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Painted Skin (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Donnie Yen, Xun Zhou, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Qi Yuwu, Sun Li
General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) rescues a beautiful young woman, Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun), from the scene of a battle and takes her into his household, littl... Read more
1911: Revolution (2011)
5.9/10
Director: Jackie Chan, Zhang Li
Starring: Jackie Chan, Jiang Wu, Joan Chen, Ning Jing, Sun Chun, Winston Chao, Duobuji , J...
Aka "Xinhai Geming". Martial arts legend Jackie Chan reaches his 100th film milestone with this historical drama set in the year 1911, as the Chinese... Read more
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
7.3/10
Director: Dai Sijie
Starring: Xun Zhou, Chen Kun, Liu Ye
Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent t... Read more
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
6/10
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Jet Li, Xun Zhou, Chen Kun, Mavis Fan
In Tsui Hark's epic wuxia thriller, Jet Li plays a swordsman at war with the reigning forces holding power during the Ming Dynasty, while a concubine... Read more
Shanghai Triad (1995)
7.2/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun
Zhang Yimou's absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930s, focusing on a boy who's hired to be the silent servant of a pampered nightclub qu... Read more
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
7.3/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Woo-sung Jung
Korean director Ji-woon Kim nods to the spaghetti western with this treasure hunt flick set in the wilds of 1930s Manchuria. A hitman (the Bad) is hir... Read more
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
The Assassin (1967)
6.7/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Tien Feng, Li Hsiang-chun, Huang Tsung-shun
In this character-driven, kung-fu classic from the world famous Shaw Brothers Studios, Jimmy Wang Yu stars as Nieh Chen, a champion sword-fighter forc... Read more
Alive (2002)
5.8/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Hideo Sakaki, Ryo , Koyuki , Shun Sugata, Erika Oda, Tak Sakaguchi, Jun Kunimura
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presen... Read more
Millennium Mambo (2001)
7/10
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Jun Takeuchi, Doze Niu
The first part of a planned series about life in modern Taipei, this intellectually challenging film begins with bar hostess Vicky (Shu Qi) imagining... Read more
Together (2002)
7.4/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige
Moving drama from director Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine") centers on a 13-year-old violin prodigy whose father takes him from their small provin... Read more
Haemoo ( Sea Fog ) (2014)
6.9/10
Director: Sung-bo Shim
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Yoo-chun Park, Ye-rin Han
Down on their luck, a commercial fishing vessel takes on a cargo of thirty illegal immigrants and attempts to smuggle them from China to Korea. Howeve... Read more
I Saw the Devil (2010)
7.8/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Byung-hun Lee
On a dark road, taxi driver Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi) comes across a scared female motorist stranded in a broken-down vehicle. He pulls over -- but no... Read more
Once Upon A Time In China: The Trilogy (1991)
7.4/10
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Jet Li, Yuen Biao, Rosamund Kwan, Ken Chang, Jacky Cheung, Donnie Yen, Siu Chung...
The most celebrated film series in Hong Kong cinema history is now available as a box set. All 3 films have been digitally restored and enhanced for... Read more
The Harmonium In My Memory (1998)
7.4/10
Director: Lee Young-jae
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Byung-hun Lee
A charming and touching drama telling the simple and moving story of 17-year-old Yun (Do-yeon Jeon), who develops a crush on her new teacher. What mak... Read more
The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
7.4/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Huang Tsung-shun
One of the classics of martial arts cinema, this is often referred to as the first real martial arts film, focusing as it does on techniques and style... Read more
The Assassin (2015)
6.3/10
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Chang Chen, Shu Qi, Zhou Yun, Tsumabuki Satoshi
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, the most visual a poet of human existence to have ever made movies, has been working for almost a decade to produc... Read more
Shower (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhu Xu, Pu Cun Xin, Jiang Wu
This acclaimed drama from Zhang Yang is set in and around a Beijing bathhouse run by its elderly owner and his slow witted son. The proprietor's older... Read more
The Age of Shadows (2016)
7.2/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Gong Yoo, Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee
Korea in the late 1920s is under Japanese occupation. Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho, Snowpiercer), a Korean-born police captain in the Japanese police... Read more
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
7.9/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Chang Chen, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
A pair of martial arts masters and would-be lovers, an independent young woman with a dark secret, and the search for a stolen mystical sword all come... Read more
Reincarnation (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Karina , Yuka , Shun Oguri, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto, Taro Suwa
An actress starts having disturbing visions and visitations after accepting a role in a film about a real-life mass murderer who stalked Tokyo Univers... Read more
A Battle of Wits (2006)
Director: Jacob Cheung Chi-Leung
Starring: Andy Lau, Sung-kee Ahn, Wang Zhiwen, Siu-hou Chin
Based on a popular 11-volume manga series entitled 'Bokko' and set during the Warring States Period in China in 370 B.C. when the country was split be... Read more
Death Duel (1977)
6.8/10
Director: Chu Yuan
Starring: Yu An-an, Ping Chen, Derek Yee, Ling Yun
Yen Shih-san (Ling Yun) is reputed to be a swordsman without equal, and in a brief space of time kills several challengers, all of whom were also skil... Read more
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
7.9/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Chang Chen, Zhang Ziyi
A pair of martial arts masters and would-be lovers, an independent young woman with a dark secret, and the search for a stolen mystical sword all come... Read more
Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Starring: Aya Ueto, Yuma Ishigaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shun Oguri, Kazuki Kitamura
Continuing the adventures of diminutive sword-slinging assassin Azumi (Aya Ueto), now on the run with her fellow killer Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki) and bei... Read more
Tube (2003)
5.6/10
Director: Baek Woon-hak
Starring: Kim Seok-hun, Bae Doo-na, Park Sang-min
One man must put his life on the line to stop a speeding subway. A fearsome race begins at 200 km per hour for two hours of white-knuckle Korean actio... Read more
A Bittersweet Life (2005)
7.6/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Min-a Shin, Byung-hun Lee, Yeong-Cheol Kim
For the past seven years super-smooth Sun-woo (Byung-hun Lee) has served his gangster boss with unflinching loyalty. He is such a trusty that his bos... Read more
Marebito (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa, Shun Sugat...
