London East Asia Film Festival 2018
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1. Dark Figure of Crime (2018)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A criminal thriller about the fierce psychological confrontation between a detective and a killer who confessed to multiple murders.
Director: Tae-Gyun Kim | Stars: Kim Yoon-seok, Ju Ji-hoon, Jin Seon-kyu, Moon Jeong-Hee
Votes: 2,428
2. Ramen Shop (2018)
89 min | Drama
A young man who is curious about his deceased parents' past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
Director: Eric Khoo | Stars: Takumi Saitô, Seiko Matsuda, Mark Lee, Jeanette Aw
Votes: 2,451 | Gross: $0.09M
3. Project Gutenberg (2018)
130 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Hong Kong police are hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter". In order to crack this true identity, the police recruit gang member Lee Man to unmask "Painter's" secret identity.
Director: Felix Chong | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Aaron Kwok, Jingchu Zhang, Catherine Chau
Votes: 5,115
4. Human, Space, Time and Human (2018)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
People from all sorts of backgrounds set sail on a warship. They get drunk on alcohol, drugs and sex. Later, everyone grows tired and falls asleep, then the ship enters an unknown space enveloped in fog.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Mina Fujii, Jang Keun-suk, Ahn Sung-ki, Lee Sung-jae
Votes: 1,081
5. Foreboding (2017)
140 min | Sci-Fi
Something's wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It's not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Kaho, Shôta Sometani, Masahiro Higashide, Ren Ôsugi
Votes: 389
6. Father to Son (2018)
115 min | Drama
A man suffering from a serious illness decides to go to Japan to look for his father who abandoned him 50 years ago.
Director: Ya-chuan Hsiao | Stars: Michael Jong-Quin Huang, Aria Wang, Meng-Po Fu, Kaiser Chuang
Votes: 364
7. River's Edge (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama
High schooler Haruna befriends loner Yamada, then is drawn into the tangled relationship between him, a model and the girl who loves him unreasonably.
Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Ryô Yoshizawa, Aoi Morikawa, Shûhei Uesugi
Votes: 1,098
8. Sunset in My Hometown (2018)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Hak-soo has challenged TV audition program for 6 years but never gets into the finalist. On the day he fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the... See full summary »
Director: Lee Joon-ik | Stars: Kim Go-eun, Shin Hyeon-bin, Park Jeong-min, Joon Go
Votes: 439
9. Ten Years Japan (2018)
98 min | Drama
Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.
Directors: Akiyo Fujimura, Chie Hayakawa, Kei Ishikawa, Yusuke Kinoshita, Megumi Tsuno | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hana Sugisaki, Taiga Nakano, Masaki Miura
Votes: 207
10. Ten Years Thailand (2018)
95 min | Drama
Four Thai directors imagine their nation a decade from now, in visions surreal, satirical, and dystopian.
Directors: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Kidakarn Chatkaewmanee, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Banlop Lomnoi, Nantarat Sawaddikul
Votes: 313
11. The Negotiation (2018)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An ace crisis negotiator faces off against a cold-blooded hostage taker. Over the course of 21 hours, she attempts to crack his unusually calm demeanor and force him to reveal his motivations.
Director: Jong-suk Lee | Stars: Hyun Bin, Son Ye-jin, Lee Joo-young, Jang Young-nam
Votes: 3,968 | Gross: $0.11M
12. Brother of the Year (2018)
124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jane lives with her brother Chut with her being the only one doing everything around the house. But Chut will need to learn to take care of himself when Jane is about to get married and move to Japan
Director: Witthaya Thongyooyong | Stars: Sunny Suwanmethanont, Urassaya Sperbund, Nichkhun, Manasaporn Chanchalerm
Votes: 1,945
13. BuyBust (2018)
Not Rated | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An anti-drug enforcement agency stages a massive drug bust in the slums of Manila.
Director: Erik Matti | Stars: Anne Curtis, Brandon Vera, Victor Neri, Arjo Atayde
Votes: 2,116 | Gross: $0.18M
14. 1987: When the Day Comes (2017)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.
Directors: Jung Sung Ho, Joon-Hwan Jang | Stars: Kim Tae-ri, Yeo Jin-goo, Ha Jung-woo, Gang Dong-won
Votes: 6,825
15. The Classified File (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A detective and a fortune teller join forces to find a kidnapped child whom none expects to be alive.
Director: Kyung-taek Kwak | Stars: Kim Yoon-seok, Yoo Hae-jin, Hyun Bong-sik, Won Choi
Votes: 1,085
16. Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A boy with five fathers who is attached to the criminal underworld. A sinister past is about to be revealed as he is forced to join the killing spree.
