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[Korean Movie] I Saw The Devil (2010)

I Saw The Devil (2010)


Hangul: 악마를 보았다
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Writer: Park Hoon-Jung
Producer: Kim Hyung-Woo, Jo Sung-Won, Kim Jae-Young, Kim Jung-Hwa
Cinematographer: Lee Mo-Gae
Genre: Thriller / Award Winning / Best Film-Movie of the Year

Summary:
A woman named Joo-Yun (Oh San-Ha) is stranded in her broken down car on a snowy night. She talks to her fiance on her cellphone while she awaits for a tow truck. Her fiance is So-Hyun (Lee Byung-Hun), an agent for the National Intelligence Service. Meanwhile, a yellow van stops in front of the woman’s broken down car. A man named (Choi Min-Sik) gets out of the van and knocks on the woman’s window. He offers to help her get the car started. The preoccupied fiance Soo-Hyun, still on the phone with Joo-Yun, advises her to stay in the car until the tow truck arrives and gets called away on business matters. Joo-Yun tells the creepy man that she will wait for the tow truck and raises her window shut. Moments later, the creepy man named Kyung-Chul smashes the passenger window open with a sledgehammer and beats Joo-Yun unconscious. Kyung-Chul takes Joo-Yun to his home and decapitates the woman. A few days later, an ear is found in a plastic bag by children playing near a river. When the police arrive, they later find Joo-Yun’s head in the river. At this moment So-Hyun arrives at the crime scene and witnesses his fiance’s decapitated head. At the funeral for Joo-Yun, Soo-Hyun apologizes to her for not being there to protect her and also promises to inflict pain 1,000x worse to the man responsible for her death. When Soo-Hyun tracks down his fiance’s killer he beats the man severely. The killer awakens the next day bloodied, but still alive. There is also an envelope with money left on his belly. Soo-Hyun’s plan for vengeance is just beginning …


[K - Movie] The Scent (2012)

the scent 2012


AKA :
Gan-gi-nam | Ganginam | Gantongeul Gidarineun Namja | Man Waiting for AdulteryDirector: Hyeong-Joon Kim
Writer: Hyeong-Joon Kim
Stars: Hee-soon Park, Si-hyeon Park and Sang-wook Joo
Genre: Thriler

Summary:
A detective Seon-woo, who moonlights as a private investigator, has a beautiful new client Soo-Jin. The woman asks the detective to take photos of her husband in the midst of having an affair with another woman. When the detective goes to take pictures he discovers that the woman's husband is already dead. Now the detective becomes a suspect. The detective is chased by another detective Gil-ro. He must now set out for the real killer.


[Thai Movie] Soul's Code (2008)

Soul's Code






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] Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

Blood the last vampire




Director: Chris Nahon
Writers: Chris Chow (screenplay), Kenji Kamiyama (character)
Stars: Gianna Jun, Allison Miller and Liam Cunningham
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller


Synopsis:
Based on a popular Japanese animation of same title and jointly produced by Hong Kong and France. Saya (Jeon Ji-hyeon), looks like a 16-year-old girl but is 400-year-old half-vampire, half-human assassin who has been given the mission by her boss Onigen, a demon, to kill vampires. Over time, however, she never forgets that Onigen killed her father. One day, Saya goes to a high school on a U.S. army base to accomplish another mission. But there, she decides that it's the last chance to avenge her father and sets out with her friend Alice to kill Onigen.




[J - Movie] Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)

Liar Game: The Final Stage




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.


[Thailand Movie] Rahtree: Flower of the Night (2003)

Rahtree: Flower of the Night




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.



[J - Movie] Pandemic (2009)

Kansen rettô

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.



[Philippines Movie] Shake Rattle and Roll 13 (2011)

Shake Rattle and Roll 13

Title: Shake Rattle Roll 13 (2011)
Directors: Chris Martinez, Richard Somes
Writers: Richard Somes (story) (segment "Tamawo"), Aloy Adlawan (screenplay) (segment "Tamawo")
Stars: Eugene Domingo, Zanjoe Marudo and Maricar Reyes
Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller


Synopsis:
"Shake, Rattle and Roll 13" is one of the many movies in the Metro Manila Film Festival that shows how much it needs serious revamp and rethinking. More than half of the entries are sequels (or at least have connections to film franchises of past) and most if not all have the same budget and polish of films we see all throughout the calendar year. We really had high hopes for "Shake, Rattle and Roll 13" (it's the "13th" iteration no less) but it made a us look like idiots by doing so. While it had great imagination with its plot for a majority of the mini stories, it completely forgot what people actually look for in a horror film - scaring the pants off the audience.


[Korean Drama] Athena Goddess of War (2010)





Title: 아테나: 전쟁의 여신 / Athena: Jeonjaeng-ui Yeoshin
Also known as: Athena: Goddess of War
Genre: Action, thriller, romance
Number of Episodes: 20
Date Aired (YYYY-MM-DD): 2010-12-13


Summary:


A terrorist group known as “Athena” and led by evil mastermind Son Hyuk threatens South Korea and the world. It is now up to special agent Lee Jung Woo of the National Security Agency to foil their terrifying conspiracy. Jo Soo Young, the daughter of the South Korean president, is kidnapped and hidden away in Italy. Jung Woo and his team are given the assignment to find her and bring her back.






