Asian Films
Displaying 57 films
100 Yen Love
A 32-year-old woman living with her parents meets a boxer and finally starts a life.
Director: Masaharu Take
A Balance
While documenting a controversial tragedy, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.
Director: Yujiro Harumoto
A Girl Missing
The latest thriller from Japanese director Koji Fukada (Harmonium).
Director: Koji Fukada
After The Storm
From acclaimed Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda comes this touching drama about a struggling writer attempting to reunite with his mother, ex-wife and young son amidst a violent typhoon.
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Shunji Iwai’s observant and mesmerizing teen saga, ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU, is a timeless coming-of-age story.
Director: Shunji Iwai
Apprentice
A correctional officer becomes friends with the chief hangman of a prison and then selected to become his trainee.
Director: Boo Junfeng
Between Shadow and Soul
BETWEEN SHADOW AND SOUL is a reworking of THE THIRD WIFE into a silent feature, following a girl in a 19th century arranged marriage in Vietnam.
Director: Ash Mayfair
Boiling Point
Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for wh...
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Center Stage
Ruan Ling-yu (Maggie Cheung) is riding high in her acting career when the press decides to take her down a notch or two, bitterly criticizing her for an affair with a married man.
Director: Stanley Kwan
Children of the Mist
In the misty mountains of Vietnam, a teenage girl comes of age as she faces the local custom of "bride kidnapping" in this documentary.
Director: Hà Lệ Diễm
Complicity
Cheng Liang works illegally in Japan at a soba restaurant and lives in constant fear of his real identity being discovered.
Director: Kei Chikaura
Dead Pigs
The debut film, set in a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai, from director Cathy Yan (BIRDS OF PREY).
Director: Cathy Yan
Far Western
The phenomenal story of the transplant of American country music to post-World War II Japan.
Director: James Payne
Hana-bi (Fireworks)
Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Harmonium
An old acquaintance, recently released from prison, begins to meddle in the life of a factory owner.
Director: Koji Fukada
Heroes Shed No Tears
Eddy Ko stars as the leader of a Chinese commando force enlisted to capture a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle in this explosive early action film by John Woo.
Director: John Woo
Hide and Seek
When his brother goes missing, wealthy family man Sung-soo goes in search of him, only to discover the seedy underbelly of mysterious apartment squatters and the terrifying rumors surrounding them.
Director: Jung Huh
Hospitalite
A Tokyo family’s unassuming lifestyle is turned upside down by the increasingly bizarre antics of their strange new tenant.
Director: Koji Fukada
Hotel Salvation
Faced with his father's bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey
Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani
Ilo Ilo
As Teresa, a live-in Filipino maid in Singapore, becomes an unspoken part of the Lim family, unforeseen circumstances in an uncertain economy will challenge the family's new normal.
Director: Anthony Chen
In Love We Trust
A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their terminally ill daughter is to have another child together.
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Key of Life
A case of stolen identity and one determined bride-to-be intersect in this comedic escapade from famed Japanese filmmaker Kenji Uchida.
Director: Kenji Uchida
Looking for Lucky
A graduate student loses his professor’s dog and must enlist his father’s help to retrieve it, lest his prospects of a tutorship vanishes.
Director: Jia-Chen Jiang
Mad Tiger
Two best friends have spent the last fifteen years touring the country in their performance art punk band. When one of them decides to quit, they both face deeper challenges than expected.
Director: Jonathan Yi
Moebius
The wife, overwhelmed with hatred for the husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on the son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
Director: Ki-duk Kim
My Love, Don't Cross that River
A couple who have lived together for 76 years faces the last moment of their marriage.
Director: Jin Moyoung
Nina Wu
An actress who finally achieves success struggles with what it cost her to attain it.
Director: Midi Z
Oh Lucy!
When her English-instructor John suddenly disappears from class, Setsuko travels halfway around the world in search of him to the outskirts of Southern California.
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi
Outrage Coda
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang....
