Asian
see all genres ›Most Western audiences knew little or nothing about cinema from the Far East until the arrival of Akira Kurosawa on international screens heralded a wave of Japanese classics in 1950s. Since then, nearly every corner of Asia has made its mark on world cinema, offering a rich regional array sprawling from popular martial arts and "extreme" horror opuses to stylized dramas and vérité-type realism.
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Adirake
When the 2004 tsunami in Thailand took the lives of his family, Adirake, a boy on the verge of adulthood, must learn to adapt to his new life in an orphanage. Recalling the myths his mother would tell him, he searches for a mysterious white elephant, but instead discovers a friendship that...Watch Movie
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Dam Street
In the early 1980s, Xiao Yun, a sixteen year-old girl living in small riverside town in China, discovers she is pregnant. The local community is stunned, her family loses face and she and her boyfriend are expelled from school. In the aftermath, her boyfriend leaves her, and she gives birth and...Watch Movie
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The Music Room
With THE MUSIC ROOM, Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a fading way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years, now a shadow of...Watch Movie
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Seven Wonders of the World
Of the seven sites the ancient Greeks named the "wonders of the world," only one remains. SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD is a round-the-world adventure that picks up where the Greeks of antiquity left off. Released in 1956, this Cinerama spectacle follows 20th century adventurer...Watch Movie
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Memento Mori
Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is fascinated to learn that two schoolmates she thought to be close friends have, in fact, begun a forbidden romance. Unable to tear her eyes away, the secret allure of the diary begins to consume her. When one of the diary's writers is found dead from an...Watch Movie
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Danchi no okusan dosokai ni iku
Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star and lands the lead role in a soft-core sex film where the director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion where she is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her...Watch Movie
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Coming Out
Reiko meets a girl on a train who opens her up to an entirely new world. She finds herself attracted to the girl and is forced to make a difficult decision about her fiancé. The film touches upon the delicate question of social acceptance of alternative lifestyles in the closed Japanese society...Watch Movie
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Ship of Theseus
If the parts of a ship are replaced, bit-by-bit, is it still the same ship? A celebrated experimental photographer struggles with the loss of her intuitive genius as an unexpected aftermath of a physical change; an intellectual monk confronting a complex ethical dilemma with a long held ideology,...Watch Movie
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Mourning Wife
Director Daisuke Goto, the master of the cinematic Pink Eiga, is back with this retelling of the classic film noir, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. A married woman, tasked with running her handicapped husband's failing printing business, meets a drifter and they fall in love. Soon a plan to...Watch Movie
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Search for Paradise
"Join Lowell Thomas and follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo" in this new, digital restoration of SEARCH FOR PARADISE, the fourth of the original, three-panel Cinerama travelogues. Released in 1957, the motion picture takes you to the "Roof of the World," the Himalayas and...Watch Movie
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Anarchy in Japan-Suke
Mizuki is infertile. Desperate for a child, she kidnaps a baby boy from the car of a couple who are screwing outside. Mizuki raises the boy and names him Yoshiki. Eight years later, Mizuko falls in love with a loser named Tatsutoshi and together they start a dysfunctional...Watch Movie
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Destroy All Monsters
See Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Minilla, Kumonga Baragon, Gorosaurus, Manda and Varan clash in all their titanic glory. DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, is universally considered the fan favorite of the entire Godzilla series. It's an all-star monster rally of epic...Watch Movie
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Uncle's Paradise
UNCLE'S PARADISE is a wild, campy and comedic adventure... Hell has never looked more like a cheap motel. Uncle Takashi suddenly shows up to visit his nephew Harou, who lives a simple life in a small fishing village. Takashi is an eccentric character with a big problem: when...Watch Movie
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Propaganda
Controversial to its core, this hard-hitting anti-Western propaganda film looks at the influence of American culture on the rest of the world from a North Korean perspective. As first reported on mainstream new around the world, PROPAGANDA is allegedly a video smuggled out of North Korea....Watch Movie