A cameraman captures a suicide on tape and becomes obsessed with what the man saw just before his death. This leads him on a harrowing journey throug... Read more
Hard Boiled (1992)
7.9/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Teresa Mo, Philip Chan
John Woo's stylish, ultra-violent story of a police inspector (Chow Yun Fat) who teams up with a mysterious hit man (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) to stop a ga... Read more
The Postman Fights Back (1981)
Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherrie Chung, Mui Sang Fan, Ka-Yan Leung
Four heroes in the early days of the Chinese Republic embark on a secret mission for the Nationalist Guard. They have just seven days to reach the in... Read more
The Promise (2005)
5.6/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Cecilia Cheung, Hiroyuki Sanada, Nicholas Tse, Dong-kun Jang, Liu Ye, Chen Hong
From the director of 'Farewell My Concubine' comes this visually stunning tale of passion, set in China's mythical past, that unfolds against a backdr... Read more
The World (2004)
7.1/10
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang, Yi-qun Wang
Set in the massive theme park outside Beijing where famous world landmarks are recreated, this beautiful allegorical film (and ironic given the endles... Read more
Natural City (2003)
5.8/10
Director: Byung-chun Min
Starring: Ji-tae Yu, Jae-un Lee, Rin Seo, Chan Yoon
Post-apocalypse 2080. Cyborgs with artificial intelligence, great strength and emotion exist but they live just a few short years. Cue star-crossed... Read more
Crows: Episode 0 (2007)
7.4/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Shun Oguri, Kyosuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki, Takayuki Yamada, Sansei Shiomi, Kenichi...
Suzuran Boys' High has a rep as the toughest educational institution in town, and when skinny gangster's son, Genji, arrives he plans to prove to his... Read more
3 Extremes (2004)
6.3/10
Director: Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, Fruit Chan
Starring: Kyoko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hee Lim, Hye-jeong Kang, Jung-...
Three of Asia's hottest directors join forces for this horror triple. Hong Kong's Fruit Chan, Korea's Park Chan-wook and Japan's Takashi Miike each co... Read more
Cinema of Vengeance: Martial Arts and the Movies (1994)
6.3/10
Director: Toby Russell
Starring: Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Woo
'Cinema of Vengeance' is the essential history of Martial Arts and The Movies, covering fifty years of Chinese action cinema from the late forties thr... Read more
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
6.9/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Byung-hun Le...
Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of i... Read more
The Magnificent Seven ( Blu-ray ) (2016)
6.9/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Chris Pratt,...
Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures' and Columbia Pictures' The Magnificent Seven. W... Read more
Masquerade (2012)
7.8/10
Director: Choo Chang-Min
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Ryoo Seung-Ryong, Han Hyo-Joo, Kim In-Kwon
A royal body double risks everything to save his beloved country from collapse in this historical drama set during Korea's Joseon Dynasty, and inspire... Read more
Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)
7.4/10
Director: Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Alan Mak Siu Fai
Starring: Eric Tsang, Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Edison Chen, Carina Lau, Shawn Yue, Hu Jun
A sequel/prequel worthy of its namesake. Set ten years before the blockbuster original Joe Cheung is a young Andy Lau, a hitman who has just 'hit' the... Read more
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
6/10
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Starring: Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Itao, Yukihide Benny, Jiji Bu, Keisuke Horibe, Ikuko Sawada,...
"Possibly the goriest, craziest, most eye-blowing, chunk-spewing, head-exploding sci-fi movie of all time". So said the New York Post after watching t... Read more
The Battle of Red Cliff (2008)
7.4/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Zhang Fengyi, Zhao...
Aka "The Battle of Red Cliff". An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power hungry... Read more
The Battle of Red Cliff ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.4/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Zhang Fengyi, Zhao...
Aka "The Battle of Red Cliff". An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power hungry... Read more
I Come with the Rain (2008)
5.5/10
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Starring: Elias Koteas, Josh Hartnett, Tran Nu Yen Khe, Takuya Kimura, Byung-hun Lee, Shaw...
Kline (Josh Hartnett), an ex-cop in Los Angeles traumatized by slaying a serial killer, is hired by a powerful corporate boss to go to the Philippines... Read more
Godzilla vs Kong (Blu-ray) (2021)
6.4/10
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun O...
The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against one another - the fearsome Godzil... Read more
Godzilla vs Kong (2021)
6.4/10
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun O...
The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against one another - the fearsome Godzil... Read more
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
5.8/10
Director: Jon M Chu
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Park, Dwayne Johnson, Byung-hun Lee, Channing...
Sequel to the 2009 actioner finds most of the Joe team killed in an ambush and its remaining members wanted for a crime they didn't commit. Now, Roadb... Read more
Red 2 (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Dean Parisot
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Helen Mirren, Jo...
In "Red 2", retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a m... Read more
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Dennis Quaid, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Said...
In the wake of 'Transformers', another iconic toy line gets the big screen treatment. From the deserts of North Africa to deep below the polar ice cap... Read more
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
5.8/10
Director: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Go...
In the wake of 'Transformers', another iconic toy line gets the big screen treatment. From the deserts of North Africa to deep below the polar ice cap... Read more