[Thai Movie] Video Clip (2007)

video clip




Director: Pakphum Wonjinda
Writer: Pakphum Wonjinda
Stars: Ngamsiri Arsira-Lertsiri, Warot Pitakanonda and Nuttapong Tangkasam

Plot:
This film features a group of people obsessed with mobile phone video recording: Ken (Paopol Thephasdin) is a mobile phone repair man who has a habit of stealing private video clips from his customers’ phones; Pub DJ Aud (Warot Pitakanonda) likes having fun with girls and records those adventures on his phone to share with others; and Gaeng (Nuttapong Tangkasam), the pub owner who creates a porn website featuring mobile phone video clips. However, none of the characters realise their mobile phone habit is to become a threat to their lives. The horror that awaits them reaches way beyond their wildest imagination.




[Singapore Movie] The Coffin (2008)

The Coffin


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.


[Thailand Movie] Shutter (2004)

shutter(2004)

Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Writers: Parkpoom Wongpoom, Sopon Sukdapisit
Stars: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee and Unnop Chanpaibool

Summary:
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.


[Thai Movie] My Ex II: Haunted Lover (2010)





Director: Piyapan Choopetch
Stars: Ratchawin Wongviriya, Atthama Chiwanitchapan and Thongpoom Siripipat


Summary:
A Thai girl called Cee follows her sister into the movie business. Although her career as an actress is taking off, her love life takes a nose dive after she finds out that her boyfriend, Aof, has a new girlfriend. She breaks up with him only to find out later that the new girl friend is dead. Shortly after, Cee then feels like she is being haunted by a ghost.






[Korean Movie] The Man From Nowhere (2010)

The Man From Nowhere 2010


Also Known As: Ajeossi
Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Writer: Jeong-beom Lee
Stars: Bin Won, Thanayong Wongtrakul and Sae-ron Kim
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller

Summary:
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug- and organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.


[Thai Movie] The House (2008)

the_house


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)

Coming Soon


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] Crows Zero (2007)

Crows Zero(2007)

Director: Takashi Miike
Writers: Hiroshi Takahashi (comic), Shogo Muto (screenplay)
Stars: Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe and Meisa Kuroki

Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Shun Oguri, Kyosuke Yabe, Takayuki Yamada, Shunsuke Daito, Meisa Kuroki, Tsutomu Takahashi, Goro ~censored~
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Released By: Encore Films & Golden Village
Rating: NC-16


Summary:
The film centers around the character Takiya Genji (Oguri Shun), a newcomer to Suzuran All-Boys High School who aims to 'conquer' Suzuran. Genji makes a deal with his father, Hideo Takitani (Kishitani Goro). If he can conquer the school, he will be allowed to succeed his father as the head of his yakuza syndicate. But first, he has to defeat Serizawa Tamao (Yamada Takayuki), the "King of a Hundred Beasts" and closest to conquering Suzuran.

The mega-hit comic, CROWS, about feuding high school tough guys, has sold over 32 million copies in its eight-plus years. This feature length movie version of "CROWS" depicts the never-before-told origins of the story as "Episode Zero".
The Suzuran Senior High School for Boys, nicknamed "The School of Crows", is the poorest achieving, most violent school in the country. The students are called "crows" and they band together in factions, battling each other for influence and power. But they all share a common goal ... one that has never been reached in the school's history: unification. No one faction has ever reigned supreme.

Oguri plays the role of Genji Takiya, a transfer student who attempts to take over Suzuran Boys High School and is mentored by old boy yakuza Katagiri (Kyosuke Yabe) as he faces off against rival Serizawa (Takayuki Yamada).



[J - Movie] Missing 55 (2011)





Also Known As: Misshingu 55
Directed by: Yasushi Koshizaka
Language: Japanese
Genre: Thriller, Pinku
Cast: Saotome Rui, Aikawa Yui, Maeda Yuki, Saya Kobayashi


Summary:
A kidnapped schoolgirl was imprisoned “goods” to re-educate slaves school student numbers was infiltrated as a spy for a secret organization, “No. 55? solid objective is destruction of human trafficking and rescue organization for girls that can not escape from hell Prison Break starts desperate campaign



[J - Movie] Woman Hunting Bijo Kari (2011)



Also Known As: Uuman huntingu bijo kari
Language: Japanese
Genre: Thriller, Action, Drama

Plot:
Five women in need of money. Where the girls were brought it was also unknown in the vast forest anywhere. Then, kick off times to hunt the real life man…

[Korean Movie] The Housemaid (2010)



Director: Sang-soo Im
Writers: Sang-soo Im (screenplay), Ki-young Kim (characters)
Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-Jae Lee and Seo Woo


Plot:
Eun-yi, a middle-aged divorcee, is hired as an upper class family
housemaid. But soon enough, master of the house Hoon takes
advantage of his social position by slipping into her sheets.
Hoon’s visits become frequent and Byung-sik, an old housemaid,
reports the affair to Hae-ra’s mother Mi-hee, who plots to give
Hae-ra the control over her husband. Soon Eun-yi miraculously
becomes pregnant and wants to keep the baby. This is
discovered by the family and she’s forced to have an abortion by
Mi-hee despite Eun-yi’s plea to let her keep the baby and leave
the house. Mi-hee’s plot backfires when Hoon scrutinizes her for
terminating his child, even if that child is conceived illegitimately.
Her forced abortion turns Eun-yi’s mental condition for the worst
and she decides to take the matter into her own hands.



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