Director: Joon-Hwan Jang | Stars: Kim Yoon-seok, Yeo Jin-goo, Cho Jin-woong, Jang Hyun-sung
Votes: 5,410
17. A City of Sadness (1989)
157 min | Drama, History
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen, Jack Kao
Votes: 6,103
18. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Not Rated | 237 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin
Votes: 12,792
19. Tropical Fish (1995)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.
Director: Yu-Hsun Chen | Stars: Akio Chen, Yi-fan Chen, Hsiao-fan Fan, Pi-tung Lien
Votes: 603
20. Ten Years Taiwan (2018)
108 min | Drama
What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste ("... See full summary »
Directors: Pei-Ju Hsieh, Kek Huat Lau, Po-shun Lu, Lekal Sumi, Rina B. Tsou | Stars: Helena Hsu, Yi-ching Lu, Yu-Chieh Cheng, Vera Chen
Votes: 141
21. Miss Baek (2018)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic... See full summary »
Director: Ji-won Lee | Stars: Han Ji-min, Lee Hee-joon, Kim Si-Ah, Jun Suk-ho
Votes: 1,251
22. Girls Always Happy (2018)
117 min | Drama
Girls Always Happy confronts the contemporary city life with a brand new perspective, and portrays with astonishing precision, the spectacle of mutual repulsion, hatred, and harm in a ... See full summary »
Director: Yang Mingming | Stars: Nai An, Yang Mingming, Xianmin Zhang, Qinqin Li
Votes: 139
23. Sen Sen (2017)
112 min | Drama
Sen's brother passed away. When Sen goes through his brother's stuff and finds out that he's been following a granny's livestreams. The granny has only 3 months left to live, and decided to... See full summary »
Director: Bon An | Stars: Hee Ching Paw, Zhi-Xuan Wu, Yi-Wen Yen, Hsuan-yen Tsai
Votes: 65
24. Go-Go Sisters (2018)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
Go-go sisters brings together two parallel stories about young ambitious teenage girls and middle-aged women who have experienced life's sweet spiciness.
Director: Quang Dung Nguyen | Stars: Hong-Anh, Hoang Yen Chibi, Thanh Hang, Hoàng Oanh
Votes: 480
25. Tomorrow Is Another Day (2017)
91 min | Drama
Mrs. Wong knows her husband is carrying on an affair, but for the sake of their marriage and autistic son, she has chosen to silently endure. However, the mistress comes to disturb them, ... See full summary »
Director: Tai-Lee Chan | Stars: Teresa Mo, Ray Lui, Man-Lung Ling, Prudence Liew
Votes: 202
26. Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012)
81 min | Comedy, Romance
A female coal miner in communist Korea aspires to be an acrobat in a circus.
Directors: Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans, Gwang Hun Kim | Stars: Jong-sim Han, Chung-guk Pak, Ri Yong Ho, Son-nam Kim
Votes: 324
27. We, the Dead (2017)
106 min | Drama
What is the price of staying alive? A young Chinese Malaysian woman, with dreams of a better life in Taiwan, finds herself involved in a criminal underworld of danger and death.
Director: Edmund Yeo | Stars: Daphne Low, Kahoe Hon, Ruby Faye, Johnny Goh
Votes: 84
28. A Land Imagined (2018)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
Director: Siew Hua Yeo | Stars: Peter Yu, Xiaoyi Liu, Yue Guo, Jack Tan
Votes: 1,520
29. The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017)
112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a cruel murder.
Director: Ya-che Yang | Stars: Kara Wai, Ke-Xi Wu, Vicky Chen, Sha-Li Chen
Votes: 3,558
30. Dear Ex (2018)
TV-MA | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teenage boy and his mother are further driven apart when they find out that his father's life insurance policy is to be received by his lover.
Directors: Chih-Yen Hsu, Mag Hsu | Stars: Roy Chiu, Ying-Hsuan Hsieh, Spark Chen, Joseph Huang
Votes: 7,401
31. Fei tong fan xiang (2018)
100 min | Drama
Ms Tsui (Jo Koo) is a music teacher in a special education needs (SEN) school, who is not able to switch to a mainstream school due to stereotyping and labelling; Zoey (Jennifer Yu) is an ... See full summary »
Director: Jevons Au | Stars: Jo Kuk, Jennifer Yu, Ka-Ki Sham, Cecilia Yip
Votes: 224
32. Glass Garden (2017)
116 min | Drama, Mystery
Despite her disabled leg, Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns ... See full summary »
Director: Su-won Shin | Stars: Moon Geun-young, Kim Tae-hoon, Sin Dong-ryeok, Go Eun-chong
Votes: 167
33. The Great Buddha+ (2017)
102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
One day when Pickle and his friend Belly Bottom watch the dashcam recordings of Pickle's boss they stumble upon a secret.
