Starring: Noriko Sakai as Kyoko Harase Chiharu Niiyama as Tomoka Miura Kei Horie as Noritaka Yamashita Yui Ichikawa as Chiharu Ayumu Saitô as Masashi Ishikura
Synopsis: While driving , the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when they shot a show in the haunted house where Kayako was brutally murdered by her husband years ago. While each member of the team dies or disappears, Kyôko is informed that she has a three-and-a-half-month-old fetus in her womb. (Credit: Imdb)
Aka: The Grudge / Ju-on: Gekijô-ban / Ju-On 3 Director: Takashi Shimizu Release date: 2003 Language: Japanese Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Megumi Okina as Rika Nishina Misaki Ito as Hitomi Tokunaga Misa Uehara as Izumi Tôyama Yui Ichikawa as Chiharu Kanji Tsuda as Katsuya Tokunaga
Synopsis: It looks like a normal, everyday house, but the atmosphere about it is anything but. Something happened here once... no, even now there is a terror here, born of a spirit that possesses this place. The various supernatural experiences undergone by the different owners of the house, unaware of the horrible events that have taken place here, mingle across time, and the true form of the terrifying, invisible "Ju-On" that nests in this house becomes clear... (Credit: Imdb)
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)
Aka: Wang-ui Namja Director:Jun-ik Lee Release date: December 29,2005 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical, Thriller
Starring: Woo-seong Kam Jin-yeong Jeong Seong-yeon Kang Jun-gi Lee Hang-seon Jang
Synopsis: Two clowns living in the Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution, but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh. (IMDB.com)
Curiosities: Awards: 43rd Daejong Film Festival: Best Film Best Director- Lee Jun Ik Best Script/Scenario- Choi Seok Hwan Best Cinematography- Ji Gil Woong Best Leading Actor- Gam Woo Seong Best New Actor- Lee Jun Ki Best Supporting Actor- Yoo Hae Jin Most Popular Actor- Lee Jun Ki Most Popular Actress- Kang Seong Yeon Most Popular Actor Overseas- Lee Jun Ki
42nd Baeksang (Paeksang) Film Festival Arts Awards 2006: Best New Actor- Lee Jun Ki Judge's Special Film Awards
14th Chunsa Film Festival 2006: Best Leading Actor - Gam Woo Seong Best Supporting Actor - Jang Hang Seon Korea Film Awards 2006: Best New Actor - Lee Jun Ki
27th Blue Dragon Film Awards 2006: Best Music- Lee Byong Woo Most Popular Stars- Lee Jun Ki & Kang Sung Yeon Best On-Screen Performing Couple Award- Gam Woo Seong & Lee Jun Ki Cape Town World Cinema Festival (CTWCF) 2006: Best Feature Film Award Best Screenplay- Choi Suk Hwan & Kim Tae Woong 9th Festival Du Film Asiatique De Deauville (France) 2007: Lotus Du Jury (Grand Prix Jury Prize)
Aka: Kill a Little, Dance a Little / Sat sat yan, tiu tiu mo Director: Donnie Yen Release date: 1998 Language: Cantonese Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Starring: Conroy Chan Chi-Chung Joe Chan Lily Chow John Hau Choi-Chow Hoh Bang Ippongi
Synopsis: Yen plays Cat, an aimless hitman who bumps off deserving scumbags with acrobatic flair and deft precision. On his downtime, he unburdens himself to an annoying DJ (Simon Lui, who’s back for more smarmy cameos) and dreams of meeting his ultimate “angel.” He does, a beautiful young policewoman named Carrie (Annie Wu). It turns out Carrie’s in charge of finding the person behind the massacre of the triads, and big surprise: it’s Cat. Problems arise when Cat’s old rival James Wong Ka-Lok arrives in HK to broker unseen and frankly unimportant drug deals. Cat wants James dead, but James won’t croak so easily. In a strange turn of events, Cat ends up kidnapping Carrie, and we’re off on the strangest drug trip/emotional hangover ever seen on celluloid. (Credit: Lovehkfilm)
Aka: The New Dr. Lamb / San Giu Cheung Yee Sang Director: Siu-hung Chung Release date: 1999 Language: Cantonese Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Horror / Mature 18+ / Thriller
