Also known as ジョゼと虎と魚たち / Joze to tora to sakana tachi

Genre: Romance

Category: Japanese Movie

Film Date: December, 2003

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.

Category: Japanese Movie

Film Date: January, 2010

Set in Japan in the 1990s, there’s one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya. When they go to see them in concert, they sneak their way into the backstage area and Asako gets acquainted with some of the band’s members. Natsu, the vocalist, is immediately attracted to Asako and begins bringing her along to the band’s practice sessions. Though Asako enjoys it, she proves to be a distraction to the other band members and is soon ejected from the session by Yukari, their manager. But Natsu is determined to keep her around, pulling strings to make Yukari and Asako to become friends, and eventually, helping Asako to become LANDS co-manager. LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.

Genre: Action

Category: Japanese Movie

Film Date: September, 2009

It is 17th century Japan and from a young age Kamui has been considered something of an outcast, even within his own ninja clan. Disillusioned with the laws and principles, which dictate that he must use his skills to kill others, Kamui chooses to leave his past behind him and go in search of true freedom. But for a ninja liberation comes at a price and the only way to escape the bonds of the ninja brotherhood is to die. Now a fugitive on the run from his clan, who are determined to hunt him down and eliminate him for his betrayal, Kamui finds himself constantly fighting for his life and unable to trust anyone. He eventually finds some solace when he meets an indomitable fisherman who saves his life and invites him to settle with his family. Unexpectedly, the arrangement brings Kamui face to face with a long-forgotten nemesis of his, another renegade ninja with a deadly score to settle. Meanwhile, the ninja army hunting Kamui is setting a trap from which there can be no escape…

Also known as Di 36 Ge Gu Shi / 第36個故事 / 第36个故事 / 第三十六個故事

Genre: Comedy, Drama , Romance

Category: Taiwanese Movie

Film Date: June, 2010

Taipei Exchanges (第36個故事) directed by first time director Hsiao Ya-chuan (蕭雅全) brings us a wonderful movie set in Taipei that explores the theme of the value of things. In a city where capitalism and money dominates daily life the movie imagines an alternative of barter, storytelling and dreaming. The story begins with Doris (Kwai Lun Mei ) who opens a cafe with her sister Josie. In the beginning Doris is business minded, while Josie is more idealistic. However the process of trading things not for their monetary value but for their meaning slowly transforms Doris.

Genre: Comedy

Category: Japanese Drama

Film Date: July, 2010

Kano Haruko (Naka Riisa) is a charismatic shop assistant who has such excellent fashion sense that she has been featured in fashion magazines. However, she is unable to give up her dream of being a high school teacher. Haruko is asked by her former teacher to teach Japanese to foreigners for three months on the understanding that he would introduce her for the high school’s Japanese language teaching position. And so, she becomes a trainee teacher at a Japanese language school where she coaches nine foreign students with strong personalities, including an Italian anime enthusiast and a Swede who is in love with ninjas, according to her own convictions, while setting her sights on becoming a high school teacher.

Also known as 내 여자친구는 구미호 / Nae Yeojachinguneun Gumiho / My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Category: Korean Drama

Film Date: August, 2010

Episodes: 16

Lee Seung Ki is a man who meets a girl and falls in love with her. The girl is actually a gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails that eats the livers of humans. When he finds out that she is a gumiho, he ends up doing crazy things to prevent the girl from eating his liver.

Also known as Xiao Yu Er Yu Hua Wu Que / [The] Proud Twins / The Handsome Siblings / The Perfect Twins

Genre: Comedy, Wuxia

Category: Hong Kong Drama

Film Date: January, 2005

Episodes: 40

Hua Wu Que was a twins of Xiao Yu Er but got separated. Ye Wha Goon Goon Ju,Yuao Yu and Lien Xing are twins. Hated all the mens in the world. Got cheated in love the twins are his lover’s kids. So she decided to make them kill each other 18 years later. She took Hua Mu Que and left Xiao Yu E to Yean Lam Tien.Making Yean Lam Tian thinking that his friend only have 1 baby. Yean Lam Tian that Oua Yien 6 did this so he carried his friends baby to revange but got tricked instead. making him lose his memory. The ou Yian 7 decided to teach all the pranks they knew making him the brattiset kid in the world. He set out to travel, got to a town and got his pupil Oua Ton Tien. Also meeting his twins brother who was working for Yeao Yu. Xiao yu yi and Tie Xin Lan went into the woods. Almost got killed by the trap gon The Hib set up but being beat up by Fa mu Que. Tit Xim Lan liked him after that.

Also known as Uri hyeong / 우리형 / 우리 형

Genre: Drama

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: October, 2004

Two brothers were born within a year of each other. The younger brother ‘Jong-hyun’ is only good at fighting, and his older brother ‘Seong-hyun’ is good at studying and has a warm heart. Jong-hyun has largely ignored Seong-hyun. They have studied in the same class, in the same school. Their mother loves only Seong-hyun. They fall in love with the same girl, but she only likes Jong-hyun. Because of their mother and her, the brothers’ conflicts never stop…

Also known as Eoddeon Bangmun / 어떤 방문

Genre: Drama

Category: Korean Movie

Film Date: November, 2009

Jeonju Digital Project 2009 “Lost in the Mountains” is directed by Hong Sang-soo, “Koma” by Naomi Kawase and “Butterflies Have No Memories” by Lav Diaz In the film “Koma”, Kawase explores the relationship between fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship that develops between a third generation Korean-Japanese man, who unexpectedly visits the small and quiet village of Koma, and a Japanese woman, a somewhat mysterious inhabitant of the village. Korean director Hong’s “Lost in the Mountains” tells the story of a woman’s love-hate relationship with the people closest to her, including a friend, a teacher with whom she had an affair and her ex-boyfriend. It starts when she makes an impromptu visit to see her friend, who lives in Jeonju. “Butterflies Have No Memories”, the film by the director Diaz, depicts the lives of the inhabitants of a remote island far from the Philippines who suffer economic difficulties after a gold mining company withdraws from the town. One day, a sudden visit by a Canadian woman born and raised on the island makes their already troubled lives even more complicated.

Also known as 佳期如夢 / Jia Qi Ru Meng / 藍色佳期

Genre: Drama, Romance

Category: Mainland Drama

Film Date: June, 2010

Episodes: 30

After university student You Jia Qi met Meng He Ping, the two started dating. Meng He Ping’s mother however strongly objected to their relationship. Jia Qi broke up with He Ping and He Ping angrily went overseas. Jia Qi’s friend Ruan Zheng Dong who comes from a rich family, had an accident and ended up in the hospital. Jia Qi went to visit him and unexpectedly met He Ping again. It turned out that He Ping and Zheng Dong were childhood friends. To escape from the heartaches that He Ping’s reappearance brought about, Jia Qi started dating Zheng Dong. Zheng Dong ended up in the hospital again due to stomach pains which turned out to be the terminal stage of gastric cancer. He decided to let He Ping and Jia Qi, the two lovers be together and secretly left. Jia Qi started to search for him. After Jia Qi finally found Zheng Dong, she told him that she has already fallen in love with him. Zheng Dong knew that he didn’t have much time left and asked Jia Qi to help him retrieve back a very important property belonging to him.