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Face 2004 Sang-Gon Yoo Hyun-min (Shin Hyun-jun) works for the police, reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting their skulls... IMDB
Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen; Chen Kaige 7.8 The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years. IMDB; DVD Empire
Fear Of The Mummy 1970 Masakura Tamura Here is a real obscure treasure, an Asian mummy film. A Mummy is revived by scientists and it goes on a killing spree. IMDB
Female Body Laboratory
Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 1972 Shunya Ito An absolutely phenomenal surrealist-cum-exploitation picture, "Female Convict Scorpion--Jailhouse 41" is the second in a series of films about Matsu (known to her fellow inmates as "Scorpion"), a diminutive but volatile woman who is wrongly sent to prison by a betraying boyfriend. Incredibly satisfying and spectacularly photographed, these women's prison pictures feature an anti-heroine who is beautiful, strong, principled and basically honorable and decent--especially when compared to everyone around her. One of the truly genuine masterpieces of violent 1970s cinema, "Female Convict Scorpion--Jailhouse 41" is, in its own way, as subversive as Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg's "Performance," John Boorman's "Point Blank" and Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend." IMDB
Female Juvenile Delinquent Leader: Stray Cat Rock 1970 Yasuharu Hasebe IMDB
Female Market 1986 Yasuaki Uegaki IMDB
Female Prisoner 701 : Scorpion 1972 Shunya Ito IMDB
Female Prisoner Scorpion Grudge Song 1973 Yasuharu Hasebe IMDB
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable 1973 Shunya Ito IMDB
Feng shui 2004 Chito S. Roño 7.1 IMDB; All Movie Guide
Fighting Elegy 1966 Seijun Suzuki 7.7 In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. He must, however, hide his ardor and other aspects of his emerging sexuality, focusing his energy on a gang he joins, breaking school rules, and getting into scuffles (he tells her, "Oh, Michiko, I don't masturbate, I fight"). He comes under the influence of a young tough nicknamed Terrapin, and together they lead fights against rival gangs. Gradually, Kiroku and Terrapin align themselves with the right-wing Kita Ikki, and Kiroku becomes a stand-in for the attitudes of Japanese youth who embraced the imperialism leading to World War II. IMDB; DVD Empire
Fire Line 1961 Hiromichi Takebe Japanese movie. Co-written by Teruo Ishii. Two syndicates, Juusou and Kajikawa are competeing for the territory in the underground market. Shin'ichi and Kenji are hired by Juusou's boss. When Kajikawa gets the guns with higher price than Juusou offered, Juusou decides to take them by force. Shin'ichi and Kenji follows Kajikawa's car and find it crashed on the bridge. Ater they get the guns, a trap is waiting for them. Sazuma
Flower And Snake 2004 Takashi Ishii 5.8 A once-wealthy businessman finds himself in dire financial straits. To pay off his debts, he uses his beautiful, tango dancing wife Shizuko as currency. Now in the hands of a 95 year-old lecher known as "Showa Prince Of Darkness", Shizuko finds herself in the throes of sexual abuse and psychological torture. This stunning and disturbing feature from writer/director Takashi Ishii ("Evil Dead Trap", "Angel Guts") is a nightmarish blend of fetishism and art. IMDB
Flower And Snake 4 - Rope Magic 1987 Masayuki Asao IMDB
Flowers of Shanghai 1998 Hou Hsiao-Hsien; Hsiao Hsien Hou Hou Hsiao-hsien (Goodbye South, Goodbye) directed this Taiwanese-Japanese period drama set in the British section brothels of 19th-century Shanghai. Chu Tien-wen's screenplay was adapted from Han Ziyun's 1894 novel Haishang Huia Liezhuang (Biographies of Flowers of Shanghai), translated from the original dialect to Mandarin during the '30s by Shanghai writer Eileen Chang. Around 1884, during the closing years of Imperial China, Crimson (Japanese actress Michiko Hada) worries that she's about to be dropped by civil servant Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), since he's spending so much time with Jasmin (Wei Hsiao-hui). Emotions escalate when word arrives that Wang will relocate to another post in the Canton province. Shown in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. — Bhob Stewart All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
For Your Height Only 1979 Eddie Nicart 3.7 Mr. Giant has kidnapped the brilliant Dr. Van Kohler and is planning to use the Doctor's invention, the N-bomb... IMDB
Fox Ghost 2002 Stanley Tong To is a "diamond"--a handsome, outstanding student and always wins women's hearts. He is honored by tycoon Keung and soon married his daughter. To prepare for the upcoming exam, To moves in an abandoned house. During his stay, he meets two sexy, beautiful, and troublesome ghosts. However, he manages to tame them and falls in love with them. While he is on the way to the exam, he gets dragged in a dangerous situation. To asks the two ghosts for help...
