In the dreary and rigid city of Seoul, there lives a guy in the dumps. His name is Gyung-soo and he’s an actor who’s fairly well-known on stage. He trusted a director he knew well and acted in his movie, but it flopped. He persistently insisted on receiving his actor’s fee, but all he got was a mere grand’s worth. He also misses out on his chance to act in the next role he promised to do. The future looks cloudy for him.

Gyung-soo goes down to Choonchun City to meet an old friend who’s a writer. They go out to the town and Gyung-soo’s friend introduces him to a pretty and well-curved dancer named Myung-sook. After having a drink with Gyung-soo and his friend, she suddenly hits on Gyung-soo and on the spur of the moment they hit it off and go to a motel. But no one knew that Gyung-soo’s writer friend liked Myung-soo even though he never revealed his true feelings for her. Gyung-soo’s relationship with his friend turns sour as Myung-sook becomes obsessively infatuated with Gyung-soo.

Gyung-soo tries to put his bad memories of Choonchun behind him and gets on a train headed for Gyungjoo City. Sitting next to him on the train is a woman named Sun-young who entices him after recognizing his face. After she gets off the train, he chases after Sun-young and stops her, but she gives him mixed signals. Gyung-soo follows Sun-young to her house and on the next day he brews up enough courage to knock on her door. This time Gyung-soo becomes infatuated with love.

Korean Title: Saenghwalui Balgyeon
Other Title: On The Occasion Of Remembering The Turning Gate
Year: 2002
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Kim Sang-kyeong, Choo Sang-mi, Ye Ji-won, Kim Hak-seon, Sin Hyeon-jong, Ahn Kil-kang
Runtime: 116 mins
Awards: 2 wins

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Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.

Korean Title: Oh! Soo-jung
Year: 2000
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English / Korean (srt/idx/sub)
Cast: Lee Eun-joo, Jeong Bo-seok, Moon Seong-geun, Park Mi-hyeon, Jo Won-hee, Jo Moon-ee
Runtime: 127 mins
Awards: 3 wins & 1 nomination

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Happily engaged to be married, Seung-bin (Goo Bon-seung) begins to get cold feet when his betrothed (Kim Ji-eun) evinces a glaring lack of interest in sex. Fantasizing about a beautiful television actress doesn’t exactly ramp up his desire to get to the altar, but it does make him realize just what turns him on…

Korean Title: Mabeobui Seong
Year: 2002
Director: Bang Seong-wook
Genre: Drama / Romance / Comedy
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Goo Bon-seung, Kim Ji-eun, Choi Eun-joo, Kim Jin, Lee Ju-hyeo, Park In-hwan
Runtime: 108 mins

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Sexually molested by her father Gozu (Hiroshi Oguchi) and mentally tormented by her jealous mother Sayuri (Masumi Miyazaki), twelve-year old Mitsuko (Rie Kuwana) is locked in a cello case and forced to watch her parents perform a series of intimate acts. When Mitsuko’s mother dies as the result of a fatal fall, the deeply disturbed young girl begins to believe that she has, in fact, been transformed into her own mother. Her father viewing the death of his wife and mental malaise of his daughter as a motivator to ramp up the incestuous relations with his increasingly unhinged offspring, Mitsuko eventually ends up restricted to a wheelchair following a failed suicide attempt. Later, it begins to appear that the preceding events were nothing more than the details of a new novel by reclusive, wheelchair-bound author Taeko (also Miyazaki). When Taeko’s trusted editor places his fey personal assistant Yuji (Issei Ishida) in charge of the successful writer, the probing Yuji launches a clandestine investigation into Taeko’s background while simultaneously being forced to satisfy her deepest and darkest fantasies.

Year: Kimyo Na Sakasu
Year: 2005
Director: Sion Sono
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Mai Takahashi, Fujiko, Madame Regine, Tomorowo Taguchi, Hiroshi Ohguchi
Runtime: 108 mins
Awards: 1 win

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A middle class couple is set in their monotonous life until one day the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband’s infidelity, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the young man after learning he was her husband’s lover. The young man feels affection for both, but the couple merely treats him as a means to release their desires and anxieties. The second feature by Kim Eung-su made his debut with Time Lasts, a tale of fallen idealists set against the bleak Russian winter. Desire deals with the dreary lives of the middle class who are caught in their utterly private world of desire. Modest camerawork that presents the erotic sex scenes and the night streets in a cool modern tone are set against the extravagant interiors of the film’s mis-en-scene.

