javascript:void(0) le petit bon bon movies: 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are The One)

Synopsis:

A man (acted by Ge You) over forty wanted to find the "Miss Right", only to encounter various kinds of " Miss Wrong". A woman ( acted by Shu Qi) felt desperate at the affair with a married man happened to meet Ge You at a blind date. They got to know each other gradually and decided to pay a tour to the famous retort in Japan together as companion to each other and finally Shu Qi smells the odor she wants from his companion and realizes he is the true Mr Right.

source:IMDB

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Slumdog Millionaire

IMDB Rating: 8.7

Synopsis:

The story of how impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik became a contestant on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?" -- an endeavor made without prize money in mind, rather, an effort to prove his love for his friend Latika, who is an ardent fan of the show.

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Link: IMDB

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Koukaku kidoutai 2 (Ghost In the Shell 2 - Innocence)

Synopsis:
Batô is a living cyborg. His whole body, even his arms and legs, are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman. In an era when the boundary between humans and machines has become infinitely vague, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is the debauchery of the lonesome ghost of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity. Innocence... Is what life is.

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IMDB, Torrent

Official Watchmen Trailer



Synopsis:

When an ex-superhero has been murdered, a vigilante named Rorshach begins an investigation into the murder, which begins to lead to a much more terrifying conclusion. And also uncovers a plot to discredit and murder various heroes. Rorschach discovers a far wider ranging conspiracy involving his colleagues' past which could completely change the course of history.
source: IMDB

순정만화 Love Comic


Synopsis

Kim Yun Woo (Yoo Ji Tae) works as a low level civil servant in a district office. Although he is thirty, he is still quite innocent for his age and has been on numerous unfruitful blind dates in search of a suitable wife. After moving to a new place, he often runs into Han Soo Young (Lee Yeon Hee), a high school student who lives downstairs. Han Soo Young is a cheerful and eccentric eighteen year old who lives with her mother that acts like a princess.

Meanwhile, Kang Sook (Kang In) has just started to work at the district office straight after graduating from high school and falls head over heels for Kwon Ha Kyung (Chae Jeong An), a melancholic woman who always smokes in the same spot, because of her beautiful smile. Ha Kyung is still holding onto an old flame and keeps on looking for traces of that love every day. Kang Sook continues to keep wooing her, irregardless of her living in the past. Can their futures lead to a happy ending?

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Wackness

Synopsis:

It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

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Link: IMDB

Friday, December 26, 2008

Eskalofrío (Shiver)

Synopsis:

Junio Valverdi of THE DEVILS BACKBONE stars as Santi, a bullied teen who suffers from a rare and violent allergy to sunlight. When his condition worsens, he and his mother are forced to move to a remote village in the mountains. His arrival marks the beginning of a series of brutal slayings. Something is alive deep in the shadowy forest. Can a frightened outcast find safety in the darkness or does the ultimate terror wait in the most unexpected place of all?

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IMDB

Gå med fred Jamil - Ma salama Jamil (Go with Peace Jamil)

Synopsis:

An Arabic tale that takes place in Scandinavia. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one's own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is fighting the war of his life; a war within himself.

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Link: IMDB

Dance of the Dead

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A high school prom is unexpectedly interrupted when a graveyard, next to a nuclear power plant, becomes the sudden source of resuscitated cadavers. As zombies march on the high school, a motley group of dateless teenage outcasts take on the zombies and save the day.

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Link: IMDB

만남의 광장 Underground Rendez-vous

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Set in the 1980’s, the eldest son of a poor family decides to move to Seoul to become a teacher. Yet as soon as he reaches the city, his money is stolen and his bags are lost. He manages to reach a remote town, where coincidentally they were looking for a new teacher for the town children. He soon falls in love with a woman there, yet her origin seems vague as the townspeople only say she comes from somewhere up North. It turns out the townspeople have been communicating with another bordering town in North Korea through a secret tunnel connecting the two.

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Link: koreamovie

Jodhaa Akhbar

Synopsis:

Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar is the story of the greatest Mughal emperor that ruled Hindustan (now India), Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, and the fiery young Rajput princess, Jodhaa. Set in the sixteenth century, this epic romance begins as a marriage of alliance between two cultures and religions, for political gain, with the Hindu King Bharmal of Amer giving his daughter's hand to a Muslim Emperor, Akbar. When Akbar accepts the marriage proposal, little does he know that in his efforts to strengthen his relations with the Rajputs, he would in turn be embarking on a new journey - the journey of true love. From the battlefield where the young Jalaluddin was crowned, through the conquests that won him the title of Akbar the Great ('Akbar' in Arabic means great), to winning the love of the beautiful Jodhaa, Jodhaa Akbar traces the impressive graph of the mighty emperor and his romance with the defiant princess. With Hrithik Roshan as Akbar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Jodhaa, the film is produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Ashutosh Gowariker.

