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Virus (2022)

A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?

Red Post on Escher Street (2020)

Sang-sook is a competent politician who captivates the public with all kinds of nice words. One day, Sang-sook visits her grandmother who lives in the isolated house. But when she returns home, she finds out that she is not able to lie anymore.

Honest Candidate (2020)

Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, big-boobed model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish they catch – and wolfs it down alive, in the hope that it’ll help keep her skinny! Soon after, and not so unexpectedly in situations like this, zombies show up and begin to complicate things further. After they’re attached by a crowd of poop-covered undead who emerge from an outhouse toilet, the group seeks refuge at the home of strange Dr. Tanaka and his daughter Sachi. But unbeknownst to them, Tanaka has been conducting experiments on the parasites—and the zombies!—and has another fate in mind for the five strangers from the city.

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (2011)

Suffering a broken heart, music teacher Yu Jing went to Hualien to mend her broken heart. She meets a frustrated teacher and a repressed youth and all three of their stories become intertwined through song. As feelings of romance ignite, who will Yu Jing eventually choose?

Trying to heal from being betrayed by her fiancée, Yu Jing meets Xing Zhi Yuan, a teacher who has been transferred to a rural school in the area. Xing Zhi Yuan intends to use talent shows as a springboard to further his educational career. By chance, he discovers Li Dong Shuo, a student with a natural talent for singing. Li Dong Shuo and his friends come to form the band "July Boys" with Yu Jing invited to coach them in time for the annual singing contest. Both Xing Zhi Yuan and Li Dong Shuo become attracted to the warm and kind Yu Jing. Faced with two completely different emotions, Yu Jing's heart begins to waver.

Your Love Song (2020)

In the year 2061, the Wandering Earth Project is a mass migration project to move Earth out of the solar system due to the aging sun is about to turn into a red giant which threatens to engulf the Earth's orbit within 100 years. The migration goal is to move to the Alpha Centauri system and needed 12,000 enormous fusion-powered Earth Engines built across the Northern Hemisphere to propel the entirety of planet Earth. Chinese astronaut Liu Peiqiang oversees the gravitational slingshot maneuver of Earth before going on his mission to the Navigation Platform International Space Station to help navigate the Earth along its interstellar journey.

As human population dies in the next few years due to cataclysmic natural disasters and as the planet distances from the sun, most of the surface becomes frozen solid forcing remaining humans to live in vast underground cities built adjacent to and under the engines. 17 years later, in 2078, Liu Peiqiang is set to return to Earth after the Chinese New Year but devastating earthquakes disabled many earth engines stopping the course of migration. Liu Peiqiang decides to embark on the journey to fix what needed to be fix for the sake of his son and humanity.

The Wandering Earth - Special Edition: Beyond 2020 (2020)

An author, her reputation threatened by public humiliation, finds herself a prisoner, struggling to escape from a futuristic cult. Meanwhile, representatives of mankind debate with a time traveller to save the future of humanity.

Fallen (2020)

Byun goes back to his hometown and opens a small restaurant selling food and makgeolli (traditional rice wine). He puts up a framed quote that states "If you drink makgeolli here, those you miss will return." A young woman, Joo-Young begins to stay there and work. People with their own stories gather at the restaurant.

The Return (2017)

Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!

Tokyo Dragon Chef (2020)

Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, Queer Japan pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between. Dazzling, iconoclastic drag queen Vivienne Sato peels back the layers of language and identity. Maverick manga artist Gengoroh Tagame tours the world with his unapologetically erotic gay comics. Councilwoman Aya Kamikawa recounts her rocky path to becoming the first transgender elected official in Japan. At legendary kink-positive hentai party Department H, non-binary performance artist Saeborg uses rubber to create a second skin. Culled from 100+ interviews conducted over 3 years, Queer Japan features dozens of individuals sharing their experiences in their own words.

Queer Japan (2020)

A remake of the Italian movie, Perfect Strangers. This film centers around four childhood friends and their wives at a dinner party. The group plays a late-night game - everyone has to place their smartphones on the table and any notification received has to be shared with everyone. Slowly, ugly truths and secrets between close friends unfold, putting their friendship on the brink.

Blood Moon Party (2020)

Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One day he meets the intriguing Ukiyo Hayama at a convenience store. However, having her in his life brings nothing but trouble.

The Real Thing (2020)