Playboy Jack Lam (Wong Cho Lam) may be short and shallow, but he’s got money and lots of it, which is enough to keep the girls coming. He even manages to dodge the financial tsunami thanks to a fortuitous error. Jack’s hot gold-digger girlfriend (Chrissie Chau), however, thinks he’s gone bankrupt and dumps him immediately, sending him a nasty wake-up call. Encouraged by the advice (and cute looks) of Angel (Angelababy), Jack decides to go out and look for love again, encountering an emotionally unstable dancer (Race Wong), a naive massage girl (JJ Jia), and a scarred triad girl (Kate Tsui).

Chinese Title: Ngai Chai Dor Ching
Year: 2009
Director: James Yuen
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Wong Cho-Lam, Angelababy, Kate Tsui, JJ Jia, Race Wong, Chrissie Chau, Ella Koon, Siu Yeah-Jim
Runtime: 105 mins

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After her parents’ divorce, Ann (Kaho) moves to the small rustic town of Shimane with her mother. Though she has trouble adjusting to the life in the country at first, she gradually settles in and becomes good friends with local lad Daigo (Ikematsu Sosuke). But Ann’s world comes crashing down when her mother suddenly commits suicide. Daigo stays by her side during these hard times, and the two gradually fall in love with each other, but they are forced to part ways when Ann’s father shows up to take her back to Tokyo. Twelve years later, Ann (Matsushita Nao) returns to Shimane…

Japanese Title: Sunadokei
Other Title: Sand Clock
Year: 2008
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Nao Matsushita, Kaho, Shunya Isaka, Sosuke Ikematsu, Anri Ban, Shiho Fujimura
Runtime: 121 mins

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One fine day Yan Xiao Jia (Gigi Leung) coincidentally stumbles over a walkie-talkie, which gets her connected with Jia Hui (Ken Zhu). As luck would have it they both study at the same university and try to make an appointment. However every time something else prevents them from meeting in person. Therefore, they fall into the habit of keeping in contact with their walkie-talkies and end up becoming close friends via extensive verbal communications.

Chinese Title: Oi Duen Liu Sin
Year: 2003
Director: Teng Hua-Tao
Genre: Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Gigi Leung, Ken Chu, Tong Dawei, Tao Hong, Liu Zi
Runtime: 90 mins

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“Shall We Dance?” is a charming comedy about Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho), a married, middle-aged, workaholic accountant who becomes obsessed with a sad and beautiful dance instructor (Tamiyo Kusakari) he spies through the window of a dance studio. His dull life takes a funny turn when he signs up for ballroom dancing lessons to try to meet the mysterious woman and instead is assigned a plump, middle-aged instructor. But is the mystery woman, as his instructor warns, “all the sweeter when viewed from afar”?

Japanese Title: Shall We dansu?
Year: 1996
Director: Masayuki Suo
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English / Japanese / Chinese (idx/sub)
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tamiya Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe
Runtime: 136 mins
Awards: 51 wins & 3 nominations

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Tells the story of young knight Qiao Fei (played by Jay Chou) for combating organized crime, no effort to protect treasures and desperate story.
In the desert, once gave birth to countless downtown 1:00 dynasty has evolved out of countless cultural legend. This piece witness the birth of numerous dynasties fall of the desert, a surprising number of buried treasures, these treasures in the desert, under a quiet slumber, no one can enter the door here to open the treasure, because, here are a group of mysterious guardian of They magical wand omnipotent, generations are guarding this stretch of desert, to protect those non-owners of the wealth. Their leader, called desert eagle (played by Chen Chu River). However, the desert will soon usher in Once Upon a quiet storm, as a record of a lost treasure map of the Millennium trace of the ancient city of warlords has raised the competition …

Chinese Title: Ci Ling
Year: 2009
Director: Kevin Chu
Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan / China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English / Chinese / Malay (idx/sub)
Cast: Jay Chou, Lin Chi-Ling, Chen Dao Ming, Eric Tsang, Miao Pu, Baron Chen, Wong Yat-Fei, Kenneth Tsang, Liu Genghong
Runtime: 105 mins

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Just out of jail, Ah Yu is looking to find her way again in life and love. A former prison mate gives her a job in a girly bar, but the men she meets either think she’s a prostitute or take advantage of her until one day at the pier she meets a seemingly aloof fisherman who draws an emotional response that she thought was lost.

