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Xiao, an eleven year old Chinese Boy, and Jung, a thirty-something Korean tenant resident in his building, form a friendship that flourishes through a shared appreciation of solitude. Xiao...

Despite being savaged by the local film censors and labelled 'a threat to national security', Tan and his film have found critical and public acclaim around the world - however specific the...

Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuade wjw1967 (Faye Wong) to travel back in time with him, the film soon shifts to the year 1966 in which Chow Mo...

2046: Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuade wjw1967 (Faye Wong) to travel back in time with him, the film soon shifts to the year 1966 in which...

During an insistent June downpour in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, a dark erotic force infiltrates the lives of Rinko, a reserved career woman in her thirties, and Shigehiko, her obsessively...

Following the death of their mother, sisters Su-mi and Su-yeon are sent to convalesce in a mental hospital. When they are released, they are greeted by their father and taken home. Once there, it...

An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort. One night, investigating strange noises, he meets the beautiful Yang who is living there. She is being pursued by agents of an...

In this twisted take on infertility, an artist and her obstetrician husband are happily married but unable to conceive. When they decide to adopt a beautiful little boy named Jin-sung from the...

In this epic of Yakuza honour, betrayal and bloodshed, maverick director Takashi Miike creates uncompromisingly original take on the Japanese gangster movie... When a young Yakuza torments the...

Over fifteen years old and still one of the greatest anime features of all time. The year is 2019 and Neo-Tokyo is out of control.

Shunji Iwai's rites of passage movie focuses on the growing pains of a group of schoolchildren whose sole solace in the Japan's pervasive pop cyber culture is in the faceless celebrity singer...

Arakimentari explores the work of popular Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, renowned for his controversial photographs of all things feminine. Blurring the lines between art, erotica and...

Low-level triad "big brother" Wah (Andy Lau) has a hot-tempered "little brother" Fly (Jacky Cheung) who can't keep out of trouble, and consequently is in constant need of being bailed out by his...

In bustling, 19th-century Edo, demons lurk in the shadows, disguised in human form. They are loathe to show their true faces, for even in disguise, they can easily be spotted and slain by the...

In war-torn Shogunate Japan, Azumi (Aya Ueto) is a beautiful young girl who has been trained from childhood with nine other orphans to become a fearless assassin. Martial arts master Gessai ...

A tough gangland leader experiences love at first sight when he encounters a young college student in a crowd. With no concern for public conduct, or the desires of the girl, he forces himself...

Luo and Ma, the sons of ‘reactionary intellectuals’, are sent to a remote mountain village for ‘re-education’ through hard labour in the fields and down a coal mine. Both fall for the...

Kong, a professional killer, has been mute since childhood. He plies the city's bitterest streets, with silence his only response to the killings and assassinations he performs. He is deadly. He...

Steamy Thai nights provide the backdrop for unbridled romance, crime and action as two men unexpectedly brave forbidden love. Maek, a cold assassin-for-hire, is sent to knock off Iht, a police...

One of the most shocking and controversial films in recent Japanese cinema. A high school class has been chosen to be in a "Battle Royale," a fatal game, because of their disrespect, sloth and...

Set three years following the events portrayed in 'Battle Royale', one of the survivors, Shuya Nanahara, has become a notorious anti-government terrorist. Leading the group 'Wild Seven' he has...

Set three years following the events portrayed in 'Battle Royale', one of the survivors, Shuya Nanahara, has become a notorious anti-government terrorist. Leading the group 'Wild Seven' he has...

Based on true events, this story tells of a kickboxing champion who has an ulterior motive for aspiring to be the best: if he wins, he can afford his sex change operation.

Dinshaw Sathna invites a young stranger, Cyrus, into his family home and in so doing reveals the previously hidden problems within the whole dysfunctional Sathna family.

Chinese manual labourers, perpetually exploited by greedy coal mine owners, find their own ways of fighting back... This debut feature written and directed by Yang Li is a multiple award...

Innovative and enigmatic, Blissfully Yours is a languid celebration of the pleasures of the moment. In Apichatpong’s heady, sensual and playful film, a leisurely road trip and a picnic in the...

19th century Korea. A time of feudal barons and superstition. An island community is shocked when a ship bound for the imperial courts inexplicably bursts into flames. On board was a cargo of...

