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Actors & Directors
  • Kelly Chen
  • Leon Lai
  • Ching Siu Tung
  • Guo Xiaodong
  • Kou Zhenhai
  • Donnie Yen
Release date: 2008-06-24
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Mark Lui
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Review An Empress and the Warriors / Mei Ah:


Review   / Kaagaz Ke Phool Release date: 2006-12-11
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Review Kaagaz Ke Phool:

Suresh Sinha is a discarded decrepit ex-director, he enters an empty stage of Ajanta Studios and remember his past and send the picture into a flashback. The flashback shows Sinha to be a properous director. His relationship with his wife is not well, his wife lives away in Delhi with her parents who have misconceptions about Sinha as he is in the film business. Pammi, Sinha's little daughter, is in a school in Dehra Dun. He visits Dehra Dun but the school authorities does not allow him to meet his daughter as they have instructions from Pammi's mother. Sinha then proceeds to Delhi to settle his domestic affairs. Sinha's wife refuses even to see him. Sinha meets Shanti, a young and pretty inmate of an orphange. Sinha, offers her the heroine's role. The picture succeeds and so does Shanti. [+]
Their friendship is conveyed by press gossip even to Pammi who feels highly embrrassed at the news and runs away from school to reach Bombay. The unlikely scene leades to Shanti promising Pammi to go away from her father's life. Shanti keeps her word despite Sinha's melancholy face and despite her contact with the producer. Pammi's efforts however fail to bring about any reconciliation between her partners who then actually go to court for the custody of Pammi. The court awards the custody to Sinha's wife. Sinha now begins drinking, neglects his work, produces a flop and finds himself out of job and then out of his big house which is auctioned off to pay his debts. Hearing the news of his misery, Shanti, who had meanwhile become a teacher in a village, returns to Bombay and agrees to act in a picture just to provide Sinha another chance to direct. But Sinha refuses to be helped and prefers to sink deeper and deeper into misery. Shanti stays on to become a famous star. The flashback ends with Sinha breathing his last inside the studio. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon. com's standard return policy will apply.

Review Tai Seng  / Ninja Wolves
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Law
  • Yue Hwa
  • Chem Muh Chuan
  • Jin Po
  • Chang Yi
Release date: 2002-10-22
Run time: 90 min.
List Price: $7.95
Price: $4.00

Review Ninja Wolves / Tai Seng:


Review Eros Entertainment  / Woh Kaun Thi
Actors & Directors
  • K.N. Singh
  • Sadhana Shivdasani
  • Raj Khosla
  • Raj Mehra
  • Manoj Kumar
  • Parveen Choudhary
Price: $7.97

Review Woh Kaun Thi / Eros Entertainment:

Starring: MANOJ KUMAR, SADHANA, MEHMOOD, HELEN, PREM CHOPRA Synopsis: A rare big budget excursion into the thriller genre, the plot concerns a young doctor, Anand (Kumar), obsessed by a woman (Sadhana) who appears to him with different names and in different guises, making him doubt his senses. Like Vertigo (1958), the story evokes the supernatural and madness but eventually the hero unravels the plot. The villain of the piece is Anand's friend Dr Ramesh (Chopra) who concocts the plots to drive Anand insane in order to get hold of an inheritance. The enigmatic, sexually repressed figure played by Sadhana ranges from a ghostlike apparition to Anand's future wife (with a seduction scene where she momentarily turns 'human' to the song Lag jaa gale).

Review Eros  / Lajja
Actors & Directors
  • Madhuri Dixit
  • Jackie Shroff
  • Anil Kapoor
  • Ajay Devgan
  • Rekha
  • Rajkumar Santoshi
Release date: 2003-03-25
Run time: 202 min.
List Price: $49.99
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Review Lajja / Eros:


Review Adv Films  / The Princess Blade
Actors & Directors
  • Yoichi Numata
  • Kyusaku Shimada
  • Shirô Sano
  • Yumiko Shaku
  • Shinsuke Sato
  • Hideaki Ito
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 95 min.
List Price: $19.98
Price: $10.49

Review The Princess Blade / Adv Films:


Review CJ Entertainment  / Soo
Actors & Directors
  • Choi Yang-Il
  • 1 disc package (region 0 NTSC)
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Oh Man Seok
Price: $17.99

Review Soo / CJ Entertainment:

Tae-su (Ji Jin-hee) is a notorious hit man called Soo, who waits 19 years to finally reunite with his long-lost twin brother Tae-jin _ only to watch him get shot in front of his very eyes. Revenge becomes Soos sole reason for breathing, as he single-handedly sets out to hunt down his brothers murderer. Here, the movie slips into major traps of common plot elements: identical twins the striking opposite of each other _ one good, the other bad _ and the woman that falls in love with both of them. If youre craving something purely ``hardboiled, think again. There is a unique combination of raw and primitive crudeness and unexpected tenderness to the movie, however. Knives take the place of guns, the usual choice of weapon in contemporary action films, and Soo embodies all the animalistic human instinct for survival and safety. In a desperate struggle to stay alive, Soo unhesitatingly scoops out an enemys eyeballs with his bare hands. But Soo degenerates from a cool-headed and merciless professional killer into a helpless, guilt-ridden brother. Tae-su sports a sharp dagger to slash dozens of lives, but it ceases to be a weapon when he falls asleep with it in his dead brothers bed. It is a material extension of a vengeful yet shattered and lonely soul There are in fact moments when you forget the protagonist is a callous and an unfeeling killer. [+]
Soo is quiet and reserved when not on duty, and is obedient in front of his boss, a fatherly figure. Soo draws sympathy from viewers as he embraces his dead brothers body _ its chilling as you see two identical faces, one lifeless and the other helpless. Monologues addressed to Tae-jin throughout the movie mark Tae-sus tragic humaneness. There is also a comically surreal dimension to his undying persistence. Attacked by bullets, clubs, swords and hatchets, he manages to keep surviving. You stop grimacing at the insensitive brutality past a certain point.

Review Adv Films  / Rahxephon - The Motion Picture + Series Box and Book
Actors & Directors
  • Hiro Shimono
  • Kira Vincent-Davis
  • Chris Patton
  • Yutaka Izubuchi
  • Aya Hisakawa
  • Monica Rial
Release date: 2004-07-20
Run time: 120 min.
List Price: $44.98
Price: $8.48

Review Rahxephon - The Motion Picture + Series Box and Book / Adv Films:

Return to the world of RahXephon, where humans and Mu fight for dominance over a shattered Earth, and giant statues are the ultimate weapons. Where music forms the fabric of the universe and the link between two hearts is the thread upon which the fate of humanity hangs. It is still a love story, but it is not the same story. Not exactly. Prepare for new visions and new revelations, as the other side of RahXephon is finally revealed. RahXephon was created and directed by Yutaka Izubuchi (Gasaraki, the Gundam franchise), and produced by Bones (Angelic Layer, Cowboy Bebop), Victor Entertainment (Noir) and Fuji TV (Astro Boy, Battle of the Planets). The RahXephon series debuted on Japanese TV in 2002 and became an immediate sensation, with fierce action and the multilayered complexity of the plot and characters drawing in viewers by the tens of thousands. RahXephon: The Motion Picture is a DVD-only release, containing a 120-minute feature in both English 5. 1 and Japanese 5. 1 language versions with English subtitles. [+]
Extras includes an 10-page RahXephon booklet and ADV previews. RahXephon: The Motion Picture also is available as a Collector's Edition which includes a beautifully durable custom series art box sized to fit the TV series (Volumes 1-7) and the movie, plus a 52-page booklet.

Review Videoasia  / Dance of the Drunk Mantis
Actors & Directors
  • Siu Tien Yuen
  • Shun-Yee Yuen
  • Jang Lee Hwang
  • Linda Lin
  • Corey Yuen
  • Woo-ping Yuen
Release date: 2004-01-13
List Price: $9.99
Price: $2.55

Review Dance of the Drunk Mantis / Videoasia:

This January, celebrate the new year with these classic martial arts films featuring Hong Kong's most celebrated masters - Yuen Woo Ping (martial arts director Kill Bill and The Matrix), and Corey Yuen Kwai (director of The Transporter, and So Close)

Review KOCH LORBER FILMS  / The Wooden Man's Bride
Actors & Directors
  • Bao-ming Gu
  • Kao Mingjun
  • Lan Wang (II)
  • Yumei Wang
  • Jianxin Huang
  • Shih Chang
Release date: 2004-07-13
Run time: 113 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $6.06

Review The Wooden Man's Bride / KOCH LORBER FILMS:


Review   / Crazy Love Run time: 80 min.