Freeze Me 2000 Takashi Ishii Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later... IMDB
Friend 2001 Kyung-Taek Kwak 7.5 Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path. After enrolling in college, Sang-taek and Joong-ho return to visit Dong-su (Jang Dong-gun) and Joon-suk (Yoo Oh-sung), only to find one of them in jail and the other on drugs. Slowly life takes difficult turns where friends become rivals in the crime world. IMDB; DVD Empire
Fruits of Passion 1980 Shuji Terayama Hong Kong, 1920: To please her decadent lover, a beautiful young British woman submits to a life of sexual slavery in an Asian brothel. Subjected to the depraved fetishes of both men and women, she discovers a myriad of carnal desires in a world of forbidden ecstasy. Fruits Of Passion: The Story Of "O" Continued stars Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo), and Arielle Dombasle (Lace, Pauline At The Beach). Censored in America for its graphic scenes of sexuality, this notorious erotic epic is now presented completely uncut and unrated for the first time ever. IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
Fu bo 2003 Kung-Lok Lee; Ching-Po Wong A morgue assistant witnesses gut-wrenching autopsies and mutilated corpses on a daily basis. But strangest of all is the behaviour of his oddball colleagues. In another part of town, a professional killer views his job with grave misgiving. This tormented soul begins to act in an increasingly erratic manner much to the consternation of his triad bosses. The third character is a cook who works in a prison. His job is to cook for inmates on death row, and to record their dying wishes. This unholy trio finds out in different ways that the most beautiful moments of life are often those closest to death. IMDB
Fudoh: The New Generation 1996 Takashi Miike IMDB
Full Contact 1997 Ringo Lam Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison... IMDB
Full Metal Yakuza 1997 Takashi Miike IMDB
G@me 2003 Satoshi Isaka Plot Summary for G@me (2003) Featuring Yukie Nakama, G@me is thriller that from the very start deceives and captivates. Given rave reviews by both the Japanese and some international press. G@me features Naohito Fujiki turning in a strong performance as Nakama's 'kidnapper'... holding the girl hostage until a ransom demand is paid from her father. In reality, he's actually an advertiser, who has been beaten to a 3 billion deal and so take's his Rival's daughter hostage. G@me looks to be an excellent film with high production values and many twists in the plot. Spoiler Nakama later turns out to be more than she seems and turns into a handful for her 'kidnapper'...