12-year-old Maxi walks and sways his hips, high on life, laughing and joking with his playmates. Like any diva he has a wardrobe to die for - an assortment of sandals, shorts and shirts in every...

"delightful... sweet-natured... sexy film" - The Times; "beautifully shot... charming, visual splendour" - Evening Standard

With its rich visuals textures and its fast & furious action, 'The Bride With White Hair' is a dazzling combination of fantasy and martial arts. Armed with a deadly whip that can rip her enemies...

Nansal (6), the oldest daughter of a Mongolian nomad family finds a small dog one day while out in the fields. When she brings him home, her father is afraid he could bring bad luck and demands...

After the success of Ring, Ring 2 and Dark Water, master horror director Hideo Nakata returns to the screen with a brilliant and mesmerising psychological thriller. To dispel doubts about her...

Saved from a group of drifters by Kim Byung-moon (Ahn Sung-ki), uncouth and self-taught painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-sik) offers a drawing as a means of thanks. Examining the picture, Kim...

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the...

In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his...

Two stories which revolve around cops, drugs and dreamers. In the first a cop meets a woman in a late night bar, not realising that she's a heroin smuggler. In the second a broken-hearted cop in...

In this beautifully presented box set, the BFI has collected five classic Kurosawa titles spanning sixteen years of his career.

Amazing martial arts fighting sequences (choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping - The Matrix), stunning special effects, action adventure and romance have made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon the most...

"Queer as Folk" gets a Chinese twist in this delirious, witty gay comedy about a pair of Chinese-British friends navigating sex, love, clubs and cross-dressing in London. Flaming Mel and studly...

From Hideo Nakata, director of 'Ring', comes this brooding and unsettling masterpiece of horror cinema! In the midst of a custody battle, Yoshimi and her beloved 6 year old daughter move in a...

After the police raid his local park one night in Beijing, A-Lan, a young gay writer, is held for intensive one-on-one interrogation. Unwanted memories are gradually revealed, and we get glimpses...

Jonathan is a shy but dedicated pupil. Shane is good at sports but has no appetite for study. Through their school days they become inseparable and ten years later are still utterly devoted to...

A psychological thriller, a coming-of-age drama and a love story all at once, Ethan Mao tells the suspenseful story of an eighteen-year-old boy reaching the point of no return.

At the age of two, Mun went blind. After eighteen years in darkness, she is given the chance of a risky corneal transplant operation. When the bandages are taken off, Mun's eyes respond to the...

In this follow up to the Pang Brothers The Eye a failed suicide victim, Joey, recovers slowly in hospital. Occasionally she wakes from her recovery to see malevolent strangers watching over her....

Freezer is a disturbing thriller from director Takashi Ishii about Chihiro, a woman trying to escape the memories of being raped by three men while they filmed the incident. She leaves her...

O (Sorimachi) is the city's number one assassin. Cool and quiet, he carries out his hits in a smooth but ruthless manner. Tok (Lau) is the new guy on the block after O's title and willing to go...

Set in the year 2029 and featuring the sexiest heroine ever animated, Japan's elite service must capture a computer criminal controls the minds of innocent victims.

In the follow up to the impressive '95 original, covert force Public Security Section 9 find they have their hands full once again.

Now it's hard to believe just how truly terrifying Godzilla was to fifties Japanese audiences. The original 'kaiju-eiga', restored by the BFI, is mind-blowing.

Widely regarded as the greatest living Japanese director as well as one of the film world's foremost hierophants of transgression, Nagisa Oshima returns from a long hiatus with a film worthy of...

The plot of any Miike Takashi film is impossible to predict. Whether it be the deeply unsettling Audition, the manic Dead or Alive or the genre-busting Happiness of the Katakuris, there is always...

In the aftermath of World War II bombing, two orphaned children struggle to survive in the Japanese countryside. To Seita and his four-year old sister, the helplessness and indifference of their...

A year after the brilliant psychopath, Shin Hyun, has handed himself in and admitted to the brutal and grisly murders of six girls, a spate of copycat killings rock the city. In an effort to trap...

A unnamed man wakes up to find himself locked in a tiny, cramped unlit concrete space, in which he can hardly move. Why is he there and where did he come from. All we know is that he has a...

