With breathtaking cinematography shot on location in China’s Northern desert, an all-star cast that includes Brigitte Lin (The Bride With White Hair), Maggie Cheung (The Heroic Trio) and Donnie Yen (Iron Monkey), incredible action choreography by legendary Ching Siu-tung (Duel To The Death and the Swordsman Trilogy) and a final fight that is simply astounding, Tsui Hark’s Dragon Inn is …
Crows: Episode Zero
Bent on proving to his gangster father that he has the chops to take over the family business, Genji (Shun Oguri) enrolls in an ultraviolent high school where he sets out to fight his way to dominance and unite the school’s gangs under his rule. But as Genji begins his ascent, reigning school boss Tamao (Takayuki Yamada) kidnaps Genji’s girlfriend …
Crime Story
International box-office champion Jackie Chan teams up with visionary director Kirk Wong (The Big Hit) to deliver the hardest-hitting crime thriller of his celebrated career. In a nerve-jangling true-story adaptation, Jackie plays a special undercover agent assigned to protect a wealthy business tycoon. When the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, Chan joins forces with a respected senior detective …
Zebraman
Being a failure as a teacher and a family man, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as “Zebraman”, the superhero. Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escape fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He get’s more than he could ever wish for, when his black-and-white …
Ichi The Killer
Filmmaker Takashi Miike takes inspiration from Hideo Yamamoto’s manga, Koroshiya 1, to tell this bloody and bleak tale about the Japanese yakuza. Blond-coiffed Kakihara’s “mentor in crime” disappears, and Kakihara vows to find out who’s responsible. He’s also on the lookout for Ichi, a sadistic killer who may be able to inflict the level of pain Kakihara so badly craves. …
Gonin 2
Aging ironworks owner Toyama Masamichi who owes a heap o’ money to the yakuza — embarks on a mission of vengeance after goons come to collect … and assault his wife when Masamichi can’t pay. Little does he know that his quest will soon put him in league with five gun-toting babes who are also out to settle the score with the mobsters. …
Gonin
Five men — all financially tethered to the yakuza — band together to save themselves from the poorhouse. One of them, the desperate owner of a failing nightclub (Koichi Sato), comes up with a scheme to bilk the very man they owe. When 100 million yen is discovered missing from a yakuza office, the mob hires hit man Beat Takeshi …
Dynamite Warrior
THE DYNAMITE WARRIOR, Zieng, is a young man fueled by grief and bent on revenge after witnessing his parents’ murder by a callous and malicious killer.The only information Zieng has as to the killer’s identity is that he is a tattoo-covered man who is a part of an organized group of cattle rustlers. Zieng makes it his mission to stop …
Violent Cop
International superstar ‘Beat” Takeshi Kitano combines cool violence and powerful emotions to reinvent the gangster film genre in his explosive and critically acclaimed masterpiece “Violent Cop. ‘Beat’ Takeshi plays a renegade cop who is up to his neck in Drugs and Organized Crime. Soon the “Violent Cop” has to face up to a sadistic and ruthless Yakuza when his sister is kidnapped and drugged… …
Score
In the tradition of Quentin Tattantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” and John Woo’s “Hard Boiled” comes a non-stop action film crammed with blood, bullets and mayhem. Chance, a Japanese mobster specializing in armed robberies, released from prison somewhere in southeast Asia. Bailed out by fellow mobster Colonel, Chance is forced to pay back his debt by robbing one bank after another. Luck …