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Miracle in Cell No.7 (Korean Movie - 2013)
Hangul: 7번방의 선물
Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
Writer: Lee Hwan-Kyung, Kim Hwang-Sung, Kim Young-Suk
Producer: Lim Min-Sub
Cinematographer: Kang Seung-Ki
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Tearjerker / Prison / Father & Daughter / Law
Cast:
Ryoo Seung-Ryong
Park Shin-Hye
Kal So-Won
Oh Dal-Su
Park Won-Sang
Jeong Man-Sik
Kim Jung-Tae
Kim Ki-Cheon
Jung Jin-Young
Summary:
A father (Ryoo Seung-Ryong), who is mentally handicapped, but loves his daughter very much, is falsely accused of a crime and sent to prison. Later, his daughter Ye-Seung (Park Shin-Hye, who is a law school student, works to prove his innocence. Back in 1997, Yong-Goo lives happily with his daughter Ye-Seung (Kal So-Won), even though he has the intelligence of a child. They stop by a shop everyday to look at a yellow Sailor Moon backpack that he hopes to buy his daughter. One day, they notice that the last yellow Sailor Moon backpack is being sold. Yong-Goo goes inside the store to plead his case, but the father buying the backpack ends up slapping Yong-Goo. The following day, the girl who bought the yellow Sailor Moon backpack sees Yong-Goo working in the grocery store parking lot. She tells him that she knows another store that sells the same yellow backback. Yong-Goo follows the girl to a traditional outdoor market. A short while later, the girl is laying on the ground unconscious and Yong-Goo is trying to perform CPR. A woman walks by and calls the police. Yong-Goo is accused of kidnap and murder. The father of the dead girl is also the chief of the National Police Agency. Yong-Goo is given the death penalty and incarcerated. In prison, Yong-Goo shares a jail cell with five other inmates. One day, Yong-Goo saves the life of his cellmate So Yang-Ho (Oh Dal-Su) from a rival prison gang leader. So Yang-Ho then offers to help Yong-Goo in any way he can to return the favor. Yong-Goo tells So Yang-Ho that he wants to see his daughter Ye-Seung. The five inmates then plan to make a miracle happen.
[Chinese Movie] Tai Chi Zero (2012)
Director: Stephen Fung
Writer: Kuo-fu Chen
Stars: Yuan Xiaochao, Angelababy and Tony Leung Ka Fai
Genre: Action | Drama
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Synopsis:
Yang travels to Chen Village to learn a powerful form of Tai Chi. Though villagers are forbidden from teaching outsiders, Yang becomes their best hope for survival when a man arrives with a plan to build a railroad through the village.
[Chinese Movie] Bodyguards and Assassins (2009)
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Director: Teddy Chan
Writers: Junli Guo, Tin Nam Chun
Stars: Donnie Yen, Leon Lai and Xueqi Wang
Genre: Action | Drama | History
Synopsis:
In 1905, the revolutionary Sun Wen intends to visit Hong Kong to discuss his plans for revolution with fellow Tongmenghui members. Ultimate goal is to overthrow the corrupt Qing dynasty. However, a group of assassins is sent to kill Sun.
[Chinese Movie] The Great Magician (2011)
Title: Da mo shu shi (Original title)
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Writers: Tin Nam Chun (screenplay), Tung-Shing Yee (screenplay)
Stars: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ching Wan Lau and Xun Zhou
Genre: Drama | Mystery
Synopsis:
Adapted from the Zhang Haifan novel, The Great Magician is a multi-million dollar co-production between Emperor Motion Pictures and Bona Film Group. Helmed by award-winning director Derek YEE and starring the three most powerful stars in Chinese cinema – Tony LEUNG Chiu-wai, LAU Ching-wan and ZHOU Xun – with Mainland Chinese stars YAN Ni and WU Gang. The Great Magician promises to be the year’s most highly anticipated film.
In the early 1920’s, on the streets of Beijing, the nation’s most talented performers have gathered to show off their most spectacular skills. One day, a challenge is set: 50 silver dollars to whoever can reproduce the incredible magic trick “Eight Immortals’ Treat”. Zhang Xian appears amidst the waiting crowd and decides to try his hand at it.
And so begins a legend that is pure magic.
[Korean Movie] Always (2011) Watch! Recommended!
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YOU MUST WATCH THIS!!
Title: O-jik geu-dae-man (original title)
Director: Il-gon Song
Writers: Il-gon Song (screenplay), Hong-jin No (screenplay)
Stars: Ji-Sub So, Hyo-ju Han and Shin-il Kang
Genre: Drama | Romance
Synopsis:
A love story centered on ex-boxer Chul-min and a blind telemarketer Jung-hwa.
