Asian Movies, Music and TV Drama Reviews: Korean, Chinese, Japanese, HongKong, Thai & Hindi
Cast -
Richard Gutierrez
Sarah Lahbati
Solenn Heussaff
Al Tantay
Jay Manalo
Mark Gil
Plot -
RAM (Richard Gutierrez) is a struggling fireman down on his luck. He gets suspended from his job pending investigation into their operations. This happens while moving heaven and earth to find money for his fathers kidney transplant where he himself is going to be the donor.
Title: The Beating Woman, aka Lady Furious
Hangul: ?? ?? (Pae-neun Yeo-ja)
Genre: Action
Release Date: 19 October 2012 (South Korea)
Director: Kim Choon-sik (???)
Runtime: 1h 28mn
Country: S. Korea
Audio: Korean
Synopsis
An action movie about female detective who does everything she can to mop up the drug mess that was brought into Korea by Hong Kong drugs lords, that accidentally ends up in the hands of two men and a killer.
Year: 2012
Country: Japan
Director: Yang Yong-Hi
Writer: Yang Yong-Hi
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 100 min
Language: Japanese
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Cast:
Arata – Seung-Ho
Sakura Ando – Rie
Yang Ik-June – Mr. Yang
Kotomi Kyono – Soon-Yi
Tatsushi Omori – Hong-Gi
Jun Murakami – Joon-Ho
Shogo – Cheol-Yi
Taro Suwa – Te-Jo
Yoshiko Miyazaki – mother
Masane Tsukayama – father
Synopsis/ Plot:
Sung-Ho (Arata) arrives in Japan, but his stay is only temporary. 25 years earlier, as a 16-year-old boy, he left Japan for North Korea with only a one way ticket. His father is an ethnic Korean living in Japan and sympathetic to the North Korea cause. Believing in the North Korean government’s promises, Sung-Ho’s father sent Sung-Ho to live in North Korea.
Year: 2012
Country: Japan
Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu
Genre: Crime, Suspense
Runtime: 129mins
Language: Japanese
Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Chang-Min, Kenta Kiritani, Junpei Mizobata, Toshiyuki Nishida
Plot:
Kota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa (Tadanobu Asano), a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank.
Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda (Kenta Kiritani), a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student (Shim Chang-Min), Kitagawa’s younger brother Haruki (Junpei Mizobata) and a former elevator engineer (Toshiyuki Nishida). These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank’s high-tech defense system.
Year: 2012
Country: Japan
Director: Yamamoto Junnichi
Writer: Yukiwo (manga)
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Runtime: 92 min
Language: Japanese
Release Date: Novenber 17, 2012
Cast:
Kato Natsuki – Ran
Nakata Chisato (AKB48) – Pandora
Nakaya Sayaka (AKB48) – Hikaru
Synopsis/ Plot:
The film tells the story of two sisters named Ran and Pandora – Ran is depicted as the internet-addicted older sister, while Pandora is the adorable younger sibling.
The sisters adore gothic lolita fashion and reside in a luxurious apartment, despite maintaining NEET (“Not in education, employment or training“) lives. Yet tension is introduced when Pandora lands a job in one of Akihabara’s maid cafe, making Ran very hostile against her.
AKA: ????????
Year: 2012
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Film Genre: Comedy
Director: Rerkchai Paungpetch
Cast: Araya A. Hargate, Ray MacDonald, Kom Chauncheun, Koti Aramboy
Plot Synopsis
A woman is afflicted with an unusual condition; she cries all the time, at the slightest provocation regardless of whether she’s happy or sad, beset by anxieties or problem-free. Nicknamed “Madame Ho”, this pitiful woman strives to play a more visible role in a household that continually belittles her.
Recent Comments