Director: Hsin-yao Huang | Stars: Cres Chuang, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Leon Dai, Shao-Huai Chang
Votes: 4,888
34. The Seen and Unseen (2017)
83 min | Drama
A young girl seeks out imaginative ways to cope with the death of her twin brother.
Director: Kamila Andini | Stars: Thaly Titi Kasih, Ida Bagus Putu Radithya Mahijasena, Ayu Laksmi, Ketut Rina
Votes: 402
35. Wangdrak's Rain Boots (2018)
90 min | Drama
After heavy rains, puddles and mud cover the streets of the Tibetan mountain village. It's good for the crops, but bad for young Wangdrak, the only boy in the village without rubber boots. ... See full summary »
Director: Lhapal Gyal | Stars: Druklha Dorje, Jinpa, Shanma Jyi, Tsemdo Thar
Votes: 54
36. The Widowed Witch (2017)
120 min | Drama
After losing her house and husband, a rural woman leads a stranded life with her 10-year-old brother-in-law in a modified "recreational vehicle". To find a warm place to survive the cold ... See full summary »
Director: Chengjie Cai | Stars: Wang Qilin, Tian Tian, Wen Xinyu
Votes: 174
37. Ni tsutsumarete (1992)
40 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 238
38. Katatsumori (1994)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 216
40. Isolation of 1/8800000 (1977)
50 min
An elegiac ode to a loner who finds it difficult to fit in and the inevitable eruption of his frustration, Isolation of 1/880000 tells the story of Takemitsu, a disabled young man caught in... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii
Votes: 43
41. I Am Sono Sion! (1985)
35 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in which the artist contemplates his life as he approaches his birthday. He reads a few poems and spends time with his friends while thinking about his everyday life.
Director: Sion Sono | Star: Sion Sono
Votes: 151
42. Intention (2018)
110 min | Documentary
A documentary that scientifically analyses and tracks down the route of the Sewol Ferry that sank on the 16th of April in 2014 using its AIS to discover the cause of the unconfirmed sinking.
Director: Ji-young Kim | Star: Jung Woo-sung
Votes: 144
43. 14 Apples (2018)
84 min | Documentary
Shin-hong's mother goes to a fortune-teller for advice on her son's insomnia and life problems. The fortune-teller advises Shin-hong to get 14 apples and take them to a temple in rural ... See full summary »
Director: Midi Z
Votes: 78
44. I've Got a Little Problem (2017)
44 min | Documentary, Short
Poet and photographer Ren Hang was renowned for his sensual images of Chinese youth, and in I've Got a Little Problem, Zhang chronicles the artist's struggle with the depression, public ... See full summary »
Director: Ximing Zhang | Stars: Chao Cao, Dejun Gao, Siqi Guo, Hang Ren
Votes: 29
45. The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A high school student with amnesia tries to uncover what has happened to her. All leading her into deeper troubles ultimately revealing a darkness she could not have imagined.
Director: Park Hoon-jung | Stars: Kim Da-mi, Jo Min-soo, Choi Woo-sik, Go Min-si
Votes: 17,569
46. 3 AM: Part 3 (2018)
100 min | Horror
The new horror ensemble from Five Star continues the journey into the darkest and scariest hour of the night: 3AM. When man and spirit, the living and the dead, find each other again.
Directors: Nitivat Cholvanichsiri, Phawat Panangkasiri, Thammanoon Sukulboontanom | Stars: Vorakarn Rojjanavatchra, Theeradanai Suwannahom, Passornkorn Chirativat, Sheranut Yusananda
Votes: 78
47. S He (2018)
95 min | Animation
A high heel mother shoe survives in an authoritarian world dominated by male shoes and brings up her daughter shoe by disguising herself as a male shoe.
Director: Shengwei Zhou | Stars: Fuyang Lyu, Shengwei Zhou
Votes: 146
48. Mo-Bum-Shi-Min (2018)
12 min | Short, Drama
I have made a film based on the idea that good and good behaviors are for my own benefit.
Director: Cheol-Hwi Kim
Votes: 18
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