End Of Animal (2011) – South Korea


Director: Jo Sung-Hee
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Runtime: 114 mins
Genre: Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Cast: Yeong-ho Kim, Min-ji Lee, Hae-il Park

Plot:
On a cold winter day, Sun-Yeong (Lee Min-Ji) rides a taxi and heads to her hometown to give birth. Her mother still lives there. A strange man in a baseball cap (Park Hae-Il) then hops into the taxi and starts speaking gibberish. The man is also rude, borrowing money and a lighter from Sun-Yeong. The odd man pretends to know everything about Sun-Yeong and the taxi driver. He then starts a count down and when he reaches zero the world seems to stop.

A Werewolf Boy (2012) – South Korea

Movie: A Werewolf Boy
Revised romanization: Neukdae Sonyeon
Director: Jo Sung-Hee
Writer: Jo Sung-Hee
Producer: Lee Young-Suk
Cinematographer: Choi Sang-Muk
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Runtime: 127 min.
Genre: Romance / Fantasy
Distributor: CJ Entertainment
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Cast:
Song Joong-Ki – Chul-Soo (wolf-boy)
Park Bo-Young – Soon-Yi
Yoo Yeon-Seok – Ji-Tae
Jang Yeong-Nam – mother
Kim Hyang-Gi – Soon-Ja
Yu Seung-Mok – Dr. Kang
Seo Dong-Soo – Colonel
Ku Bon-Lim – Mrs. Jung
Ahn Do-Kyu – Dong-Suk
Nam Jeong-Hee – Dong-Suk’s grandmother
Lee Joon-Hyuk – police officer
Kim Seung-Hun – public official
Jang Seo-Yi – Soon-Yi’s daughter-in-law
Woo Jung-Kook – farm owner Jung

Synopsis: 
A mother moves with her older daughter (Park Bo-Young) and younger daughter (Kim Hyang-Gi) to a large home in the country side. The older daughter suffers from a lung ailment and her doctor advised the family to move out into the country side. The home is provided by Ji-Tae (Yoo Yeon-Seok), the son of a business partner who worked with their deceased father.
While the family gets acclimated to their new surroundings, the older daughter makes a remarkable discovery. Within a locked room in the barn lives a wild boy (Song Joong-Ki). The family takes him in believing he is just an orphan with little social skills. The boy with little social skills begins to take an interest in the oldest daughter. Meanwhile, Ji-Tae has his own plans in marrying the oldest daughter. What’s the secret behind the wild boy?

Setsuna: Vampire’s Love of 100 Days (2012) – Japan

Year: 2012
Country: Japan
Genres: fantasy, erotic
Director: Shinji Imaoka
Cast: Hironori Amanuma, Bobby, Jiro Dan, Midori Ezawa, Yôta Kawase, Lili Kôda, Shugo Oshinari, Takahiro Sakata, Masumi Satô, Yui Tatsumi, Tei Tomari, Sôkô Wada, Kana Yume

Plot: Instead of having the devil save life, Vlado of the vampire will take care of one girl. Her name is Setsuna. The woman whom the devil made. It is said that I become a full-fledged woman vampire if I do not have sex for 100 days, and Vlado can do as he/she would like. But Vlado is that the woman dies when I break the promise. Vlado decided to take care of Setsuna unwillingly. Day, Setsuna where Vlado lies hang around a town and see various things. Anything was Setsuna which I did not know, but learns importance of the life little by little (sorry, this is a result of the machine translation).

Don’t Worry I’m a Ghost (2012) – South Korea

Director: Lee Eun-Jin
Writer: Hwang Da-Eun
Episodes: 1
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Runtime: Sun 23:45
Genre: Romance / Fantasy
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot:
Moon-Ki (Bong Tae-Gyu) is involved in an accident and wakes up in the hospital. When he awakes, he can’t remember his own name, family members or where he lives. Through fingerprint checks, he learns that his name is Moon-Ki and his address. When he goes to his home, Moon-Ki feels strange in the unfamiliar home. Moon-Ki then wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a woman (Park Shin-Hye) looking down on him. The woman tells Moon-Ki she is a ghost. Moon-Ki believes the woman is an illusion brought upon by his accident. Nevertheless, Moon-Ki later attends a funeral with the ghost and sees a photo of the deceased person. The deceased person is none other than the ghost!
The ghost’s name is Kim Yeon-Hwa. She was murdered during a robbery. Moon-Ki doesn’t know why she has come to him. He even asks her if she wants him to catch her killer, but Yeon-Hwa says no. Yeon-Hwa tells him that a detective will catch her killer, but there is something more important than catching her killer and the reason she has come to Moon-Ki is buried somewhere in his memory.

Thermae Romae (2012) – Japan

Year: 2012
Country: Japan
Director: Hideki Takeuchi
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Runtime: 108mins
Language: Japanese
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto, Masachika Ichimura, Kazuki Kitamura

Plot: 
In ancient Rome, architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) is too rigid in his ways and unable to keep up with the fast changing times. Because of this, Lucius loses his job. A friend then takes Lucius to a bath house to cheer him up. There at the bath house, Lucius slips through a time portal and arrives at a bath house in present day Japan!

Tai Chi Zero (2012) – China

Title English: Tai Chi 0 or Tai Chi Zero
Title PinYin: Tai Ji 1: Cong Ling Kai Shi
Title Chinese: ??????
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Adventure
Director: Stephen Fung
Writer: Stephen Fung
Producers: Zhonglei Wang, Zhongjun Wang, Kuo-fu Chen, Dajun Zhang, Daniel Wu, Stephen Fung
Martial Art Choreographer: Sammo Hung
Cinematographers: Lai Yiu Fai, Peter Ngor, Du Jie
World Premiere: August 29, 2012 (Venice Film Festival)
Release Dates: September 27, 2012 (China), October 25, 2012 (Thailand), October 26, 2012 (North America)
Running Time: 98 min
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Budget: 220 million yuan (together with Tai Chi Hero)

Casts:
Yuan Xiaochao …?The Freak
Tony Leung Ka-Fai …?The Master
Eddie Peng …?The Villian
Angela Baby …?The Beauty
William Feng …?The Rising Son
Nikki Hsieh …?The Silent Wife
Shu Qi …?Mother Yang
Daniel Wu …?The Crazy Monk
Stanley Fung
Bruce Leung
Fung Hak-On
Chen Sicheng
Xiong Naijin
Xiong Xin-Xin
Mickey Yuan
Stephen Fung
Patrick Tse
Yuen Biao
Andrew Lau
Jimmy Wang

Plot:
Yang Luchan was born with a horn that protrudes from his forehead. The horn gives the young boy great powers, but also the ridicule from other children. Yang’s mother pushes him to learn martial arts which he does. Yang Luchan travels to a legendary village to learn Tai Chi from Master Chen. Upon arrival at the village Yang Luchan is challenged to many fights and defeated by everyone, including a girl named Yuniang. Yuniang is also Master Chen’s daughter. Yang Luchan devotes himself to Tai Chai after his humiliating defeat. Meanwhile, a railroad construction project threatens the village’s existence.