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	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	Plot	Links
	2046	2004	Kar Wai Wong	7.5	He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.	IMDB
	2LDK	2002	Yukihiko Tsutsumi	7.2	A twisted, skillfully paced black comedy, "2LDK" (2-Bedroom, Living Room, Dining Room & Kitchen) packs a startling amount of inventiveness, razor-sharp wit and filmmaking fervor to tell the story of two roommates at odds with the world and each other. Two struggling actresses share a Tokyo apartment. As they compete for the same film role and the same boyfriend, their petty squabbles soon turn into all-out war and when they break out the power tools and electrocution devices, you know these two ladies have forfeited more than their security deposit. Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi, one of the most promising young filmmakers in Japan, pushes his film's premise to the extreme, making for an unforgettable, non-stop barrage of laughs, fights and ultra-violence.	IMDB
	3 Days Of A Blind Girl	1992	Wing-Chiu Chan	5.9	Veronica Yip plays the wife of heart surgeon Dr Jack Ng, who leaves for a conference in Macau while she suffers temporary blindness. Sam Chu ingratiates himself into the household in order to avenge the seduction and death of his wife, for which Dr Jack appears responsible. Sam defends his new territory from a swaggering burglar and a cop who is the boyfriend of their maid May. Eventually, the rather wimpy Mrs. Ng stops depending on others to rescue her and discovers her inner strength and aggression, and uses it to triumph. She also realizes the lack of control in her life until now, perhaps setting things up for a sequel.	IMDB
	303 Fear Faith Revenge	1998	Somching Srisupap	6.1	St. George boarding school, a typical Catholic school with strict rules. A group of new students have heard a rumor about the mysterious suicide case of an honor student whose name was in the school's Hall of Fame. Their curiosity to find the truth leads them into the horrid situation. Students and staff members are brutally murdered, one by one; and the entire campus is trapped on top of the hill as there is a landslide that ruins the only road to the school.	IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	3-Iron	2004	Ki-duk Kim; Kim Ki-Duk	8.2	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 laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	666 Satan Returns	1996	Lun Ah		Filmed in an oppressively dark and jumpy style reminiscent of the blockbuster "Se7en", this chilling Hong Kong horror stars sexy Chingmy Yau as a police complaints officer being staled by a psychopath who believes she is the devil's daughter. Maverick cop Mo Ti Nam (Donnie Yen) tries to protect her with his lethal kicks and flying fists as the madman "Judas" convinces her that she may indeed have demonic powers. Only the bumbling assistance of Mo's partner Ka-Ming, busty female cop "Leon", and the unpredictable Mo himself stand between Chingmy and the chainsaw-wielding madman who wants to rip out her heart. With a quirky inventive style which at times invites comparison to "Evil Dead" as well as visual references to "Se7en" and "Leon", this imaginative thriller will captivate horror fans with its blood and guts overload, as well as followers of fast-paced Hong Kong gun action.	IMDB
	9 Souls	2003	Toshiaki Toyoda	7.0	After brutally murdering his father, Michiru (Ryuhei Matsuda) is sentanced to 14 years in prison. No sooner is he introduced to his 9 inmates in a crowded prison cell that one of them Shiratori (a professional escapist played by Blue Spring actor Mame Yamada) follows the path of an intruding mouse to lead both he and his inmates free, on the run together a band of convicts in search of their past wrongs to make right what could not be done behind bars. What follows is a journey of redemption, re-discovery and understanding.	IMDB
	964 Pinocchio	1992	Shozin Fukui	5.5	Pinocchio 964 is the nightmare of a cybernetic sex android let loose into the world without a memory. Wandering around Japan, Pinocchio finds Kyoko, another amnesiac with a horrible secret to her own memory loss. Together they try to piece their lives and live in a world where memory is no longer needed. At the same time, Pinocchio's fiendish architect and master is desperately trying to find his lost prototype before the world finds him. As agents hunt down Pinocchio, the sex android begins to unravel in what can only be said is a hallucinogenic thrill ride that has to be seen to be believed. Shozin Fukui's masterful direction gives the viewer a totally unique experience along the lines of "Tetsuo The Iron Man". This underground classic packed the theaters in Japan and stood out among so many other films that it was hailed as a masterpiece of innovation in Japan's film industry.	IMDB
	Acacia	2003	Ki-Hyung Park; Park Ki-Hyung	6.0	The Root of All Evil. After ten years of marriage, Do-il (<b>Kim Jin-geun</b>) and Mi-sook (<b>Shim Hye-jin</b>) live a seemingly happy and secure life together. Unable to conceive, they decide to adopt Jin-sung (Moon Woo-bin), a young boy that Mi-sook is drawn to after seeing his Munch-like paintings. Quiet and introverted, Jin-sung spends most of his time playing underneath the Acacia tree in their backyard, away from the family. When Mi-sook becomes miraculously pregnant, he becomes even more detached. As the once-dead Acacia tree in the backyard begins to bloom, terrible "accidents" begin to tear the household apart. Is it Jin-sung or something far more sinister?	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Aces Go Places 1	1982	Eric Tsang	6.7	This was the first installment of a very popular five part series. "For these films, efforts were made to draft in non-Chinese stars to give them international appeal. The Chinese versions are called "Aces go Places", while the westernized ones are the "Mad Missions". A hilarious, exciting, and incredibly entertaining tale of a professional thief named King Kong(Sam Hui), who swipes mob diamonds, and the spunky Hong Kong cop(Sylvia Chang), and bumbling New York detective, Albert Au (Karl Maka) ,who try to catch up with him, and inevitably team up with him against the mafia.	IMDB