Starring: Simon Yam Mark Cheng Sam Lee Joey Tan
Synopsis: Yam stars as Fong, a mad doctor who has invented a serum that turns ordinary people into superhumans. However, his experiment soon goes awry, as his superhumans begins terrorizing the general public. Soon, a police inspector named Chan has caught on to Fong, though Chan doesn't realize that Fong has targeted him as his next guinea pig. (Credit: Yahoo)
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: Cha-woo Director: Jeong-won Shin Release date: 2009 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Starring: Uhm Tae-woong As Patrolman Kim Jeong Yu-mi As Byeon Soo-ryeon, animal life researcher Jang Hang-seon As Cheon Il-man, hunter Yoon Je-moon As Baek Man-bae, hunter Park Hyeok-kwon As Detective Shin Heo Yeon-hwa Jeong Yoon-min
Synopsis: One day in a small and peaceful village Sameri, boasting no criminal cases for 10 years, a terrible accident happens. Some parts of dead body ripped off cruelly are discovered by ecologists who stayed in the mountain for studying wild animals. A policeman KIM Kang-su just transfers to Sameri from Seoul and takes this case. The victim turns out a grand-daughter of CHUN Il-man, who was once a legendary hunter. He is convinced that it happened not by human but man-eating boar, Chaw. People of Sameri with full of fear invites one of the most famous hunters BAEK to catch the Chaw. Hunter BAEK grabs it and looks like proving himself a best hunter. But the one which makes people scared is still in the mountain. The five of people that a greedy hunter BAEK, a former hunter CHUN reloading his hunting gun for grand daughter, a detective SIM in charge of this case, an ecologist Soo-ryun who takes any risks for studying mutant species animals and KIM Kang-soo whose mother has been missing head to the deep dark mountains. (Credit: Koreanmovie) Trailer:
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)
Starring: Intira Jaroenpura as Nak Winai Kraibutr as Mak Manit Meekaewjaroen Pramote Suksatit Pracha Thawongfia
Synopsis: Based on a Thai legend. Mak leaves for Bangkok and is seriously wounded in the Chiang Toong War. His wife, Nak, dies together with her stillborn child, but when Mak returns, they continue to live together, without his being aware that she is a ghost. But the forces of the supernatural realm eventually prove that such co-existence ultimately leads to an unexpected resolution. (Credit: Imdb)
Curiosities: Awards: Asia-Pacific Film Festival: Best Art Director Best Director: Nonzee Nimibutr Best Film: Visute Poolvoralaks Best Sound: Eutthana Tusawut Bangkok Film Festival: Golden Elephant: Nonzee Nimibutr Thailand National Film Association Awards: Best Art Direction Ek Iemchuen Best Cinematography: Nattawut Kittikhun Best Costume Design: Namphueng Motjanakul Best Director: Nonzee Nimibutr Best Original Score: Pakkawat Vaiyavit and Chartchai Pongprapapan Best Picture
Aka: Wa Pei Director: Gordon Chan Release date: Sepmtember 25, 2008 Language: Mandarin Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Donnie Yen Zhou Xun Chen Kun Zhao Wei
Synopsis: Setting is the Yuan dynasty: Soldiers rescue beautiful orphan Xiao Wei (Zhou) from desert bandits. The beautiful Xiao Wei is than taken in by Gen. Wang (Chen Kun) and his wife, Peirong (Zhao), who both dote on the excessively courteous and attentive young woman. But three months after she is adopted, the city is terrorized by an unknown killer who rips out human hearts.
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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Aka: Chinjeolhan Geumjassi Director: Park Chan-wook Release date: July 29, 2005 Language: Korean Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Starring: Lee Young-Ae Choi Min-Sik Kwon Yea-Young Kim Byeong-Ok Kim She-hu
Synopsis: After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?
