Aka: In-di-an Sseom-meo Director: Hyo-jeong No Release date: 2001 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Starring: Shin-yang Park as Seo Jun-ha Mi-yeon Lee as Lee, Shin-young Myeong-gu Han Yong-hee Kim Byung-ho Son
Synopsis: Shin-young is facing the death penalty on suspicion of murdering her husband. She refuses to say anything in her own defense and is simply waiting to die. Her lawyer sees things differently and believes that there is more to this case than anyone realizes. (Credit: Imdb)
Aka: Andoromedia Director: Takashi Miike Release date: 1998 Language: Japanese Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Starring: Hiroko Shimabukuro as Mai Hitomi & Ai Eriko Imai as Yoko Takako Uehara as Rika Hitoe Arakaki as Nao Kenji Harada as Yuu
Synopsis: Mai and her friends have an inseparable bond since childhood. But as of late, their friendship is questioned when their romantic relationships get in the way of others. But before Mai can make amends, she is unfortunately killed in a traffic accident. Distraught with her death, Mai's father implements his ongoing research of recording a person's memory into a microchip. His years of work finally pay off and Mai is alive again--through a computer. But trouble soon brews when a large corporation sends some thugs to retrieve Mai and the technology by forcible means. But before they can get to Mai, her father luckily safe havens her into her former boyfriend's laptop. Now the chase is on for the laptop and Mai's boyfriend and former friends have to run to keep her safe. (Credit: Imdb)
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Curiosities: Awards: Awards of the Japanese Academy: Newcomer of the Year: Issa Hentona Newcomer of the Year: Takako Uehara Nikkan Sports Film Awards: Best New Talent Hiroko Shimabukuro (as Speed) Eriko Imai (as Speed) Takako Uehara (as Speed) Hitoe Arakaki (as Speed)
Aka: Uri dongne Director: Jeong Gil-yeong Release date: 2007 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Oh Man-seok as Kyung-ju Lee Seon-gyun as Jae-sin Ryu Deok-hwan as Hyo-i Park Myung-shin as Yeo Sa-jang Jeong Hye-won as Kim So-yeon Lee Mu-saeng as Jeong Myeong-bo
Synopsis: A neighbourhood is terrorized by a serial killer, who kills and hangs up his female victims in a very distinctive way. When Kyung-ju, a struggling crime fiction novelist, kills his landlady, he stages her death to make it look like the other murders. Realizing that the crime looks like a copycat, he decided to find the killer with the help of his detective friend. (Credit: Wikipedia)
Director: Jong-yuk Lee Release date: December 27,2002 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Starring: Yeom Jeong-ah,
Ji Jin-hee
Jo Seung-woo
Seung Ji-roo
Kwon Kyeok-poong
Synopsis: 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. Warning, the full summery reveals certain spoilers. (IMDB.com)
Aka: Se-beun De-i-jeu Director: Shin-yeon Won Release date: 2007 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Yunjin Kim as Lawyer Yu Ji-yeon Mi-suk Kim as Han Suk-hie Hie-sun Park as Kim Sung-yol Myeong-su Choi as Jeong Cheol-jin
Synopsis: A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty. (Credit: Imdb)
Aka: Sun Taam / Godly Detective Director: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai Release date: 2007 Language: Cantonese Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Lau Ching-Wan as Inspector Chan Kwai-Bun Andy On as Inspector Ho Ka-On Lam Ka-Tung as Officer Ko Chi-Wai Kelly Lin as May Cheung Flora Chan as May Cheung (in Bun's eyes) Lee Kwok-Lun as Officer Wong Kwok-Chu Jo Kuk as Cunning Woman/Ho's Inner Personality Jay Lau as Calculating Woman/Ko's Inner Personality Lam Suet as Fatso Cheung Siu-Fai as the Violent Man Eddy Ko as Retiring Police Chief
Synopsis: When a missing detective’s gun is implicated in a recent series of heists and murders, a hot shot inspector HO (Andy On) seeks out his former boss, BUN (Lau Ching Wan), a gifted criminal profiler now living in seclusion with his wife MAY (Kelly Lin). Bun has a truly unique gift: he can see the inner personalities of the people he meets. As Bun travels further into the psychosis of a prime suspect his unorthodox approach begins to wear on Hos mind. What begins as a quest for answers has now taken a schizophrenic turn where truth and lies, reality and delusions intertwine… (Credit: Apple)
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Curiosities: Tagline: I can see a person's inner personality.