Chinese Title: Shen Hai
Year: 2005
Director: Cheng Wen-tang
Genre: Romance / Drama
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English / Chinese (idx/sub)
Cast: Tarcy Su, Lu Yi-Ching, Leon Dai, Huang Wu-shan, Wei Lee, Yang Kuei-Mei
Runtime: 107 mins
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination

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The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Hua Mulan, who disguises herself as a man, who fights in a war against the nomadic invaders inorder to defend her father.

Year: 2009
Director: Jingle Ma
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English / Chinese (idx/sub)
Cast: Vicky Zhao, Chen Kun, Xu Jiao, Vitas, Jaycee Chan, Nicky Lee, Hu Jun, Yu Rongguang, Li Jiuzhe, Song Guangcheng, Sun Zhou
Runtime: 114 mins

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An American-Chinese man (Shaun-Tam) returns to Taiwan to find his dream girl, and he is surprised by the result.

Chinese Title: Long yan zhou
Year: 2005
Director: Allen Chang
Genre: Music / Romance / Drama
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Cast: Fann Wong, Shaun Tam, Ivy Yi, Hsing Lee, Fu Lin
Runtime: 94 mins

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Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members.

Chinese Title: Yin Shi Nan Nu
Year: 1994
Director: Ang Lee
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English / Turkish (idx/sub)
Cast: Sihung Lung, Wang Yu-Wen, Wu Chien-lien, Yang Kuei-Mei, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao, Chen Chao-jung, Lester Chan
Runtime: 124 mins
Awards: 4 wins & 10 nominations (including being nominated for an Oscar)

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Anna (Karena Lam) seems to have a great life for both love and career in Singapore. Until she has to move to Shanghai. There she meets her ex-boyfriend. Ouyang (Lu Yi) and his wife. Si Yu (Karena Lam) who looks exactly like her. Love for her ex-beau rekindles and she decides to switch identities with her doppelganger for a week. Si Yu then flies to Singapore where she lives with Billy (Tender Huang). Anna’s current boyfriend. Anna gradually realizes that Ouyang is no longer the man she used to love and desperately wants her old life in Singapore back, but her alternate self has plans of her own too….

Year: 2007
Director: Aubrey Lam
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Country: Singapore / China / Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese / Mandarin
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Karena Lam, Lu Yi, Tender Huang
Runtime: 91 mins

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A story of a filmmaker who falls in love with a woman he interviews for his film, presents the evolution of a relationship which shifts from the objective to the subjective, and from lies to truth. Film director Eun-suk gradually discovers his feelings for Young-hee, one of the many subjects he is interviewing for a documentary currently being shot. Young-hee resists the subtle gestures of interest Eun-suk expresses due to a past she cannot easily escape from, and moreover to sustain the lies she began from her first interview with Eun-suk. However, during the course of events, she slowly comes to terms with her own true story, which is revealed during her conversations with Eun-suk, and decides to stop the false testimonies…

Year: 2000
Director: Byeon Hyeok
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Lee Jeong-jae, Shim Eun-ha, Jo Jae-hyeon, Kwon Min-joong, Kim Jeong-hyeon, Jang Ho-il
Runtime: 126 mins
Awards: 1 win

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A young couple start dating, but their happy days are interrupted by a single fact: she is planning to apply for a local university but he is not. The girl pleads with her boyfriend not to go away and he starts to think over the priorities in his life.

