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Malaysian Movie: Evolusi KL DRIFT
2008-03-17 10:44:00
SynopsisZack and Sham are two close friends who enjoy the same hobbies and interests, ?DRIFT RACING?. Traditionally drift racing is monopolised by guys but it didnt stop Fasha, Zack?s girlfriend who broke all traditions and made it her hobby as she finds it very daring and aggresive. Zack is more protective of Fasha nowadays considering her identity crisis in the past and bad influences by her friends.Joe and Karl on the other hand feels threatened when they can?t influence new kids to be interested with drift racing. In order to settle this problem Zac and Joe had made a decision that they would race as a way to let some steam off.Trailer
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Japanese Movie: Hero
2008-03-16 11:24:00
SynopsisKohei Kuryu (Takuya Kimura), the prosecutor who shirks suit and tie for a pair of jeans but is never casual about his pursuit for the truth, is back! Besides the original TV series cast, Korean heartthrob Lee-Byung Hung is in it and was shot partly in Busan. This time, he is involved in an obscure case of manslaughter that turns into the trial of the century. Failure here means the end of his career. He must solve it!Trailer
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Korean Movie: Crazy For Wait
2008-03-15 17:42:00
SynopsisFour couples are heartbroken with their pending separation caused by the compulsory military service. The boys are worried their girlfriends will now have an excuse to meet other men. The girls are also having a hard time getting used to living without their boyfriends. Will the boys successfully fulfill their obligation and return to their girlfriends?Official Site
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Chinese Movie: My DNA Says I Love You
2008-03-14 12:27:00
SynopsisGigi and Marlene, two single women both in their late 20?s, work at a bio-technology company, researching and developing medicine to suppress specific genes and observe their effects on the human body. Gigi is born with the ?clean-freak? gene and her obsession with keeping things tidy causes problems in her relationships. Marlene, on the other hand, is born with the ?fat gene? and needs to regularly take pills to maintain her weight. Marlene panics when she learns that her ?anti-fat? pills will be taken off the market. Their personal problems coincide with romantic ones. Marlene grows frustrated maintaining her long-distance relationships via the Internet, and Gigi leaves her boyfriend when she discovers he?s cheating on her. One day, Gigi meets Anteater, her college sweetheart, and they start dating again. Things are going well, and Gigi just cannot remember why she had broken up with Anteater until the day they are about to consummate their passion, Gigi discovers Anteater...
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Thai Movie: Brave
2008-03-13 12:49:00
SynopsisPairote (Pairote Boongerd /Mike B) is forced by the biggest mafia gang in Thai land to steal the mainframe client information data from Wealthy Bank, an international credit card company. He holds Lita (Supakson Chaimongkon) (the company?s Vice President) hostage and forces her to give him the password that will allow him fo finish his assignment , and later manages to get away with it. He does this for his brother, Tong(Afdlin Shauki) , who has been captured, tortured and held ransom by the mafia gang, in exchage for the data they have forced him to steal. But things turn out for the worst when the mafia gang attempt to silence them both with explosives they strap around Tong. Whom they have as bait to lure B into a factory.After Kovit(Sahaschai Chumrum), the gangster boss , learns of their escape from this trap , he sends his right-hand men after them B gets shot by Mai (a former friend, now enemy) and falls from the top floor of an abandoned building to almost certain deat...
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Chinese Movie: Slam
2008-03-12 08:19:00
SynopsisMouth, a shy insecure 15-year-old, and his best friend Monkey, an undersized energetic loudmouth, get ready for the start of summer break and transition into high school. The future is looking bright for Mouth, whose longtime crush, Xiao Xiao, the prettiest and smartest girl at school, has finally turned her attention to him.The fun start to school break turns sour, when Monkey?s cousin, Jason, comes to Beijing for the summer. Jason gets the boys on the wrong side of Li Wei, the arrogant and cocky captain of the school basketball team. Since Mouth?s humble father, Lao Lin, works for Li Wei?s powerful and rich father, Mouth desperately tries to avoid any trouble. Nevertheless, Jason convinces the boys to take revenge. The boys score a minor victory, but Li Wei vows to make their lives a living hell.Mouth?s life takes a turn for the worse during Monkey?s birthday party, when Li Wei and his friends humiliate Xiao Xiao. Angry and pushed over the edge, Mouth attacks Li Wei and en...
