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Always: Sunset On Third Street

The residents of 3rd Street are working-class folks, like the bluff Suzuki (Shinichi Tsutsumi), who runs an auto body shop, and his petite, perky wife Tomoe (Yakushimaru Hiroko), who has her hands full with their rambunctious son, Ippei. A new addition to this happy household is Mutsuko (Maki Horikita), nicknamed "Roku," a fresh-faced country girl from Aomori, who has come to the big city expecting to work at a big company named "Suzuki Auto" -- and barely hides her disappointment when she discovers it to be a glorified garage.

Aoi Tori (Blue Bird)

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DVD release of the film "Aoi Tori (Blue Bird)" with English subtitles. Stars Hiroshi Abe and Kanata Hongo (also stars the film "The Prince of Tennis"). Whole Higashigaoka middle school are upset about attempted suicide of a boy student Noguchi, who was tormented because of bullying he experienced during the previous semester. On the first day of new semester, a substitute teacher Murauchi comes to school. Students are so surprised because he is a stutterer. Murauchi cannot speak smoothly, but his words are sincere and get to student's heart, when he directs the students first put Noguchi's desk and chair back. . .

Art of The Devil II (aka: Long Khong)

The follow-up to the nerve-twisting 2004 Thai original, Art of the Devil II chronicles the horrifying exploits of a seductive elementary school teacher named Miss Panor. Captivated by her beauty and desperate to win her heart, several of the village men simultaneously cast a Love Spell on her. But that many spells is too much for one woman to handle, and Miss Panor soon begins to lose her grip on reality. When an Indian Witch doctor prescribes a diet of human flesh, Miss Panor plunges even deeper into the darkest corners of witchcraft. With the help of six of her former students, Miss Panor must tempt fate in order to take revenge on the lustdriven madmen who drove her to the edge of sanity.

A team of seven up-and-coming Thai horror directors, known as the Ronin Team, joins forces to bring you the ultimate in extreme horror.

Black Kiss

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Asuka (Reika Hashimoto), an aspiring model, moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She takes up residence with a moody acquaintance named Kasumi (Kaori Kawamura). Across the street from their apartment, Asuka witnesses a bizarre murder ? the body was flayed, disemboweled and arranged into a hideous work of art. A series of coincidental murders occurs, all of which contain what is possibly the murder's calling card: a black lip print dubbed "The Black Kiss".

This gruesome crime thriller in the tradition of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and SEVEN was originally known as SYNCHRONICITY (""Shinkuronishiti"") and features Ken Mitsuishi (AUDITION) and Masanobu Ando (BATTLE ROYALE).

Bokutachi to Chuzai-san no 700 Nichi Sensou

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DVD release of the hit film "Boku Tachi to Chuzai-san no 700 Nichi Senso" based on the popular blog novel! When Mamachari's band of seven tricksters get their pranks stopped by the arrival of a new neighbor . . . a self-rightious public official with an absurd problem that makes him one of the least popular men in Japan!

Danger Zone

Witness Protection House, a supposedly very safe place for the accommodation of important witnesses, can sometimes be unsafe and even the tomb for anyone who lives in it. Ching and Lin have a mission of protecting two tainted witnesses Chun and his girlfriend Bonnie in a Witness Protection House. Yet, the killer can still find his way and figure out their whereabouts, forcing Ching move the vulnerable witnesses to a more deserted House. Just as she gives herself a break at the new House, complacent with the safety they enjoy....

Dragon Fight

Jimmy and Tiger are members of the Chinese national wushu team. The two are in Los Angeles to perform exhibitions. However, for Tiger, he plans to defect to L.A. to make a name for himself. When Jimmy learns of Tiger's plan to defect, an attempt to stop him fails and Jimmy ends up missing his flight to China. Now a fish out of water, Jimmy's only hope is Andy, a wisecracking youngster in L.A. Meanwhile, Tiger works for a mafia boss. When Tiger loses a fortune in cocaine in a detergent box that Andy accidentally took, Andy and Jimmy soon have no choice but to face the wrath of Tiger and his men. Their only ally is Penny, the girlfriend of Tiger's boss. Two men who were once best friends have now become bitter enemies.

Fantastipo

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Domoto Tsuyoshi + Kokubun Taichi team up for spectacular fun!

In this fourth movie released under the banner of Johnny Entertainment J STORM Company, director Yabuuchi Shogo brings together J-Pop superstars Domoto Tsuyoshi from KinKi Kids and Kokubun Taichi from TOKIO to join forces for the irreverent comedy, Fantastipo! Released in February of 2005, Yabuuchi's directorial debut is a winning tale of two brothers who discover the real meaning of the word family!

The film revolves around the mostly dependable Toraji (Kokubun Taichi) and free-spirited Haiji (Domoto Tsuyoshi), two siblings who suddenly become President and Executive Director of Armadillo, Inc. when their father, Kintaro Koinobori, suddenly steps down from his position and appoints his sons in his stead. With the help of their father, the two brothers continue to keep Armadillo Inc. at the top of the heap, yet slowly, but surely the relationship among all three begins to deteriorate. Will the family hold together? Will they pull through? The answer may lie in a song the boys are composing. That song's name - Fantastipo...

