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[Korean Movie 18+] My Wife Got Married (2008)
Title: A-nae-ga kyeol-hon-haet-da/ My Wife Got Married
Director: Yun-su Chong
Writers: Yun-su Chong (screenplay), Hye-jin Song (screenplay)
Stars: Ju-hyuk Kim, Ye-jin Son and Seong-hun Cheon
Genre: Comedy | Romance
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Summary:
It all started with football. Deok-hoon falls in love with In-ah, who shares his love and passion for the sport. They quickly become lovers and he proposes. After her initial refusal, they are eventually happily married. Marriage is like a dream until one day In-ah declares her wish to marry another man. She doesn't want a divorce, as she truly loves Deok-hoon but she wants to be free to love another man at the same time. Even with Deok-hoon unable to handle being the third side of a triangle, In-ah marries her new man and sets up a bizarre, bigamous romance.
[Thai Movie] Soul's Code (2008)
Director: Atsajun Sattakovit
Cast: Premsini Rathanasopa, Nuttakorn Taewakul, Patiwat Ruengsri, Napat Bhunjongjit-pisan
Genre: Action | Horror | Thriller
Synopsis:
When a murdered body of a highschool girl is found naked with a strange mark on her forehead, which is to prevent the vengeance of her spirit, Detective Khan from DSI is assigned to investigate the case. The dead girl is brought to Dr. Nicha at CIFS in Bangkok to find more clues and identify the body. Meanwhile, C, a former teenager’s heartthrob is involved in this case when he begins to search for his lost ex-girlfriend. When the ghost is trying to connect to the living, Detective Khan starts to believe in something supernatural that leads him to the truth.
[Korean Movie] Speed Scandal (2008)
Original Title: Kwasok scandle
Director: Hyeong-Cheol Kang
Writer: Hyeong-Cheol Kang (screenplay)
Stars: Tae-hyun Cha, Il-Kwon Ahn and Kyeong-min Hong
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music
Summary:
A radio DJ/entertainer in his 30s suddenly learns he may be a grandfather, thanks to a young girl who has a baby son and claims to be his daughter.
[Hongkong Movie] Jin ping mei (2008)
Director: Man Kei Chin
Stars: Hikaru Wakana, Kaera Uehara and Serina Hayakawa
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Cast:
Hikaru Wakana as Moon
Kaera Uehara as Violetta
Serina Hayakawa as Lotus
Yui Morikawa as Simon's Mother / Madame Goose
Summary:
Rich scholar Simon Qing (Lam Wai Kin) has yet to lose his virginity despite being schooled in the art of love by his virile father (Norman Tsui Siu Keung). All that changes when he meets first love Violetta (Uehara Kaera), who introduces Simon to manhood through many encounters and even more positions. However, their multiple trysts fail to create a lasting love. Heartbroken, Simon takes to the road, where he meets a new woman, inexperienced nun Moon (Wakana Hikaru), who abandons her chaste ways to learn all about carnal pleasure from Simon. But even after marrying Moon, Simon is not satisfied, and his morality slowly erodes in favor of his boundless lust. He soon falls for Golden Lotus (Hayakawa Serina), who charms him with her natural beauty and small bound feet. Golden Lotus is married to ugly merchant Wu Da Lang (Ng Chi Hung), but even the covenant of marriage is no obstacle to Simon. Together, he and Golden Lotus plot Da Lang’s murder, so that she can join Simon’s growing harem of wives.
[J - Movie] 4 Shimai Tantei Dan (2008)
Title : 4 Shimai Tantei Dan
Alternative Title(s) : 4 Shimai Tantei Dan
Original writing: Akagawa Jiro (赤川次郎) San Shimai Tantei Dan (novel)
Screenwriter: Fukuda Takuro (福田卓郎)
Producers: Kuwata Kiyoshi, Yokochi Ikuhide (横地郁英), Narai Masami (奈良井正巳), Ota Masaharu (太田雅晴)
Directors: Shinjo Takehiko, Ikezoe Hiroshi (池添博), Tsunehiro Jota (常廣丈太)
Number of Episodes: 9
Date Aired (YYYY-MM-DD): 2008-01-18
Genre: Mystery
Summary:
Kaho to star in detective drama
Teen actress Kaho has been given the starring role in a TV Asahi drama series. The show is titled "4 Shimai Tantei Dan" and is based on Jiro Akagawa's popular mystery novel "San Shimai Tantei Dan."