Korean Title: Yok Mang
Year: 2002
Director: Kim Eung-soo
Genre: Drama / Erotic
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Lee Dong-gyoo, Choi Ban-ya, Jang So-yeon, An Tae-gun, Lee Soo-ah
Runtime: 86 mins

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When we last left Simon Qing, he had just murdered Wu Da Lang (Ng Chi Hung) in order to add Lotus (AV star Hayakawa Serina) to his growing harem. But he starts to stray again after he meets Pinky (AV star Uehara Kaera), who’s the spitting image of his first love Violetta. Adding Pinky to his collection of wives means doing away with his own friend, but Simon is willing to commit more murders to serve his unchecked desires. However, there are consequences for his continuing corruption – Wu Da Lang’s brother Wu Song (Wu Qing Zhe) seeks revenge, and may even have an ally in his brother’s former wife Lotus. To stop Wu Song, Simon sends family maid Plum (Winnie Leung), but constant philandering has started to anger his wives, especially first wife Moon (AV star Wakana Hikaru). With his enemies growing in number, Simon’s desires shift once more, to loyal and comely Plum…

Chinese Title: Gam Ping Mui II: Oi Dik Nou Dai
Year: 2009
Director: Chin Man-Kei
Genre: Mature 18+
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English / Chinese (idx/sub)
Cast: Hikaru Wakana, Kaera Uehara, Serina Hayakawa, Yui Morikawa, Winnie Leung, Lam Wai-Kin, Samuel Leung, Tam Kon-Cheung
Runtime: 93 mins

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Young Hoon, a nude photographer, and Jung Im, a food stylist are both successful in their respective professions. Having dated for seven years before getting married, they’re more like friends than lovers. Due to the nature of her husband’s work, Jung Im occasionally feels insecure in her marriage, though this long-married couple has trust in one other. One day, Young Hoon befriends a neighboring couple, Hyun Chul and Hyo Jin. Next to the authoritative husband, Hyo Jin looks quite unstable and insecure and Young Hoon cannot help but feel drawn to her sadness. But the more he falls for Hyo Jin, the deeper his trouble becomes…

Korean Title: Ibeueui Yoohok – Kiseu
Other Title: Seduction Of Eve – Kiss
Year: 2007
Director: Nam Ki-woong
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English / Korean / Japanese (idx/sub)
Cast: Kim Kyeong-il, Lee Ja-kyeong, Yang Yeong-jo, Yoon Mi-kyeong, Baek Chan-gi, Song Jae-hee
Runtime: 94 mins

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A popular surgeon with a bright future and women falling at his feet, Ji Hoon is at the top of the world. Although married, he fantasizes of a woman with a butterfly tattooed on her pelvis – a vision from his reccurring dreams. During a business trip, he meets an attractive woman named Hae Young, who coldly refuses his advances. Not accustomed to such rejection, Ji Hoon smiles as he heads back home. A few days later, he receives an unexpected call from Hae Young, and begins a risky affair. But soon afterwards, his wife receives a mysterious package containing incriminating photos of her husband…

Korean Title: Ibeueui Yoohok – Geunyeomaneui Tekeunik
Other Title: Seduction Of Eve – Her Own Technique
Year: 2007
Director: Yoo Jae-hwan
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English / Korean / Japanese (idx/sub)
Cast: Kim Ji-wan, Seo Yeong, Jeon Se-hong, Yoo Jin-ah
Runtime: 85 mins

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Film director Jin Young walks out the door after presenting a screenplay that he hopes will be turned into a film. On his way to the parking lot, he meets an attractive woman named In Ae and spends the night with her. Next day, he receives a phone call from Sang Ho, a producer whom he has not heard from for the last three years. Jin Young meets the producer, who’s now confined to a wheelchair after a hit-and-run incident. Distraught by his wife’s infidelity, Sang Ho asks Jin Young to shadow her, cathing her affairs on camera. Shockingly, the wife turns out to be In Ae, and Jin Young now faces a dilemma…

Korean Title: Ibeueui Yoohok – Jongeun Anae
Other Title: Seduction Of Eve – Good Wife
Year: 2007
Director: Kwak Jeong-deok
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English / Korean / Japanese (idx/sub)
Cast: Kim Tae-hyeon, Ahn Nae-sang, Jin Seo-yeon, Lee Ji-soo, Jo Deok-hyeon
Runtime: 91 mins

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Returning from a steamy excursion with her lover, Hee Ra finds her husband dead in her bedroom. Although Hee Ra has a solid alibi, detective Min Ho’s intuition points to the wife as the murderer. In search of evidence, the detective begins to observe her daily routine, but gradually he is spellbound by her irresistible charm. Then another suspect appears, someone from Hee Ra’s past, whom Min Ho believes to be the culprit. Seeing the closure of the murder case, Min Ho and Hee Ra become closer than ever. But past secrets reveal themselves, taking Min Ho to the point of no return…