Awards: Asian Film Awards: Best Screenwriter: Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Screenplay: Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards: Best Screenplay: Ka-Fai Wai and Kin-Yee Au Film of Merit Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival: Orient Express Award - Special Mention: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai
Award Nominations: Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Actor: Ching Wan Lau Best Cinematography: Siu-keung Cheng Best Costume Design and Make Up Design: Stanley Cheung Best Director: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai Best Film Editing: Tina Baz Best Picture: Johnnie To and Ka-Fai Wai Best Visual Effects: Raymond Man Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion: Johnnie To and Ka-fai Wai
Aka: Laughing gor chi bin chit Director: Herman Yau Release date: 2009 Language: Cantonese Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Starring: Anthony Wong Francis Ng Michael Tse Yuen Biao Felix Wong Fala Chen
Synopsis: Laughing is a high-flyer in the police academy. However he never got a chance to join the force because he is specially picked by Inspector Xian (YUEN BIAO) to be an undercover in the underworld syndicate. Hence Laughing becomes a “double-undercover”. Yi is happy that Laughing is allocated to the triad of his rival (FRANCIS NG). To make his situation worse, Laughing falls in love with the triad leader’s sister, Karen. Justice, brotherhood and love, what will Laughing decide on? His decision will be a turning point in his life. (Credit: Dvdasian)
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Aka: Detectives in 40 Minutes / 4th Period Murder Mystery / 4Gyosi Churi Yeongyeok / The Clue Director: Lee Sang-woo Release date: 2009 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Yoo Seung-ho Kang So-ra Jo Sang-geun Jeon Joon-hong Jeong Seok-yong Park Cheol-min
Synopsis: During fourth period, high schooler Da-jeong finds his classmate Tae-gyu dead in a classroom and Jeong-hun standing in front of him with blood on his clothes. In order to stop Jeong-hun from becoming the prime suspect, Da-jeong must help him find the real murderer, who is still inside the school building, under 40 minutes before period four ends. (Credit: Hancinema)
Aka: Sasaeng Gyeoldan Director: Choi Ho Release date: 2006 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Jin-ho Choi as Changjun Ja-Hyeon Chu as Ji-young Jeong-min Hwang as Lieutenant Do
Synopsis: Here two men clash, Sang-do, a middleman for narcotics, and Lieutenant DO, a narcotics detective. Though in completely contrasting positions in life, the two men share an identical goal: to get hold of Jang-chul, the key figure in the dark world of narcotics in Korea. The two men begin a life-threatening battle. (Credit: Hancinema)
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Synopsis: Life isn’t easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan’s pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands - school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death - these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence. (Credit: IMDB.com)
Curiosities: Awards: Shanghai Film Festival: Golden Goblet for Best Music Special Jury Award for Shunji Iwai Berlin International Film Festival: C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention: Panorama: Shunji Iwai Yokohama Film Festival: Best New Talent: Takato Hosoyamada (Also for Go).
Trivia:
Ayumi Ito really shaved her hair for the movie.
Lily Chou-Chou is a fictional singer. The songs in the movie is sang by a great Japanese singer named Salyu.
At one point a character describes Hoshino's mom as looking like Izumi Inamori. This is the actress that plays Hoshino's mom.
The idea of Lily Chou-Chou, the rock star, was inspired by Hong Kong singer and actress, Faye Wong.
Ayumi Ito spent weeks training on the piano in order to do all of her scenes without a double. She became so obsessed with Debussy's "Arabesque No. 1" that she made it her cell phone ring tone.
Director: Park Chan-wook Release date: 2003 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Crime, Drama, Mature 18+, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Starring: Choi Min-Sik Yu Ji-Tae Kang Hye-Jeong Ji Dae-han Oh Dal-su
Synopsis: An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, he soon finds out that not only his kidnapper has still plans for him, but that those plans will serve as the even worse finale to 15 years of imprisonment. (Credit: IMDB.com)
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Curiosities: Awards: Hong Kong Film Awards: 2005 won Best Asian Film Cannes Film Festival: 2004 won Grand Prize of the Jury
Synopsis: A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves? (Avistaz)
Aka: Female Detective Damo / Damo, the Detective in Chosun / The Legendary Police Woman / Joseon Yeohyeongsa Damo Director: Lee Jae-kyu Release date: 2003 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Action / Crime, Historical, Romance Episodes: 14
Starring: Ha Ji Won as Chae-Ok Kim Min Joon as Jang Sung-Baek Lee Seo Jin as Commander Hwangbo Lee Moon Shik as Ma Chook-Ji No Hyun Hee as Ta Bak-nyu Park Young Kyu as Jo Se-ok Lee Han Wie as Baek Jo-wan Kwon Oh Joong as Lee Won-hae
Synopsis: This series and our heroine took place in the Chosun Dynasty.Chae Ok was separated from her brother when her father, a nobleman, was accused of treason. She managed to make her way and becomes a Damo, a low ranked woman detective. Skilled in swordplay, she must not only fight crime, but to face inequality for her status in society. Her brother grew up to be a rebel leader fighting against society injustice and both brother and sister faced off against each other on opposite side of the law. (Credit: Dramawiki)