	Aces Go Places II	1983	Eric Tsang	6.7	In this second MAD MISSION adventure, the unlikely partnership of master thief 'King' Kong, bumbling detective Kodyjack and Superintendent Ho are sent undercover to bust an underworld diamond deal. In this second installment of the very popular five part series, King Kong is attacked by a robot, sent by the Italian Mafia to avenge the capture of "white gloves". Also sent was Black Gloves to kill King Kong and to handle a diamond transfer deal with the underworld. King Kong then joins forces with the police to capture Black Gloves, who sends Black Knight II to attack. Very classic stuff that is still wonderful seventeen years later.	IMDB
	Aces Go Places III	1984	Hark Tsui	5.5	The third installment of the very popular five part series, Tsui Hark directs this spoof of the Mission Impossible and James Bond series - featuring cast members from both (Peter Graves, Richard Kiel and Harold Sakata). King Kong (Sam Hui) is commissioned by a man who claims to be Mr. Bond, a special agent from the British Secret Service, to recover the Queen's stolen crown jewels, which are now in Hong Kong. Back in Hong Kong, a Secret Service man from the Bond Street Headquarters, Mr. Tom Collins, has just arrived to find that Mr. Bond is actually the leader of a gang of international crooks. After King Kong carries out his mission, he is then summoned by the Governor to assist Collins in retrieving the stolen goods and apprehending Mr. Bond's gang.	IMDB
	Aces Go Places IV	1986	Ringo Lam	6.3	The fourth installment of this very popular five part series. Ringo Lam directs this high action comedy. The invention of a special brain stimulant prism leads to a series of dangerous adventures for King Kong(Sam Hui) and Inspector Baldy(Karl Maka). The lives of Inspector Ho(Sylvia Chang) and her son, Baldy Junior, are threatened by villains.	IMDB
	Aces Go Places V	1989	Chia-Liang Liu	5.2	This is the final installment of the very popular five part series. King Kong (Sam Hui) and Baldy (Karl Maka) part ways, only to be framed by Brother and Sister (Leslie Cheung and Nina Li Chi), a pair of young thieves, for stealing "The Chinese Excalibur," an antique from the Chinese Terracotta warriors. Now the real duo and the impostors must team up with the police to take on White Glove.	IMDB
	The Adventure of Denchu Kozo	1987	Shinya Tsukamoto		A young boy, Hikari, is transported into the future by a time machine, where a group of Shinsegumi vampires is threatening to take light away from the world forever thanks to the construction of a bomb fomented by a young woman's life. An elderly teacher, Momo Sariba, helps him to fight the monsters and fulfil his destiny: bringing light to the end of an era so that the following one will not be in darkness.	IMDB
	The Adventure of Iron Pussy	2003	Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Michael Shaowanasai	5.1	Iron Pussy is the attractive spy girl who has everything that a girl should be - She has both perfect manner and figure. She is now ready for her next mission - disguising as a maid in a mansion of Madam Pompadoy to investigate her suspicious business. Being very patient from an evil senior maid who keeps bullying her, Iron Pussy is finally destined to meet Tang, the hunk son of Madam Pompadoy. At that moment, Iron Pussy realizes the conflict in her heart between love and her own mission that needs to be completed	All Movie Guide; IMDB
	Agitator	2001	Takashi Miike	5.8	In this epic of Yakuza honour, betrayal and bloodshed, maverick director Miike Takashi creates a tale that is at once cool and muted yet unremittingly dark and brutal. Featuring all of the outrageous trademarks that audiences have come to expect from this twisted cinematic mind, Agitator adds a degree of intensity to the mix that needs to be seen to be believed. When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death of a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions. Ranging from the darkly comedic to the violently stylish, this is a twisted trip through the tattoo-strewn, bullet-ridden world of the Japanese Yakuza that will leave you stunned and surprised.	IMDB; Amazon UK
	All Night Long	1992	Katsuya Matsumura		One day, 3 boys -Saitou Shinji, Suzuki Kensuke, and Tanaka Tetsuya, they are atrangers- and a girl are standing at the railroad crossing. And a man in buisiness suit comes and massacres a girl without reason, 3 boys witness in surprise. After then, they make friends. They plan to hold a party with their girl friends. That day, Shinji and his girl friend are attacked by bad boys. Bad boys rape Shinji's girl and cut her Achilles tendon. Shinji want to revange them, so he asks Kensuke and Tetsuya for help. They attack and massacre bad boys with shotgun.	IMDB
	All Night Long 2	1995	Katsuya Matsumura		Noda Shun'ichi is a chicken-hearted fellow, and hoodlums are hard upon him. One day, hoodlums treate Shun'ichi and his friends cruelly, but they are massacred by Shun'ichi.	IMDB
	All Night Long 3	1996	Katsuya Matsumura		Kikuo a graduate is working at the love hotel "Wings". His hobby is breeding of insectivorous plant. One day, he steals Hitomi's dust. He takes pleasure in peeping Hitomi's life. Kikuo meets Kawasaki who calls himself 'dust hunter'. Kawasaki invites Kikuo to his house, and there are many personal files of the owners of dusts. Kikuo starts to collect Hitomi's personal data from her dusts. Kikuo's friends rape a hischool girl at a dumping ground. After they injuire her and they run away leaving her alone, Kikuo takes her to his house. Kikuo imprisons her and he holds a physical checkup her and make her personal date file. After it is over, Kikuo kills and dismembers her cruely. He goes to a dumping ground to dump her body. He meets Kawasaki again at there, and Kawasaki advices that he better throws it into fire. He applies Kawasaki's opinion. And also he kills Kawasaki and steals his pistol. One night, Hitomi comes to the love hotel "Wings" with her boy friend to sex. Kikuo is shocked because he is loving her abnormaly. Kikuo goes to the shopping store where Hitomi works at. Though there isn't Hitomi, Kikuo masaccres her co-workers gory	IMDB