Korean Title: Ibeueui Yoohok – Enjel
Other Title: Seduction Of Eve – Angel
Year: 2007
Director: Lim Kyeong-taek
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English / Korean / Japanese (idx/sub)
Cast: Sin So-mi, Jeong Ee-kap, Seol Seong-min, Park Choong-seon, Lee Sang-hong
Runtime: 87 mins

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hin-ah is a free spirited moderan woman. Dong-gi is a young man who endlessly searches for something new and exciting. The unexpected encounter between them turns an ordinary night into an unforgettable one. Breaking up with her boyfriend, Shin-ah decides to meet Dong-gi again who calls her out of the blue after their first passionate encounter. The two madly fall in love and the romance begins. But is this just a short lived romance based on hot sex and more sex? Or will they find what they’ve both been looking for?
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Korean Title: Masitneun Sex Geurigo Sarang
Year: 2003
Director: Bong Man-dae
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Kim Seo-hyeong, Kim Sung-soo, Park Byeong-seon, Seo Beom-sik
Runtime: 84 mins

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Ryou, who has just settled into her apartment, becomes intrigued when the room next door reveals a female voice. The phone rings…the shower runs…then gasping… From what is exposed from the thin walls, “Neighbor Girl” reveals an unparalleled lifestyle to those who haven’t watched it. Ryou, who is prone to sickness, assumes that her neighbor is in the midst of a rendezvous with her lover. However, her neighbor Satsuki becomes increasingly worried with the daily hone threats she receives. “I’m going to mess you up…”

Without fully understanding what is demanded of her, the unseen threats become a source of continued terror for Satsuki. As Ryou becomes closer to Satsuki, this behavior gradually starts to escalate. Only a thin wall separates the offender and his victim; boundaries are trespassed and each vignette complicates as they meet. The worst course of action develops as they start their rendezvous.
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Akanbo Shojo: Kikareta Onna No Mirareta Yoru
Year: 2007
Director: Masashi Yamamoto
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Sora Aoi, Keita Ohno, Hiroto Kato, Takashi Oda, Sho Nishino, Rumi Otori, Mutsuo Yoshioka
Runtime: 83 mins

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Based on the classic Chinese novel “Jin Ping Mei,” written during the Ming Dynasty. The novel itself is the first full length Chinese fictional work to depict sexuality in explicit manner. The movie (as well as novel) takes place during 1111-1127 and centers around Ximen Quing, a corrupt social climber and lustful merchant who is wealthy enough to marry a consort of wives and concubines.
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Chinese Title: Jin Ping Mei
Year: 2008
Director: Chin Man-Kei
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Hikaru Wakana, Kaera Uehara, Serina Hayakawa, Yui Morikawa, Winnie Leung, Lam Wai-Kin, Samuel Leung, Tam Kon-Cheung
Runtime: 93 mins

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Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful, bored and unmotivated. When she meets Ama in a bar, she finds herself mesmerized by his forked tongue and moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Amas friend Shiba to design an exquisite tattoo for her back. But what Shiba demands as payment for the tattoo leads Lui into a brutal and explicit love triangle like no other. Then, after a violent encounter on the backstreets of Tokyo, Ama vanishes and Lui must face up to the reality of her life.
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Japanese Title: Hebi Ni Piasu
Year: 2008
Director: Yukio Ninagawa
Genre: Thriller / Drama
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English / Japanese (srt/idx/sub)
Cast: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kengo Kora, Yu Abiru, Arata, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Rakkyo Ide, Ichikawa Kamejiro
Runtime: 125 mins
Awards: 1 win

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In the 90s, Sek Shi Ding (Jordan Chan) from the famous triad “Hong Sheng” is a very good fighter but was sentenced to prison due to assault. He decides to wash his hands off the gang after leaving prison. He opens a renovation company together with his good friend, Jiu Fei (Timmy Hung). Unfortunately, a rival gangster Johnny is afraid that Sek Shi Ding would come back to the gang and decided to prevent that from happening. Sek Shi Ding’s siblings were attacked and his good friend, Jiu Fei was killed. Hence, Sek Shi Ding who wanted to take revenge is forced into the world of the triads again…
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Chinese Title: Hak Sai Lik
Year: 2008
Director: Billy Chung
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese / English
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Jordan Chan, Kenny Wong, Winnie Leung, Timmy Hung, Chan Bo-Yuen, Wong Tin-Lam, Annie Man, Zuki Lee
Runtime: 93 mins

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Every year, China’s turbulent economic expansion tempts thousands of impoverished peasants to the prosperous region surrounding the capital of Beijing. Liu Ping Guo and her husband An Kun are one of them. Liu Ping Guo works as a masseuse at Gold Basin Foot Massage Palace owned by Lin Dong and his wife. During a party, Liu Ping Guo drinks too much. Taking advantage of her drunken state, Lin Dong rapes her. When Liu Ping Guo become pregnant, her husband suspects Lin Dong to be the father.
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Chinese Title: Ping Guo
Year: 2007
Director: Li Yu
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Cast: Fan Bing-Bing, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Tong Dawei, Elaine Kam Yin-Ling, Zeng Mei Hui Zi
Runtime: 115 mins
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations

