Best Asian Film 2011-2015
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- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsTokio EmotoYukichi KobayashiYuto KobayashiHikari is drifting through Tokyo until she meets Yuji. Hikari's boyfriend got killed in Akihabara in 2008. Yuji's parents went missing after the earthquake of 3/11. Can they both find peace? Filmed in Tokyo and the Fukushima prefecture, this small poetic masterpiece shows the search for hope and forgiveness in the face of destruction.
- DirectorMarlon RiveraStarsEugene DomingoJM De GuzmanKean CiprianoJocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are film-school graduates dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress (Eugene Domingo), and a thorough inspection of their film's major location, the Payatas dumpsite. They believe they have a winning script and the energy and drive to make their dreams come true, no matter what the cost.
- DirectorAntoinette JadaoneStarsLilia CuntapayGeraldine VillamilAntoinette JadaoneA professional horror movie extra prepares for her first ever acting award nomination.
- DirectorHun JangStarsShin Ha-kyunGo SooRyu Seung-suA drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsJo Min-sooLee Jung-JinWoo Ki-hongA loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsBowen DuanXinyun LiWenwen HanSao Bao has been left behind by China's fabulous new wealth, having lost his job, his apartment, and the woman he loves. Nevertheless, he has moments of euphoria amid his own despair, as he roams the sleek, shifting city with other soulful, cash-poor dreamers and misfits. These heavenly losers carry the vital spirit of Beijing in this portrait of youthful disaffection. Mandarin w. English subs.
- DirectorKome Kongkiat KomesiriStarsKrisada Sukosol ClappSomchai KemgladSakarin SuthamsamaiBased on the notorious Bangkokian gangs of the 1950s-60s. The story follows a newly released prisoner who desires to live straight, but knowing nothing else but the life of a gangster, he returns to his old gang.
- DirectorJeong Ji-yeongStarsJang-Su BaeLee Cheon-heeSeo Dong-sooOn September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.
- DirectorJung Ji-wooStarsPark Hae-ilKim Mu-yeolKim Go-eunIn this film, Lee Jeok-yo is a respected poet who cares fondly for his 30ish year old disciple Seo Ji-woo. The world of these two men is shaken when 17-year-old Han Eun-gyo comes into the picture.
- DirectorYi-kwan KangStarsSeo Yeong-juLee Jung-hyunKang Rae-yeonA juvenile offender Ji-gu reunites with his young mom who he thought was dead.
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsTakayuki YamadaPierre TakiLily FrankyJournalist Shuichi Fujii receives a letter from convicted killer Junji Sudo. Writing from death row, Sudo wants to confess to crimes unknown to the police. On visiting Sudo in prison, Fujii learns about a real estate broker called "Doc" who masterminded a string of murders that Sudo worked muscle for. Set up by Doc, Sudo seeks revenge and implores Fujii to find the evidence needed to bring in his former boss. Working off Sudo's sketchy memories, Fujii begins to piece together a grizzly tale of extortion, torture, rape, and arson. But as his desire to see Doc brought to justice nears the boiling point, he runs into resistance from his editor, who views the story as tripe, the police, who seem indifferent to the case, and his wife, who is at her wits' end dealing with his mother's increasing dementia. Based on true crime cases, "The Devil's Path" exposes the secret underbelly of crime in modern Japan.
- DirectorNobuhiro YamashitaStarsAtsuko MaedaSuon KanShôko FujimuraTamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.
- DirectorChito S. RoñoStarsJhong HilarioNikki GilDick IsraelActing as a window into how flawed our basic political right has become, the film follows Nonoy as he takes over his Father, the Kapitan's, duties as guardian to committed voters harassed by vote buyers on the eve of the election.
- DirectorSiege LedesmaStarsYeng ConstantinoFelix RocoMatthew ValeñaA tomboyish call center agent falls for her openly gay co-worker.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsHideaki AnnoHidetoshi NishijimaMiori TakimotoJiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes.
- DirectorShûichi OkitaStarsAyumi ItoJun KunimuraGô AyanoWere people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?
- DirectorPark Hoon-jungStarsLee Jung-jaeChoi Min-sikHwang Jung-minAn undercover cop finds it difficult to play both a cop and a goon.