Fortune Code

Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.

Hanging Garden (aka: Kuchu Teien)

The Hanging Garden revolves around an apparently perfect family. They are bright, their finances are sound, they have a perfectly adequate home, and - most importantly - they have an explicit house rule that they talk about everything honestly, no omissions, no subject tabboo, a point driven home by a breakfast time conversation about where each of the two children were conceived. But, of course, nothing is as it seems. Mother has a vicious streak. Father has a pair of mistresses. Son is very nearly a shut in. Daughter is experimenting with sex. And all of them have huge secrets tucked away from the others.

Happy Flight

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Comedy and suspense take turns in this crowd-pleasing picture from popular Japanese director Shinobu Yaguchi. Flight 1980 is preparing to take off from Tokyo to Hawaii, and a team of trained professionals is working to see the flight goes smoothly. Capt. Harada (Saburo Tokito) is a tough, by-the-book pilot who is training young co-pilot Suzuki (Seiichi Tanabe) who is eager to move up to full pilot's status. The flight is also carrying a new stewardess, Saito (Haruka Ayase), who is nervous about working under exacting Chief Purser Yamazaki (Shinobu Terajima), a taskmaster who also intimidates the more experienced Mari (Kazue Fukiishi).

Meanwhile at the airport, Kimura (Tomoko Tabata) deals with lost luggage and disgruntled passengers, and the head of the ground crew (Ryosei Tayama) and his chief weather adviser (Ittoku Kishibe) strive to get the flight off the ground safely and on time. Despite the hard work and expertise of everyone involved, two unexpected crises put the flight in grave danger -- a new computer system aboard the jet malfunctions, and as Capt. Harada turns back to Tokyo, it's discovered a hurricane is brewing just off the coast. Can Flight 1980 safely land before the storm hits the airport?

Memories Of Matsuko

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It is the present day and Matsuko's nephew, Sho, is cleaning out his dead aunt's filthy apartment. Through a series of encounters, he gradually learns of his aunt's checkered life. In the early 1970s, Matsuko loses her teaching job and the love of her family members when she imprudently assumes the blame for a theft by one of her favorite pupils, Ryu. Alone and adrift in the world, Matsuko begins hooking up with any man who will return her affections even if it is accompanied by physical abuse. With each man, she is convinced she's found true happiness only to see each man abandon her. Matsuko begins to fall apart, never fully realizing the extent to which those in her life have loved her.

Monkey Magic (Saiyuuki)

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(aka Super Monkey)

Itinerant preist, Sanzo Hoshi, leads "her" loyal band of disciples--Son Goku "Monkey", Sandy and Pigsy--out of a blistering desert and into a desperate and forlorn town where they are implored upon by the local princess, Reimi, to expel two powerful goblin warlords by the names of King Gold Horn and Silver Horn. The goblin brothers have wrested control of her palace, plundered its riches, transformed the reigning King and Queen into terrapin turtles, and turned a once peaceful and idyllic kingdom into dust and decay. Promising to help, Sanzo and company set off with the princess for the mountains where the brothers are said to reside, only to find themselves scaling treacherous terrain and succumbing to numerous traps along the way. When at long last the entourage reacehs the peak, a startling revelation about the princess threatens to compromise the mission and destroy the bond of trust between Monkey and Sanzo. As the warlords inch closer to their goal of plunging the world in darkness, the legendary foursome will need to reunite and combine their strengths if they ever hope to make good on their promise.

Muay Thai Chaiya

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Phao is a young Muay Thai fighter living in a small town and training in a fighting camp. Though Muay Thai is the center of his life, it is not appreciated by everyone around him, except his closest friends, Piak and Samaw, who are also young fighters. One day, his long-lost father returns and trains the trio as the last group of fighters to take on the best.

Permanent Residence

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Pray (aka: Prayer)

What if the girl you just kidnapped had already died one year ago?

Strange noises echo in the hallways of an abandoned school. The kidnappers die, one by one.

The mysterious girl slowly extricates the deeply buried memories of one man's tragic past...

Mitsuru (Tetsuji Tamayama) and Maki (Asami Mizukawa) kidnap a young girl and hide out in an abandoned school. If they get the ransom money as planned, it will buy them the drugs¡ and the ticket out of their stagnant lives. But Mitsuru makes one gross miscalculation. Their hostage, Ai Shinohara, already died one year ago. Strange sounds echo through the hallways. The girl disappears and reappears. One by one, the kidnappers die bizarre deaths, their wrists severed from their bodies. "Who are you?" The mysterious girl slowly extricates the deeply buried memories of one man's tragic past

Ravaged House

"In a rural village, a kind young man named Zoroku leads an unassuming life. He is adored by his younger sister, Haruko, and all is well... until one day, without warning, Zoroku is ravaged by a bizarre disease that festers his skin and deforms his body. Fearful that the villagers will see Zoroku's grotesque transformation, his parents lock him up in the house. But the village chief's son sees him and soon, Zoroku is ostracized by his community, and [Haruko] is viciously assaulted. Unable to watch Haruko suffer any further, Zoroku's parents reluctantly determine to end his misery themselves. Haruko tries to save her brother and they escape from the confines of the house... but to what end?"