Gate of Flesh 1964 Seijun Suzuki After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory... IMDB
Gemini 1999 Shinya Tsukamoto 6.8 A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife. IMDB
Getting Any 1995 Takeshi Kitano 5.8 A slapstick comedy, about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream'... IMDB
Ghost Eyes 1974 Chin Hung Kuei International gore hounds agree: nobody makes horror films like the Shaw Brothers Studio. Kuei Chih-Hung, who had already made his name by directing such shameless thrillers as "The Bamboo House Of Dolls", here brings his vicious touch to a violent, sexy story with one clear moral: never accept contact lenses from a psycho ghost. Poor Chen Szu-Chia does just that, and pays for it with her body (in every sense of the word) and the gruesome death of her friends. IMDB
Ghost of Mae Nak 2005 Mark Duffield A young couple reawaken the spirit of a famous old Thai legend. IMDB
Ghost System 2002 Toshikazu Nagae Ghost System" opens with Misaki (Chikako Sakuragi) entertaining the audience with her thoughts on life, death, science, and the mysteries of the afterlife. Misaki then remembers the hours leading up to her current predicament -- cowering inside the aforementioned dilapidated building in a forest. It all started with the disappearance of Misaki's best friend Mai (Maria Yanagisawa). One day both Misaki and Mai's boyfriend Wataru (Hiroshi Tamaki) receive emails on their cell phones supposedly from Mai. But there are no messages, only a picture of some trees in the aforementioned forest. The two are determined to find her, even though looking for some generic trees in a large wooded area is not, as you might imagine, be that easy. IMDB; Site
Giants And Toys 1958 Yasuzo Masumura 8.0 Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies... IMDB
Gigolo Club 1993 Lok Ho IMDB
Girl Boss 1988 Hideo Tanaka IMDB
Girl Hell - Injure Murder Rape Film 1999 Daisuke Yamanouchi IMDB
The Girls Of Kamare 1974 René Vienet This is René Viénet’s second film. In Girls he continues using the situationist technique of détournement, transforming trashy Japanese porno (uses footage from Teruo Ishii’s Wild Woman Boss Story - Total Lynch (’73) and Norifumi Suzuki’s Horror High School Women - Violent Lynch Classroom (’73).) into a crypto-Marxist sendup of imperial France. Subversive Japanese IMDB
Go Go Second Time Virgin 1969 Koji Wakamatsu IMDB
Godspeed You Black Emperor 1976 Mitsuo Yanagimachi 7.0 IMDB
Godzilla Terror Of Mechagodzilla 1975 Ishirô Honda 5.1 Aliens from a dying galaxy plan to destroy our cities and build their new home on Earth. Their weapon is Mechagodzilla, a 400-foot-tall robot, armed with powerful lasers and guided missiles. Only Godzilla is mighty enough to stop the colossal machine. But when Professor Mafuni joins the aliens, not even Godzilla will be able to defeat them. Mafuni controls Titanosaurus, a gigantic amphibious dinosaur, through a biochemical connection with his cyborg daughter, Katsura. Godzilla is no match for Titanosaurus and Mechagodzilla together; but Interpol agents have discovered Titanosaurus' weakness, and may give Godzilla the fighting chance he needs to save the world! IMDB
Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero 1965 Ishirô Honda; Inoshiro Honda 5.5 Aliens from the mysterious Planet X, which resides on the dark side of of Jupiter, come to Earth asking its people to help them save their world from the dreaded King Ghidrah by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. The aliens are actually planning to use the three monsters to take over our planet. IMDB; DVD Empire
Godzilla vs. Mothra 1964 Ishirô Honda; Ishiro Honda 6.0 A hurricane blows Mothra's egg off Infant Island and causes it to drift to Japan. Banzo Torhata sees an opportunity to make money off the egg but Mothra's twin priestesses show up and plead with him to return the egg or else the larva will hatch and cause great damage in search of food. Torahata refuses and tries to kidnap the fairies. They then go to reporters Ichiro Sakai and Junko Nakanishi to try to persuade Torahata to return the egg. Torahata still refuses and the girls leave with the adult Mothra. In the meantime Godzilla reawakens and begins another rampage. Japan's only hope is for Mothra to return and not only save Japan, but her egg as well. IMDB; DVD Empire