	All Night Long 4	2002	Katsuya Matsumura		"All Night Long R" was released on DVD only in Japan,but I managed to track it down.The film is not as savagely violent as the previous two movies "All Night Long 2" and "All Night Long 3",but the tone of it is definitely disturbing and depressing.It tells us about obviously disturbed Japanese individual named Yuuki who captures two Japanese girls.One of them, Reika, is brutally murdered and her captor cuts her up and takes her body parts like ears and breast.The second girl is chained to his bed and he performs a hideous experiments on her body."All Night Long R" is a rather slow-moving horror film that offers plenty of shocking violence.The acting is excellent and the killing of a Japanese boy is extremely vicious and cruel.Sometimes the film has a mood of a very sad romance.So if you're a fan of Katsuya Matsumura's works give this gem a look. Embalmer @ IMDB	IMDB
	All Night Long 5	2003	Katsuya Matsumura		The weakest part of "All Night Long" series,but still unsettling When a young woman witnesses a suicide she is so overwhelmed with sexual excitement that she masturbates,unaware that she is being observed by a strange man.Later he invites her home where she is wined and dined.Soon she wakes up to find herself locked in a cage.Of course their twisted and sadomasochistic relationship will end in a sadistically explicit bloodbath...The version of "All Night Long 5" I have is in Japanese,but the above synopsis is general gist.I'm a big fan of Katsuya Matsumura and I absolutely love the first three "All Night Long" movies."All Night Long R" is also pretty good whilst still being deeply disturbing.Unfortunately "Initial O" is too long and sometimes dull,so I was a little bit disappointed.Still there is plenty of sex and some unsettling sexual torture on display.There is not much gore,but some scenes(for example throat slashing or castration)are particularly nasty."All Night Long O" looks more like extremely dark drama/romance with surprisingly nasty edge than horror film,but if you're a fan of Japanese horror give it a look.7 out of 10. Embalmer @ IMDB	IMDB
	An Adolescent	2001	Eiji Okuda	6.7	Tomokawa (Okuda) is a tough guy turned bored cop who spends much of his time sating lonely housewives and looking after retarded teen Sukemasa. One day while hanging out at a bar, he is approached by a 15-year-old enjo kosai named Yoko, offering a round of illicit sex in exchange for cash. Though he demurs, their paths cross again and soon a relationship of sorts forms. Yoko, it turns out, is Sukemasa's sister; and both are the children of his old flame Yukie (Marie Natsuki), a grasping, self-centered woman. Moreover, Yoko's grandfather is responsible for the massive tattoo sprawling across Tomokawa's back. Tomokawa soon takes both teens under his wing, protecting them from their heartless mother, and their lecherous stepfather. Soon, Yoko gets a similarly massive tattoo illustrating her bond with her policeman savior.	IMDB
	Ancient Chinese Whorehouse	1994	Kai Ming Lai		Madam Five and carpenter Kong work together managing a famous whorehouse. Kong's apprentice Yat fails to get along with Ching due to a misunderstanding between them. Luckily, the appearance of a murderous rapist helps to resolve the misunderstanding between them. It also unites the group to defend against the sex maniac and to rebuild Madam Five's business at a new location.	IMDB
	Andromedia	1998	Takashi Miike		Mai and her friends have an inseparable bond since childhood. But as of late, their friendship is questioned when their romantic relationships get in the way of others. But before Mai can make amends, she is unfortunately killed in a traffic accident. Distraught with her death, Mai's father implements his ongoing research of recording a person's memory into a microchip. His years of work finally pay off and Mai is alive again--through a computer. But trouble soon brews when a large corporation sends some thugs to retrieve Mai and the technology by forcible means. But before they can get to Mai, her father luckily safe havens her into her former boyfriend's laptop. Now the chase is on for the laptop and Mai's boyfriend and former friends have to run to keep her safe.	IMDB
	Angel Dust	1994	Sogo Ishii		A beautiful Japanese investigator is assigned to a series of brutal murders against young woman in the Tokyo subway. Fate reunites her with a former lover, a controversial psychiatrist expelled from his post his post who is now suspected of the murders.	IMDB
	Angel Guts 1 : High School Coed	1978	Chusei Sone		The first in a long series of films based on the dark adult comic books of Takashi Ishii, this rape thriller from the famed Nikkatsu Studios caused controversy for its themes and heavily Freudian style. Chusei Sone directed the film, which stars Machiko Ootani and Sansho Fukami in the story of the violent aftermath of a cheerleader's brutal gang-rape by juvenile delinquents at a suburban high school. Stylish and filled with symbolism (particularly involving water), the series is not for all viewers, but fans of Dario Argento and Brian DePalma should be riveted, especially to the better sequels which followed. — Robert Firsching	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Angel Guts 2 : Red Classroom	1979	Chusei Sone		Chusei Sone returned to direct this first sequel to Jokousei Tenshi No Harawata (1978). The snuff-oriented plot concerns a men's magazine reporter named Muraki (Keizo Kanie) writing an article on an adult-film actress (Yuuki Mizuhara) who appeared in a cult porno movie. When he tracks her down, Muraki discovers that the actress was really the victim of a filmed classroom rape. Sone's directorial style is well-matched to the dark tone of the source