Review Crazy Love:


Review Image Entertainment  / Antonio Gaudi (1984) Release date: 1999-12-28
Run time: 72 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $196.79

Review Antonio Gaudi (1984) / Image Entertainment:

Creator of one of the most bizarre and organic styles in the history of architecture, Antonio Gaudi Cornet, Spain's national treasure, was blessed with not only the vision, but the patronage that allowed him to build his elaborate and surreal designs. With Antonio Gaudi, Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) gives a tour of the makings of Gaudi's world. Almost entirely without narration, Teshigahara guides us instead with an eerie score by Toru Takemitsu and a few subtitles. The film is more a poem than a documentary, but don't expect an approach similar to Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi. Instead we are given a quiet soundtrack that mixes Takemitsu's sparse score with the natural sounds surrounding Gaudi's structures, and a stationary camera presents the buildings as if they have sprouted: supports seem to magically erupt from the ground like roots, and our eyes are led through the textures and patterns of Gaudi's elaborate mosaic stone and brick designs. Visually revealing and comprehensive, Teshigahara leaves us with only one thing to do-to view Gaudi's amazing world with our own eyes. -Ted Sonnenschein A spellbinding visual journey through the enchanted world of the great Spanish architect whose work influenced Picasso, Miro and Dali. A mind-blowing sensory experience like "Koyaanisqatsi," this film follows every curve of Gaudi's colorful, organic-and sometimes even erotic-architecture. Like "The Mystery of Picasso," Academy Award-nominated director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) captures the grand scope of the artist's creative genius. The haunting score by Toru Takemitsu helps bring the fantastical visions of this architectural celebrity to life.

Review Tai Seng  / Dreadnaught
Actors & Directors
  • Ka-Yan Leung
  • Woo-ping Yuen
  • Tony Liu
  • Shun-Yee Yuen
  • Tak-Hing Kwan
  • Biao Yuen
Release date: 2000-11-14
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Jing Wong
List Price: $19.95
Price: $12.02

Review Dreadnaught / Tai Seng:


Review Image Entertainment  / Killing Machine
Actors & Directors
  • So-yun Lee
  • Gee-woong Nam
  • Dae-tong Kim
Release date: 2007-03-20
Run time: 60 min.
List Price: $19.99
Price: $12.62

Review Killing Machine / Image Entertainment:

After being murdered by her teacher and three brothers a pretty high school student moonlighting as a prostitute is brought back from the dead thanks to the miracle of technology. Now an unstoppable Killing Machine she's driven by horrific memories of her ordeal after a brutal fight and decides to avenge herself on those responsible for her death. A savage and witty look at hypocrisy deception and the violent authority of an older generation supposedly leading the young. SPECIAL FEATURES:Includes Kangchul a 30-minute featurette by director Gee-Woong NamSystem Requirements:Running Time: 60 Mins. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 014381299021 Manufacturer No: CH2990DVD.

Review Geneon [Pioneer]  / Amazing Nurse Nanako - Memories of You (Vol. 1) Release date: 2000-07-25
Run time: 60 min.
List Price: $14.98
Price: $23.75

Review Amazing Nurse Nanako - Memories of You (Vol. 1) / Geneon [Pioneer]:

Despite the series title, Nanako Shichigusa is not a nurse, but the maid of Dr. Kyoji Ogami, an internationally noted surgeon and bio-engineer. She's also a klutz-wherever she goes, she breaks dishes, incinerates meals, slips, trips, and falls. Of course, her real function is sex object. She wears short skirts that hike up to show her panties and low-cut tops that accentuate her constantly jiggling cleavage. She frequently loses even these minimal garments, always when an audience is present. Dr. Ogami is often verbally and physically abusive and insists on her following a grueling athletic training regimen. For some reason she adores him. Ogami is also involved in a top-secret bio-medical program involving "Green," an alien creature with three strands of DNA in its cells. [+]
The experiments are supervised by the Pentagon and the Vatican (!), and Ogami has to fend off the interference of a crotchety general and a frosty papal emissary. The slapstick sexual comedy fails to mesh with the sinister intrigue, and Nanakofeels like two ill-matched series imperfectly edited together. However fans of anime jiggle shows aren't likely to worry about plot nuances. Rated for ages 16 and up for nudity, sexual situations, and violence. -Charles Solomon From the mind of the world's most brilliant scientist, comes the most powerful weapon of the 21st Century. Then again, maybe not. My name is Dr. Kyoji Ogami, the world's leading surgeon, scientist and bio-engineer. The young lady that you see here is Nanako Shichigusa. She works for me as a nurse, housekeeper and addle-minded troublemaker. But despite Nanako's flaws, she is about to become the subject of my greatest experiment. Her simple brain will be removed and transplanted into the body of my ultimate cybernetic combat robot, the Venus 2000!!! But that's only if we can survive a vast worldwide conspiracy that starts with the U. S. military and continues throughout the highest levels of the world's major powers. Do they just want me for my brilliant intellect, or is there something else that they desire? Could it possibly by Nanako? But, what could they want with a brainless girl like her? I'm sorry. I meant to say "soon to be brainless". once the operation is complete. Ha ha ha ha ha. !.