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda; Terry O. Morse; Inoshiro Honda 6.6 American reporter Steve Martin, on his way to Cairo for an assignment, has a stop over in Tokyo. During the layover, he decides to visit his old friend Dr. Daisuke Serizawa. However, the night before he lands, his plane passes over an area where a ship suddenly exploded and caught fire killing all hands. Martin is then questioned by the authorities and he tells them he saw nothing. After seven more ships suddenly disappear, Martin decides to stay in Japan to see what is going on. He and policeman Tomo Iwanaga then go to Odo Island, which is close to where many of the ships were destroyed. While there, they are caught in a typhoon and during the storm something comes ashore and kills several of the inhabitants and destroys several buildings. A few days later a scientific expedition led by paleontologist Dr. Kyohei Yemane arrives on the island and they are horrified to find a giant monster the natives call Godzilla. Now Japan and the world wait to see what horrors this monster will bring. IMDB; DVD Empire
Godzilla's Revenge 1969 Ishirô Honda; Ishiro Honda 3.8 Using footage from previous films, the story revolves around a boy who uses his imagination to take him to Monster Island so he can escape the pains of real life. IMDB; DVD Empire
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell 1968 Hajime Sato IMDB
Gore From Outer Space 2001 Hirohisa Sasaki The madness that began in director Hirohisa Sasaki's Crazy Lips continues in this wild and over-the-top sequel that's equal parts sci-fi chaos and earthbound mayhem. Sentenced to death for the murder of her daughter Misato, Satomi uses her last remaining minutes alive trying to explain the truth about her daughter's death to a sympathetic nun. When the police were called in following the murder and informed by Satomi's husband that the couple have no children, the surreal tale of paranoia and murder begins to unwind. Has Satomi simply gone mad or could it be that there is an alien conspiracy currently attempting to conquer the planet and destroy the human race? — Jason Buchanan All Movie Guide; DVD Empire; Amazon UK
Gozu 2003 Takashi Miike Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past... IMDB
Grass Labyrinth 1983 Shuji Terayama 7.4 In this 40-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the pretext of a young man's determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved in his childhood in an exploration of widely variant perceptions of reality. Akira (Takeshi Wakamatsu) is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious. Foreboding scenes come and go like a part of a chilling nightmare or hallucination and cannot be followed logically. An English narration accompanies the disparate visual scenes, but does not necessarily clarify this strange and compelling journey. Originally released in 1979 as one of three "featurettes" in the French omnibus film Collections Privées, Kusa Meikyu was re-released in Japan after the death of Shuji Terayama in 1983, to much fanfare and publicity. Many critics consider this his best film, and some feel it is emblematic of the essence of Japanese cinema. — Eleanor Mannikka IMDB; All Movie Guide
Graveyard of Honor 2002 Takashi Miike IMDB
Grief 1994 Shugo Fujii 5.0 IMDB
The Guard from the Underground 1992 Kiyoshi Kurosawa IMDB
Guinea Pig : Android of Notre Dame 1988 Kazuhito Kuramoto Karasawa a dwarf scientist is studying resusciation of dead animals for his elder sister who is ill with an incurable disease. One day, a mysterios man named Katou offers to assist him, so Karasawa gets a woman human body. Karasawa cuts off its ear and eyeball and gives electric stimuli to these. But a bosy is broken. When Katou visits his laboratory, Karasawa kills him and cut off his head, and he is making a experiment Katou's head... IMDB
Guinea Pig : Devil Woman Doctor 1990 A drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish! IMDB
Guinea Pig : Devil's Experiment 1985 A group of guys capture a young girl with the intent of hurting her. They torture her in many ways,... IMDB
Guinea Pig : Flowers of Flesh and Blood 1985 Hideshi Hino A woman walking home late at night is attacked by an unknown assailant who knocks her out with chloroform... IMDB
Guinea Pig : He Never Dies 1992 Masayuki Hisamot A men gets depressed because his girlfriend has dumped him for a friend. He tries to attempt suicide but to no avail... IMDB
Guinea Pig : Lucky Sky Diamond 1989 Izô Hashimoto IMDB
Guinea Pig : Mermaid in the Manhole 1988 Hideshi Hino An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores... IMDB
Guts of a Virgin 1986 Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu Members of a film crew making a soft core porn are dismembered by a demon in a warehouse. IMDB
Guts of a Virgin 2 1986 Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors. IMDB
Guts of a Virgin 3 : Rusted Body 1987 Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu IMDB
Guts Of A Virgin 4 1990 Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu IMDB
The Guys from Paradise 2000 Takashi Miike IMDB