material, a series of perverse adult comic books written by Takashi Ishii. Tenshi No Harawata: Nami (1980) followed. | Robert Firsching	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Angel Guts 3 : Nami	1979	Noboru Tanaka		Noboru Tanaka directed this third installment in the popular series which began with Jokousei Tenshi No Harawata (1978). Eri Kanuma stars as Nami, a Japanese field reporter writing an article about rape for a women's magazine. As she investigates a bizarre series of crimes, she links up with a male reporter writing a similar article for a men's magazine, and the pair slowly uncover a strange pattern leading to a serial rapist. Takeo Chii co-stars in this tense, moody thriller, which was followed by the flamboyant Tenshi No Harawata: Akai Inga (1981). — Robert Firsching	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Angel Guts 4 : Red Porno	1981	Toshiharu Ikeda		This stylish fourth installment in the series which began with Jokousei Tenshi No Harawata (1978) is flamboyantly directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. The plot, based on the work of dark fantasy illustrator Takashi Ishii, deals with a woman fired from her department-store job for moonlighting at an adult bookshop. Against her better judgment, the depressed and lonely clerk finds herself becoming involved with one of the porno customers. Needless to say, this turns out to be a grave error. Ikeda, who went on to make the horrifying Shiryo No Wana (1988) from an Ishii script, paints his scenes more than he directs them, resulting in a dazzlingly visual film. Jun Izumi and Masahiko Abe co-star in this popular shocker, which brings to mind the work of cult Italian filmmaker Dario Argento with its brilliant colors and startling bursts of violence within a standard thriller framework. Tenshi No Harawata: Akai Memai (1988) was next. — Robert Firsching	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Angel Guts 5 : Red Dizziness	1988	Takashi Ishii	6.4	The fifth installment in a series of rape-thrillers which began with Jokousei Tenshi No Harawata (1978) is stylishly directed by Takashi Ishii, author of the dark adult comic books upon which the series is based. Mayako Katsuragi stars as Nami, a nurse who is brutally raped after getting off the night-shift at a hospital. When she breaks away from her rapist, she runs into the path of an oncoming car driven by Muraki (Naoto Takenaka). The pair begin a relationship, but Nami is haunted by bloody nightmares of her attack, leading to a horrifying climax. Takenaka went on to mainstream acclaim by starring in Rampo (1994). Ishii, who directed the remaining films in this series, returned with the most popular installment, Tenshi No Harawata: Akai Senko in 1994. — Robert Firsching	IMDB; All Movie Guide
	Angel of Darkness	1995	Atsushi Shimizu	5.7	At a high school in Tokyo, several of the female students have been moon-lighting as prostitutes. A teacher catches onto this fact and goes about putting an end to it. Things go awry when he discovers he turns into a sex demon with tentacles whenever he gets aroused (huh?). He turns from savior to vilifier, poor prostitute school girls.	IMDB; IMDB
	Angel of Darkness II	1995	Atsushi Shimizu		Unaware of the danger that awaits them, five lusty college students and their two chaperone professors set out to take in a little sun and lots of hot fun on a Seika College camping trip in the woods. Although they’re supposed to be studying the plant life, they’re much more interested in studying each other. So when students Sanae and Takuya set out to ‘investigate’ a private path on their own, Professor Fujino and her secret lesbian lover Akane are more than happy to be left alone.	IMDB
	Angel of Darkness III	1996	Mitsunori Hattori		Determined not to let another innocent young woman become a victim of the demon's beastly desires, he sets off to Showa Central Hospital to check up on the sole survivor of the massacre. When his sloppy investigation alerts the Injuu to his presence, it manages to escape by lashing out at anyone within reach and that includes playing 'doctor' with hot college professor.	IMDB
	Angel of Darkness IV	1996	Mitsunori Hattori		Constantly bullied by all the other students at Seika College, timid little Izumi never tries to fight back. Her lifelong friend Toru does his best to defend her from the bullies, but even he’s beginning to have doubts about her. Desperate to help his daughter, Izumi’s father hires the beautiful Sakiko Katsuragi to pose as a housekeeper and become his daughter’s confidant. But when Izumi is assaulted by priests and one of them ends up dead, the whole situation goes from bad to worse!	IMDB
	Another Heaven	2000	Jôji Iida		A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?	IMDB
	Antenna	2001	Kazuyoshi Kumakiri	6.9	Yuichiro (Kase Ryo) is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".	IMDB
	Arahan	2004	Seung-wan Ryoo		2004 A.D. In the midst of Seoul, where high-resolution camera phones, MP3s, digital cameras, Pentium 4 computers, X-game and internet chatting are the big issues for its young population... The window-cleaners who calmly carry on their job, dangling thousands of feet above the ground... The wrinkled grannies on the street who handle heavy satchels as if they were air-filled balloons... What if these are the "masters" of the secret disciplines of the East, preserving the peace of our world without our knowledge? Sang-hwan became a cop out of his naive desire to bring justice to those who take unfair advantage of their strengths... But the tough reality is that even local gangsters can beat him up... One day, he suddenly encounters a group of strangers... "You are destined to become Maruchi! We will teach you how to shoot ch'i energy from your palms, too. Really!" They are known as the Seven Masters... Thus Sang-hwan is paired with his partner-to-be, Eui-jin, who is destined to become Arachi. Sang-hwan of course thinks they are pulling his leg, but Eui-jin is cute, so maybe he should go along... But when will I learn palm-wind and levitation techniques? All I ever get to do is clean the house! Meanwhile, the Master of Absolute Evil HeugUn (Dark Cloud) has freed himself from his imprisonment, after being sealed in by the Seven Masters. Only Maruchi can prevent HeugUn (Dark Cloud) from plunging the world into dark chaos! Can Sang-hwan be reborn as Maruchi and combine his forces with Arachi in time to defeat HeugUn (Dark Cloud) and restore the peaceful flow of ch'i to the world?	IMDB