- DirectorTaweewat WanthaStarsNatpassara AdulyamethasiriAcharanat AriyaritwikolChinawut IndracusinThe girl Nam befriends the bullied boy Thongsook at the same room in the hospital and she tells that she likes horror films. Thongsook asks whether she would like to see ghosts and he removes his necklace with an amulet and is attacked by ghosts. Years later, Thongsook is an outcast teenager that studies in the same class of Nam and has a crush on her. When Nam and her friends Boy, Jack and the lesbians Beam and Pui decide to spend a night in an infamous island, they do not tell Thongsook. The boatman warns the group that the place is cursed and they should neither stay there nor visit the sanctuary where a tragedy happened but they do not pay attention to his words. Meanwhile Thongsook finds their map and meets his mates in the island. Boy, Jack and Beam force Thongsook to go with them to the sanctuary and he tells that the place is evil. However Boy and Jack take his amulet and lock him up in a cell to scare him but they can not open the padlock. They go home to bring a crowbar to open the padlock but they party instead and Thongsook spends the night in the sanctuary. On the next morning, Nam finds the amulet in the house and they go to the sanctuary to release Thongsook. However they do not find him. They ask the boatman to come back on the next day and he warns that they should not spend the Friday 13th in the island. What might have happened to the teenager?
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda SwintonIn a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
- DirectorYukihiko TsutsumiStarsShihori KanjiyaNaoto TakenakaTakayuki TakumaHimawariso is a group home for intellectually disabled persons. Comic book artist Itpon moves in and begins working at the institution with his daughter Mako, who is intellectually disabled. Mako and another resident, Uyan, fall for each other, but father is concerned.
- DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraStarsGaku HamadaBengalAmi HachiyaAfter Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture outside. Satoru Watari then meets his old friends as they are coming back from their middle school classes. Satoru has now gotten a job at a cake shop within the apartment complex and eventually gets engaged to one of his friends. Satoru, still lives within the apartment complex only, but, as time passes, more of his friends leave.
- DirectorChito S. RoñoStarsJorge EstreganKC ConcepcionJoem BasconBoy Golden is a 2013 Filipino film loosely based on the life of Arturo Porcuna who rises through the Manila gang underworld in the 1960s until his murder.
- DirectorYoshihiro NakamuraStarsMao InoueGô AyanoNanaoA young woman who works at cosmetic company becomes the prime suspect after her beautiful co-worker is murdered.
- DirectorFruit ChanStarsSuet LamNeva Wong LamCheuk-Ling TinOn a night just like any other, a minibus full of passengers drives through a tunnel and arrives in another dimension; the eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted cafe and make a horrific discovery.
- DirectorTom WallerStarsVithaya PansringarmDavid AsavanondPenpak SirikulThe story of Thailand's last prison executioner.
- DirectorDo-yun LeeStarsJi SungJu Ji-hoonLee Kwang-sooThree friendships turn sour due to a mishap. Their relationships with each other are forever changed.
- DirectorRyûichi HirokiStarsShôta SometaniAtsuko MaedaRoy 5tionOver one day at this love hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo - where guests have the choice of staying for a short time or overnight - the dreams and desires of these characters intersect while aspiring for something greater.
- DirectorChih-yen YeeStarsBryan Shu-Hao ChangHsiao-chuan ChangHondurasLefty, seeing himself as the poorest high-school student in Taipei, plots a way to earn more money. He decides to steal the Dr. Sun Yat-sen statue abandoned at his school and sell it for cash. However, when Lefty and his gang embark on the heist, they chance upon another group of teens, led by Sky, and with the same goal in mind. Now it's a battle of wits.
- DirectorMomoko AndôStarsSakura AndôMiyoko AsadaBengalSawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him.
- DirectorPhilip YungStarsAaron KwokJessie LiMichael NingHuman nature begins where truth ends Welcome to the murder without a body
- DirectorEddie CahyonoStarsSekar SariBintang Timur WidodoTiti DibyoSiti has to find ways and means to care for her son and her husband. By day, she sells snacks; by night, she works as a karaoke guide. Tainted by her nighttime employment, Siti finds her husband no longer wishes to speak to her.
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsFan LiaoGwei Lun-MeiXuebing WangAn ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
- DirectorJosh KimStarsIngkarat DamrongsakkulToni RakkaenThira ChutikulOn the eve of the draught lottery in Thailand, Oat remembers trying to convince his older brother to change his fate.
- DirectorKei MorikawaStarsBeni ItôNanami KawakamiLily KuribayashiThe behind-the-scenes of the Japanese Porn Industry told through the eyes of a dedicated make-up artist.
- DirectorJoshua OppenheimerStarsAdi RukunM.Y. BasrunVolker HanischA family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
- DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisAnanda GeorgeRay SahetapyA S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.