Asian DVDs

As a conceited scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Yangsheng believes in pursuing the ultimate sexual pleasure as life is short. One day, Yangsheng encounters Tie Yuxiang, the daughter of a Tao priest, and it's love at first sight. However, it doesn't take long for Yangsheng to discover that his perfor...

My Name is Khan is the triumphant story of an unconventional hero and the obstacles he must overcome to regain the love of his life. Rizvan Khan, a Muslim man who has Asperger’s Syndrome, moves to San Francisco and falls in love with the beautiful Mandira. They marry and have a happy life;...

It's Initial D. It's a world of car drifting where the battlefield is the mountain road. First created by Shigeno Shuichi in comic form in 1996, and then adapted into a smash hit anime, Initial D has finally been adapted into a live-action motion picture - and it's now available on DVD! Directed ...

Based on the true story of a remarkable champion. From a poor rural Thai village comes a great champion with a very unusual secret. Based upon the incredible true story of Nong Toom - a champion Kickboxer who became a woman. Knowing he was different, Nong must overcome poverty, prejudice and fie...

Unleash your desire. From the director of SEX & ZEN 2 comes a tale of lust, love and chopsticks across TWO films. Based on a classic Chinese erotic novel The Plum in the Golden Vase. In 12th century China, Simon Qing has been raised by his father, a wealthy merchant and famed sexologist, i...

After an absence of over a decade, OUTRAGE signals Takeshi Kitano's triumphant return to the gangster genre. In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favour of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and ma...

Cinema is a Journey. Vishnu longs to escape his fate as a hair-oil salesman like his father. So when a 1943 Chevy truck-cinema needs delivery to the seaside from Rajasthan, Vishnu takes the job. Driving through the desert, he collects a motley crew of hitchhikers - a chai-wallah, a handy old mech...

The most successful Chinese movie ever, with digital effects by Weta Workshop. This dramatic account of the devastating earthquake that hit the industrial city of Tangshan in northern China in 1976, causing some 240,0000 people to perish, is more than just another disaster movie. Set during one o...

A 12-year-old girl, her mother, and a local village boy narrowly survive the brutal end of a peaceful demonstration organized by women who are oppressed by the cruel Taliban regime. After witnessing such inhumane treatment, the mother is reminded of her own hardships as she and her daughter struggle...

Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon and those who were forced to stay behind, Journey From The Fall follows one family's struggle for freedom. April 30, 1975 marked the end of Vietnam's two-decade-old civil war and the start of the exo...

Jackie Chan's Hong Kong variation of Frank Capra's "A Pocketful of Miracles" set in the 1930s. Jackie plays a country boy who rescues a gang boss. Jackie becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. Jackie and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to...

In pre-Meiji Japan, low ranking samurai Seibei Iguchi leads a simple life without glory. As a widower, he does not drink and socialise with fellow samurai, preferring instead to tend to his two daughters and his senile mother. Earning the nickname 'Tasogare Seibei' (Twilight Seibei) as he is always ...

A veteran of over 40 years of directing, Yoji Yamada returns with the final instalment in the TWILIGHT SAMURAI trilogy. Shinnojo is a food taster for his clan who dreams of one day opening his own Kendo school. When he is blinded by poisonous food, he and his wife Kayo are worried that they will los...

In 18th century Japan, society is ruled by the ettiquette set by the Imperial Shogun. When a young lord refuses to become involved with a corrupt chancellor, his lands are forfeited and his samurai disbanded. The samurai are torn between orders from the Shogun and loyalty to their lord. 47 Ronin is ...

India before independence, a carpet factory in the countryside near Calcutta. For Ravi and Masha, who are forced to work as child laborers, it is the beginning of a tragic love story. Realizing that money determines whether one is free or enslaved, the ambitious and resolute Ravi works his way u...

The popular live-action adaptations are now available in an ultimate DVD & BLU-RAY combo edition How do you find a serial killer when the killer only needs to know the face and the name of his victims? Light Yagami, a college law student, comes into the possession of the Death Note - a specia...

Based on Gorky's 1902 play, master director Kurosawa translates the drama from a Russian dosshouse to an Edo-era Japanese slum without losing the potency of this profile of material and spiritual poverty. Populating this underworld is social detritus-a thief, artisan, prostitute and their landlords....

Against a backdrop of the treacherous mountains, rivers and icy plains of the Siberian wilderness, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Rashomon) stages an extraordinary adventure of comradeship and survival. For decades, Kurosawa had longed to film Vladimir Arsenyev&rsq...

A Widow should be long suffering until death, self restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A women who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal. The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred H...

