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"We
are not the decendants of Adam . . . ." They said no
one could make Daijiro Morohoshi's classic horror manga "Seimei
no Ki" into a movie, but they were very, very wrong.
This epic story focuses on the other humanity made by God,
and the startling mystery of their history.
Hows
that for a storyline! This film has some truly stunning visuals,
a large dose of over the top christian symbolism, and we have
the impression will be utterly incomprehensable. But boy we
want to see it! Bare in mind this is the Japanese R2 edition,
and as far as we see there are no English subs on that release
(Darn!) Heres hoping for a R3 version with subtitles very
soon.
Set
in modern day Vietnam, “SPIRITS” is a fascinating
introduction into the spiritual beliefs and mysteries of a
culture rarely explored in cinema. In
a series of three interlocking stories, we learn of the fate
of a young writer named Loc (Tuan Cuong). In the first episode,
"The Visitor," Loc comes to reside in a remote bungalow
on the edge of a sugar cane field. It initially seems abandoned,
until he meets its sole occupant, a lovely young woman named
Hoa (Kathy Nguyen). She is shy and withdrawn and has touch
of sadness to her; but her selfless consideration?matched
by Loc’s sweet openness to her?sows the seeds of love
between them. However, her story is still a mystery to him.
She hides a dark secret, one that will drive Loc to the edge
of madness.
A
homicidal husband murders his wife and buries her body in
the woods. But she refuses to stay dead and repeatedly returns
from beyond the grave to kick his ass utilizing an imaginative
variety of different methods, from breathing fire to launching
her limbs at him missile-style. A female advertising executive
arranges the assassination of her tiresome celebrity boyfriend
and constantly dreams up bizarre TV commercials inspired by
those around her. Having won tickets for his family to go
and see the hottest hypnotist show in town, a middle-aged
businessman is left stranded and convinced he is a chicken
when a ruthless British hitman with a penchant for existential
interrogation and his Japanese partner fatally interrupt the
hypnotist's performance. Meanwhile, a trio of incompetent
burglars cruises the suburbs looking for amusement, a fast
buck and answers to questions regarding their sexuality.
Hiroshi
Takagi (Asano) is a young man who has just regained consciousness
having slipped into a coma following the horrible car accident
which claimed the life of his girlfriend Ryoko. Takagi awakes
with no memory of any sort: not of the accident, not of his
family, not of his girlfriend. His parents, both doctors,
take him home where he discovers a box full of old medical
textbooks and, fascinated, he subsequently enrolls in medical
school. Still,
Takagi is a shell of a man; he shows no interest in any of
his classmates, even the attractive young woman who slowly
becomes obsessed with him, and lives alone in a squalid apartment.
The first glimmer of life appears when Takagi begins his dissection
class and he starts to explore the corpse of a young woman
with a tattoo on her arm, a tattoo which slowly begins to
dislodge fragments of Takagi's memories. He eventually comes
to realize that the corpse he is dissecting is none other
than Ryoko, his former girlfriend.
He's
a Cop, He's a Vampire, and his names 'Ricky' what more can
be said. I Had to cover it for that alone! ``Vampire Cop Ricky,’’
is an action comedy about a policeman who turns into a vampire
driven by sexual urges and a thirst for blood. 'Kim Su-ro'
plays Na Do-yol, an obnoxious detective who doesn’t
mind bending the law for a little cash. Do-yol’s extra
income comes from his questionable relationship with the owner
of an illegal gambling establishment, played with the right
amount of sleaze by Son Byung-ho. Do-yol’s plush life
gets turned upside down when he is bitten by a vampire mosquito
from Transylvania. Though the tiny bite isn’t enough
to make the detective into a full vampire, it does give him
certain bloodsucking traits, including an inappropriate desire
to lick things at a murder scene. Priceless!
As
soon as you open the official sites main page you will certainly
get an idea of what to expect regards this totally mad film.
Make sure you have your sound on, as the first thing you get
hit with is the insanely catchy Bhangra music. A loose adaptation
of the classic novel "Journey to the West", A Chinese
Tall Story updates the story of the Monkey King with a hot
young cast, imaginative costume designs, and unbelievable
visual effects. But the biggest change of all: the movie isn't
really about the Monkey King! Instead it focuses on the Tang
monk, Tripitaka (Nicholas Tse), who experiences his own adventure
after his stalwart companions Piggy (Kenny Kwan, formerly
of Boy'z), Sandy (Stephen Cheung of Boy'z), and Monkey King
Sun Wukong (Wilson Chen) get taken hostage by an evil Tree
Demon. 
Mi-ju
was a successful Celloist-turned-Cello-teacher, but she stopped
all of that so she can spend time with her children. Going
on with her life, her (seemingly) autistic and mute daughter
brings home a cello. Much to her surprise, Mi-ju begins to
teach her daughter. But with a strange, silent and unblinking
new nanny, and the strange cello music, not to mention the
stalker former-student that keeps trying to harm Mi-ju, and
the memories of a hidden memories of a rival who died coming
back, life sure as hell is hard.
In
the tradition of 'The Ring' comes this frightening psychological
thriller 'The Dark' starring Sean Bean and Maria Bello in
this disturbing psychological thriller about as estranged
couple in a Welsh village tries to cope with the drowning
death of their young daughter, but events take a strange and
chilling turn when a girl with an eerie resemblance to the
child appears and tells them that she has been dead for 60
years. The film looks great. Dark brooding and some stunning
photography of the Isle of Man's coastline. The website for
the film on the other hand was a nighmare to navigate! Eventually
I tracked down a viewable trailer on Virgin.net.
Deep
in the forest, a man and woman have been brutally attacked
in a cabin and left to die. Arriving too late, Kang chases
the killer only to be hit by a speeding car. Barely surviving
surgery, he now finds himself a prime suspect. He cannot shake
the feeling that there are strange gaps in his memory regarding
that night and the killer's identity. While police set out
to confirm his story, he begins his own quest to remember
the truth about the murder and himself. 
Fears
are growing after a series of mysterious deaths occurs in
Tokyo, Japan. Nothing could be more terrible to Kyoko (Mimula)
as she knows she would be the next victim. In order to protect
Kyoko, her boyfriend Naoto (Yu Yoshizawa) decides to keep
her company and departs for Taiwan with an investigative reporter
Takako (Asaka Seto) to unfold the secret. Finally, they find
a bloody and cruel murder of a girl, whose mouth was sewed
up before she was tortured to death in a dark cold coal field,
is correlated to the evil they are dealing with... 
All
the children in the village have just disappeared without
warning or reason. The Adults are terrified and panicked.
The one-eyed Yin-Yang Old Lady in the village says: The legendary
Aunt Tigress has returned after a 60 years' departure, with
murder on her mind.
Although
the cover is Japanese this is actually a horror production
from Sweden. Synopsis:
Hundred years ago,
three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally
slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby
and his body was never found. The story has become a legend
for generations of students as well as a yearly festivity.
Sara, a student, is writing an essay based on the legend and
uncovers new facts from the event that will cast dark shadows
on the family name of one of the school's main beneficiaries.
On the night of the hundredth anniversary, the festivities
go awry, students disappear and something dark and unknown
is moving through the schools corridors..