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[K - Movie] Secret Love (2010)
Title: Bimilae (original title)
Director: Hoon-i Ryu
Writers: Ji-yeon Kwon, Hoon-i Ryu
Stars: Ji-tae Yu, Jin-seo Yun and In-gi Jeong
Genre: Drama
IMDB Review:
Secret Love is a South Korean film that is written and directed by Ryu Hoon-i.The story was about a woman who was caught love triangle with her husband and his twin brother while he was in coma.It stars Yoo Ji-tae and Yoon Jin-seo together with Oh Woo-Jung, Ko Yu-Seon,Lee A-Rin,Seo Jin,Lim Hyung-Guk and Yang Eun-Yong.
The film starts when Yeon-Yi's husband Jin-woo gets into an accident and falls into a coma two months after their wedding. During this time, Yeon-Yi's life shatters from the seams. She misses her deadlines for work, while she has only videos of her wedding to comfort her. Then Yeon-Yi waits at the airport for Jin-Woo's brother Jin-Ho, whom she has never met before. She is stunned when she meets him, because Yeon-Yi never knew Jin-Woo and Jin-Ho are identical twin brothers. Although Jin- Ho and Yeon-Yi's relationship is cold at first. they soon become attracted to each other. Their relationship becomes even more volatile, when Jin-woo suddenly awakes from his coma.
[J - Movie] Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
Title: Raiâ gêmu: Za fainaru sutêji (original title)
Director: Hiroaki Matsuyama
Writers: Shinobu Kaitani (manga), Tsutomu Kuroiwa (screenplay)
Stars: Erika Toda, Shôta Matsuda and Megumi Seki
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Summary:
Nao Kanzaki (Erika Toda) is a young simple college student who finds herself unwittingly involved in a mysterious competition called the Liar Game Tournament (LGT). In this competition, participants try to cheat one another of a large sum of money (loaned to them from the tournament organizers). To win - one must employ every possible trick and device to lie, cheat, swindle and con. Winners take home an obscene amount of money, while the losers incur an insurmountable mountain of debt. Nao seemingly has no chance of survival in this microcosm of greed and deceit. Fortunately, she manages to enlist the help of master con man, Shinichi Akiyama (Shota Matsuda), whose razor-sharp mind and genius with manipulation helps her survive an onslaught of ruthless challenges.
[J - Drama] Midnight Sun (2006)
Title: Taiyô no uta (original title)
Directors: Natsuki Imai, Jun Mutô
Writer: Mutsuki Watanabe (teleplay)
Stars: Gaku Hamada, Shôichirô Masumoto and Takayuki Yamada
Genre: Drama | Romance
Summary:
Kaoru dreamily gazes from her bedroom window each morning just before dawn. She can see a stretch of the beach in front of her parent's house on a hill in Kamakura, but focuses upon the activity at the bus stop where Koji and his two best friends meet before going surfing. The appearance of the sun causes her to lowers the blinds and go to sleep for she suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) and exposure to the sun's rays has had the potential to kill her. At night she walks to the train station, plays her guitar and sings songs she has written, commonly returning home just a few minutes before it starts getting light. One morning she is at the bus stop singing when Koji arrives. Liking the song she was singing, he promises to go and listen to her perform as a street musician the first day of summer vacation but finds a loud and off-key man has occupied her spot. Koji improvises and takes her to Yokahama on his motor bike where her singing immediately draws a crowd. Koji marvels at her extraordinary future, whereas he muses at his ordinary nature as he asks to be her boyfriend. But she breaks up almost immediately as the rising sun reminds her that she cannot live a normal life. Koji tries and make amends after being sought out by her father, and starts to earn the 200,000 yen needed to pay for a studio session and production of a CD of Kaoru's songs. As she practices on her guitar, she finds her fingers becoming immobilized, the first sign that neurological damage from the disease is progressing.
[Malaysia - Movie] 3 Idiots (2009)
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Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Writers: Vidhu Vinod Chopra (screenplay), Rajkumar Hirani (story), and 1 more credit »
Stars: Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Mona Singh
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Synopsis:
Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control.
[Korean Movie] My Sassy Girl (2001)
Original Title: Yeopgijeogin geunyeo
Director: Jae-young Kwak
Writers: Ho-sik Kim (novel), Jae-young Kwak (screenplay)
Stars: Tae-hyun Cha, Gianna Jun and Jin-hie Han
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Synopsis:
Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo (Cha) and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed into assisting the girl because the other passengers mistakenly think she is his girlfriend. Once he helps her, Kyun-woo develops a deep sense of responsibility for her which enables him to tolerate (somehow) the girls abuses.
[Thailand Movie] Rahtree: Flower of the Night (2003)
Director: Yuthlert Sippapak
Writer: Yuthlert Sippapak (screenplay)
Stars: Laila Boonyasak, Krit Sripoomseth and Chompunoot Piyapane
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Summary:
Buppah Rahtree is an isolated, self contained girl. She’s at the top of her class in medical school but has no friends and carries a secret, tragic past with her. She does, however, have an admirer in Ake, a wealthy young man who was drawn to her when she turned down the advances of his best friend and who has followed her from a distance for a month. Rahtree eventually opens up to Ake but what should have been a happy ending for her turns progressively more tragic. Ake turns out to be an entirely amoral cad and Rahtree, pregnant from their lone weekend together, is pressured into an abortion and abandoned in her run down apartment where things turn septic, she dies and is undiscovered for at least a month. And this is just the set up which, I’m sure you will agree, is rather unusually tragic for a film most commonly billed as a horror comedy.