Set in World Park-a Beijing theme park featuring replicas of 106 must-see sites from 14 countries-The World is a deeply-affecting story of love, spectacle and social injustice set against a backdrop of intensifying globalisation. Here the pretty young dancer Tao lives out her dreams, performing h...

Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist and corporate Machiavelli who becomes the target of extortion. When his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped in his own son's place, he must pay the huge ransom and loose his empire, or else take responsibility for the boy's life. Tightly directed and filled w...

In a neighbourhood run by gangsters a young tough (Toshiro Mifune) visits the local doctor, Sanada (Takashi Shimura), after he is wounded in a gun fight. When he is diagnosed with tuberculosis Sanada insists on treating the stubborn hoodlum and an uneasy friendship develops. However, his former boss...

TURTLES CAN FLY is set in a village on the border between Iran and Turkey, just as the world's news networks announce the US led invasion of Iraq. The villagers desperately seek a satellite dish antenna to keep informed of the impending attack. No adult is up to the job so it falls to a 13-year-old ...

Hirokazu Kore-eda, the director of "Maborosi," and "After-life," presents this exceptional story of a makeshift family of children left to survive in an urban jungle. Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They have nev...

Mongkok, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, is the hotbed of illicit business. A rivalry between two main triads set off because of their illegal deals. Roy (Daneil Wu) is hired to eliminate one of the triad heads. He saves prostitute Dan (Cecilia Cheung), who also comes from his ...

An evocative and beautiful film, 2046 follows the affairs of an out-of-work journalist and pulp fiction writer, Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung), who searches for love with a series of beautiful women after an unfulfilled affair leaves him heart-broken. Through passionate moments with a beautiful call girl ...

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but...

**The Sinking Of Japan:** Dr. Tadokoro, an oceanic scientist, realizes that the seismic waves of a gigantic earthquake will cause Japan to sink into the Pacific Ocean within a year. As millions of refugees attempt to escape to nearby countries, Dr. Tadokoro must find a solution to beat the natural d...

This epic war film details the end of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan...

Dream Big! A mid-level bank employee in Palestine, Muna daily has to negotiate military checkpoints just to get to work. When she is advised that she has received a Green Card to live in the US, she realizes she can give herself and her son Fadi a future beyond what they could expect in Palestine...

J (Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan), is a handsome street smart hustler who moonlights as a husband for hire for desperate women looking for a US green card. J thinks he's hit the jackpot when the rich daughter of a powerful casino owner falls for him. His past comes crashing back however, wh...

Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a...

She’s the only girl for him. After leaving the navy, Asa returns to the Kazakh steppe where his sister’s family lives a nomadic life. In order to become a shepherd himself, Asa must marry-his only hope is Tulpan, the daughter of another shepherd family. But he is disappointed to learn...

Amal Kumar (Rupinder Nagra) is a poor, hardworking, auto rickshaw driver in New Dehli who one day offers his services to an old vagabond. Amal tolerates the man's insults and politely refuses a tip. This one act of generosity is set to be repaid in a way Amal could never dream of, but he will need t...

Based on actual events, Jet Li and House of Flying Daggers stars Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro are blood brothers who join the 19th Century Taiping rebellion to bring down the corrupt Qing Dynasty.   General Pang survives a battle which wiped out his entire battalion. His numbed mind dead...

Sang-hyun (played by top Korean star Song Kang-ho, of The Host) is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. When the virus ends up taking the priest, an emergency blood transfusion unwittingly d...

In the mid-1970s, three boys from the southern Thai village of Chaiya become friends while passing the summer at a beachside boxing camp. Amid the backdrop of the peaceful coast, the three boys train in the regional ancient art of Muay Thai Chaiya with the hope of fulfi lling their dream of becoming...

A film by Akira Kurosawa During a life-saving operation, army surgeon Fujisaki (Toshiro Mifune) cuts himself with a surgical knife and contracts syphilis from his patient. Agonizing over the disease, which he knows will be fatal, he retreats from his friends and family, but continues to work in h...

Oscar® nominee* Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain) and Grammy® Award-winning singer Norah Jones star in this "ravishing triumph… [of] pure romantic sensibility" (Armond White, New York Press). Law plays a big-hearted owner of a small New York diner who tries t...

After being abandoned by her husband twelve years earlier, Jen (Sylvia Chang. "Best Actress" of Hong Kong Film Awards 2002 - FOREVER AND EVER), raised her three sons alone. Using her mother's secret Hainan Chicken Rice recipe, she opens a restaurant to support the family. When she realizes...