Aka: Jue Ming Paid Dui Director: Ko Kevin Release date: 2009 Language: Mandarin / English Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Crime, Horror, Mature 18+, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Kristian Brodie Bryant Chang Vivi Ho Jerry Huang Joseph Ma
Synopsis: Ordinary young men and women often dream of the unreachable life of the worlds idle rich. Wade, Richard, Hitomi, Holly and Lin certainly do. They have all received an invitation to an exclusive party held by a group of rich & famous people,obviously addressed to them by mistake.But all the same, they attend. It is the best party ever, a wishing game takes place where their deepest desires materialize. But when they find Richards body brutally killed, the wishing game turns into a killing game in which they are the tortured victims and a rich audience the sadistic spectators. To escape from the party and survive is now their only dream. (Credit: Imdb)
Aka: Taiyô no Kizu /Scars from the Sun Director: Miike Takashi Release date: 2006 Language: Japanese Subtitle:English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Synopsis: Katayama (Aikawa Sho) is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he stumbles on a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. Katamaya decides to help the stranger and surprisingly wins the fight. This turns out to be a bad decision as his daughter is kidnapped and murdered by the leader of the same band of young thugs. Katayama seeks revenge and tries to trace the gangs location. (Credit: Wikipedia)
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Aka: Disturbance in Her Barroom / 1724 Hero / 1724 Gibang Nandong Sageon Director: Yeo Kyun-dong Release date: 2008 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Historical, Mystery, Romance
Starring: Lee Jung-Jae as Cheon-doong Kim Seok-hun as Man-deuk Kim Ok-bin as Seol-ji Lee Won-jong as Jil-kap
Synopsis: Korea, 1724.
Once upon a time in the Joseon Dynasty, Chun-doong meets a beautiful woman while in the middle of a fight in an old market. Having fallen in love at first sight, good fortune is with him and he finds her once again. Her name is Seol-ji and she works as a gisaeng, a Korean traditional singing and dancing girl. They spend a memorable night together but Chun-doong loses her again when she moves to work at another bar. When he finds her new hiding place, however, he is warned away by her new manager, Man-deuk who has connections in the city's underworld. One day, while still despondent without Seol-ji in his life, he accidentally knocks over and kills the boss of the Jjak-gwi gang. Before he knows it, because of his fighting skills Chun-doong becomes the replacement boss. Soon, there is a gathering of the region's gang bosses at the bar where Seol-ji now works. In the middle of the meeting, Chun-doong causes a disturbance to steal Seol-ji away under the nose of Man-deuk. The meeting turns into chaos because of the incident and ends abruptly. A furious Man-deuk teams up with rival gangsters to plot the downfall of the Jjak-gwi gang...
Aka: Death Forest / Sum Yuen Director: Pang Danny Release date: 2007 Language: Cantonese Subtitle:English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Shu Qi as Detective Ha Chun-Chi Ekin Cheng as Shum Shu-hoi Rain Li as May Lau Siu-Ming as Mr. Tin, the Forest Ranger Lam Suet as Commissioner Wong
Synopsis: Police detective Ha Chun-Chi (Shu Qi) is investigating a rape and murder that took place in a mysterious forest that has also the scene of many suicides. The main suspect in the murder case is Patrick Wong (Lawrence Chou), but he denies committing the crime.
Ha's investigation leads him to botanist Shum Shu-Hoi (Ekin Cheng), who has been experimenting with plants from the forest. Shum's girlfriend, May (Rain Li), feigns interest in the forest to gain information for a tabloid television show she works for. Shum's experiments reveal that the plants can act as witnesses in the murder case, and sets up a re-enactment of the crime in the forest, where the plants will act as lie detectors. (Credit: Wikipedia)
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Aka: Full Time Hitman / Full-Time Employment Murderer / Quan zhi sha shou / You and I / Chuen jik sat sau
Director: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai
Release date: 2001
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, English
Subtitle:English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Starring:
Andy Lau as Lok Tok-Wah Takashi Sorimachi as O Kelly Lin as Chin Simon Yam as Albert Lee Cherrie Ying as Gigi Lam Suet as Fat Ice Teddy Lin as C7
Synopsis:
Based on a book by Hong Kong filmmaker Edmond Pang Ho-Cheung, Fulltime Killer protagonist O is a hitman being challenged by new hotshot Tok. O has lived a life of seclusion as the number one hitman in Asia. The woman living at his contact address is captured after O foils a set-up by his boss. He then goes on the run whilst trying to fend off his adversary. The last part of the movie focuses on an Interpol detective's attempt to write the story of Tok and O. (Credit: Wikipedia)
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Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Film Editing: David M. Richardson
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The film has two endings. The normal one that appeared in theaters and the special ending for Malaysia where O and Chin end up being caught by police. This was supposedly done as per special request to show that "Crime doesn't Pay".
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
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Aka: In-di-an Sseom-meo
