Asian Movies

Swallowtail, ???????, Suwaroteiru, Swallowtail, Swallowtail Butterfly, Yentown

Genre: Crime.
Date: 1996
Parts: 4
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: After a young girl’s mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name “”Ageha”” (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection of oddballs who run a junkyard and salvage business. Hiroshi Mikami – Feihong Chara – Glico Ayumi Ito – Ageha Yosuke Eguchi – Ryou Ryanki Andy Hui Chi-On – Maofuu Atsuro Watabe – Ran Tomoko Yamaguchi – Shenmei Nene Otsuka – Reiko Kaori Momoi – Suzukino Yoriko Douguchi – Hoshino Mickey Curtis – Doctor Tetsu Watanabe – Yakuza boss

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Superstar Mr Gam, ???? ???, Mr. Gam’s Victory, Superstar Gam Sa-Yong, Superstar Mr. Gam
Date: 2004
Parts: 4
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Based on a true story about a baseball player underdog that changed the history of a second-rate Pro-Baseball team forever. This tale transports the viewers back to the important year of 1982 that saw the official launch of the Pro-Baseball League in Korea. The Sammi Superstars are the worst team of the entire league until they decide to hire seemingly good-for-nothing pitcher Gam Sa-yong. On a fateful day the Sammi Superstars have to face the league’s elite team, the OB Bears, the holders of a winning streak that has already lasted for 20 consecutive games all due to its top player Ace Park. While all other Sammi Superstars pitchers back down in fear, Sa-yong takes charge longing to show the other team what Mr. Gam’s Victory is all about. Beom-su Lee – Gam Sa-yong Jin-seo Yun – Park Eun-a Yu Kong – Park Cheol-su Hyeok-jae Lee – Geum Kwang-ok Seung-su Ryu – In-ho Bong Yoo Gong – Park Cheol-su

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Super Noypi,
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, SciFi.
Date: 2007
Parts: 2
Language: Tagalog
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Six normal childhood friends bound together by friendship find themselves faced with a shocking revelation — their parents are the legendary SUPER NOYPI, the most popular superheroes in the land! But now they are in danger taken hostage by the wicked super-villain Diego (Monsour del Rosario). One by one, the six friends discover their super powers: moving objects using the mind, becoming invisible at will, having superhuman strength and speed, transforming into any shape imaginable, casting spells and controlling fire and ice. With the help of a strong and spirited stranger from the future named Lia (Jennylyn Mercado) who claims that the world as we know it will cease to exist if they don’t stop Diego now, Lorenzo (Mark Herras), Annys (Katrina Halili), Ynigo (John Prats), Euen (Polo Ravales), Michie (Sandara Park) and Tonton (Andrew Muhlach) stick together, taking a stand against evil in order to save the world and the people they love the most. John Prats, Sandara Park, Katrina Halili, Polo Ravales, Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras, Andrew Muhlach

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Super Fans,
Parts: 1
Language:
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Charlene Choi from the pop duo Twins stars in this tongue-in-cheek comedy as Sussie, a super fan of dancer/singer Sum Lee. When Sussie gets a chance to join Sum’s entourage as an assistant, however, she is surprised to discover that her No. 1 idol is a total jerk. Disappointed, Sussie soon finds herself attached to Sum’s rival singer Yee instead. SUPER FANS is an amusing and satiric look at Hong Kong teenage girls’ craving for extremee idol worship. Charlene Choi [Twins] Leo Ku Kevin Cheng Ka Wing Sammy Wong Jing Raymond Wong Hui Siu Hung Eric Kot

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Sunflower,
Genre: Action, Romance.
Date: 2001
Parts: 2
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Tae-sik, who cleansed up the neighborhood back alley with his bare knuckle after dropping out of high school, is released on parole. The once sacrificial sheep of Tae-sik?s frank Min-seok has become a detective and Tae-sik?s henchmen friends have turned on each other?s back. As if have forgotten the old days he shared with them, Tae-sik only does what he wishes to do, which was written down on his crumpling small scrapbook. Tae-sik finds a warm shelter in the small neighborhood food joint ?Sunflower?, where Tae-sik handed his scrapbook to its owner before. Tae-sik tries to live a quiet new life with the lady who runs the restaurant and her daughter, Hee-ju. However, nobody believes him but the owner and her daughter of the ?Sunflower?. * Kim Rae-won * Kim Hae-sook * Heo I-jae * Kim Byeong-wook * Kim Jeong-tae * Han Jeong-soo * Ji Dae-han * Kang Seok-beom

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Sumolah!, Let’s Sumo!