The original story featured a team of three sleuthing sisters, but the drama adds a fourth. Kaho plays the youngest sister, Yuriko. The other three are played by Noriko Nakagoshi, Natsuki Kato, and Yui Ichikawa.
[J - Movie] The Machine Girl (2008)
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Writer: Noboru Iguchi
Stars: Minase Yashiro, Asami and Kentarô Shimazu
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime
Summary:
Ami is a typical college girl. She's bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in their past, the siblings' future looks good, except for one thing. Ami's brother has racked up a considerable debt to another boy at school, and that boy just happens to be the heir to a clan of vicious ninja-yakuza. Ami's brother can't pay, violence breaks out and in the course of trying to avenge her brother, Ami is captured by the clan. They torture her and hack her arm right off. Ami escapes, barely alive, and is taken in by the owners of a machine shop who build her a customized, bullet-spewing arm. From that point, the quest for revenge is on in earnest.
[K - Movie] Hello Schoolgirl (2008)
Title : Hello Schoolgirl (K-Movie)
Alternative Title(s) : 순정만화 / Crush on You / Love Comic
Director: Jang-ha Ryu
Writers: Kang Full (comic), Pool Kang (screenplay)
Stars: Ji-tae Yu, Yeon-hee Lee and Jeong-an Chae
Hardsubbed or Softsubbed: Hardsubbed
English Subtitles: Yes
Date Aired (YYYY-MM-DD): November 27, 2008
Summary:
Yun-woo Kim works as a low level civil servant in a district office. Although he is thirty, he is still innocent for his age and has been on numerous unfruitful blind dates in search of a suitable wife. After moving to a new place, he runs runs into Soo-yong Han, a high school student who lives downstairs. Soo-young Han is a cheerful and eccentric eighteen-year-old who lives with her mother that acts like a princess. Meanwhile, Sook Kang has just started to work at the district office straight after graduating from high school and falls head over heels for Ha-kyuing Kwon, a melancolic woman who always smokes in the same spot, because of her beautiful smile. Ha-kyung is still holding onto an old flame and keeps on looking for traces of that love every day. Sook Kang continues to keep wooing her, irregardless of her living in the past. Can their futures lead to a happy ending?
[T - Drama] Miss No Good (2008)
Title: 不良笑花 / Pu Liang Hsiao Hua (Bu Liang Xiao Hua)
English title: Miss No Good
Also known as: The Bad Campus Belle / Campus Shrewd
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 14
Cast:
Rainie Yang as Jiang Xiao Hua 蔣小花
Xu Qiong Yun (許瓊云) as childhood Xiao Hua
Wilber Pan as Tang Men 唐門
Dean Fujioka as Jia Si Le 賈思樂
Michelle Chen as Jiang Mi 江蜜
Jian Chang as Jiang Da Shu 蔣大樹
Yan Sheng Yu (鄢勝宇) as younger Da Shu
Summary:
Jiang Xiao Hua is a funny girl that dresses bad and runs her family’s accessories store. When fatty Jia Si Le returns from Japan, he surprises everyone with his lean and thin body. As Si Le asks Xiao Hua out, he also comments her style as a “Christmas Tree”. Token offensively, Xiao Hua seeks for some help to change her bad style. She meets Tang Men a stylist, who had dropped his expensive, rare scissor in the cab he was sharing with Xiao Hua. Not agreeing to help Xiao Hua, she uses the scissor as a threat, announcing that she will break them if Tang Men does not agree to help her. On the other hand, Jiang Mi is the arranged fiancée of Jia Si Le, angry that Jia Si La is in love with Xiao Hua, she uses Tang Men to distract Xiao Hua while she tries to get close with Si Le. As Tang Men distracts Xiao Hua, their relationship becomes stronger and stronger. Xiao Hua becomes confused of who she really loves… Tang Men or Jia Si Le!