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....

Wong Kar-Wai, cult director of 'In the Mood for Love' 'Chunking Express' and 'Fallen Angels', cast two of Hong Kong's biggest male stars in his first film shot outside Hong Kong. Lai and Ho...

When a lone cop in a city of violence decides to wage war against its many gangs, he does so by playing them all at their own deadly game. Soon, Inspector 'Tequila' Yuan (Chow Yun Fat - Bullet...

When a police officer of irrefutable honour is caught stealing $1,000,000 from a police safe he claims to have no memory of his actions. The investigating officer, a member of the elite G4...

Zhang Ziyi gives a fine performance as the blind warrior in Zhang Yimou’s follow-up to Hero. She is tracked by a guard hoping to arrest the resistance group of the title, but passion...

From the Oscar-winning director of Sprited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, comes this amazing animated adventure that celebrates love and the human spirit in the face of adversity.

Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after seven features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in...

Sometimes I think of my death, wrote Akira Kurosawa, "I think of ceasing to be... and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came." The story of a man diagnosed with stomach cancer, Kurosawa's film...

Hong Kong 1962, Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and his wife, rent a room. On the same day Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk) moves in next door. Lizhen and Mo-wan move in without help from...

Ming is a Triad mole in the police, Yan is an undercover cop in a Triad gang. When their two paths cross, both the police and the Triads suspect they have a mole in their midst...

Drawing favourable critical comparisons to 'The Godfather - Part 2', 'Infernal Affairs 2' similarly explores, in prequel form, the events that took place as Lau Kin Ming (Chen) and Chen Wing Yan ...

Wu Young-min, a former policeman, recovering from the death of his partner during an incident with a criminal, gets a job at his uncle's shopping mall - recently re-opened after a fire. When...

Two verions of Thailands number one box office smash hit on one disk. The original release version and a special extended edition.

'The Isle' tells a tale of a beautiful woman who lives on an eerie, remote lake selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. When the woman becomes obsessed with a suicidal former...

The Journey (Sancharram) tells the story of two beautiful young women living in an idyllic Indian village. Young Kiran, studios and reserved, falls in love with her lifelong best friend, the...

A firefight occurs at the 'Bridge Of No Return' in the Korean de-militarised zone, where two North Korean soldiers are killed. The North claims that the incident was a flagrant attack by the...

At the wedding of a friend, Ching (Angelica Lee – The Eye) is the lucky bridesmaid who catches the bouquet. After an evening of celebrations, she drunkenly returns to her room where she makes a...

Sing, in a desperate attempt to become a member of the Axe Gang, crosses the landlords of a slum who are kung fu masters in disguise...!

Bernardo Bertolucci's epic film tells the incredible story of Pu Yi, who in 1908 at the age of three, became ruler of nearly half of the world's population. He was the "Son of heaven", "Lord of...

The Masseur (Masahista) is a beautifully crafted coming of age tale, imbued with a homosexual desire that conflicts with a society where religion, prejudice and family ties magnify the pressure...

This is a true story... 1986 to 1991: in a small town outside Seoul, over the course of six years 10 women are raped and murdered in a radius of just 2km. Against a backdrop of air raid drills...

Some secrets should never be revealed... When Min-Ah discovers secret shared diary written by two students at the all-girls' school, she finds it a compelling read. She becomes obsessed with the...

Combining traditional ideas of marriage and family with the realities of modern life, MONSOON WEDDING is a lighthearted film from director Mira Nair (SALAAM BOMBAY!). In New Delhi an extended...

Like Godzilla, The Mysterians also preyed upon the Japanese fears of the dangers of atomic warfare, this time in the shape of invading aliens!

Oshima's second feature is a shocking tale of youthful delinquency in post-Hiroshima Japan. Conveying the pent-up sexuality and disillusionment among Japan's post-war generation it tells the...

Taken without reason. Imprisoned for 15 years. Released without reason. 5 days to seek the truth... One day in 1988, ordinary white collar worker Oh Dae-soo (Choi Min-sik) is kidnapped and...

Mak, a street urchin in Bangkok, dreams of being a tough gangster. He earns some money as a drugs runner. One day he meets a young prostitute, who turns out to live nearby and they fall in love....