Japanese Title: Harufuwei
Year: 2009
Director: Eriko Kitagawa
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Kitano Kie, Okada Masaki, Mizobata Junpei, Hiroki Narimiya, Miho Shiraishi
Runtime: 85 mins

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Drink-Drank-Drunk, stars Daniel Wu as Michel, a French-Chinese chef. He can’t hold his drink, which is all the more obvious when he meets bubbly bartender Siu-Man (Miriam Yeung), who can’t get drunk since she’s teetotal. But love is in the air…

Chinese Title: Chin Bui But Dzui
Year: 2005
Director: Derek Yee
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Miriam Yeung, Daniel Wu, Alex Fong, Vincent Kok, Hu Jing, Ella Koon, Renee Dai, Toby Leung, Chin Kar-Lok
Runtime: 101 mins
Awards: 1 nomination

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Raging Phoenix is the comeback of Jija Yanin, the female action icon, that combines new stunning martial art styles and love story to be the ultimate action-romance film. Focused specifically to Jija’s skills and personality, Raging Phoenix fuses her martial arts skills with hip hop dancing and other elements. The film also introduces a newcomer, Kazu Patrick Tang who teams up with Jija on the big screen.

Thai Title: Jija Deu Suay Doo
Year: 2009
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Genre: Romance / Action / Martial Arts
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Yanin”Jija” Vismitananda, Kazu Patrick Tang, Nui Sandang
Runtime: 109 mins

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Ou Yang Guan Nan (Michelle Wai) and Shi Tu Jie (Ken Hung) are born on the same day, have same interest on photography and characters. Both get to know each other from the school debate competition and they also like each other. Class monitor Lu Jun Wen (Carlos Chan) who accompanies Nan most of the time also has interest with Nan but fails to woo her.

After class they would visit a hill behind their school to take photo at midnight and take the rainbow’s photo after rain. After finish high school Jie used half of his savings to buy a polaroid camera and give it to Nan as gift. Nan is mistaken with his intention, thinking that he wanted to tease her and later slaps his face. One day when Nan realizes Jie has been chasing her all this time it was already too late.

Four years later Jie opens a photography shop. On the same year their former school holds a reunion gathering with Nan and Jie meeting once again. Nan wants to get serious with Jie this time but sadly Jie decides to leave her after a short term relationship. Does Jie decided to leave Nan for good? Will Nan accept Wen’s love? Who will Nan choose in the end?

Chinese Title: Hun Seung Wor Nei Choi Yut Hei
Year: 2009
Director: Y.Y. Kong, Azrael Chung
Genre: Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English / Chinese(idx/sub)
Cast: Ken Hung, Michelle Wai, Carlos Chan, Hui Siu-Hung, Anjo Leung, Gladys Fung, A. Lin
Runtime: 94 mins

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General’s Son is based on the actual life of Korean independence activist and fighter Kim Doohan, beginning with his early years growing up as a beggar in the Jong Ro area — which many saw as being the symbolic heart of the country — during the Japanese oppression. Doohan becomes involved with the resident street gangs, moving rapidly up the ranks due to his considerable fighting skills and fierce bravery. It transpires that he is actually the son of a famous Korean general who is currently embroiled in struggles against the invaders, and Doohan himself gradually takes on a similar role, uniting the gangs, residents and student idealists, and fighting back against the cruel Japanese.

Korean Title: Janggunui Adeul III
Year: 1992
Director: Im Kwon-taek
Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Park Sang-min, Shin Hyeon-joon, Lee Il-jae, Kim Hyung-il, Kim Seung-woo, Kim Hae-gon
Runtime: 112 mins

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Meet two people: Girl – a swimmer in the aquarium also new game called Who are u? beta tester and Guy – the game inventor and site admin. They met each other on-line and became game partners…

On-line dating can be dangerous. Piece of advice? “Dummy. You can’t trust those things! Guys who hide behind their monitors are all perverts!” says Jee Hyung-tae (Jo Seung-woo) to Suh In-ju (Lee Na-young) stood up in real world by her game partner… (Btw who I said was it?) “Dude’s a real sweet talker, huh ? Feel good music, cute flash mail… Give me an hour and I can talk any woman over!”

Korean You’ve got mail.