	Arakimentari	2004	Travis Klose	7.7	"I wish I was a god with a thousand arms, each with a camera." So says Nobuyoshi Araki, who with more than 350 photo books stakes the claim as the most published photographer in the world. While his work spans varied subjects, his erotic work is what made his reputation, one that is infamous as well as notorious. Provoking the sexual prudery of Japan, his work has shaped an entire culture and made him the country's face of sexual liberation. Filmmaker Travis Klose, Bjork, Takeshi Kitano, Daido Moriyama, Richard Kern and other collaborators and friends give further insight into understanding the life and mind of this artistic dynamo. Arakimentari is not merely a biographical exploration, but more of an attempt to understand one man's artistic life and character - and through him learn something about the nature of genius.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Art of Fighting	2006	Han-sol Shin	5.5	Jae Hee stars in this action comedy as Byung Tae, a cowardly high school kid who is scraping through life the hard way. His days are tormented by school bullies and are making his life a living hell. One day he meets Pan Su (Baek Yoon Sik, Save The Green Planet, The President's Last Bang) a wizened elder, well versed in martial arts. Pan Su agrees to teach his art to Byung Tae and help him defend himself against his tormentors, and in doing so, Byung Tae begins to learn things about himself, and about life, that they don't teach at school. The Art Of Fighting is the feature length directorial debut from successful short filmmaker Shin Han Sol.	IMDB
	Attack of the Monsters - Gamera vs. Guiron	1969	Noriaki Yuasa	3.7	Three children, two boys and a girl, stumble upon a flying saucer. The boys both step in without hesitating, and are whisked away to a planet in Earth's orbit but on the exact opposite side of the Sun. Inhabiting this planet are two women with Midwestern accents, who hypnotize the children to find they fantasize about milk, donuts, and Gamera, our favorite hero turtle. The women simply want to eat their brains. Back home, no one will believe the little girl's story of alien abduction, not even Officer Concha (pronounced "Cornjob"). Finally, Gamera rescues the children while fighting Guiron, a monster with a giant knife for a nose. Gamera kills Guiron while doing gymnastics on a parallel bar and takes the kids home, where the kids hope for peace, understanding, and the end of traffic accidents.	IMDB
	Attack Of The Mushroom People	1963	Ishirô Honda		After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island, the passengers--a psychologist, his girlfriend, a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor, and his skipper--take refuge in a mysterious fungus-covered boat. While using the MUSHROOMS for sustenance, they find in the ship's journal that the mushrooms are poisonous. However some members of the shipwrecked party continue to ingest the mysterious fungi, transforming them into hideous fungal monsters. One of the strangest and most horrific TOHO productions to date.	IMDB
	Attack The Gas Station!	1999	Kim Sang-jin		Don't try this at home! Four anarchistic, nihilistic youths run amuck in the streets and ATTACK THE GAS STATION! Lord Of The Flies-style social engineering quickly breaks out amongst the hostages as punk rockers pump petrol, gangsters are forced to rap, customer service becomes a fighting art and the gas station becomes a staging ground for an end-times battle between gangsters, punks and an army of moped-delivery boys. Director Kim Sang-Jin takes us into the world of the surreal where mayhem rules. Using psychedelic lighting, glittering mopeds and a cast of feisty up and coming actors, he has managed to create a film that is both stylish and poignant. A dada poke in the eye to authority, this film either serves as a political parable about Korean society, a microcosm of Korean social problems or, alternately, just a hell of a lot of fun. -SubwayCinema.com-	DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	Audition	2000	Takashi Miike	7.4	Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training. On the day of the audition, she's the last person they see. Aoyama is hooked. He notes her number from her file, calls her and takes her to dinner. He hesitates to call again, worried that he'll seem too eager. When he does, Asami knowingly lets the phone ring for some time before answering. She's alone in her darkened room - alone, that is, apart from the writhing victim she has tied up in a sack on the floor... Summary written by Bastiaan van Gestel {geste002@wxs.nl} IMDB A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. The widower ultimately becomes enamored with and fascinated by one particular young woman...but first impressions can often be horribly wrong.... Summary written by deusdiabolus IMDB	IMDB
	Azumi	2003	Ryuhei Kitamura		In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is AZUMI, the ultimate assassin.	IMDB
	Azumi 2: Death or Love	2005	Shusuke Kaneko	6.0	Taking place shortly after the end of the first film, "Azumi 2" features the same actress, Aya Ueto, in the title role, this time going up against a corrupt government official (Mikijiro Hira) and his team of trained ninja assassins.	IMDB