H 2002 Jong-hyuk Lee; Lee Jong-huyk 5.4 A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly horrifying murders of exclusively female victims. He is imprisoned, awaiting the death sentence for his crimes. Yet the killings do not stop. They continue with all the same characteristics trademarks of the Shin-Hyun serial killings. The case is re-opened when two more bodies are discovered, both pregnant women. One is found in the city's landfill site, and the other is horrifically murdered on a public bus. Detective Mi Yun (played by Yum Jung-Ah), and her newly appointed partner, Detective Kang (played by Ji Jin-Hee), are assigned to the case. Mi Yun and Kang have difficulty working with each other, as their personalities and working methods are constantly in conflict. Detective Kang goes about his new job buoyantly and enthusiastically. He follows a new suspect, Huh, and eventually catches him in the act of brutally murdering a woman in a crowded techno bar. Huh is taken into custody after Kang shoots and wounds him at the scene of the crime. Once again, the case seems to be solved with this spectacular arrest. Yet the murders continue in copy-cat style. The police desperately hunt for new leads. They start an in-depth investigation of a Doctor Chu, who is Shin-Hyun's psychiatrist. But progress is frustrated when Dr Chu becomes a victim of the copy-cat killings herself. The murdered psychiatrist's former boyfriend quickly becomes the prime suspect, a fanatical character named Choi. All the pieces in the mystery are finally starting to fit together, and the case seems almost resolved. But all efforts are suddenly frustrated once again, when Choi takes his own life. But still, the killings do not stop with his death. The case gets more complicated, when even the police themselves appear to become suspects in the murders. In unraveling this mystery, everyone involved is pushed to the limits of human understanding. IMDB; DVD Empire
Han Gil Su 2005 Lee In Soo Little is known of Han Gil Su, a Korean national who reportedly worked as a double agent in Hawaii during the Second World War. But now his story is brought to the big screen, in director Lee In Soo's new film, Haan. Celebrated TV actor Ahn Jae Mo stars as Han, who after moving from Korea to Hawaii with his family at the age of five, later worked for the Japanese consulate in Honolulu. There he allegedly discovered news about Japan's imminent attack on Pearl Harbor and informed various American officials. His warnings were ignored, however, and on December 7th, 1941more than 2000 people were killed when the Japanese attacked. Im Yoo Jin co-stars as the Japanese woman who helps Han, at the risk of her own life, in this taut military thriller about the life of an unsung Korean hero, only now receiving the acknowledgment he deserves.
Hana-bi 1997 Takeshi Kitano 7.7 IMDB
Hanzo The Razor 1 - Sword Of Justice 1972 Kenji Misumi The Longest Arm Of The Law! Set includes the following films: Sword of Justice The Snare Who's Got The Gold? He’s Hanzo "The Razor" Itami; the incorruptible and uncompromising samurai cop, and he packs a weapon more devastating than any sword (just ask any of the female suspects he "interrogates"). From the creator of the Lone Wolf and Cub series comes this legendary 1970s trilogy based on Kazuo Koike’s classic mangas, and starring Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi) as Hanzo, the screen’s most outrageous samurai anti-hero. In the name of justice, there’s no torture he won’t endure, no pain he won’t inflict, and no superior he’ll bow to. IMDB
Hanzo The Razor 2 - The Snare 1973 Yasuzo Masumura 6.2 The Longest Arm Of The Law!Set includes the following films: <br> Sword of Justice The Snare Who's Got The Gold? He’s Hanzo "The Razor" Itami; the incorruptible and uncompromising samurai cop, and he packs a weapon more devastating than any sword (just ask any of the female suspects he "interrogates"). From the creator of the Lone Wolf and Cub series comes this legendary 1970s trilogy based on Kazuo Koike’s classic mangas, and starring Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi) as Hanzo, the screen’s most outrageous samurai anti-hero. In the name of justice, there’s no torture he won’t endure, no pain he won’t inflict, and no superior he’ll bow to. IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
Hanzo The Razor 3 - Whos Got The Gold 1974 Yoshio Inoue The Longest Arm Of The Law! Set includes the following films: Sword of Justice The Snare Who's Got The Gold? He’s Hanzo "The Razor" Itami; the incorruptible and uncompromising samurai cop, and he packs a weapon more devastating than any sword (just ask any of the female suspects he "interrogates"). From the creator of the Lone Wolf and Cub series comes this legendary 1970s trilogy based on Kazuo Koike’s classic mangas, and starring Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi) as Hanzo, the screen’s most outrageous samurai anti-hero. In the name of justice, there’s no torture he won’t endure, no pain he won’t inflict, and no superior he’ll bow to. IMDB