Year: 2002
Director: Choi Ho
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Lee Na-young, Jo Seung-woo, Lee Jang-won, Jo Eun-ji, Lee Seong, Kim Kwang-il
Runtime: 103 mins

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One night, a man and a woman, both drunk and both lost souls, get on the last train at different stations. However, other then being drunk, the two have something else in common — they are emotionally hurt in one way or another. These two find themselves at the last stop, just before the DMZ, on a heavy snowy night. They have no other choice but to spend the night together. As time goes by, they learn to reveal their inner pains to each other.

Korean Title: Gyeongui-Seon
Year: 2007
Director: Park Heung-shik
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Kim Kang-woo, Son Tae-yeong, Baek Jong-hak, Cha Seo-won, Ji Jong-eun, Eom Soo-jeong
Runtime: 107 mins

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Anthology drama of nine films by ten filmmakers on the first decade of Hong Kong’s return to China. The cityscape might have changed, but the emotions are the same.

Chinese Title: Sup Fun Chung Ching
Year: 2008
Director: Aubrey Lam, Chan Wing-Chiu, Marco Mak, Azrael Chung, Wong Ching-Po, Lam Wah-Cheun, Chang Wai-Hung, Toe Yuen, Takkie Yeung, Lee Kung-Lok, Szeto Kam-Yuen
Genre: Short / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English / Chinese (idx/sub)
Cast: Tse Kwan-Ho, Crystal Tin, Glen Chin, Tony Ho, Alannah Ong, Deep Ng, Louise Lee, Leo Lee, Eva Lai, Chan Wing-Chiu, Gladys Fung, Race Wong, Jones Xu, Zac Kao, Wong Yau-Nam, Belinda Hamnett, Angel Ho, Joe Cheung, Mandy Chiang
Runtime: 108 mins
Awards: 1 win

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Choi Eun-Soo is a young attractive teacher on her latest job at a new high school. Things start off perfect for Eun-Soo until she meets a rebellious teen, Han Young-Hee, who proves too much to handle. When push comes to shove, Eun-Soo demands a parent-teacher conference at once. However, unbeknownst to Ms. Eun-Soo, it seems Han Young-Hee’s father is Han Min-Wook, known to everyone else as the president of South Korea! And so the love-hate relationship of the two begin as the people’s president takes on his most challenging campaign yet—winning the heart of a beautiful teacher.

Korean Title: Piano Chineun Daetongryeong
Year: 2002
Director: Jeon Man-bae
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Ahn Seong-gi, Choi Ji-woo, Im Soo-jeong, Kim Seong-gyeom, Kim Hyung-il, Kim In-moon
Runtime: 93 mins

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Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy’s older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other.

Thai Title: Rak Haeng Siam
Year: 2007
Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Witwisit Hiranyawongkul, Mario Maurer, Chermarn Boonyasak, Sinjai Plengpanich, Songsit Rungnopakunsri, Kanya Rattanapetch
Runtime: 157 mins
Awards: 5 wins & 15 nominations

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Set in Beijing, the film is a window into modern Chinese youth culture. Waiting Alone is a coming-of-age tale which tells the first-person-narrative story of Wen (Xia Yu), an antique shop co-owner and an aspiring author who feels that he’s met the perfect girl (Li Bingbing). But no matter how close he and the girl become, he just doesn’t understand why she won’t fall for him. Aided by his best friends and the one girl he completely trusts (Gong Beibi), he tries different ways to woo her, playing along within the “rules of the game”…

Chinese Title: Du Zi Deng Dai
Year: 2004
Director: Dayyan Eng
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Yu Xia, Bingbing Li, Beibi Gong, Qi Gao, Chao Wu, Yalin Gao, Songyan Tu
Runtime: 106 mins
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations

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What is youth all about? Before they could figure out what was happening, Xiao-Bu finds herself in a cat fight with Angel over a cigarette, Ah-Mi sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boxer boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao-Bu. What could be worse? Imagine living with an alcoholic father who chose nothing in life but to stare out of a window. Picture the embarrassment if bird droppings stained your clothes just as you were asking someone out on a date.

