FILMS TO WATCH 2

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

A fiercely independent teenager tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California and to get away from her complicated mother and recently-unemployed father.

Extreme hardboiled world which unfolds in beautiful Kyoto town - Set in Kyoto's amusement area/Kiyamachi, sad story of a man who carries a burden on his body - Protagonist Katsuura once led the organization which dominated Kyoto's Kiyamachi. He lost his arms and legs due to an incident 5 years ago. Receiving care from Sakamoto, young man of the organization, he makes a living in desperation by collecting money from the debtors with his handicapped body. Katsuura and Sakamoto see debtors' lives have been broken. While suffering in dirty underworld society, they came to know the fact of that incident 5 years ago... This work cuts the taboo in Japanese society, and draws direct sufferance and way of life of men who are caught up in absurdity of organization and society, underneath the underworld community. The original work is a novel of a writer Hiroyuki Maruno with the same title, who continues to challenge the taboo of the times. In 2012, the ban on this e-book was removed from App Store, but the problem was novel which was banned of publishing prohibition, "too dangerous contents!", "too extreme to release!", "No possibility to publish". It has been refused to release continuously by so-called big plural publishing companies, magazines related to underworld community, big self-publishing companies. Maruno is also in charge of screenplay for this work.

An Indonesian town by the sea has been ruined by war and tsunami. A man is found on the coast there by Atsuko and her son Takashi. They are working in disaster recovery. The man speaks poor Japanese and Indonesian. They name him Laut which means sea in Indonesian and protect him. Soon, Rau is connected with many miraculous cases.

The film is counterbalanced between two interrelated parts. The first part takes place in Los Angeles, and is centered around a Korean female student, Gah-in, who is studying in the US. She is having a sexual affair with a married man named, Jun. The second part is about Jun's wife, Do-hee, which takes place in Seoul, Korea.

In the port city of Icheon, five female friends struggle to stay close while forging a life for themselves after high school. When one of the group, upwardly-mobile Hae-ju, moves to Seoul, the other girls deal with the loss in different ways. Feeling most rejected, shy Ji-yeong finds comfort in her new friendship with rebel Tae-hee.

A woman breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years. Devastated, she throws herself into another relationship and decides to get married, only to have her exboyfriend return to her...

A woman moves to the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to fit in, another tragic event overturns her life.

A struggling for love, Baseball players discovers he has terminal illness and meets a girl who has had a crush on him since times immemorial. The twists and turns of events bring them together.

After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.

An irresponsible and childish ex-con befriends a girl with cerebral palsy and develops a progressively stronger bond with her.

Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.

Faced by a society of criminals, these three youths avenge their rights.

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

In 1986, a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers attend a summer camp in South Korea.

A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.

A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.

From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?

A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class, where she discovers her alter-ego, Lucy.

A struggling Liberian rubber plantation worker risks everything to discover a new life as a Yellow Cab driver in New York City.