A collection of classic movies from lauded Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. Regarded by many as the world's finest director, and renowned for his, formalist style, Yasujiro Ozu made his first...

Regarded by critics and filmmakers alike as one of the world’s greatest directors, Yasujiro Ozu has been praised for his deliberate and striking visual style. After his directorial debut in...

A collection of classic movies from lauded Japanese director, Yasujiro Ozu. Regarded by many as the world's finest director, and renowned for his, formalist style, Yasujiro Ozu made his first...

Following hot on the heels of well known Asian chillers such as Ring, Dark Water and Ju-on comes a ghost story to top them all. Phone tells the story of an investigative reporter, Ji-won, who...

Pre-dating the Ring trilogy, Dark Water and The Grudge this is one of the scariest films ever made from the master of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

A woodcutter experiences a horrific series of events - an ambush, rape and murder. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants give different views of what actually...

In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide, takes an arrogant young intern under his guidance…

This third movie in the popular "Ring" series is a prequel to the original 'Ring' (or Ringu) movie, intended to explain how Sadako became the tormented spirit who would later terrorize video...

After losing her boyfriend to the deadly virus which took its grip in the first instalment of the Ring series, journalist Mai Takano decides to conduct her own investigation into the powers of...

Features Ring, Ring 2 and Ring 0, plus an exclusive presentation of director Hideo Nakata's rare film Sleeping Bride... Ring (1998): Within a week of watching a mysterious videotape, a group of...

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo Zatoichi arrives back at a once loved village to find the former boss has been reduced to a carver and his daughter has become a hostess, 'one of the bad ones'. When...

Sequel to Kurosawa's own 'Yojimbo' in which the crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent...

Byung-Gu is an ordinary young man. He believes that all of the earth's social ills are the result of evil doings of aliens. That's why he knows that, unless he can meet the prince from Andromeda...

When 48-year-old widow Hwei-Lan Gao (Joan Chen) informs her less-than-understanding father she's pregnant, he banishes her from their home until she remarries or proves Immaculate Conception....

A desperate village hires seven samurai to protect it from marauders in this crown jewel of Japanese cinema. No other film so seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human...

From the comic genius that gave us Kung Fu Hustle fame, this hilarious football comedy is the twisted offspring of Match of the Day and The Matrix!

A phantom sniper methodically assassinates key figures in a South Korean intelligence investigation. Special agent Ryu and his partner Lee suspect North Korea's most lethal female operative, Hee....

Sky Blue is a love story set against the forces of destruction, a dystopian vision of Earth's destiny, yet ultimately a reminder of our hope for the future. In the year 2140, mankind's reckless...

On a lake set in a valley in the depths of the mountains sits an isolated dwelling. Here, a Buddhist monk and his young apprentice live in harmony with nature. As the seasons change and the years...

The setting is Tokyo in the late 1940s, its streets blasted by war and its economy in collapse. When a detective loses his gun he must go undercover, descending into a hell teeming with...

A deaf mute worker saves all his money for his sister who requires a kidney transplant. He has the wrong blood type to be able to donate one of his kidneys, so he arranges a trade with a group of...

Kurosawa's film career began in 1936 at the Photo Chemical Laboratories in Tokyo. His directorial debut in 1943, 'Judo Saga', bore evidence of his economy of expression and marked his humanist...

In Tropical Malady, the horror story disguises a disturbing sexual political agenda. The film explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences.

Since the death of his wife, Seibei's main concern is for his family. Invitations for drinks with fellow workers are refused in favour of getting home, and Seibei earns the nickname 'Twilight...

Based on 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', the infamous bodice-ripping novel by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos, 'Untold Scandal' focuses on the end of the Chosun dynasty in Korea; a period when rigid...

Despised by vampires for his profession and by humans for the blood in his veins, 'D' relentlessly pursues his prey...for a price.

'Visitor Q' presents a harrowing, absurdist take on the reality TV phenomenon, depicting the chilling disintegration of a dysfunctional family and seals Miike's reputation as one of world cinema...

Based on Jiro Asada's bestselling novel of the same title, Yojiro Takita directs this story of Kanichiro Yoshimura, a low-profile samurai warrior of the Shinsengumi militia (towards the end of...