The Happiness of the Katakuris 2001 Takashi Miike 7.3 The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more. IMDB; DVD Empire
Harmful Insect 2001 Akihiko Shiota IMDB
Haunted Cop Shop 1987 Jeffrey Lau 6.7 The police station used to be the army club during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Many Japanese officers committed hara kiri there on V-J Day. The old building thus became a ghost house. Petty thief Ming is detained in the basement. It is the Ghost Festival when ghosts are allowed one night's leave. The Colonel shows up and bites Ming, who becomes a vampire. Vampirical zaniness ensues. IMDB
Haunted Cop Shop 2 1988 Jeffrey Lau 6.8 Even more supernatural silliness occurs in The Haunted Cop Shop II, a hilarious sequel to the popular horror-comedy The Haunted Cop Shop! Silly cops Chiu (Ricky Hui) and Macky (Jacky Cheung) are back, and this time they've been assigned to a police ghost busting unit that's populated by questionably sane individuals. The group undergoes basic training, but their lessons in subduing the undead get sidetracked by attacking vampires and zombies, who force the group into some on-the-job training! Making matters worse is the fact that Chiu has already been infected by supernatural forces, and appears to be turning into a werewolf! Outrageous action set pieces, supremely wacky hijinks, and the usual moments of acrobatic ghost busting get foisted upon the audience in The Haunted Cop Shop II, another wildly entertaining comedy-horror masterpiece from director Jeff Lau! IMDB
Heatbeat 100 1987 Kent Cheng; Kin Lo A Fiction Writer and her sister travel to the country to work on a new novel. But, local thugs and a murder complicate matters. IMDB
Heavens Soldiers 2005 Joon-ki Min 5.1 Explosive sci-fi action abounds in Heaven's Soldiers! From director Min Jun Gi comes the 2005 film Heaven's Soldiers, a nationalistic, military-themed time travel adventure filled with equal parts action and comedy! The story centers on a group of North and South Korean soldiers who find themselves flung back in time just as their respective countries are locked in a tense standoff with the United States over the status of a jointly produced nuclear warhead. The film kicks off with stock footage of the historic meeting between the two Korean leaders in June 2000, using this real life moment as a springboard for the film's fictional premise that North and South Korea secretly formed an alliance, agreeing to co-produce their very own weapon of mass destruction! But when the two Koreas decide to hand over the warhead to the United States, North Korean military officer Kang Min Gil (Kim Seung Woo) decides to take matters into his own hands and not only steal the weapon with the help of a band of private soldiers but kidnap the female South Korean scientist (Kong Hyo Jin) who helped create it as well! Things get even more difficult for Kang as South Korean Navy Officer Park Jeong Woo (Hwang Jung Min) is sent by his superiors to capture the rogue soldier and reclaim the weapon. In the midst of a battle on the DMZ, the soldiers are suddenly transported through time thanks to the appearance of a mysterious comet. In a blink of the eye, the soldiers find themselves trapped in the 16th century, a dark time in Korean history, which saw its countrymen spending most of their time battling off the advances of foreign invaders. After defeating a band of looters with their high-powered machine guns, the time displaced soldiers are hailed as conquering heroes by the locals. Dubbed "Heaven's Soldiers," the group ends up meeting Yi Sun Shin (Park Joong Hoon), the real life admiral who led Korea to victory against the Japanese. However, the legendary Yi isn't quite what the soldiers expected. Rather than the mythical hero of legend he's thought to be in the present day, the Yi the soldiers encounter is actually a thief and a rascal, one who can't even pass the officer's exam! Shocked that their hero could be so lax in his studies, the soldiers give Yi a crash course in military education, all in the hopes he'll fulfill his destiny! But will Yi discover his true calling in time or will he doom both himself and his beloved country? Find out in Heaven's Soldiers, a crowd-pleasing time travel epic! IMDB
The Heirloom 2005 Leste Chen 4.3 Family Ties Last Beyond The Grave Twenty years ago, a mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. To this day, the case remains unsolved. Only one heir secretly survived and years later he inherits the family mansion and returns with his fiancée. Mysterious and deadly events begin to take place, the demented legacy of the Yang family curse is reborn and history is soon poised to repeat itself. IMDB; DVD Empire