Samurai Chicks

On one of the southernmost islands of Japan, there's a dance school 'Orion Dancers Academy'. Hiding its public identity as a training school of singers and dancers, it actually operates as a girl-warrior training school, in order to win independence of the island. The secretly trained agents watch the music video of charismatic idol Cocoe (R-NA) on a huge TV monitor, and unlock codes from her dancing to complete their missions. However, the dark shadow of a rival organization slowly sneaks up on the girls and the training school on the island.

Sparkle in the Dark

A man who has embarked on a private crusade to provide a home for, and help reform, social outcasts with mental or other problems, Mr Lee (Li) spends a significant amount of time preaching while administering to the troubled individuals he generously treats as members of his family. For the most part, however, his earnest urgings (“Just try your best to be your best”) and bits of advice (“If you know how to love, that means you know how to sacrifice”) appear to fall on deaf ears.

Stop The Bitch Campaign Version 2.0

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In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of “Enjo Kosal” is popular among some high school girls. Behind this immoral deal, some triad criminals even rob and blackmail the customers when they meet the service girls. High school girl Yuki and her protector is doing this business…

A mysterious man Kuni despises such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He thinks of punishing these girl prostitutes by having sex with them without paying them, and even sexually torturing them in all SM ways…He calls this operation “Stop the Bitch Campaign” for public justice and to save Japan. After a series of girl prostitutes tortured, Yuki determines to battle with this mysterious maniac…

Sukida

Ishikawa Hiroshi, director of the much-admired Tokyo.Sora, returns with his second feature, Su-Ki-Da, for which he has assembled a stellar cast of young thesps. Miyazaki Aoi (NANA), Eita (Kuchu Teien), Nagasaku Hiromi (Kuchu Teien), Kase Ryo (Scrap Heaven), Nishijima Hideotoshi (Dolls), Omori Nao (Vibrator) and Oyamada Sayuri (Bright Future) all appear in this touching romantic drama.

17-year-old Yu (Miyazaki Aoi) has a major crush on Yosuke (Eita), the handsome young boy who plays his guitar on the riverbank everyday. He plays the same tune again and again and it fills Yu's heart with joy and longing - but also with sadness. As much as she may love Yosuke, she knows that his affections lie elsewhere, with Yu's older sister, no less. Seventeen years later, Yu (now played by Nagasaku Hiromi) and Yosuke (now played by Nishijima Hideotoshi) meet by chance in Tokyo, reawakening long-dormant emotions within Yu's heart, but also within Yosuke's.

The Contract [1978] (Remastered)

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The Hui Brothers come to make jokes again. Chi Man (Michael Hui) signs an eight-year contract, which is a piece of almost blank paper, with MTV. His career is hindered. He is going to steal the contract with the help of Chi Ying (Ricky Hui), a self-made investor, and Sai Kit (Sam Hui), a young magician.

To Live (aka Lifetimes)

Another stirring production from director/actress team of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li, although this time the female role is less powerful, and less pivotal, than the male lead. Film follows married couple as their fortunes rise and fall, through several decades of Chinese life, from 1940's onward. Viewer gets history lesson as time passes, children grow, and freedoms are suppressed. Ge You is outstanding as simple yet unstereotypical patriarch; only flaw is that episodic story eventually develops Edna Ferber-ish soap opera quality. Based on the novel Lifetimes by Yu Hua.

Tomboy Commando

From rockers to fighters, these girls prefer fighting than dressing. Enjoy the band!

Triad Story (aka Last Brother)

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An elderly boss of crime family - Feng, being released from prison for good behavior and bad health. In the outside world, he learns that his daughter has shacked up with a depraved thug named Sin from America and that she will soon be flying out to the States to join him. When his attempts at fatherly consulting fails, Feng sends his goons, Maddy and Tat, after the boyfriend. In return, Sin has his men cripple Maddy. When Feng swipes Sin's shipment of drugs, the war between the two men escalates.

Youth Of Kamiya Etsuko

Director Kazuo Kuroki ("Chichi to Kuraseba") returns with a brand new film with a stirring message. The year, 1945. Two young military officers and two sweet girls fall in love beneath the springtime cherry blossoms on a military bass in wartime Japan. Film stars Tomoyo Harada ("Sayonara Color," "Daiteiden no Yoru ni"), Masatoshi Nagase ("Mystery Train," "Stereo Future"), Shunsuke Matsuoka, film veteran Kaoru Kobayashi, and Manami Honjo.