	Bad Guy	2001	Ki-duk Kim; Kim Ki-Duk	6.7	Award-winning Korean director Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter..and Spring) brings us this haunting vision of two unlikely lovers trapped in Seoul's red light district. When a local pimp is publicly humiliated by a snobbish college girl, he manipulates her into a life of sexual slavery at his brothel. As he watches her nightly humiliation from behind a two-way mirror, his obsessive desire consumes him while she learns there is no love more complete than her captor's. Kim Ki-duk drives his characters to the edge of hair-trigger violence and despair, shattering conventional ideals of love in one of the most controversial films in recent years.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Bald Headed Betty	1975	Sum Cheung; Cheung Sum			IMDB; All Movie Guide
	The Ballad of Narayama	1983	Shohei Imamura	7.2	In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.	IMDB
	Bamboo House of Dolls	1974	Chin Hung Kuei		A Women In Prison film from director Kuei Chih-hung (who also did Killer Snakes), Bamboo House Of Dolls takes its cues from the entries in this sub genre that came before it but does the 'chicks in chains' thing with a decidedly Hong Kong slant to it.	IMDB
	Bangkok Dangerous	1999	Oxide Pang Chun; Danny Pang; Oxide Pang	6.5	The story is of a deaf-mute hitman and his partner who are based in Bangkok. He is friends with his...	IMDB; All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	Bangkok Haunted	2001	Oxide Pang Chun; Pisut Praesangeam; Oxide Pang; Pisuth Prasaengaim	5.3	hree women meet in a cafe and tell each other one scary story. Each of the three stories are very different in their content, from a story of an ancient drum with a hidden past, a magic love potion so strong that one can literally die from love, and a murder case with a twist in the end.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Baptism of Blood	1996	Kenichi Yoshihara	4.9	A fatal skin disease forces a beautiful actress to retire from the screen. She puts a sinister plan...	IMDB
	Barking Dogs Never Bite	2000	Joon-ho Bong	7.2		IMDB
	Battle Heater: Kotatsu	1990	Jôji Iida			IMDB
	Battle Royale	2000	Kinji Fukasaku		In the future the rise of crime in Japan increases daily, at 15% unemployment, the adults fearing the wayward violent nature of its youth passed a government act. The BR Act (Battle Royale). This act, aimed at controlling the violence in schools and reinstating the discipline of the past, resorted to an impartial lottery system selecting a single class from all of Japans high schools. On the basis of this selection, the class is taken to a remote island, implanted with a pulse monitor and given provisions to last 3 days. Food, water, a map, a compass, and finally a weapon. The purpose of their stay is to survive the Battle Royale, forced beyond their control to kill off each of their classmates to ensure that they will be the last alive. And if, after three days there is more than one contestant alive? Everyone dies.	IMDB
	Battle Royale II	2003	Kenta Fukasaku; Kinji Fukasaku		Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.	IMDB
	Battlefield Baseball	2003	Yudai Yamaguchi	6.1		IMDB
	Be With You	2004	Nobuhiro Doi	8.6	Widower Takumi (Shidou Nakamura) lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the death of his wife Mio (Yuko Takeuchi). He always remembers Mio's promise to him that she will be with him again when the rainy season comes. On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji come across a woman in the woods who is sheltering from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is. Family life resumes from where they left off. But will Mio leave again when the rainy days are over?	IMDB
	Beasts	1980	Dennis Yu	5.4		IMDB
	Beautiful Girl Hunter	1979	Norifumi Suzuki			IMDB
	Beautiful Hunter	1994	Masaru Konuma		Shion is the most merciless assassin of the Magnificat crime group. However, when her hand and heart hesitate to murder the man she loves...	IMDB
	Beauty Of The Haunted House	1998				IMDB
	The Bedroom	1992	Hisayasu Sato		Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged...	IMDB
	A Better Tomorrow	1986	John Woo		Two brothers torn between their conflicting roles find their love for each other will never die. SUNG TSE KIT (Leslie Cheung), a dedicated policeman blames his brother, Tse Ho (Ti Lung), who is a gangster for their father's death as much as obstructing his career in the force. Ho is betrayed by his boss, Tam Shing (Lee Tse Ho) and is caught in an operation putting him in jail. Upon his release, Ho finds out that his old partner, Mark (Chow Yun Fat), is made crippled by Tam. The pair decides to get even with Tam for the last time. He's heroic acts help him win back his brother's love and respect.	IMDB
	A Better Tomorrow II	1987	John Woo		Sung Tse Ho (Ti Lung) and his brother Tse Kit (Leslie Cheung) are undercover police agents collecting evidence of the counterfeit activities of Lung's (Dean Shek) ship building company. Actually, Lung's assistant, Ko Ying Pui, is the one running the counterfeit operation and he wants to kill Lung to take over the company. The two brothers save Lung and escort him to New York to be taken care of by Ken (Chow Yun Fat), an ex-killer living a quiet life in America. Later, Ken decides to help Lung return to Hong Kong. Moreover, Ken, Ho and Kit are determined to catch Ko even at the price of losing their lives.	IMDB
	A Better Tomorrow III	1989	Hark Tsui		At the end of the Vietnam war, Cheung goes to Saigon, intent on bringing his uncle and cousin back to Hong Kong...	IMDB
	Beutiful Beast	1995	Toshiharu Ikeda			IMDB
	The Big Slaughter Club Returns	2003	Hitoshi Ishikawa			IMDB
	The Big Spook War	2005	Takashi Miike	7.0	A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great spirit war...	IMDB
	Bio Zombie	1998	Wilson Yip		Hong Kong's answer to George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead. A soft drink tainted with bio-chemicals has the power to turn people into flesh-eating zombies. A man drinks from the bottle, and wanders into the night. As two young VCD sellers (Woody Invincible and Crazy Bee) from a local mall are returning to the mall with their bosses' car, they hit the man. Unsure of what to do, they bring the man back to the mall with them. The mall closes, and soon there are zombies everywhere! A small group of mall employees must bond together to try and fight their way out.	IMDB