[Taiwan Movie] Candy Rain (2008)
Title : Candy Rain (Movie)
Alternative Title(s) : Huā Chīle Nā Nǚhái
Number of Episodes: 1
Date Aired (YYYY-MM-DD): 2008-09-12
Director: Hung-i Chen
Writers: Hung-i Chen (screenplay), A.D. Lin (screenplay)
Stars: Yung-yung Chang, Cheer Chen and Yang-kun Chen
Summary:
Candy Rain is a romantic drama which combines four intimate, lyrical tales exploring the range of women loving women in contemporary Taiwan. In the first episode, a young girl escapes a broken love for the uncertainties of friendship (and more) in Taipei. In the second, another girl, seeking her ideal, finds herself involved with a wealthy woman instead. Yet another story follows a heroine trying to find a balance between marriage and separation from her true love. The final story takes us into a dynamic and difficult foursome anchored by singer-actress Karena Lam. A rich, bittersweet spectrum of love and loss, based on true stories.
[Singapore Movie] The Coffin (2008)
Director: Ekachai Uekrongtham
Stars: Ananda Everingham, Florence Faivre and Andrew Lin
Summary:
Following the Thai custom to cheat death and rid oneself of bad luck, a man who lays in a coffin for an evening subsequently experiences a series of terrifying incidents.
[Bollywood] Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Writers: Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Vikas Swarup (novel)
Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Saurabh Shukla
Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance
Summary:
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes.
[Thai Movie] The House (2008)
Genre: Horror
Starring: Inthira Chaloenpura, Chamanun Waniwinwasara, Chatcha Rujinanon, Komsun Nuntachit, Kongdech Jaturanrasamee, Nutthawat Plengsiriwat, Natthakan Thayutajaruwit, Vorapoj Nimvijit, Wiboonsiri Khongpool
Release year: 2008
Language: Thai
Subtitle: English
Summary:
This is inspired by a true story of three horrible murders that happened to three women in years past. Chalinee, a young reporter, is curious as to the truth behind the three mysterious cases, so she starts searching for more information. Finally, she discovers the house where three women were killed by their lovers. But when she takes her final steps into the cursed house, she finds something more frightening than she ever imagined waiting for her.
[Thai Movie] Coming Soon (2008)
Director: Sopon Sukdapisit
Writer: Sopon Sukdapisit (screenplay)
Stars: Chantavit Dhanasevi and Vorakarn Rojjanavatchra
Summary:
What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of deja-vu that you are reenacting the very same scenes in the horror movie you just saw!
[J - Movie] An Attraction to Girl Paradise (2008)
Title : An Attraction to Girl Paradise (Movie) – Not 4 Kids
Hardsubbed or Softsubbed: Hardsubbed
English Subtitles: Yes
Date Aired (YYYY-MM-DD): 2008
Summary:
Akiho Yoshizawa, graceful as an angel, is a well-known AV star in Japan. In 2007, she was named “the Top Idol” of the AV industry. “An Attraction to Girls Paradise” is composed of highlights of Akiho’s four major works, co-starring with Sakura Hirota and Kokoro Hanano adds color to the movie. This set will fully demonstrates Akiho’s action and sexy body therefore can satisfy her fans.
Akiho Yoshizawa, graceful as an angel, is a well-known AV star in Japan. In 2007, she was named “the Top Idol” of the AV industry. “An Attraction to Girls Paradise” is composed of highlights of Akiho’s four major works, co-starring with Sakura Hirota and Kokoro Hanano adds color to the movie. This set will fully demonstrates Akiho’s action and sexy body therefore can satisfy her fans.
Naruto Shippuden Movie 2: Naruto Shippuden: Bonds (2008)
Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Writers: Masashi Kishimoto (creator), Junki Takegami (screenplay)
Stars: Junko Takeuchi, Kazuhiko Inoue and Unshô Ishizuka
Summary:
A mysterious group of ninja called the Sora-nin from the Sky Country makes a surprise attack on Konoha. This is because Konoha nearly destroyed the Sky Country during the last Shinobi World War, yet they survived and now they're after Konoha and the Fire Country for revenge.
Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black (2008)
Director: Noriyuki Abe
Writers: Natsuko Takahashi (screenplay), Tite Kubo (manga)
Stars: Seiichi Morita
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Language: English,Japanese
Subtitle: English
Resolution: 704x400 (16:9)
File Size: 300 MB
Genre: action, adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, supernatural
Quality: DVDRip
Summary:
In Soul Society, Mayuri Kurotsuchi is attacked in his laboratory by a pair of mysterious siblings wielding a scythe that erases his memories. In a frightened panic, Kurotsuchi damages a machine, which causes a massive reiatsu explosion that covers much of Soul Society in a milky layer of reiatsu in the form of a giant rampaging river of serpents, killing and freezing many Soul Reapers, including Kenpachi Zaraki. Rukia Kuchiki is confronted and attacked by the siblings, erasing her memories and everybody that has memories of her, and is carried away to a rundown area of Rukongai by the siblings. Seemingly everyone in Soul Society has their memories of Rukia erased.
[Thai Movie] Art of The Devil 3 (2008)
Directors: Pasith Buranajan, Kongkiat Khomsiri,
Writers: Kongkiat Khomsiri, Yosapong Polsap
Stars: Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Paweena Chariffsakul and Supakorn Kitsuwon
Summary:
Panor, a seductive rural teacher, longs to live a normal, peaceful life like everyone else in her village. But her beauty becomes her biggest curse since Panor is the object of desire for a number of young men. Both her male colleagues and students resort to the variety of black arts and love potions in an attempt to win her favor. To counter their endless menace, Panor is forced to kill Porn, an amoral witch doctor, and in the process she comes into possession of the powerful Three-Eyed Devil. That prompts Sergeant Dit, the witch doctor’s friend and a man obsessed with the voodoo art, to come into Panor’s life with the intent of conquering the Three-Eyed Devil from her.
My Mighty Princess (Korean Movie - 2008)
Original Title: "Mu-rim-yeo-dae-saeng
Director: Jae-young Kwak
Writers: Jae-young Kwak, Shinho Lee (screenplay)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Stars: Min-a Shin, Ju-wan On, Tae-hyun Cha
Description:
KANG So-hwi, a beautiful martial arts prodigy, is about to embark on a journey into adulthood. But her journey is like no other. Her super-human strength and martial arts prowess scares away her fellow undergrads and even the boy she has fallen for. Devastated, So-hwi decides to give up martial arts and takes a different path. Her father, a martial artist himself, is afraid of losing an heiress to the family’s martial artistry, and missions So-hwi’s old buddy Ilyoung to persuade her to stay in the field. Meanwhile, the evil Heuk-bong provokes a war to conquer the martial arts world with the legendary Fine Blade he stole in the past, killing every swordsman one after another. So-hwi’s father comes to a showdown with Heuk-bong, but the battle leaves him fatally injured. On the brink of her father’s death, So-hwi picks up a sword again with a burning desire for revenge.
[J - Movie] Cyborg She (2008)
Also Known As: Cyborg She / Boku no Kanojo wa Cyborg
Directed by: Jae-young Kwak
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Year: 2008
Genre: Sci-fi, Action, Comedy
Cast:
Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Naoto Takenaka, Fumiyo Kohinata, Masato Ibu
Directed by: Jae-young Kwak
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Year: 2008
Genre: Sci-fi, Action, Comedy
Cast:
Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Naoto Takenaka, Fumiyo Kohinata, Masato Ibu
Synopsis:
A lonesome college student named Jiro (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone when suddenly a beautiful girl (Haruka Ayase) turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good-fortune in meeting her.
But his happiness does not last for long since she disappears after that. A year later on his 21st birthday, Jiro runs into her again. At least she looks the same, but this time she is somehow different. It is the beginning of a love that would change his life forever
A lonesome college student named Jiro (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone when suddenly a beautiful girl (Haruka Ayase) turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good-fortune in meeting her.
But his happiness does not last for long since she disappears after that. A year later on his 21st birthday, Jiro runs into her again. At least she looks the same, but this time she is somehow different. It is the beginning of a love that would change his life forever
