Category Archives: Asian Titles

RELEASE DATE: May 8, 2012 Get ready for The Shock Labyrinth (aka The Shock Labyrinth 3D), directed by Takashi Shimizu (Ju-on: The Grudge). The Shock Labyrinth is the story of a group of teenagers who are suddenly confronted with the return … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: May 8, 2012 Well Go USA announces Jang Hun’s The Front Line which is Korea’s 2011 submission to the Academy Award category of Best Foreign Picture. The film tells the story of the fierce struggle to establish a border … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: May 29, 2012 Directed by Johnnie To, 2011′s Life Without Principle delves into Hong Kong’s money-obsessed culture through three characters whose destinies collide one fateful day when a loan shark gets assaulted after withdrawing $10 million from the bank. … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2012 Norwegian Wood is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung (“The Scent of Green Papaya”), based on the novel by internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami. The film is the story of … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2012 Pathfinder Home Entertainment presents Kim Yun-Cheol’s 2009 Korean film, After the Banquet. Not having seen each other for years, a group of college friends gather for a wedding. However, they are surprised to find a … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2012 Pathfinder Home Entertainment presents Jang-soo Lee’s 2010 Korean film, Relation of Face, Mind and Love. Talented architect Tae-pung Kang (Kang Ji-Hwan) becomes involved in a car accident. Because of the accident, he develops a visual … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 28, 2012 The Palisades Tartan Asian Extreme series presents The Triad Trilogy, featuring Johnnie To’s Election, Triad Election, and Ching-Po Wong’s Triad Underworld aka Blood Brothers on both Blu-ray & DVD format. Trailers: Election | Triad Election | … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2012 Well Go USA is proud to announce the release of Jiang Wen’s Let the Bullets Fly. The film is set in the 1920s when the bandit Zhang (Jiang Wen) descends upon a town posing as … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 20, 2012 Is Park Dae-min’s Private Eye Korea’s answer to Sherlock Holmes? Maybe. 1900s, Seoul, Korean Empire. A Hong Jin-ho (Hwang Jung-min) is a down and out detective. Makes most of his catching cheating spouses. Until a … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 20, 2012 Former detective Chung-su takes a secret mission from an aged millionaire who wants to see his first love again before he dies. He ventures out to a strange island where only a bunch of old … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: February 14, 2012 Well GO USA presents Ocean Heaven, starring Jet Li as you’ve never seen him before. Ocean Heaven is about how a terminally ill father attempts to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 10, 2012 In True Story of a Woman In Jail: Sex Hell, a group of young women is thrown into a horrible juvenile hall, due to their illegal acts. They soon wish they were back on the … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 10, 2012 In Debauchery, Ryoko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2012 One of the most powerful of the family portraits by Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Eminent Ozu players Chishu … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: March 27, 2012 Based on the manga Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi. Crows Zero tells the untold story behind the characters in Suzuran, a violent high school. Directed by Takashi Miike, written by Shogo Muto and stars Shun Oguri … Continue reading →

RELEASE DATE: April 12, 2012 Koji Fukada’s Hospitalite, a black comedy, follows the follies that ensue when a man and his wife shack up with a family that owns a printing press in their building, the husband takes it over, … Continue reading →