Alternative Title: メイド刑事 / Maid Detective
Genre: Comedy, Detective
Film Date: June, 2009
Japan Casts:
Fukuda Saki, Harada Ryuji, Matoba Koji, Shinagawa Toru
Description:

Aoi is a moé-type maid working on a wealthy Osaka estate. In reality, though, she is an undercover detective sent by the police on a special mission to investigate a suspect.

• Alternative Title: ブザー・ビート
• Genre: Sports
• Film Date: July, 2009
• Japan Casts:
  Aibu Saki, Ito Hideaki, Kitagawa Keiko , Ogi Shigemitsu, Yamashita Tomohisa
• Description:
  Kamiya Naoki is a salaryman who belongs to his company’s basketball team. Despite his appearance, he is completely weak under pressure when it comes to work and romance. Although he has a girlfriend, he falls in love with a spirited and cheerful woman who is unable to be straightforward

The story is set about 8 months after the first movie. Genji is close to graduation at Suzuran High School, but one last matter must be settled with a rival school.

Genji (Shun Oguri) still hasn’t quite managed to unify badass haven Suzuran High School under one leader due to a decisive loss to the mysterious Linda Man.

Unfortunately his goal of local domination must be put on hold when a long-standing truce with rival high school Housen Gakuen is suddenly broken. Led by the ferocious Taiga Narumi (Kaneko Nobuaki), Housen launches an all-out assault on Suzuran, throwing the reigning toughest school in all of Japan into a state of crisis.

Alternative Title: 任侠ヘルパー
Genre: Human Drama
Film Date: July, 2009
Japan Casts:
Kuroki Meisa, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi , Matsudaira Ken,Osugi Ren, Yamamoto Yusuke
Description:

Tsubasa Hikoichi is a yakuza underling who runs a loan shark operation in Roppongi. Hikoichi is brutal and efficient, and has no compunction about cheating the weak and poor out of their hard-earned money. When Hikoichi’s boss dies, his replacement, Takayama Gensuke, wants the young hood to prepare himself for an executive position, and orders Hikoichi, along with other subordinate bosses, to get a job in an elderly care facility. Suffice it to say, the position isn’t what Hikoichi expected it to be..

Alternative Title: アイシテル

Genre: Romance
Film Date: April, 2009
Total Episodes: 10
Japan Casts:
Inamori Izumi, Itaya Yuka, Yamamoto Taro
Description:
Typical mother Noguchi Satsuki spent her days trying to balance her life as a wife to her hard-working husband Kazuhiko and mother to their only son Tomoya, a seemingly withdrawn fifth-grader with whom Satsuki struggled to communicate. Seiko and Ozawa Hideaki, living in the same neighborhood as the Noguchi family, were raising a rebellious junior high school daughter Mihoko and their first son Kiyotaka a second-grader who was showered with much love and affection by his mother.
On that ill-fated day when Kiyotaka was reported missing and was later found dead, Tomoya was taken into custody by police as the prime murder suspect. Tomoya slowly begins to open up about his innermost feelings as the hidden truth reveals the true motive behind his cruel act of violence. Satsuki, as mother of the perpetrator, comes face-to-face with her son’s true self while Seiko, as mother of the victim, deals with her sorrow and anger

Janghwa is the woman who gets everyone’s attention and love with her gorgeous appearance. She had a perfect marriage and enjoys her luxurious life. She only concerns and cares about herself, and she’s not changed after she got married.
Hongryeon, the deprived single mother, has a dream of having a happy family of her own, but this modest hope is not easy for her. Nevertheless, Hongryeon is an energetic and optimistic person who lives her life to the fullest.
The two very contrary women confront each other, as Janghwa abandons the mother-in-law and Hongryeon starts to look after her.

Waters is about 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.

Also known as: Seoul’s Sad Song / Conspiracy in the Court
Genre: Romance, Historical, Period
Episodes: 8

Lee Na Young (Kim Ha Eun) was trained to be an assassin after bing rescued from servitude when her high ranking father was convicted of treason. Her childhood sweetheart Park Sang Kyu (Jin Yi Han) who had returned from studying abroad and worked as a government official was looking all over for her. So did her former servant Yang Man Oh (Lee Chun Hee) who had become the leader of the merchant group. The three got entangled in a conspiracy against the Emperor who was determined to carry out reforms to create a new Korea whereby the class system would be eliminated.

aka:  Oi dut hei
Year: 2009
Directed: Joe Ma
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 01:28:06
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese/Mandarin
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Cast: Gigi Leung, Wilson Chen, Bing Shao, Shaun Tam

Synopsis / Plot

Gigi Leung stars as Leslie Chan, a marketing manager who has your usual movie romantic problems. In the opening scene, she meets airline employee Yutong (Wilson Chen), who is immediately smitten, but he’s so bookish and shy that he can only privately vow to woo her if he ever sees into her again. His chance arrives one year later when she fortuitously comes to stay with him in his Hong Kong apartment. The problem: she’s newly-married to his brother Hilton (Mainland star Shao Bing), meaning she’s technically unavailable. However, a cutaway to China shows Hilton getting it on with his over-emotional secretary, meaning that Yutong should now have a chance with his houseguest, who’s becoming a distraction already because she likes to wander around the apartment in short shorts and high heels. She also acts in a girlish sitcom manner that would charm any fan of Meg Ryan movies. How can Yutong resist?

Aka: Ai qing de ya chi
Year: 2006
Directed: Yuxin Zhuang
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 109mins
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English/Chinese
Cast: Bingyan Yan, Hongtao Li, Naiwen Li, Jia Chi, Jiaojiao Wu

Synopsis / Plot

Set in China in the ’70s and ’80s, Teeth of Love tells the tale of three painful romances in the life of Qian Yehong (played by Yan Bingyan), as a young woman and in middle age. And while the film is all about love – unlike most films set in this era, which usually focus on how China was affected socially – director Zhuang Yuxin’s take is a particularly pessimistic one: His characters are forever suffering. There are female and male protagonists – all tortured by love.

The film begins in Beijing in 1977, the year after the “cultural revolution” ended. At school, Qian leads a gang of girls and behaves like a boy, fighting and bullying classmates. She doesn’t seem to be aware that she’s a girl; when a boy writes her a love letter, she insults him in public, which leads to tragic consequences.
Years later, we meet a Qian who has been forced to leave her lover – a married man. Yet when Qian is finally reunited with her own husband after years of separation, she finds that she has become accustomed to living alone. The day before their divorce, her gentle husband leaves her with a cruel souvenir. Kudos to actress Yan Bingyan, who gives an excellent performance, especially in the first part of the film, playing a frustrated woman struggling with love.