All three girls fall in love, feel hurt, forget and have experiences that are as random as 17 year-old Xiao-Bu’s coin toss which decides her future relationship with Angel. In the same place but different time, Angel’s hair catches on fire when she leans forward to examine a coin. Everything happens by chance, beyond reason.

But so what? Even if the three girls never find wings under their beds, they still fly; they still sway on a moving train; they swim in an empty swimming pool; they swing freely in a park; they eat pink cotton candy on the Ferris wheel. Who cares who loves whom more, who sleeps with whom, or whose birthday cake is eaten? They still breathe and their eyes never grow dull. For without chaos, there is no youth.

Chinese Title: Luan Qing Chun
Year: 2008
Director: Lee Chi Y.
Genre: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English / Chinese (idx/sub)
Cast: Amiya Lee, Liao Chien-hui, Angel Yao, Sam Wang, Herb Hsu, Pai Chih-Ying
Runtime: 96 mins

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The film opens on the night of 30 April to 1 May 1994 in Chungking House, a mazelike commercial complex in Hong Kong. A Chinese woman in a blond wig is busily trying to stash some heroine among the belongings of a group of Pakistanis hired to slip the drugs out of the country. May 1 also marks an entire month since police office No. 223 got dumped by his girlfriend. He swears he’s going to fall in love with the first girl who walks through the door: it turns out to be the blond drug smuggler….A fast-food restaurant where Faye, a young tomboy, listens to the hit pop song “California Dreaming”. Another policeman, a regular costumer, has just lost his girlfriend, who has deposited his apartment key at the restaurant. Faye intercepts the key and secretly lets herself into the cop’s apartment and proceeds to upset his domestic order.

Chinese Title: Chung Hing Sam Lam
Year: 1994
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (idx/sub)
Cast: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Runtime: 102 mins
Awards: 7 wins & 9 nominations

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Basically a retread of the first movie, in which the evil Tree Spirit is back with yet another ghost played by Joey Wong. The Swordsman Yen and Leslie Cheung characters are replaced by a Buddhist Abbot and disciple (Tony Leung). Jacky Cheung also pops up again, this time as a money-grabbing swordsman with a neat bag of tricks.

Chinese Title: Sien Lui Yau Wan III: Do Do Do
Year: 1991
Director: Ching Siu-Tung
Genre: Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (hardsubbed)
Cast: Tony Leung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung, Nina Li, Lau Shun, Lau Siu-Ming, Tommy Wong
Runtime: 109 mins
Awards: 1 win & 5 nominations

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In this installment of a phenomenal saga of the super natural, four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. Outrageous special effects galore!

After losing Sian (Joey Wong) in the first film, Ning (Leslie Cheung) bumps into dead ringer Windy (also Joey Wong), who’s trying to save her dad (Lau Siu-Ming) from evil government bastards.
Plot devices occur when Windy and her compatriots believe Ning to be a wise elder; Ning plays along to discover just why Windy looks exactly like his departed ghost love. Jacky Cheung appears as Autumn, a Taoist monk who aids Ning, and the amazingly beautiful Michelle Reis is Moon, Windy’s sister. Waise Lee manages to luck into a great role as the military general chasing Windy and company.

Chinese Title: Sien Nui Yau Wan II Yan Gaan Do
Year: 1990
Director: Ching Siu-Tung
Genre: Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: English (hardsubbed)
Cast: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Jacky Cheung, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee, Wu Ma, Lau Shun, Lau Siu-Ming, Tin Kai-Man
Runtime: 103 mins
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations

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Neat freak Gigi (Terri Kwan), who changes boyfriends almost as quickly as she changes her underwear, and depressive Marlene (Yu Nan), who pines for her workaholic lover (Lin Yu-lun), both work for a biotech company that manufactures character-changing pills. One day, to snag a slobby guy (Peter Ho) she fancies, Gigi decides to take some untested pills, which causes all kinds of chaos. Meanwhile, Marlene is romanced by her landlord’s son, handyman Teddy (Eddie Peng).

