Korean Drama

Tokyo Sonata

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Film Date: September, 2008
Japanese Movie Cast: Haruka Igawa, Kagawa Teruyuki , Koizumi Kyoko , Yokoyama Yu
Description: Best known in the United States for bizarre and unsettling horror films like PULSE and CURE, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ventures away from that category with TOKYO SONATA. Of course, Kurosawa is incapable of directing a straightforward picture, and TOKYO SONATA is no exception. Retaining the same masterful control over mood and atmosphere that he has displayed throughout his career, Kurosawa infuses this family drama with an underlying tension that permeates the film even during its most humorous moments. The story concerns a Japanese businessman, husband, and father of two, who unexpectedly loses his job. Unable to break the news to his devoted wife, he dresses up every morning and pretends to go to work, instead wasting the days away with a former classmate who is also unemployed. Although they aren't aware of his contradictory behavior, his family begins to disobey him nonetheless. His teenage son enlists in the Army in order to fight for the United States, while his adolescent son goes behind his back to take piano lessons. The longer his charade goes on, the less control he has as patriarch, creating an even deeper divide between him and his family. With TOKYO SONATA, Kurosawa has produced one of his most original and accomplished works. Equal parts social commentary and situational comedy, Kurosawa's film also feels like a thriller, thanks to the exceptionally atmospheric work from cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa and composer Kazumasa Hashimoto.

Kitaro and The Millenium Curse

Alternative Title: ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 千年呪い歌, Gegege no Kitaro: Sennen Noroi Uta
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Japanese Movie Cast: Inoue Mao, Ken Ogata, Kitano Kii, Oizumi Yo, Rena Tanaka, Wentz Eiji
Description: Half-yokai Kitaro returns with his friends to investigate recent disappearances occurring under suspicious circumstances. They discover that they have something to do with a forbidden love which was shared between a yokai and human male approximately 1,000 years earlier and an evil yokai is responsible. Kitaro and his companions must seek out 5 treasures to put an end to this millennium curse once and for all.

Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish

Alternative Title: ジョゼと虎と魚たち
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Film Date: December, 2003
Japanese Movie Cast: Ikewaki Chizuru , Satoshi Tsumabuki
Description: Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage... Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josée. Her real name is Kumiko, and she is unable to walk, so her grandmother takes her out early every morning in the old baby carriage. To thank Tsuneo for his help, they offer him breakfast, and he begins to fall under the spell of the young woman's unusual charm. Kumiko has named herself after the heroine of a novel by Françoise Sagan, and Tsuneo comes to call this strange girl by that name. He grows more and more attracted to her.

Chameleon

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Film Date: January, 2008
Japanese Movie Cast: Asami Mizukawa, Kazuki Namioka, Shioya Shun, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Toyohara Kosuke
Description: Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.

Install

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Japanese Movie Cast: Aya Ueto, Kamiki Ryunosuke, Kikukawa Rei, Nakamura Shunsuke
Description: Asako is a dreamy 17-year-old schoolgirl who is disillusioned with the mendacity of study and her impending exams. Gradually she retreats from school and the world around her and begins to hide out at home, unbeknownst to her divorced mother.

LoveDeath

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Film Date: November, 2006
Japanese Movie Cast: KôHei ÔTomo
Description: A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway. This is a story about an extremely crazy and cool couple. Ryuhei Kitamura returned to independent film field with an even more powerful film than his previous film Godzilla Final Wars. The original story is written by Tsutomu Takahashi, who worked with Kitamura for Alive and Sky High. Shinji Takeda, stared in the film and other brilliant and unique casts take the film to the highest level.

Crow Zero 2

Alternative Title: クロ-ズ　ＺＥＲＯ 2 | クローズZERO II
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Film Date: April, 2009
Japanese Movie Cast: Kiritani Kenta, Meisa Kuroki , Shun Oguri, Takaoka Sousuke , Takayuki Yamada
Description: Several months after "Crows: Episode 0" trouble brews again when thugs known as "The Army of Killers" from rival high school Hosen Academy threaten Suzuran High aka the School of Crows.

Gigolo Wannabe

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Description: Seven young men who are desperate for quick money arrive at a desolate seaside bar, called Dog Days, to audition as "hosts." This is the highly popular occupation of entertaining female patrons with smooth talk and a soothing smile while offering them drinks at "host clubs." Although their previous jobs varied from street performer to ex-banker, they are all happy to get this dream job so easily, until they discover that the 'manager' has run off with their deposits! Upon seeing them so discouraged, the sympathetic bar owner offers his place for them to open up a host club by themselves. With the help of his granddaughter, Chika (who has a heart disorder), and despite the combination of their initial confusion, personal problems and a typhoon that almost blew the place down, they gradually find the true meaning of friendship, trust and love.

The Letters

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Kirasagi

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