Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
Tsubokura Haruko a division manager of a mid-sized IT company Saotome Accounting Software is feeling gloomy. She will soon be 35 and has misgivings about her own life. “I wonder if it’s good that my life stays like this …” She and her long-time boyfriend Ninomiya Takashi a colleague have their sights set on marriage. But she does not like the feeling of a life of stability. At this...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama ; Romance
Say Hello for Me is a love story and talks about three peoples childhood friendship and their reunion after 15 years of...
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
The title of the film comes from the protagonists name Tae-Soo Ji Jin-Hee. He has a twin brother Tae-Jin also played by Ji with whom he roamed around the fish market 19 years ago. One day Tae-Soo tries to steal from a gang who end up catching Tae-Jin for the crime instead leading to the brothers separation. While Soo becomes an efficient mob fixer/assassin who is hated by police and...
Country: South Korea
Genre: Drama
The specifically Korean tradition that is reclaimed in Sopyonje is the type of folk-song known as pansori described as a musical sublimation of South-West Koreas collective grief and suffering - in other words a kind of blues. The films three central characters are itinerant pansori singers in the 1950s a time when many aspects of Korean culture came under siege from Japanese and western...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
Inaba Rika Aragaki Yui is a director at Teito TV Network. Ever since her childhood it was been her dream to be a reporter. Yet she frequently causes troubles due to her aggressive interviewing style and eventually gets transferred against her will to be the co-director of an evening information programme. She is put in charge of a special feature on uniformed personnel and ordered to interview...
Country: Japan
Genre: Suspense ; Human drama
A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturers failure to recall the vehicle but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who despairing searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks police weekly magazine writers the victims family and various...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
A young mans played by Eita sister was killed by his close friend some 15 years ago. He made a promise to his mother that he would take care of sister but that promise was broken. Because of the death his family separated. The man has lived with guilt of his sisters death ever since. One day the young man meets a woman Hikari Mitsushima who is the sister of his friend from 15 years ago. A...
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama ; Romance
This is a probing tale set in turn of the century Japan involving three people trapped in a complex relationship of love and friendship. Daisuke Yusaku Matsuda is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka Kaoru...
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