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Korean Movie: My New Partner
2008-03-11 10:59:00
SynopsisYoung-joon, a fresh prosecutor, takes a big affair to leave for Busan and unwillingly gets cooperation from his father, Min-ho who is a veteran detective who deserted his family at one time. Since then, they are living separately without keeping touch each other for years. Now that their destiny to trace the same host of the accident related with a big drug trade gives the father and son a chance to recover their affection over the long time.Official Site
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Korean Movie: My Love Yurie
2008-03-10 12:53:00
SynopsisA tragic love story is about deal with the devil. Dong-a is a boy who is longing for eternal love. Yu-rie is a call girl whose name comes from an alaska native. Donga works at the Heaven gas station, across from the Papa motel where Yu-rie works as a call girl. Donga loves Yu-rie so passionately, that he sells his soul to the Devil in return for 10 years of love with Yu-rie. When the devil returns at the end of ten years to claim Donga?s soul, Donga decides to kill the devil.Official Site
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Japanese Movie: Crows Zero
2008-03-09 10:47:00
SynopsisThe Suzuran Senior High School for Boys, nicknamed "The School of Crows", is the poorest achieving, most violent school in the country. The students are called "crows" and they band together in factions, battling each other for influence and power. But they all share a common goal ... one that has never been reached in the school's history: unification. No one faction has ever reigned supreme.Oguri plays the role of Genji Takiya, a transfer student who attempts to take over Suzuran Boys High School and is mentored by old boy yakuza Katagiri (Kyosuke Yabe) as he faces off against rival Serizawa (Takayuki Yamada).Trailer
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Korean Movie: Open City
2008-03-08 06:40:00
SynopsisThe Regional Crime Squad consists of the finest elites of Korea?s police force, and veteran detective CHO Dae-young outshines them all as the officer with the most arrests on his record. Dae-young receives orders from his superiors to oversee the case over a pickpocket ring affiliated with the Yakuza. PAIK Jang-mi, arrestingly beautiful and ingenious with her hands, attempts to bring in KANG Man-ok, a legendary pickpocket, into her international ring in hopes of expanding it. Dae-young and Jang-mi first meet when he rescues her from danger. Little do they know what lies ahead.Official Site
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Japanese Movie: The Slit Mouthed Woman 2
2008-03-07 11:41:00
SynopsisMayumi, a cheerful high-schooler on the track and field team who is the youngest of three sisters. One day, her older sister's ex-boyfriend disfigures her face with sulfuric acid, leading her to soon become a terrifying killer.Official SiteTrailerEven it's a low-budget movie, i got a feeling it's gonna be scary as hell.
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Korean Movie: Scout
2008-03-06 08:09:00
Synopsis1980, Kwang-ju is fired up about a genius pitcher, a senior in high school. Ho-chang takes confident strides across the field making his way by cutting through the sand dust. He?s a university scouter on a mission. His task is to scout the genius pitcher, SUN Dong-yeul, a master of baseball who may be scouted to a rival university. But he is no where to be seen. But Ho-chang is determined to not let down his reputation as a successful scouter, and his scouting mission of 10 days begin! An original story of a scouter on a 10 day mission full of undisclosed history will now unfold!Official Site
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Korean Movie: Seven Days
2008-03-05 16:29:00
SynopsisJi-yeon is a successful lawyer and single mother to a seven-year-old girl. On her daughter?s field day, Ji-yeon competes with other parents in a running race and almost comes in the first place. However, nowhere could she find the girl who?s been watching and rooting for her mother to win. Later that day, Ji-yeon?s receives a phone call from an anonymous man, who tells her he has her daughter in custody and proposes a deal. To see her daughter alive, Ji-yeon needs to prove a convicted murderer not guilty on his second trial, only within a week. Ji-yeon tries to convince herself the murderer should be innocent, but the encounter with the victim?s mother makes her understand what drove crime-to-crime.Official Site
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Japanese Movie: Shaolin Girl
2008-03-04 06:00:00
SynopsisAbout a young kung fu teacher, Rin, who must take over her grandfather's dojo. In order to prepare herself, she make a journey to China for 3,000 days of grueling Shaolin kung fu training. Upon her return to Japan, she works to rebuild the dojo and joins her university lacrosse club, putting her considerable prowess to work for the team.TrailerWell, this is a direct sequel to Shaolin Soccer but Stephen Chow isn't in it. Sincerely, the first one was great and fun and hopefully the sequel will follow his steps by any means.
