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'.
From the director of 'Ong Bak' comes another martial arts extravaganza, and this time the ass-kicker is an autistic girl, the product of an illicit re... Read more
Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) is about to reach a divorce agreement with her husband concerning the custody of their daughter Ikuko. In order to s... Read more
Cheng Pei-Pei ('Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon') is a naive young martial artist sent to retrieve the Jade Dragon Sword and her own long lost mother i... Read more
So Dragon Yu is a "good lad," but gets bullied a lot. Poor man. Thank goodness, he's just discovered an ability he never knew he had: being able to th... Read more
Originally featured as a short in the anthology '3 Extremes', director Fruit Chan has expanded the concept into this feature-length, satirical treatis... Read more
From the same fight co-ordinator who brought us the incredible 'Ong Bak' and 'Born to Fight', this over-the-top Thai action fantasy has everything a m... Read more
Anthony Wong is Kai, a man with a grudge against the world. Fleeing from a murder charge he winds up in Africa where he rapes a dying woman. He cont... Read more
In this prequel to the first film an evil spirit has massacred a village of witches and wizards in ancient Japan. Skip to present day and an archaeol... Read more
Teenage witch Misa follows some disturbing clues to a private girl's school where she joins a drama group staging a play that involves Black Magic. Bu... Read more
Experimental and exploitation cinema meet in this subversive feature. The film follows a woman named Matsu (a.k.a. "Scorpion"), wrongly imprisoned aft... Read more