Bubbly and sexy, Kwan (“The Heirloom”) nails the fast, loopy tone the pic needs, and gets good support from most of the cast. However, Yu, more adept at drama (“Tuya’s Marriage”), seems miscast, dragging the picture down and not creating any special chemistry with Kwan. Though pic is set in a deliberately nonspecific, clinically neat Anytown, China, the prevailing mood and humor are very Taiwanese, making Yu (the sole Mainlander among the leads) further seem like a square peg in a round hole.

Chinese Title: Ji Yin Jue Ding Wo Ai Ni
Year: 2007
Director: Lee Yun Chan
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Terri Kwan, Nan Yu, Peter Ho, Eddie Peng, Allen Lin
Runtime: 94 mins
Awards: 1 nomination

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When Jung-won (Han Suk-kyu), a thoughtful and sensitive shopkeeper, is diagnosed as being terminally ill he decides for the sake of his family and friends, to suffer in silence, running his photography business and his life as if nothing was wrong. However, when he meets the luminous Da-rim (Shim Eun-ha) and instantly falls for her, his life and his decisions are given a stark reality that brings home the seriousness of his situation. With the pair spending more and more time together and as his condition becomes more serious, the shopkeeper is forced to make a heart-breaking decision.

Korean Title: Palwolui Christmas
Year: 1998
Director: Heo Jin-ho
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (sub)
Cast: Han Seok-Kyu, Shim Eun-ha, Lee Han-wi, Sin Goo, Jeon Mi-seon, Oh Jee-hye
Runtime: 97 mins
Awards: 4 wins & 2 nominations

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Lee Dong-Geon portrays title character Young-Bin, a handsome, macho, but totally obnoxious young man who begins the film by breaking off a relationship in a most ungentlemanly way: after waiting in a parked car so Young-Bin won’t get a ticket, the girlfriend reads him the riot act upon his return, prompting Young-Bin to slip into the driver’s seat, break up with her, and speed off, leaving his new ex-girlfriend stranded in the parking lot. From the get-go, Young-Bin is not exactly a class act.

On the opposite side of the spectrum is the beautiful Han-Mi (Han Ji-Hye), a meek university student looking for true love, but never seeming to find it. As is typical in this kind of film, the two meet purely by chance: Han-Mi accidentally text messages Young-Bin before literally bumping into him. Han-Mi, feeling that their fortuitous meeting is a sign that they might be destined for one another, decides to pal around with Young-Bin and see if there’s any chemistry between them. Taken by Han-Mi’s sincerity and her willingness to pick up the check, Young-Bin jumps at the opportunity.

But Han Mi’s cousin, Chae Young (Shin Hee) isn’t quite so enraptured with Young-Bin and tries to dissuade Han-Mi from pursuing him. The thing is, Chae Young is a professional dating consultant and a strong subscriber to blood type theory. According to her, any relationship between the mismatched duo would be doomed to failure because Young-Bin is a type-B male, which supposedly makes him arrogant, hardheaded, and generally a jerk, whereas Han-Mi is a type-A female, one who supposedly can’t help being timid and obedient. But while Chae-Young predicts impending doom, the happy couple try to give love a shot, ignoring their supposed blood type incompatibility. But will they succeed?

Korean Title: B-hyeong Namja Chingu
Year: 2005
Director: Choi Seok-won
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Lee Dong-geon, Han Ji-hye, Shin-ee, Baek Il-seob, LYoo Tae-woong, Jeong Ryeo-won
Runtime: 97 mins

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Tan, a mild mannered man with amnesia and Oom, an up and coming female professional, are brought together by fate and due to certain circumstances are compelled to live together. But due to environmental factors and/or hormonal imbalance, the man is more feminine in character than usual. This results in his love being questioned.

Thai Title: Khaw Hai Rak Jong Jaroen
Year: 2007
Director: Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subtitles: English (srt)
Cast: Ananda Everingham, Chayanan Manomaisantiphap, Monton Annupabmard, Puttachat Pongsuchat
Runtime: 109 mins
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations

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