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Curiosities: 2005 won Best Actress for Lee Young-Ae in Blue Dragon Awards
Aka: Jisatsu Sakuru / Suicide Circle Director: Sion Sono Release date: 2001 Language: Japanese Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Horror, Mature 18+, Mystery,Thriller
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi Masatoshi Nagase Mai Hosho Tamao Sato Takashi Nomura
Synopsis: In Tokyo, when fifty-four high-school students commit a collective suicide, jumping from a platform in Shinjuku Station, the police force leaded by Detective Kuroda has no clue to follow. Then he receives an e-mail from a young woman, The Bat, advising that there is a site where red dots mean the number of persons that died. Kuroda and his team investigate the deaths going nowhere. (Credit: Imdb)
Aka: オルトロスの犬 Director: Arata Kato and Natsuki Imai Release date: 2009 Language: Japanese Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed) Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Episodes: 9 + Special
Starring: Takizawa Hideaki as Ryuzaki Shinji Nishikido Ryo as Aoi Ryosuke Mizukawa Asami as Hasebe Nagisa Yaotome Hikaru as Kumakiri Masaru Yamamoto Ryuji as Shibata Sosuke Harada Natsuki as Maezono Chiharu Oshinari Shugo as Yoshizumi Masato Haru as Shirakawa Kana
Synopsis: Ryuzaki Shinji who possesses a “God Hand”, the power to heal wounds and illnesses just by touching the patient, is in fact a dark introvert who does not reveal his true self to others. Aoi Ryosuke who possesses the “Demon’s Hand”, the power to kill a person just by touching him, is as kind and pure as an angel. When the demon meets the God, a fatal battle begins… Detective Hasebe Nagisa gets caught by the criminals during a deep cover operation. Ryosuke, a man she does not even know comes to save her and she witnesses his “Demon’s Hand” in action. Thereafter she discovers by coincidence the existence of Shinji’s “God Hand” and brings the two together. Little did she know that this would cause great disorder to the world and even to her own life… (Credit: Dramawiki)
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
Aka: Shuang Tong Director: Chen Kuo-fu Release date: May 20, 2002 Language: Mandarin, English Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed) Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Tony Leung Ka Fai - Huang Huo-tu David Morse - Kevin Richter Rene Liu - Ching-fang Leon Dai - Li Feng-bo Kuei-Mei Yang - Coroner Sihung Lung - Taoist Expert Brett Climo - Serial Killer Wei-Han Huang - Mei-Mei Han Chang - Detective Chang
Synopsis: A troubled police detective Huang Huo-tu suffers from a severe mental breakdown as his life is falling apart. He is relegated to a mundane job as a Foreign Affairs Officer as a payback for blowing the whistle on corruption in the force. His young daughter is suffering from the fallout of being held hostage in a police crossfire. His fellow colleagues have turned on him and his wife Ching-fang is filing for divorce. Suddenly, a series of bizarre deaths in Taipei baffle local investigators. An American FBI agent Kevin Richter is called in to solve the murders. He is the topmost serial killer expert in the field, but even he cannot explain the seemingly supernatural circumstances surrounding the crime scenes. For example, in one case a businessman froze to death in his office - in the middle of a heatwave; the mistress of a prominent official calls the fire department and is later found burned to death - with no sign of fire in her apartment. Richter partners Huang who has less trouble believing that something supernatural is behind them, and on that angle he persuades him to investigate a local cult. They discover increasingly disturbing evidence that there are possible demonic forces at work. (Credit:wikipedia)
Review: Extraordinarily well-produced horror thriller backed by Sony Pictures' Asia division. The Taiwan setting provides some freshness, though the story and execution aren't noteworthy for the genre. The film also lacks a coherent explanation to all the cool happenstance, though the film will likely enchant those partial to its Asian horror charms. If nothing else, this is an entertaining ride. (lovehkfilm)
Aka: Ju-On: The Curse 2 / Ju-On 4 / Ju-on 2: Gekijô-ban