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Chinese Movie: Forbidden Kingdom
2008-03-03 18:58:00
SynopsisAn American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.Official Site
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Thai Movie: Bangkok Love Story
2008-03-02 20:48:00
SynopsisAn explosive love story of two men who live seemingly parallel lives without any real chances of meeting. Until one day, a twist of fate brings their paths to a crossroads of an unimaginable yet unforgettable love affair. “Maek” (Rattanabanlang Tosawad), a man of few words, has loved no one and never thought of loving anyone except his mother and his only brother “Mork” (Weeradit Srimalai). Maek lives a solitary life and constantly changes his name and address for the sake his safety due to his job. Uncertainty is what his job is all about and it allows him no love. How could it? He is an assassin. He is assigned a new mission: “Ith” (Chaiwat Tongsaeng), a handsome, wealthy man with an unanswered loneliness in his heart. Loneliness even though “Ith” has “Sine” (Chadcha Rujinanonth), his bride to be, nearby… Maek follows Ith’s every step to complete his assignment. Unfortunately, when the trigger moment arrives he cannot kill. There is something inside...
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Chinese Movie: Rule #1
2008-03-01 13:22:00
SynopsisRookie Sergeant Lee (Yue) is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious- sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong (Cheng), a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD's role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD's rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly-inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation. MAD begins investigating a string of bizarre teenage suicides... impossible suicides, unless the victims were possessed. As Lee and Wong follow the clues, they realize something sinister is heading their way.Trailer
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Japanese Movie: Sky of Love
2008-02-29 13:28:00
SynopsisUploaded to a cell-phone website, this tale of an average girl’s three stormy years of high school, a saga of love, rape, pregnancy, miscarriage, parting, and reunion, is in fact a true story. Striking a chord with many women, its popularity spread like wildfire by word of mouth, and published in book form was an instant best-seller, with 1.3 million copies snapped up in only three weeks. The work is a true phenomenon of the emerging cell-phone society.Official Site
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Korean Movie: BA:BO
2008-02-27 11:11:00
SynopsisJi-ho is a promising pianist, studying and playing abroad for years. But one night she had a stage fright and never recovers. In despair, Ji-ho comes home and meets her old classmate Sung-ryong. Once a very bright boy, Sung-ryong had an accident and now he is in late 20s with the mind of a six year old. He is very forgetful, but he has never forgotten his first love Ji-ho. Other half of Sung-ryong?s dumb mind is occupied with his only family ? younger sister Jee-in. To take care of her, Sung-ryong sells toasts in front of Jee-in?s school. But Jee-in is embarrassed of her idiotic brother and ignores him. And Sang-soo is Sung-ryong?s old friend who understands Sung-ryong?s innocent mind. But he inevitably falls to the world of gangsters. Ji-ho is still in her slump, Jee-in falls sick and Sang-soo gets involved in a bloody dispute. But all of their agonies are miraculously saved by Sung-ryong in a way nobody has forseen...Official Site
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Vietnamese Movie: The Rebel
2008-02-26 19:34:00
Synopsis1920s. Vietnam under colonial French ruling. Anti-French rebellions emerge all over the country to disrupt the foreign occupiers. In respond, the colonialist employed units of Vietnamese agents to track and destroy these rebels. The film follows the journey of Le Van Cuong, a French cultured undercover elite. Although branded with a perfect track record, Cuong's inner conscience is troubled by the sea of Vietnamese blood he had spilled to uphold a French washed ideal. Following an assassination of a high ranking French, Cuong is assigned to seek and kill the notorious leader of the resistance. Cuong encounters Vo Thanh Thuy, a relentless revolutionary fighter and the daughter of the rebel leader. Cuong's superior intends for him to use Thuy as a mean to get to her father but Cuong soon has feelings for her. Thuy's patriotism ignites conflicts between Cuong's consciousness and his cultured faith. Will Cuong discover his inner-self and find love or will he continue his mis...
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Korean Movie: Hellcats
2008-02-25 14:54:00
SynopsisAh-mi has been a freelance screenwriter for 2 years, but things don?t seem to work out for her. She lives with her bigger sister, Young-mi, because she can?t afford to live on her own. Ah-mi dreams of success and independence, but these seem far-off. She has a boyfriend named Won-suk, a member of an unsuccessful rock band, who is mostly broke. Then one day, she goes out on a blind date and a new guy, Seung-won, enters her life. A guy different from her boyfriend, Won-suk. While this is going on, Young-mi, the collected and sexy interior designer, meets an actor named Kyoung-soo. She gets a good feeling for the guy, but even her confident self gets jumbled up about love when she learns she has menopause. There is also Young-mi?s daughter, Kang-ae. She is a hard-headed high school student, whose current task in life is to figure out a way to get a kiss from her boyfriend, Ho-jae. Kang-ae?s best friend, Mi-ran, a self-proclaimed dating expert, coaches Kang-ae about love. Mi-ran...