Things really get rolling after Rahtree’s corpse is discovered. The police arrive and she is shrouded according to local custom but when they try to remove the corpse it simply refuses to go, twitching wildly until the police drop it and run screaming from the room. Rahtree’s body may be dead but her spirit is very much alive, very angry, and it will not leave without a fight. The film then tracks a succession of unsuccessful exorcists run through the building at the behest of the apartment manager desperate to stop her remaining tenants from fleeing the obviously haunted building, that succession further complicated by the return of the guilt stricken Ake who turns up on the scene desperate to make amends and completely unaware that Rahtree has died.
[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.
[Japanese Movie] Norwegian Wood (2010)
Romaji: Noruwei no mori
Japanese: ノルウェイの森
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Writer: Haruki Murakami (novel), Anh Hung Tran
Producer: Chihiro Kameyama, Shinji Ogawa
Cinematographer: Pin Bing Lee
Genre: Drama | Romance
Plot:
Set in the 1960's, high school student Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) loses his only friend Kizuki (Kengo Kora) after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko (Rinko Kikuchi) in the university. They grow close because they both share the same loss.
As Toru and Naoko grow even closer, Naoko's sense of loss also grows. After Naoko's 20th birthday, she leaves for a sanitarium in Kyoto. Watanabe, devastated by the situation, meets pure-hearted Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) during the spring semester. Midori looks like a small animal that just came into the world.
[Korean Movie] Acoustic (2010)
Alternative Title(s) : 어쿠스틱 (Eo-koo-seu-tik)
Directed by: Yoo Sang-hun (유상헌)
Genre: Omnibus | Drama | Music
Summary:
Chapter1: A singer-songwriter named Se-Kyung has a rare disease so can only eat ramen.
Chapter2: Vocalist Sang-Won and drummer Hae-Won of a rock band decide to sell a guitar because they have no money.
Chapter3: A girl named Jin-Hee wants to keep memorable song and Ji-Hoo become to fall in love with her. “Acoustic” is an omnibus film story depicting these stories of love, hope, and music – all set within the Hongdae area of Seoul.
[Taiwan Movie] You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
Original Title: Na xie nian, wo men yi qi zhui de nu hai
Director: Giddens Ko
Writer: Giddens Ko (novel)
Stars: Zhendong Ke, Michelle Chen and Owodog
Genre: Drama | Romance
Summary:
Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.
Ko-Teng has several close friends who had a crush on Shen Chia-Yi. Those friends of Ko's thus moved in unison from Ching Chengs junior high school straight into the senior high school division in pursuit of her.
Naughty in nature, Ko was ordered by their homeroom teacher to sit in front of honor student Shen for her to keep close tabs on him. The two hadn't hit it off at first but Ko gradually fell for Shen, who was always pressuring him to study hard. On the other hand, Shen became impressed by the contrasting values Ko represented. Ko started pursuing Shen but Shen remained hesitant.
[J - Movie] Pandemic (2009)
Kansen rettô (original title)
Director: Takahisa Zeze
Writers: Takahisa Zeze (screenplay), Takashi Hirano (story), and 1 more credit »
Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Rei Dan and Ryôko Kuninaka
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Synopsis:
Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, a doctor at a Tokyo hospital, misdiagnoses a patient's disease as a common cold. But after the patient's sudden death, he realizes that it's very serious disease, which can make a population extinct, so he struggles to find out the cause of the disease with doctor Eiko Kobayashi.
[K - Movie] Now and Forever (2006)
Title : Now and Forever (K-Movie)
Alternative Title(s) : 연리지 (Yeon-ri-ji)
Director: Seong-jung Kim
Stars: Ji-Woo Choi, Seong-guk Choi and Yeong Hyeon
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Summary:
Min-su, a playboy who believes that there’s no such thing as true love and it’s all just a game, can’t stand even a single relationship that continues on for long. However, fate leads him to a dazzling beauty, Hye-won, who had just escaped from an oppressive hospital. She makes a strong impression on him. Later, chased by a nurse, Hye-won sneaks into the men’s room at the hospital and their second encounter takes place. Soon Min-su becomes totally captivated by this bold woman. At first Hye-won resists their love, fearing that losing her to her terminal illness will hurt Min-su too much.
[Taiwan Movie] Secret (2007)
Director: Jay Chou
Writers: Chi-long To, Jay Chou (story)
Stars: Jay Chou, Lunmei Kwai and Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Music
Synopsis:
Ye Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.
[Taiwan Movie] Hear Me (2009)
Director: Fen-fen Cheng
Stars: Ivy Chen, Michelle Chen and Yi-han Chen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Synopsis:
A delivery Boy falls for a young girl who is hearing impaired. Comparing themselves with "water birds" and trees, together they are going to break the barrier and pursue their dreams and take their relationship to the next level.