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Pushing Hands
Tai chi master Mr. Chu tries to find his place in the foreign world of New York. Ang Lee's debut, in a new 2K restoration.
Director: Ang Lee
Raining in the Mountain
An aristocrat and a general plot to steal a priceless handwritten scroll held in a mountaintop temple library.
Director: King Hu
Roh
A family fights for their souls when caught in the warpath of a vengeful forest spirit ripped straight from Malaysian mythology.
Director: Emir Ezwan
Sea Fog (Haemoo)
Desperate to keep his fishing ship in business, a cash-strapped Korean sea captain and his crew agree to smuggle Chinese immigrants into the country. After their plan goes horribly wrong, violence eru...
Director: Sung-bo Shim
Sexual Drive
A Japanese triptych about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires.
Director: Kôta Yoshida
Shanghai Triad
SHANGHAI TRIAD is an absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930s, focusing on a kept woman who takes on a boy to be her servant.
Director: Yimou Zhang
Shun Li and the Poet
A Chinese barmaid and a Slavic fisherman find friendship and more in an Italian fishing village.
Director: Andrea Segre
Soul on a String
A long journey to return a sacred stone to its holy origins forces Taibei, a young Tibetan cowboy, to confront a series of mystical events and earthly adversity.
Director: Yang Zhang
Sword of Desperation
Despite publicly assassinating his lord's favorite concubine, an expert swordsman becomes his bodyguard.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
Teddy Bear
Desperate for true love, painfully shy bodybuilder Dennis escapes the watch of his domineering mother and travels to Thailand in search of the love of his life.
Director: Mads Matthiesen
The Barefoot Artist
Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief that art is a human right, and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change.
Director: Glenn Holsten
The Fate of Lee Khan
(Mandarin) Restored in 2K, King Hu's Wuxia masterpeice is a pioneer of fierce female-driven Kung Fu films and available for the first time in HD.
Director: King Hu
The Piano in a Factory
To fight for custody of his daughter who loves playing the piano, a steel factory worker decides to forge a piano from scratch.
Director: Zhang Meng
The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway’s erotically-charged drama follows a young woman who finds pleasure having calligraphy pained on her, and the revenge she seeks on the man who exploited her father.
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Real Thing
A man falls for a woman he saves at the train station and slowly becomes involved in a very dangerous relationship.
Director: Koji Fukada
The Road to Mandalay
Two Burmese immigrants flee their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.
Director: Midi Z
The Third Murder
From internationally-acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda comes this courtroom mystery about a lawyer struggling to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning ...
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Third Wife
After becoming the third wife to a wealthy landowner in 19th century Vietnam, May struggles with family and the prospects of motherhood.
Director: Ash Mayfair
The Wild Goose Lake
Neo-noir THE WILD GOOSE LAKE trails a gangster on the run who sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets on the lam.
Director: Diao Yinan
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
A poor ferryman's life takes a turn when he unexpectedly meets a girl.
Director: Joe Odagiri
TKO Collection - 3 Films by Takeshi Kitano
A specially-priced collection of 3 early films by Japanese actor and auteur director, Takeshi Kitano.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Tokyo Decadence
Erotic sex or dangerous fantasy? When fantasy gets too rough for one young call-girl, escaping becomes her reality.
Director: Ryu Murakami
True Mothers
A couple decide to adopt a baby after battling infertility. When the birth mother confronts them, they are forced to question their own parenthood.
Director: Naomi Kawase
Violent Cop
After a cop (Beat Takeshi) is fired and his sister is kidnapped, he goes on a mission to get the kidnapper and his boss.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Vive L'Amour
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Oscar-winning director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) presents an enchanting triptych that spins mundane encounters into a world of infinite possibilities.
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
While the Women are Sleeping
While vacationing with his wife, a writer begins following another man and woman who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
Director: Wayne Wang
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Introvert Weichung sets off to discover his true self in this lighthearted comedic romp.
Director: Arvin Chen