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Japanese Movie: Mushishi
2008-02-24 07:34:00
SynopsisGinko is a mushishi (bug master) a gifted healer who expertly manipulates the mushi, small, supernatural bugs, in touch with the essence of life and death. Whilst travelling through pre-modern Japan he meets the beautiful Tanyu, a crippled bugmaster who records the history of the mushi by locking them into scrolls. When the mushi escape Tanyu?s scrolls and attack her, Ginko must save Tanyu and at the same time rescue the traces of a vanishing age.Official Site
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Korean Movie: The Chaser
2008-02-23 06:20:00
SynopsisEx-cop pimp Jung-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts. One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Mi-jin. Jung-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her. During his search, Jung-ho dents a car in the alley. When Jung-ho spots blood splattered on the driver?s shirt, he senses the man, Young-min, is the suspect. After an intense chase, Jung-ho catches Young-min. But because of Jung-ho?s pretense as a cop, they are both taken to the police station. At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Mi-jin, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Jung-ho is the only one who believes Mi-jin is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, Jung-ho?s hunt begins, searching for Mi-jin entrapped in ...
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Taiwan Movie: Blood Red Fear
2008-02-22 06:30:00
SynopsisThe population of Taiwan got whiped out by a virus and there are only two survivers left. But one of them cannot stand the pressure anymore and slowly moves into madness.Trailer
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Thai Movie: Art of Devil 3
2008-02-22 06:06:00
SynopsisHorror/Curse/Cult.Official Site
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Korean Movie: Beautiful
2008-02-21 10:24:00
SynopsisA miserable girl because of her irresistible beauty.. Is her beauty the Blessing? Or the Curse? There is a girl, Eun-young, who is not happy for her breathtaking beauty. She gets lonely and exhausted from the stares from men and jealousies from women. One day, she gets raped by one of her stalkers, Sung-min and hears the terrible words from him. ?I did it just because you are so beautiful.? She believes that she was raped because of her cruel beauty and starts to kill her beautiful looks. And there is one guy who runs after her?Official SiteTrailer
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Chinese Movie: Playboy Cops
2008-02-20 15:08:00
SynopsisAn extremely brutal armed robbery case has brought two very unusual young detectives together in Hong Kong. Both men have been known not to follow the usual rules of conduct in solving crimes. Lincoln, the younger brother of the deceased, an ex-policeman in China, has sworn to find the man who has murdered his brother. While he investigates the murder on his own in Hong Kong, he meets Michael, a CID officer on suspension. Michael has often been warned against insubordination and for pulling his own stunts to capture criminals on the run.Official Site
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Chinese Movie: Shamo
2008-02-19 07:07:00
SynopsisAfter killing his parents, teenaged Ryo became a target for bullying from the moment he arrived in the boys' home he was sent to. As he was being beaten to the verge of death, training officer and fellow prisoner Kurokawa Kenji stepped in and taught Ryo a harsh lesson in survival: If you want to leave prison alive, you'll have to destroy all your enemies. Intensely practicing karate with Kurokawa from then on, Ryo learned to fight until he could defeat his tormentors one by one.Three years later, Ryo is released from prison. Word gets out in the triad society of his fighting skills and he falls into the care of prostitute Natsumi. Yet no matter how hard he tries, he cannot be accepted in the masses because he had murdered his parents - an act of the lowest of beasts. By chance he finds a new calling: to rise through the ranks of the Lethal Fight karate competition. There could be nothing better to Ryo than overcoming Sugawara Naoto, the championship's most powerful fighte...
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Korean Movie: Once Upon Time
2008-02-18 06:14:00
SynopsisIn the 1940's under the Japan's colonial rule, Bong-gu, a swindler, and Chun-ja, a jazz singer, are both after ``the Light of the East,'' a diamond on the Buddhist statue in Seokguram cave. However, Japan's head gets it and he holds a party to celebrate and move it to Japan as soon as possible. Bong-gu and Chun-ja participate to steal 'the Light of the East'.Official Site
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Chinese Movie: Kung Fu Dunk
2008-02-17 14:51:00
SynopsisThe youngster, Shi-Jie (by Jay Chou) grew up at the Kung -Fu school. He practiced excellent Kung-Fu and equipped with good sense of feel. Unexpectedly, he showed his marvelous skills of slam dunk. Therefore, he was selected by Chen-Li (by Eric Tsang) who had wicked ideas and made his living in the streets. On the exercise of helping him search for his family, Chen-Li invited him to play basketball at the first university. However, he would like to make use of him to make money......Official SiteAnother comedy that everyone can't miss!
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