Review Eros Entertainment  / Masti
Actors & Directors
  • Indra Kumar
  • Aaftab Shivdasani
  • Amrita Rao
  • Ajay Devgan
  • Ritesh Deshmukh
  • Vivek Oberoi
Release date: 2006-09-22
List Price: $16.00
Price: $4.99

Review Masti / Eros Entertainment:

Starring: AJAY DEVGAN, VIVEK OBEROI, AFTAB SHIVDASANI, RITESH, LARA DUTTA, AMRITA RAO, TARA SHARMA, GENELIA Synopsis: The movie is about three college friends, Meet, Amar and Prem who think that marriage is the worst thing that could ever happen to a man. But somehow their families force them into it and they get wives who are disappointments for them in some way or the other. Hence, they decide to try their luck outside in the world, without their wives knowing about it. Follow the hilarious turn of events of the three friends in MASTI.

Review Asian Pulp Cinema  / Zero Woman - Assassin Lovers
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Yutani
  • Marie Jinno
  • Masahide Kuwabara
  • Keiji Matsuda
  • Kumiko Takeda
  • Tokuma Nishioka
Release date: 2005-04-05
Run time: 91 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $10.95

Review Zero Woman - Assassin Lovers / Asian Pulp Cinema:


Review Image Entertainment  / Battle Arena: Toshinden
Actors & Directors
  • Hideo Seaver
  • Takehito Koyasu
  • Kim Carrell
  • Masami Ôbari
  • Alfred DeButler
  • Tomokazu Seki
Release date: 2000-07-14
Run time: 60 min.
List Price: $29.99
Price: $3.98

Review Battle Arena: Toshinden / Image Entertainment:

Based on the popular video game, this animated feature expands the playing field, so to speak, with a story about a mysterious warrior who is tracking down all the champions of previous Toshin battle tournaments. The warrior uses the winners' highly developed battle moves to become the undefeated Toshin champion. Can anyone challenge the ultimate warrior? Only the most devoted Sega and Sony Playstation addicts will want to know. -Jeff Shannon One year ago, the battle between Master Swordsman Eiji Shinjo and the infamous Gaia was interrupted by agents of the sinister "Organization. " Now, someone is hunting down the champions of the Battle Arena. At last, the ultimate battle between the greatest fighters in the world will finally be decided. But if Eiji should lose, his friend Ellis will die. [+]
Based on the smash-hit video game.

Actors & Directors
  • Rishi Kapoor
  • Raj Kapoor
  • Pran
  • Sonia Sahni
  • Prem Nath
  • Dimple Kapadia
Release date: 2004-01-13
Run time: 161 min.
List Price: $29.95
Price: $5.81

Review Bobby / Yash Raj Films India:


Review   / Taj Mahal
Actors & Directors
  • Raghu Raj
  • Moon Moon Sen
  • Santosh Nair
  • Purnima
  • Robin Khosla
Release date: 2006-12-11
Run time: 142 min.
List Price: $14.95
Price: $6.84

Review Taj Mahal:

It is 1607; India is under the rule of the Mughal Empire. Khurram, the son of the Emperor wishes to marry his beloved Arjumand. He has his father's blessing, and is given the name of Shah Jahan. However, his scheming stepmother Nurjahan forbids it plans a sinister plot to kill him. Khurram and Arjumand flee to the mountains. Khurram is declared King after his father passes away and Nurjahan is arrested. However, after Khurram goes to war, a pregnant Arjumand is on her deathbed. Khurram builds a monument of love for his wife (which has become one of the most spectacular buildings in the world). As years go by, a war breaks out between his sons who throw him into a prison cell that overlooks the Taj Mahal- where he dies a lonely man, holding the memory of Arjumand close to his heart.

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