Asia Extreme
For the uninitiated, the most ground-breaking, unpredictable and inventive films are being made in the Far East. Alice opens Pandora's Box unleashing an astonishing world of cinema from Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and Japan; introducing cinema-watchers to the stylish and often violent world of Miike Takashi, Hideo Nakata, Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano and the Pang Brothers amongst others. While films such as 'Battle Royale', 'Ring', 'The Eye', 'Dark Water' and 'Audition' continue to satisfy the ever increasing hunger for astounding cinematic style and outrageous shock moments, Alice is committed to the development of the most exciting and unique of all contemporary genres. Stay tuned...
Right: The hills are alive with the sound of screaming in Miike Takashi's 'The Happiness of the Katakuris'.
Flaming Brothers (1987)
6.4/10
Director: Joe Cheung
Starring: Pat Ha, Chow Yun-Fat, Philip Chan, Emily Chu
Two brothers grow up poor on the streets of Macau involved in organised crime they soon rise to the top of their game, but one wants to go straight.... Read more
Koma (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Starring: Angelica Lee, Kar Yan Lam, Andy Chi-On Hui, Roy Chow, Raymond Wong
At a wedding reception Chi-ching walks in on a woman covered in blood crawling along the bathroom floor. Her kidneys have been removed, supposedly fo... Read more
Legend of a Fighter (1982)
7.4/10
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Ka-Yan Leung , Yasuaki Kuraka, Yuen Yat-cho
Representing the very best in martial arts filmmaking, from acclaimed director Yuen-Woo Ping, this is the fictionalised life story of revered martial... Read more
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005)
5.1/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki, Takeshi Kaga
When a modern-day military unit is accidentally sent back to feudal Japan, history changes and the present begins to unravel in this re-telling of the... Read more
Burning Paradise (1994)
7/10
Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Willie Chi, Carmen Lee, Kam-Kong Wong
Willie Chi plays the legendary Fong Sai Yuk as a Shaolin student escaping with his master from the clutches of Manchu soldiers who have destroyed the... Read more
Battle Heater (1990)
Director: Joji Iida
Starring: Pappara Kawai, Akira Emoto, Kaoru Okunuki
When the Kotatsu heater he finds on a rubbish dump turns out to be the host for a demonic entity, Furuchi has to find a way to return it to its rightf... Read more
Battle Royale (2000)
7.7/10
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Kou S...
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth... Read more
Zatoichi 16: The Outlaw (1967)
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Rentaro Mikuni
Zatoichi, played of course by the brilliant Shintaro Katsu, wanders into yet another village in turmoil as rival gambling houses are putting the squee... Read more
Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)
7.6/10
Director: Jimmy Wang Yu
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Kang Kam, Kun Yee Lung, Kar Wing Lau, Lung Wei Wang
A vengeful martial artist who has developed a deadly flying guillotine act is out to settle a score with the One-Armed Boxer. But as he's also blind,... Read more
Warriors Two (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Ka-Yan Leung , Sammo Hung, Casanova Wong, Fung Hak-on
Sammo Hung's ode to the Wing Chun style is one of the greatest martial arts epics of all time. It features a career best from Ka-Yan Leung as a maste... Read more