Hera Purple 2001 Kil-chae Jeong IMDB
Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 8.1 A series of Rashomon-like flashback accounts shape the story of how one man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China. IMDB
Hex 1980 Chin Hung Kuei 6.3 After making successful thrillers, action films, and comedies, director Kuei Chih-Hung put his first "Hex" on the audience. This eerie, frightening, supernatural, mystery thriller was so effective it led to "Hex Versus Witchcraft" and "Hex After Hex". What starts as an Asian variation of the classic French suspense film "Les Diabolique" becomes an exercise in fervid and frightening Hong Kong horror as one ghost after another appears to wreak havoc, insanity, and death. IMDB
Hex After Hex 1982 Chin Hung Kuei 6.3 Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-Hung, already famous for "Bamboo House Of Dolls", "Killer Snakes", "Ghost Eyes", "Corpse", "Hex", and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story. IMDB
Hex Vs. Witchcraft 1980 Chin Hung Kuei 6.3 Here director Kuei Chih-Hung gets to combine his loves of hilarious comedies ("Mr. Funny-Bone") with bone-chilling horror ("Ghost Eyes") in a tale of a marriage made in hell! A compulsive gambler's botched suicide attempt results in his wedding to a ghost who haunts him in weird, wonderful, horrid, and hilarious ways. She even comes to the rescue after he's robbed, leading to a fitting and funny conclusion to a singular comedic horror film of fate and phantoms. IMDB
High School Ghosthustlers 2000 Yoshinori Nishikiori IMDB
High school girl's diary 1981 Nobuyoshi Araki Directed by world-famous japanese erotic photographer Araki. Highschool coed’s dream of being a centerfold model comes true. IMDB
Hinokio 2005 Takahiko Akiyama 7.2 IMDB
Hiruko The Goblin 1990 Shinya Tsukamoto A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth... IMDB
History Of Women's Torture
Horrible High Heels 1996 Wai On Chan; Cheng Chow 3.1 IMDB; All Movie Guide
Horror Game Movie 2000 Byeong-ki Ahn Seven friends will die one by one for protecting a terrible secret. Can a vengeful spirit be stopped? IMDB
Horror Hotline Big Head Monster 2001 Cheang Soi Hong kong films are many things -but subtlety is not their strong point. even the most brutal movies from there seem to cram in a bit of silly humour-see the untold story for an example. here is something else though..... influenced more by the japanese ring series than any hong kong film this film starts with an american film crew making a documentary on a popular hong kong radio series in which listeners tell ghost stories. this time a man phones in giving details of a childhood encounter with a baby with a deformed head,kept in a cage near his school. from here the film and radio crew attempt to look into this urban legend and terrifying things start to happen....... this film has a genuinely unnerving atmosphere,some moments that will make you jump and a choice of 2 endings that are very much in the blair witch style. some people might be put off by the fact that a lot of loose ends are not tied up but that just adds to the mystery of it all. don't be put off by the silly name-this is a hong kong horror that really delivers. IMDB
The Hotel Venus 2004 Shuta Takahata 7.0 IMDB
House 1977 Nobuhiko Obayashi 9.1 IMDB
House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 7.1 Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, police deputies Jin (Kaneshiro) and Leo (Lau) tangle with Mei (Zhang)... IMDB
House Of Mad Souls, A 2004 What you see is not what you get!Kwan, a little boy who has died 8 years ago, is still detained in his house. His soul emerges to scare everyone until he met Jitta, the doctor in a terrible clinic. She is the only one who can unlock the secret and help him away from detention. DVD Empire
Human Lanterns 1982 Chung Sun IMDB
Human Pork Chop 1992 Danny Lee; Herman Yau In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later, on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim... IMDB
Hunch 2003 Manton Nakpong Ross celebrates a new job position by inviting her friends on a trip. While everybody is having fun, she feels that someone is watching at her all the time. Then, they play a Ouija board so Ross and the spirit are connected. After that her friends all disappear and the strange occurrences continue. Who is the spirit? Who is the murderer? IMDB
Hypnosis 1999 Masayuki Ochiai Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception... IMDB
The Hypnotized 2004 In-shik Kim 5.8 IMDB

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