Watchlist: Best Asian Films of 2013/2014
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- DirectorHo-Cheung PangStarsLouis KooGigi LeungEric TsangThe extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor's Chinese namesake, represents today's "Little Hong Kong" and its myriad of contradictions between traditions and modernity; superstitions and materialism; family and individuality.
- DirectorWoo-seok YangStarsSong Kang-hoKwak Do-wonIm Si-wanAn ambitious tax attorney decides to represent an old friend in court.
- 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.
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsJun'ichi OkadaHaruma MiuraMao InoueA young woman and her brother explore the history of their grandfather, who died in WW2. They start contacting the men who flew with him, asking them about who he was.
- DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisYayan RuhianArifin PutraOnly a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsYumi AdachiKazunari AizawaAkaneA former hospital director runs an antiques shop in Ashibetsu with her family.
- DirectorRichie MehtaStarsRajesh TailangTannishtha ChatterjeeAnurag AroraA chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
- DirectorAharon KeshalesNavot PapushadoStarsLior AshkenaziRotem KeinanTzahi GradAfter a little girl is brutally murdered, a suspect avoids arrest due to lack of evidence. Working separately, her father and a cop decide to do something about it.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsYann Yann YeoTian Wen ChenAngeli BayaniIn 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.
- DirectorErik MattiStarsPiolo PascualGerald AndersonJoel TorreInspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.
- DirectorHitoshi MatsumotoStarsNao ÔmoriMao DaichiShinobu TerajimaA man in search of joy hires a bondage club to have dominatrices surprise him at random times.
- DirectorTeddy SoeriaatmadjaStarsReza RahadianRatu FelishaVerdi SolaimanA porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta falls for the beautiful young prostitute and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsRahul BhatRonit RoyTejaswini KolhapureThe case of a missing girl takes us through a journey of human greed and brushes upon the egos and repressed emotions of the characters.
- DirectorSion SonoStarsJun KunimuraFumi NikaidôShin'ichi TsutsumiA renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
- DirectorSang-woo LeeStarsSang-woo LeeKwon Bum-taekYong-Seok ChoAfter their father (Kwon Bum-taek) was sent off to prison for sexually assaulting an under-aged girl, Sang-woo (Lee Sang-woo) and his two brothers Sang-tae (Yang Myeong-heon) and Sang-goo (Park Hyeong-bin) struggle to live a normal life. Now, the three emotionally damaged brothers must deal with the aftermath of their father returning home after his release from prison.
- DirectorTeddy ChanStarsDonnie YenBaoqiang WangCharlie YeungA martial arts instructor from the police force gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
- 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.
- DirectorRoy Hin Yeung ChowStarsSammo Kam-Bo HungEddie PengLuodan WangAn orphan, whose father has been killed by dark power, attempts to bring justice back to the town.
- DirectorShinobu YaguchiStarsHideaki ItôMasami NagasawaShôta SometaniAfter failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.
- DirectorHark TsuiStarsHanyu ZhangTony Ka Fai LeungKenny LinA story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.
- DirectorTetsuya NakashimaStarsKoji YakushoNana KomatsuSatoshi TsumabukiAs former detective Akikazu searches for his missing daughter, Kanako, he soon learns she has a mysterious secret life.
- DirectorYûdai YamaguchiStarsJiji BûMiho HaritaMasao InuzukaAtsushi Chiba, aged 50, wakes up one day half-dead. He's tied up in a container, being shifted somewhere. Inside the container lies a mysterious stone which doesn't give him even the slightest clue as to who the perpetrator might be, nor any idea of the fate that awaits him. As the container makes its way from truck to ship, he discovers he is one of the 200 other abductees. The container continues to make its way from ship to train, and his explanations of the situation go from "human trafficking" to "international terrorism". He begins to recall what he truly used to be, and realized what is really important in his life.
- DirectorYuri KanchikuStarsJun MurakamiKorean interpreter Ji-hye is still a virgin at 30, when she has to work with a randy Japanese photographer who needs translation in far too private moments. Language barriers are the source for very funny and erotic situations in this lighthearted comedy by Yuri KANCHIKU..
- DirectorJohnnie ToStarsLouis KooHonglei SunYi HuangA drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.