water Margin one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The series is directed by Kuk Kwok-leung and features cast members from mainland China Taiwan and Hong Kong. The series was first broadcast on various channels in January 2011 in mainland...
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Men Are Brothers
Chu Yuxun the lead character of the series is a poor but hardworking and studious girl. One of her biggest dreams is to enter the most prestigious schools in the country Aliston College where only the heirs and heiresses of the richest families can study. With help from her mother and money-loving uncle she is accepted.Murong Yunhai Duanmu Lei Shangguan Ruiqian and Ye Shuo are the four...
Meteor Shower 2
Year: 2009
The original writing is a short mystery collection that takes a humorous approach to many of the genres cliches. Matsuda stars as the famous detective Tenkaichi Daigoro while Kashii Yu plays the female lead as a rookie...
2009
Meitantei No Okite