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Ling-Kit Ho is just like one of many other students in Tin Shui Wai. However, he is a lot more hard-working than all the others as he wants to get away from this besieged city. Apart from his study, he is indifferent to everything because he comes from a defunct family. Having to take care of his mentally-ill mother, Ling Kit is also forced to face his Dad – a heavy drunker and a heavy gambler. His younger brother Chun-Kit has left the family for years. At that time, Chun-Kit was heavily bullied by his classmates in school and he was always beaten by his drunken father. Being the elder brother, however, Ling-Kit did not protect Chun-Kit from being beaten so Chun-Kit left in great panic.

Chinese Title: Wai Sing
Year: 2007
Director: Lawrence Lau
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Tang Tak-Po, Wong Yat-Ho, Wong Hau-Yan, Joman Chiang Cho-Man, Jonathan Lee Yat-Sing
Runtime: 98 mins

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Female is comprised of five shorts. “Momo” (Peaches) is about a 29yr old woman who goes back to her hometown for a funeral many years after moving away. The woman was involved in a scandal with her teacher when she was young, when people found out she and her family moved to Tokyo. “Taiyo no mieru basho made” (Drive Until you See the Sun) is about a old hostess who gets robbed inside a taxi by a young woman at knife point. The taxi is being driven by another woman, she has also been robbed and is being forced to drive around the city. “Yoru no shitasaki” (Licking Nights) is about a female factory worker who is keeps getting hit on by her superior, but she does not like him she likes someone in the accounting department. She agrees to go on a date with her superior if he agrees to give her a vacation first. On her vaction she buys a strange object which allows her to control her dreams. “Megami no kakato” (Heels of the Muse) tells the story of a boy who tutors his girlfriend at her house but, is obsessed with her attractive mom. “Tamamushi” (Jewel Beetle) is a short about a middle aged woman who lives in a small village. She has no job but, is supported by a rich old man in exchange for sex.

Japanese Title: Fimeiru
Year: 2005
Director: Shinohara Tetsuo
Genre: Drama / Romance / Erotic / Omnibus
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Eri Ishida, Mitsuko Ishii, Ryo Kase, Hairi Katagiri
Runtime: 118 mins

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“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife”. The interpretation: There are plenty of men coveting their neighbor’s wives, so the practice should be strictly banned to maintain the society’s declining morality. For many (if not all) human beings, however, making something forbidden only increases its tempting allure. Coveting a neighbor’s wife, therefore, is a pithy statement about human desire and limitation, which is also an intriguing theme of “Cheaters” (Nae-yeoja-ui namja-chingu), a small-budget film directed by Park Seong-beom. Seok-ho (Choi Won-yeong) does not covet his neighbor’s wife – technically. He’s married to a beautiful wife, but he does not want to remain faithful. A self-styled playboy, Seok-ho covets, well, unmarried women. He’s maintaining sexual relationship with Ji-yeon (Ko Da-mi), a voluptuous photographer who wants something more than capturing a man’s body through her camera lens, and also wants to seduce Chae-young (Kim Poo-reun), a college student who seems to be the most virtuous girl in Korea. The neighbor’s-wife-coveting dynamics is also at work here. Ji-yeon keeps romanticizing about Seok-ho, an easy-to-play game that he thinks is obviously in his favor. Given that he has firm control over the photographer, it’s a waste of time for Seok-ho to invest more time and energy in their relationship. He obsessively ventures out to conquer more, and the target is the paragon of innocence – Chae-young. No matter how hard he tries to seduce her by offering expensive gifts and usual date tricks, Chae-young doesn’t budge at all. Of course, her persistent refusal heats up Seok-ho’s inflammable passion further – more evidence suggesting that a human desire, when the fruit is forbidden, gets magnified to an extreme. So far, so plain, in terms of cinematic techniques. Director Park, however, reveals his real intentions gradually from this point on. He shifts the omniscient camera angle to Chae-young, who turns out not to be so chaste. Juxtaposing Seok-ho’s images, the director discloses what the girl is really up to at each scene. In most cases, she’s sleeping with her boyfriend, a college student who spends more time at a motel than in the library
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Korean Title: Nae Yeojaeui Namja Chingu
Other Title: My Girl’s Boy / One Night Stand
Year: 2007
Director: Park Seong-beom
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Choi Won-yeong, Ko Da-mo, Lee Jeong-woo, Kim Poo-reun, Ko Hye-seong, Kim Young-ae, Lee Jae-ho
Runtime: 99 mins

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