Female Yakuza Tale
Notoriously lacking restraint, sexy Pinky Violence star Reiko Ike returns in this gonzo sequel to Sex & Fury following the further exploits of Ocho, a theif and gambler funning afoul of evil yakuza in Meiji era Tokyo. Aided by a lone worlf adventurer (Ryohei Uchida), Ocho investigates a ruthless gang of cutthroats who are using indentured prostitutes as drug mules to smuggle heroin from China...
Samaritan Girl
To fulfill their dreams of traveling to Europe, two teenage girls Yeo-Jin and Jae-young start a prostitution business. Yeo-jin handles the business side, while Jae-young entertains the customers. When Jae-young is accidentally killed during a police raid...
Kagemusha (Criterion Collection)
In his late, color masterpiece Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his career - the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a historical epic that is also a meditation on the nature of power...
Purple Butterfly
Played by emerging Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi as a young Chinese woman in love with Itami, a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service. Devastated, she moves back to Shanghai only to witness the death of her elder brother during an attack by the Japanese extreme...
Springtime In A Small Town
The eight-year marriage of Dai Liyan and Yuwen has let them both unfulfilled and distant. An unexpected visitor arrives from Shanghai, a smartly-dressed doctor called Zhang Zhichen. He's an old school friend of Dai Liyan's and unbeknownst to her husband...
Days Of Being Wild
Star crossed Asian film icon Leslie Cheung plays Luddy, a devastatingly handsome Hong Kong lothario who seduces and forsakes women without compunction. Abandoned at birth, Luddy's self-destructive search for love is really a Quixotic quest for a feeling of permanence and a sense of identity...