Posts Tagged ‘asia’

Mulan (1998)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrer, Miguel | Fierstein, Harvey | Shen, Freda Foh | Foray, June | Hong, James | Margolyes, Miriam | Morita, Pat | Murphy, Eddie | Nixon, Marni | Oh, Soon-Tek | Osmond, Donny | Salonga, Lea | Shigeta, James | Takei, George | Tondo, Jerry
Directors: Bancroft, Tony | Cook, Barry
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Mulan is a girl, the only child of her honored family. When the Huns invade China, one man from every family is called to arms. Mulan’s father, who has an old wound and cannot walk properly, decides to fight for his country and the honor of his family though it is clear that he will not survive an enemy encounter. Mulan, who just got rejected by the matchmaker because she had set her on fire, decides to prove that she is worth something and steals away to fit her father’s place in the Chinese army. She prays to her family’s ancestors for protection and luck before leaving as a man in her father’s armor with her family’s horse. The ancestors awake and decide to send Mushu, a little dishonored dragon to aid Mulan in her quest. Weeks later, Mulan and the other troopers have survived the training camp and are on the way north to stop the huns. After being spotted and pursued by the enemies, an impass situation in the mountains forces Mulan to come up with an idea. But then, her real gender will no longer be a secret. She decides to risk everything in order to save China.

Killing Fields, The (1984)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Waterston, Sam | Ngor, Haing S. | Malkovich, John | Sands, Julian | Nelson, Craig T. | Gray, Spalding | Paterson, Bill | Fugard, Athol | Kennedy, Graham | Chey, Katherine Krapum | Pierpaoli, Oliver | Chey, Edward Entero | Bird, Tom | Sisowath, Monirak | Dtangpaibool, Lambool
Directors: Joffé, Roland
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.

Last Emperor, The (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Lone, John | Chen, Joan | O'Toole, Peter | Ying, Ruocheng | | Dun, Dennis | Sakamoto, Ryuichi | Han, Maggie | Young, Ric | Wu, Vivian | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Go, Jade | Ikeda, Fumihiko | Vuu, Richard | Tijger, Tsou
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.

We Were Soldiers (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Stowe, Madeleine | Kinnear, Greg | Elliott, Sam | Klein, Chris | Russell, Keri | Pepper, Barry | Don, Duong | Hurst, Ryan | Bagnell, Robert | Blucas, Marc | Daugherty, Josh | Garcia, Jsu | Hamm, Jon | Gregg, Clark
Directors: Wallace, Randall
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In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once…And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.

Drive (1997)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dacascos, Mark | Hardison, Kadeem | Pyper-Ferguson, John | Murphy, Brittany | Walter, Tracey | Shigeta, James | Kato, Masaya | Magwili, Dom | Yuan, Ron | Rosengren, Clive | Michael, Christopher | Smith, Ted | Szeto, Tedd | Mihailoff, R.A. | Watts, David
Directors: Wang, Steve
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A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Brando, Marlon | Sheen, Martin | Forrest, Frederic | Fishburne, Laurence | Bottoms, Sam | Hopper, Dennis | Hall, Albert | Ford, Harrison | Spradlin, G.D. | Ziesmer, Jerry | Glenn, Scott | Byers, Bo | Keane, James | Rossall, Kerry
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

Fist of Fury (aka Chinese Connection) (1972)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Lee, Bruce | Miao, Nora | Tien, James | Yi, Maria | Baker, Robert | Chen, Fu Ching | Chin, San | Han, Yin-Chieh | Hashimoto, Riki | Arimura, Jun | Huang, Chung-Hsin | Lee, Quin | Tien, Feng | Lee, Yin Chi | Liu, Tony
Directors: Lo, Wei
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Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher’s death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher’s murder.

Enter the Dragon (1973)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong | USA
Actors: Lee, Bruce | Saxon, John | Shih, Kien | Capri, Ahna | Mao, Angela | Kelly, Jim | Wall, Robert | Yeung, Bolo | Chung, Betty | Weeks, Geoffrey | Archer, Peter | Yan, Ho Lee | Clark, Marlene | Kent, Allan | Keller, William
Directors: Clouse, Robert
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Hong Kong circa 1973. Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned by Han, a reclusive billionaire who was once a member of the Temple but has now become a renegade. Braithwaite believes Han uses his tournaments as cover for narcotic and prostitution activities. Lee reluctantly agrees to enter the tournament, but his reluctance to confront Han disappears when a Shaolin monk reveals that during the previous staging of this tournament, he and Lee’s sister were accosted by several toughs led by Han’s personal bodyguard, an American named O’Hara. In the ensuing confrontation the monk cut a deep scar on O’Hara’s face but Lee’s sister ultimately perished, and at her gravesite Lee vowes revenge for her death. Also attending the tournament are two American martial arts experts, John Roper and Kelly Williams, who served together in Vietnam and took differing paths toward martial arts upon their discharge - Roper is on the run from Mafia gambling debt collectors, while Williams was accosted by two racist cops whom he’d dispatched before stealing their car to escape. All three will soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his army of martial arts fighters as he protects his underground factory of narcotics and prostitution.

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Malkovich, John | Richardson, Miranda | Havers, Nigel | Pantoliano, Joe | Phillips, Leslie | Ibu, Masatô | Richard, Emily | Frazer, Rupert | Gale, Peter | Kataoka, Takatoro | Stiller, Ben | Neidorf, David | Seymour, Ralph | Stephens, Robert
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.

007 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Pryce, Jonathan | Yeoh, Michelle | Hatcher, Teri | Acker, Ricky | Otto, Götz | Baker, Joe Don | Schiavelli, Vincent | Dench, Judi | Llewelyn, Desmond | Bond, Samantha | Salmon, Colin | Palmer, Geoffrey | Fellowes, Julian | Rigby, Terence
Directors: Spottiswoode, Roger
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Elloit Carver is an egotistical media baron. Carver has the power to reach every person on the planet through his Carver Media Group Network- except for the People’s Republic of Chinese who refuse his presence in their country. When he is tied to the disappearance of a British battleship in the South China Sea, James Bond is sent to investigate. It is in Hong Kong where Bond meets Wai Lin, a member of the People’s External Security Force of China. With and without Wai Lin’s help, Bond soon starts to uncover a plot that goes all the way back to a mission on the Russian-Kazakh Boarder, and will start a war only to feed the fire that is Carver’s ego.