Take the Tour: "Asian movies"
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South Korea - 2003
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- Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae ...
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- 'Oldboy' features Choi Min-sik as a Korean businessman who is suddenly kidnapped and confined in a cell with only a television set. He makes various efforts to escape and ...
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South Korea - 2019
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- Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-Kyun ...
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- A peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet somewhat alike portrays a striking reality of the world we live in. Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family are ...
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South Korea - 2004
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- Lee Seung-yeon, Jae Hee ...
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- A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing ...
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Iran - 2004
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- Avaz Latif, Soran Ebrahim ...
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- 2004: San Sebastian International Film Festival: Winner Golden Shell. In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Turkey, the villagers desperately ...
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South Korea - 2016
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- Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri ...
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- 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with ...
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South Korea - 2008
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- Kim Yoon-seok, Ha Jung-woo ...
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- Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them ...
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South Korea - 2003
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- Oh Young-soo, Kim Ki-duk ...
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- A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student, and remains so throughout the changing seasons of the younger monks life. In springtime the young monk is a ...
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Palestine - 2005
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- Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman ...
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- 24 Hours in the Life of a terrorist. Khaled and Said are two young Palestinians who have been friends from childhood recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. ...
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Hong Kong - 1972
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- Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris ...
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- Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at ...
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South Korea - 2016
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- Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-seok ...
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- Sok-Woo and his daughter Soo-Ahn are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But right at the moment of their departure, the train ...
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China - 1993
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- Gong Li, Leslie Cheung ...
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- "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who ...
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Japan - 2002
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- Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito ...
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- An eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the ...
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Hong Kong - 1986
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- Ti Lung, Chow Yun-Fat ...
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- A death-hardened cop battles the Hong Kong underworld, including his own brother who joins the bad guys. This progenitor of Woos "heroic violence" films introduces the ...
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South Korea - 2001
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- Cha Tae-hyun, Jun Ji-hyun ...
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- Based on an anonymous diary posted on the internet, MY SASSY GIRL is the touching true story of a dolt in love. The object of his affection is a hard-drinking chick who ...
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Hong Kong - 1989
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- Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee ...
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- In this bloody tale of loyalty and friendship, Chow Yun-Fat is Jeffrey, an assassin who wishes to leave the business so he can take care of Jennie, the beautiful lounge ...
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Japan - 1953
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- Machiko Kyô, Mitsuko Mito ...
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- In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local ...
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China - 1999
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- Zhang Ziyi, Sun Honglei ...
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- A man returns to the village where he was raised to help his mother arrange his father's funeral in this romantic drama about the courtship of his parents and the value ...
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Hong Kong - 2008
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- Donnie Yen, Simon Yam ...
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- A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.
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South Korea - 2002
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- Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun ...
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- Mr. Vengeance tells the story of Ryu a deaf-mute, has a sister that needs a kidney transplant. Recently laid off at his factory, he has to find other ways to obtain 10 ...
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China - 1991
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- Gong Li, Jin Shuyuan ...
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- China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three ...
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Hong Kong - 2007
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- Norah Jones, Jude Law ...
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- A young woman (Norah Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the ...
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Hong Kong - 2001
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- Stephen Chow, Zhao Wei ...
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- Shaolin was an art practiced through the ages; a skill mastered in the heart. In Shaolin Soccer, it is so much more than a philosophy for six young believers. It is a ...
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Japan - 1949
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- Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu ...
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- A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in order to convince ...
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India - 2006
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- Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru ...
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- Hollywood, in the twenties. An action sequence stuntman is hospitalized after a fall that leaves him unable to walk. There he finds the support of Alexandria, a young ...
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China - 2006
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- Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li ...
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- The plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, ...
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South Korea - 2005
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- Lee Young-ae, Choi Min-sik ...
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- Lady Vengeance tells the story of Kum-ja, a woman who takes revenge after serving 13 years in jail in place of an evil man who abducts and kills a 6-year-old boy. Two ...
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Japan - 2010
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- Takako Matsu, Masaki Okada ...
- Synopsis:
- Impassive before a class where lack of interest and disorder reign, a teacher begins a long monologue that culminates in an overwhelming revelation: the accident that ...
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Hong Kong - 1995
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- Jackie Chan, Anita Mui ...
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- Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. ...
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Japan - 1976
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- Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji ...
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- The film for which Oshima earned worldwide fame and marked a new era in the way sexuality was portrayed in cinema. The true story of Sada Abe, the woman who killed and ...
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Hong Kong - 1999
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- Anthony Wong, Francis Ng ...
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- Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assasination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection. Their grown ...
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Hong Kong - 2006
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- Anthony Wong, Francis Ng ...
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- Two hired killers, arriving from Macau to execute a colleague who is trying to start a new life, must face a dilemma when two other ex-partners try to disrupt their ...
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