Genre: Action, Comedy.
Date: 2007
Parts: 2
Language:
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Ramlee is a down-and-out Malay boy who cannot seem to hold down a job, much to his mother?s disappointment. Out of a job and out of money, he stumbles across a challenge by sushi restaurant owner Honda to ?eat all you can for free food ? within a time limit?. Hungry and desperate, Ramlee attempts the challenge, and fails. In compensation, Honda lets Ramlee take a job at the restaurant to pay off his due. Ramlee becomes a member of the Boleh Sushi shop staff, along with Haris and Andy. Ramlee is immediately attracted to Honda?s beautiful daughter, Siti, who is half-Japanese and half-Malay. He begins to learn the meaning of having good work, good friends and family. One day he learns that part of his obligation is to take part in the Malaysian Sushi Association Amateur Sumo Wrestling Championships held by the local Japanese owners of sushi restaurants. Whilst taking part in the initial friendly bout, Akira, Siti?s ex-boyfriend, humiliates him in public. It is only after that that Ramlee finds out that he had been tricked into working for Boleh Sushi because Honda was desperate for a third member for their team. Ramlee has to make a choice ? stay on and fight for Boleh Sushi in the upcoming Championships or to give up his new-found family. Afdlin Shauki – Ramlee Patrick Teoh – Honda Inthira Charoenpura – Siti Radhi Khalid – Andy Gurmit Singh – Akira Awie – Haris Kartina Aziz – Ramlee’s mother

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Sukiyaki Western: Django, ????·????? ????, Sukiyaki Wesutan Jango

Genre: Action.
Date: 2007
Parts: 4
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Set a few hundred years after the Genpei War, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuta, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk. Hideaki Ito – The Gunman Koichi Sato – Kiyomori Yusuke Iseya – Yoshitsune Masanobu Ando – Yoichi Takaaki Ishibash i- Benkei Shun Oguri – Akira Masato Sakai – Shigemori Yoshino Kimura – Shizuka

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Sukitomo,
Genre: Romance.
Date: 2006
Parts: 1
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Saito stars as college boxer Tomokazu who befriends a lower classman (Aiba). He takes his new friend under his wing as though he was his brother, but at the same time ignores his relationship with his step-sister. However, it seems as though both his sister and new friend secretly have the hots for Tomokazu, and the two quickly become jealous of each other. Then, one day, Tomokazu finds out just what everyone thinks of him. Takumi Saito Hiroki Aiba

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Sukeban Boy, Oira Sukeban
Date: 2006
Parts: 2
Language:
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: Sukeban Boy that was written by Twitch’s own Todd Brown, a Fantasia Festival programmer: “”Sukeban has a problem. The foulmouthed, hard-fighting son of a biker, the teenaged boy has been cursed with the looks of a pop princess. The looks lead to teasing, the teasing leads to fighting, the fighting leads to expulsions – expulsions from every boys’ high school in the region. What’s a biker who’s nurturing conflicted feelings for his gender-confused child to do in such a situation? Simple! Dress the boy up as a girl and enroll him in an all-girls high school. But girls’ schools are strange, disturbing places and, within a day of arriving, Sukeban has been signed up for humiliation classes and forced to do battle with the various school gangs: the Pantyhose League, the No-Bra League, and – of course – the Full Strip League. Wasting no opportunities to spread jiggling flesh across the screen, is SUKEBAN BOY a blazingly funny parody of the schoolgirl fetish film, or simply one of the most memorable fetish films ever made? By the time the nipple clamps and breast guns make an appearance, you simply won’t care. Bizarre, hysterical and horribly wrong in absolutely all the right ways, SUKEBAN BOY is an unmissable guilty pleasure.””

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Suicide Club, Jisatsu saakuru, Suicide Circle

Genre: Horror, Thriller.
Date: 2000
Parts: 1
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English

Synopsis: 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn’t as simple as one could hope.

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