Dougray Scott, Linus Roache, Omar Sharif, and Naveen Andrews headline this epic miniseries from director Robert Dornhelm, and following the Prince of Egypt as he discovers his true identity and sets out on a mission from God. An oracle has prophesize...
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country is in turmoil and the Manchurians are poised to advance upon the capital of Beijing. The city is in a chaos, with martial arts masters from royal guards to local bandits gathering in the city vying for the ...
Intrepid archeologist Jack (JACKIE CHAN) and ambitious scientist William (TONY LEUNG KA FAI) set out on an adventure that would lead them to the greatest discovery in Chinese history. Through strange and provacative dreams, Jack sees himself reincarn...
Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita dies alone. The rest of the movie tells us, in flashback, how things have come to this. Seita and Setsuko ...
1448, the 30th year of Sejong's reign. The Ming dynasty's meddling into Joseon's domestic affairs goes to extremes and Sejong secretly plans to develop Singijeon, a rocket weapon upgraded from Goryeo's firearms technology. The Ming finds out and quic...
Directed by Shimoyama Ten, the dazzling 2005 film Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respe...
Nagasawa Masami is Princess Yuki, the sole member of the royal family to survive when her kingdom is attacked by neighbouring forces. Yuki's only hope is to escape to a nearby allied land with her secret stash of gold so that she can rebuild her forc...
The second film adaptation of the epic Chinese novel The Water Margin concerns two friends, an alcoholic monk named Ru Chi-shen (Elvis Tsui) and a buttoned-down military officer called Lin Chung (Tony Leung). Both are martial arts experts and they gr...
Ng Min-Keng spins this kung-fu revenge fantasy featuring Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia. As a child, Snow witnessed her family getting murdered at the hands of dark-hearted martial arts masters looking for a priceless, magical lyre. The highly sought-after ...
To Wai-tat directed this ultra-low-budget action film produced in China by Sam Po Film, a Hong Kong independent studio well-known for the abysmal quality of its cheaply made quickies. Willie Chi stars as Rocky, an American martial-arts student who le...
A Chinese Ghost Story and Green Snake star Joey Wong headlines this darkly comic gothic fantasy concerning a beautiful fox spirit who falls in love with her mortal enemy. Suffering under the spell of an ancestral curse, Snow (Wong) incurs the wrath o...
The story begins in media res, with nine young samurai, led by the earnest Isaka (Kenichi Matsuyama), deep in a discussion about graft and corruption in their clan. They suspect that the elderly chamberlain, Mutsuta (Makoto Fujita), is the guilty par...
Inoue Mao plays the role of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.The story is loosely based on the autobiography of the famous retired geisha Mineko Iwasaki (who was one of the sources for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of...
The Longevity Monk and his three disciples, including Monkey King, went to bring back the Buddhist scriptures again. Monkey King incarnated into a gang leader, the Joker. The Two devils, Spider Woman and Boney M were preying upon Longevity Monk's fle...
The Joker was determined to save his beloved one, the reformed devil Spider Woman. He therefore opened Pandora's Box, made the wish to go to Memory Lane, and soon found himself in the Middle Ages where he was destined tomeet Cinderella.....
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Booty Hunters- Andy, Theresa,stood againts killer Fox. Fox killed Kenny and Theresa was disappeared after being injured. Kenny's sister Mauve joined Andy and Andy meet madam Pet during his search for Theresa.Theresa reappeared but was severely pois...
In a search for a treasure aiming for a reward from the devil, Andy met and found his long time dream lover, Rosamund. However in order to save Rosamund from the Devil, Andy was killed. Rosamund gives Andy her last sacred breath for his resurrection ...
The story of Wilson Bond, a pimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a botched first assignment for the group, he is made a servant to the Prince, the very person the Heave...
Showboy, the good-for-nothing tramp who becomes the young emperor's friend and helper, continues his gambrling, whoring ways. Little does he realize that enormous forces are aligned against him. First there are the Holy Dragons. Then there are the wi...
Inept in martial arts, Fat (Stephen Chiau), the emperor's personal bodyguard, spies on agents of a rival dynasty, exposing their claim of a captured extraterrestrial as a hoax. Fat next visits a local prostitute as a possibility for the emperor, but ...
Following the death of Asia the Invincible, it is the time where everyone is trying to be the ruler of all. One of them is Snow, Asia the Invincible's former lover. She is deeply in love with him and wants to reestablish the Sun Moon Sect. Meanwhile,...
Wing Chun, a woman living in a remote village often pillaged by robbers. When Wing Chun finally loses her cool and defeats them, her heroic actions stir up even more trouble in this male-based society of the time. The climactic battle to the death is...
Jet Li plays Hung Hei Kwun, a Kung Fu student of Shaolin and the legendary founder of Hung Gar. It’s an over-the-top Kung Fu comedy fantasy, with great fight scenes and some outrageous plot twists. This movie reunites Jet Li with his old nemesis fro...
Ouyang Feng is a native of White Camel Mountain. His ambition is to become a famous swrdman. After his elder brother marries his beloved woman, he moves to the desert and runs an inn. He becomes an agent inn is also a place where he meets his friends...
Contestants prepare for a nationwide martial arts showdown in which the winner will be proclaimed the ruler of the dynasty. These high stakes attract the most honorable warriors...as well as a few lying, murdering, double-crossing warriors, for whom ...
Jeff Lau Chun-wai spins this wild and woolly parody of Wong Kar-wai's martial arts epic Ashes of Time, which was actually produced by Wong himself and features many of the same cast members as Ashes. This loosely plotted film centers around the misde...
Tang Pak Foo is the top-grade scholar in Suzhou. On a feast day, Tong and his friend go to visit the temple and there, Tong meets Chau Heung for the first time. Tong is shaken at Chau's beauty. He decides to go after her. But Chau's master Wah is ver...
Duffy accidentally discovers a Kung Fu rare book from Yuan dynasty, and saves a princess when he smuggles precious antiques out of China. He also frees the powerful devil from the tomb. With the help from the princess, Duffy practices Kung Fu skills....
The spoilt son of a millionaire finds the love of his life, but she will only accept him if he proves himself as a kung-fu master. He enters and wins the "Kung-Fu Scholar" tournament, little realizing that this victory will lead to him becoming penni...
The film’s storyline is set in a period where the country is at war and dukes of the different kingdoms battle for land and power. Kelly plays Princess Fei- er who is commanded by her dying father on the battlefield to defend their country with Gene...
Deep within the suffocating stern palace where no one but the king can choose to die, the dead body of Wol-ryung, a court maid, is found dead hanging by the rafters. Chun-ryung, a court nurse brought in to examine the dead body, suggests the possibil...
The script is excellent, kept me right in the seat, cinematography stunning, and I was amazed with the historical details of the uniformsand military hardware. I would give it a rating, or two thumbs way up, as Siskel and Ebert used to do. The russia...
Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of KING Lear Combines Japanese history and Shakespeare's plot with the director's own feelings about loyalty and betrayal. In 16th century Japan, the aging Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) passes the de...