	Bird People In China, The	1998			One of the most extraordinary films from an extraordinary director, The Bird People In China uses magic realism to express human yearning and frustration.<br><br> We journey with the Japanese salary man, and the dept-collecting yakuza on a journey to investigate a jade mine, which turns into a search for the bird people, but ultimately becomes a voyage of discovery to the core values of modern man.<br><br> Never lacking pace, and building his narrative from his normal ragbag of materials, in this scenically stunning film, Miike once again turns his comic vision towards the only truly overwhelming adventure...the hunt for value.	DVD Empire
	Black Angel Vol.1	1997	Takashi Ishii			IMDB
	Black Angel Vol.2	1999	Takashi Ishii			IMDB
	Black Cat In Jail	1999	Ng Yiu Kuen		They are four felons: a victim of drug dealers most wants to see her boy but he treats her as a stranger; a dancer who killed her husband meets the mistress in jail; a killer who enjoy peace in prison is asked to do job again; a starlet was cheated by a rich man and wants to commit suicide because of the damage of her "fixed" face ...	IMDB; Site
	Black Line	1960	Teruo Ishii		Japanese movie. Being wrongfully accused for the murder of prostitute, a young journalist investigates underworld prostitition zone known as 'Kurosen' (literally translated 'black line').	IMDB
	Black Magic	1975	Meng-Hwa Ho	5.8	In a departure from his normal roles, martial arts hero Ti Lung plays Hsu Lo, who runs up against an evil black magic practitioner, San Kan-Mi (Ku Feng). San Kan-Mi wants to seduce Hsu's fiancée, Wang Chu-Ying (Lily Lee), and places a death spell on him and a love spell on her, hoping to kill two birds with one stone. Another veteran witch doctor comes to the rescue of the spellbound lovers as this bone-chilling tale of good versus evil races to a heart-stopping ending.	IMDB
	Black Sun - The Nanking Massacre	1995			During the dark days in which the Japanese Imperial Army occupied the central eastern Chinese city of Nanking, 300,000 individuals were tortured as war crimes raged out of control. In addition to the butchering of the Chinese military, the civilian population also suffered. Mixing actual footage and still photographs of the atrocity with stomach-churning reenactments of the crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial Army, director Tun Fei Mou's unforgettable account of the Nanking Massacre serves as a shocking and sickening reminder of the true horrors of war. — Jason Buchanan	All Movie Guide
	Black Tight Killers	1966	Yasuharu Hasebe	7.1	Playgirl assassins a-go-go! A mod/pop art sixties masterpiece masquerading as a gangster/spy spoof, BLACK TIGHT KILLERS (Ore Ni Sawaru To Abunaize, roughly "Don't Touch Me, I'm Dangerous") stars then-current matinee idol and singing star Akira Kobayashi as Daisuke, a combat photographer trying to save his stewardess girlfriend, Yoriko (Chieko Matsubara), from an alliance of American mobsters and Japanese yakuza (gangsters). He's alternately helped and hindered by a strange band of girl assassins who use razor-sharp 45 rpm records as weapons and wads of bubblegum to blind pursuers. What he soon discovers is that everyone is after a cache of gold hidden by Yoriko's late father immediately after World War II. The first film from one of Nikkatsu Studios' most talented late-sixties directors, Yasuharu Hasebe, BLACK TIGHT KILLERS shows a definite influence from Hasebe's mentor, the iconoclastic and brilliant Seijun Suzuki (Branded To Kill, Tokyo Drifter).	DVD Empire; IMDB
	Blackhole	1998	Shugo Fujii	4.9		IMDB
	Blind Beast	1969	Yasuzo Masumura		A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.	IMDB
	Blind Womans Curse	1970	Teruo Ishii			IMDB
	Blood Ritual	1988	Yuen Ching Lee			IMDB
	Bloodsucking Rose	1974	Michio Yamamoto	5.8	Dracula, played by an uncredited caucasian, was shipwrecked in the 1600s in Japan, when Christianity was illegal...	IMDB
	Bloody Beach	2000	In Soo Kim	5.3	One summer day, with the clear, blue ocean and bright shining sun, eight members of an internet, "Beach Lovers", decide to go on vacation, to the beach. Before the night is even upon them, Yoona receives an email from a stranger. But she disregards the warning in the message as a prank and goes outside, without much care. Moment later, a loud scream cuts through the hot, summer night. It is Yoona. The others run towards the woods in search of her to no avail. Only a pool of blood marks her spot. She is nowhere to be found. Certain of her death, the others return to the cabin, overcome with dread. They discover that each of them also received an email from some stranger. Convinced that Yoona's death is related to the email, they start tracking down the sender only to realize that everything is related to an incident that happened in their internet club some time ago...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	La Blue Girl Live 1 - Revenge of the Sex Demon King	1994	Yô Kobayashi			IMDB
	La Blue Girl Live 2 - Birth Of The Demon Child	1996				IMDB
	La Blue Girl Live 3 - The Hunt for the Ninja Girls	1996	Kaoru Kuramoto			IMDB
	Blue Spring	2001	Toshiaki Toyoda		It is a story about high school anarchy in the long, bruised-and-battered tradition of BE-BOP HIGH SCHOOL and FUDOH. This school is surrounded by misleadingly picturesque cherry trees in full bloom, it's the students who set the rules while uncooperative teachers are dangled from windows. In this power structure, the leader is decided by a peculiar game of dare: hanging from the rooftop fence, he who can clap his hands the highest number of times without plummeting to his death is king. Violent assaults on the throne are punished with a severe bruising or in worse cases with a kitchen knife in the gut. The desolate concrete hallways of the building are covered floor to ceiling in black graffiti, which acquires a new coat each time another student comes to power. | HK Flix	IMDB
	Blues Harp	1998	Takashi Miike		Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang...	IMDB
