Asian Cinema & Culture

Apartment 1303

After moving into her first apartment, Sayaka invites her friends to come over and celebrate. During...

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Arakimentari

Arang

A veteran female detective, So-Young, and her rookie assistant are investigating a recent series of ...

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Breath

Acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk returns with his 14th film as a director, a tender roman...

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Caterpillar

Caterpillar tells the story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfill...

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Divergence

Aaron Kwok (The Storm Riders) plays Suen, a depressed and rundown cop still obsessing over his girlf...

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Dorm

Twelve-year-old Chatree is miserable and lonely after his transfer to an all-boys boarding school. H...

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Ex-Drummer

Ji-won, played by the popular Korean actress Kim Ha-Neul (My Tutor Friend, The Duelist, and the hit ...

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Face

A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid leaving only the bones behind. T...

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H

Shin Hyun (Cho Seung-woo) walks into the local police station toting the mutilated bodies of six mis...

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Heroic Duo

Tough cop Ken Li (Ekin Cheng) is at the top of his game but still needs some help to solve a grisly ...

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Hit Man File

Equal parts violent and sensual, HIT MAN FILE is a flashy new Asian action film with a distinctive T...

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Matrimony

X Men's Fan Bing Bing stars in this ghostly Chinese love story. When Junchu s girlfriend, Manli, is ...

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Mountains May Depart

Mainland master Jia Zhangke scales new heights with Mountains May Depart. At once an intimate drama ...

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Ab-normal Beauty

Pop Aye

A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew...

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Pray

Down on their luck and desperate for money to buy drugs, Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami ...

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Another Public Enemy

When a number of unsolved crimes are linked to an enigmatic foundation, newly assigned prosecutor Ka...

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Bloody Reunion

After 16-years pass, a group of former students decide to visit their sickly, wheel-chair bound teac...

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Hard Romanticker

Based on director Gu Su-yeon's autobiographical novel, Hard Romanticker is a spectacularly violent g...

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3 Seconds Before Explosion

A lightning-paced 60's crime film from Japan's Nikkatsu Studios, Three Seconds to Explosion packs en...

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Chi-hwa-seon

Im Kwon-Taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-u...

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Blind Shaft

A devastating portrait of murderous grifters in the poor coal mining region of Northwest China

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Eagle Shooting Heroes

Executive produced by Wong Kar-Wai, Jeffrey Lau's "absurd 1993 masterpiece" (Austin Chronicle) Ea...

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Hooligan Sparrow

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she...

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Horror Stories

A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of...

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Sweet Bean

A lonely baker has his life (and business) reinvigorated when he hires an elderly woman with an unca...

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A Gesar Bard's Tale

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his l...

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The Butcher

A small group of people lie battered and bound on the floor of a dirty slaughterhouse covered in blo...

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The Coast Guard

Private Kang, a member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, monitors a stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire...

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Songs from the North

SONGS FROM THE NORTH is an essay film which offers an unique look at the enigma of North Korea, a co...

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The Heirloom

Twenty years ago, an inexplicable unsolved mass suicide occurred in the millionaire Yang household. ...

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The Bow

A crusty old man and a beautiful young girl live on a fishing boat, which has been floating at sea f...

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The President's Last Bang

Imaginatively recreating the 1979 assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee, writer-dir...

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1/3 (One Third)

Based upon Dante's Inferno, 1/3 is a timeless fable of redemption, a gritty, streetwise contemporary...

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Bloody Ties

A crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a pow...

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The Stairway to the Distant Past

"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masatoshi...

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A Touch of Sin

Written and directed by master Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), a man widely regarded as "one of...

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The Trap

In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand new fax machine prodding hi...

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A Tale of Two Sisters

When Su-mi and Su-yeon return home from the hospital after their mother's death, they are con- tinua...

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United Red Army

This epic docudrama by Koji Wakamatsu depicts the rise, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, of the fa...

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Vital

Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in ...

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Cops vs. Thugs

In his 1975 masterpiece COPS VS. THUGS, director Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLE ROYALE) paints a dynamic por...

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R-Point (Ghosts of War)

Korean soldiers searching for a missing platoon in 1972 Vietnam end up encountering forces that basi...

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Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

An intimate and powerful encounter with one of today's most politically influential artists and the ...

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Wonderful Town

Aditya Assarat's "delicate, delightful, and nearly note-perfect debut feature" (Salon.com). An archi...

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Yangsi

Jigme Lhundrup is the Yangsi, the reincarnation of a greatly revered Tibetan Buddhist meditation mas...

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The Cave of the Yellow Dog

A nomadic Mongolian family find themselves in disagreement when the oldest daughter, Nansaa, finds a...

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Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles accompanies the prolific Chinese director Jia Zhangke on a walk do...

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