	Body Jumper	2001	Haeman Chatemee	5.4	The year 2000- Pop, a bloodthirsty Thai ghost, haunts Sam Kotr, a small village in Roi Et Province. One by one...	IMDB
	Boogiepop wa Warawanai: Boogiepop and Others	2000	Ryu Kaneda	6.5	The cold dead of night is a dangerous time to be near the Shinyo Academy. Girls have begun to mysteriously disappear without a trace, and the school is alive with rumors. With each new disappearance, a lingering fear grows ever stronger - fear that a shinigami...the very spirit of death...is prowling the city. They say you never see it coming...a lone whistle splits the dark silence, and it suddenly appears to steal your soul...<bR><bR> However, Nagi Kirima has never feared the darkness. She's determined to uncover the truth, but there aren't many clues to follow. A mysterious new drug that's appeared on the streets...a homeless man who's more than he seems...A girl still haunted by a serial killer who died five years ago...Nagi must piece together the entire story, before more students end up missing or dead.	IMDB; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
	The Bottled Fools	2004	Hiroki Yamaguchi	7.3	A unique and intense vision of abstract, psychologically charged sci-fi horror, surprise hit of the 2004 Fantasia Festival. Set almost entirely in a transport elevator that shuttles citizens between futuristic towns stacked on top of one another, a hellish scenario unfolds. Amongst the postmodern masses that squeeze into the public transport: cell phone-addicted businessmen clones, militant law enforcers; and a 17 year old school girl (Luchino Fujisaki) with the psychic ability to receive visions from each person on board. Oppressive paranoia builds when a pair of convicted homicidal rapists join the ride and manages to escape their abusive police escorts. Terrific sets, detailed characterization and outbursts of excessive violence set the stage for certain doom and utter bloody chaos.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	The Bow	2005	Ki-duk Kim	6.9	An old man who is in his 60s, lives with a 16 year old girl in the boat on the sea. He plans to marry her when she turns 17 while isolating her from the outside world. However, people begin to hire the boat for fishing trips leading her to become interested in city boys and the old man's obsession to become more intense.	IMDB
	Boxer's Omen	1983	Chin Hung Kuei	6.8	As if Jodorowsky met Coffin Joe in Hong Kong and decided to collaborate on a supernatural martial-arts action film. Filled to the brim with visual overload, mystical drama, Buddhist symoblism and dark supernatural atmosphere, this film follows the life of a boxer embroiled in a vengeful feud sparked by the brutal, nearly fatal beating of his brother in a sparring match. He is overwhelmed one night by a vision, an omen as it were, which ultimately leads him towards the realization of his own destiny that takes him along a path of spirituality and a quest for the power and inner peace that may free his lineage from an ages old curse. This scenario is used as a launching point for what is surely one of the most bizarre, chaotic & excessive Hong Kong flicks ever made. Most of the movies effects are obviously low budget but the rather excellent filmwork and audaciously gonzo, over-the-top nature of the imagery far than makes up for any budgetary restrictions. The indelibly weird vibe that permeates the film is, in fact, partially due to it's low-fidelity nature. Those familiar with the "Chinese Ghost Story" and similar fare will be familiar with the themes conjured up by these supernatural Hong Kong action flicks and may know what to expect. But those who are not should get ready for a pretty wild trip down a road full of wild twists of logic that lead through glowing supernatural vistas, magical terrorist attacks, flying eyeball creatures, and wild clashes with demonic entities and manifestations of all sorts. A crazy little nugget of a film that could even be an accidental masterpiece. At the very least, a unique cinematic experience that's probably like nothing else you've ever seen. Virtually impossible to track down and not, as far as I know, offically available. In spite of this, fans of offbeat & mondo cinema should do whatever they can to track this gem down.	IMDB
	Branded To Kill	1967	Seijun Suzuki			IMDB
	Bright Future	2003	Kiyoshi Kurosawa		Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange jellyfish that they keep as a pet.	IMDB
	Brother	2000	Takeshi Kitano		A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger...	IMDB
	Brother of Darkness	1994	Hin Sing 'Billy' Tang			IMDB
	Brutal River	2005	Anat Yuangngern		In the 1960s, there were few places on Earth as quiet and peaceful as Thailand's Chumporn province, where people continue to live life the old country way. This tranquility is shattered the day an unknown dead man's body is found along the banks of the river waterway. Soon after, villagers began to mysteriously disappear for no reason. The local people endeavor to learn the cause of the disappearances and the identity of the unknown stranger. While trying to track the unknown murderer, strange tracks are found, which could have only been made by some sort of huge animal	IMDB
	The Buffalo Boy	2004	Minh Nguyen-Vo	6.6		IMDB
	Bullet Ballet	1998	Shinya Tsukamoto	6.6	A man sees his life changed for ever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means...	IMDB
	Bullet in the Head	1990	John Woo		A psychologically intense, highly recommended Hong Kong action flick about three daring would-be profiteers who head into Vietnam-era Saigon hoping for a quick smuggling score. However, their greed--and the dangerous nature of the documents they transport--soon lands them in a Viet Cong prison and taints their friendship irrevocably.| HK Flix	IMDB
	Bunshinsaba	2004	Byeong-ki Ahn	4.9	Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates...	IMDB
	Burst City	1982	Sogo Ishii			IMDB
	Butterfly	2004	Yan Yan Mak	6.9	Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian...	IMDB