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Watch: Online
Link: IMDB,

Jibeuro (The Way Home)

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This is the story of a spoiled 7-year-old city boy, Sang-woo (Yoo Seung-ho), and his mute grandmother (Kim Eul-boon), who has spent her whole life in a small rural village. Forced to stay with his grandmother while his mother (Dong-Hyo-hee) looks for work, Sang-woo learns about the ups and downs of life.

Being a city brat, he's used to the benefits and luxuries of Seoul. When he realizes that there are no batteries for his toys, only rocks to play with, he torments his grandmother - whining and demanding things she can't provide, but she never reprimands him for his behavior. Instead she gives him unconditional love and he gradually learns how to appreciate the simple pleasures of living.

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Link: IMDB

Inugamike no ichizoku (Murder of the Inugami Clan)


Synopsis:

When tycoon Inugami Sahei (Nakadai Tatsuya) passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo (Matsushima Nanako, Ring) on the condition that she marry one of the Inugami grandsons - Sukekiyo (Onoe Kikunosuke, 47 Ronin), Suketake (Katsurayama Shingo), or Suketomo (Ikeuchi Mansaku) - pitting blood against blood. Soon afterwards, members of the family begin to show up dead, one by one. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke (Ishizaka Koji) is called in to investigate the murders, and the truth is slowly revealed as he happens upon years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.

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Link: IMDB, torrent

The Truck


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Cheol-min makes a living by working in the shipping business. He has a daughter suffering from a heart condition, and in need of surgery. To save his daughter, he urgently needs the tremendous amount of 60,000,000 won. To make this money, he gets involved in dangerous illegal gambling and barely saves his life by promising he will take care of body disposal for the gang. On his way to Gangwon-do where he intends to dump the bodies, he encounters a police van that had been in an accident, and ends up giving the police officer a ride. Although this situation is tense, events take a turn for the worse.

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Link: Official Site

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Yama no anata - Tokuichi no koi (My Darling of the Mountains)

Synopsis:

Traveling blind masseurs Tokuichi (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) and Fukuichi (Kase Ryo) are on the go from season to season, offering their services at hot spring mountain resorts and spas. Though unable to see, Tokuichi is extremely sensitive, able to deduce intimate details about people from sounds, scents, and touch. Arriving at his latest inn, Tokuichi takes an interest in two mysterious clients - Tokyo beauty Michiho (Maiko) who slowly steals his heart, and Omura (Tsutsumi Shinichi), also from Tokyo, who is accompanied by his bored, mischievous nephew Kenichi (Hirota Ryohei, A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies).

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Link: IMDB, Torrent

Ip Man

Synopsis:

Ip Man is adapted from the life story of Yip Man, the grandmaster of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This film will be the first important record of the master's life.
source: wikipedia
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Link: IMDB

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Siu nin Wong Fei Hung ji: Tit Ma Lau (Iron Monkey)

Synopsis:

A Hong Kong variation on Robin Hood. The corrupt officials of a Chinese village are continually robbed by a masked bandit know as "Iron Monkey" named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Govenor forces a traveling physician (Donnie Yen) into finding the bandit. The arrival of an evil Shaolin monk, brings the Physician and Iron Monkey together to battle the corrupt government.

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Link: IMDB, Torrent

Wu Ke Zi Dan (Gun of Mercy)

Synopsis:
As the local rivers swell and the urban population is evacuated, a retired policeman escorting three dangerous convicts to another institution finds a simple transportation job complicated by the rapidly worsening natural disaster. The local riverbanks are about to burst, and in order to ensure that three prisoners don't face a watery demise, retired cop Lao Ma is asked to transport the men to safer surroundings.

Among Lao Ma's charges is a convicted killer currently awaiting execution, a notorious embezzler rumored to have hidden his fortune before serving his time, and a stone faced thief whose parole date is just on the horizon. When the waterlogged countryside roads prove impassable and the four men are forced to work together to make it through the night alive, the nervous lawman realizes that his gun is the only thing keeping him in charge, and he's only got five rounds of authority left.

Watch: Online
Link: nytimes,

Aoki Ôkami: chi hate umi tsukiru made (The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea)


Synopsis:

Temujin (Sorimachi Takashi) is born the son of the chief of a Mongolian tribe, and grows up as the one who carries the blood of “blue wolf”. When he is grown up, he marries Borte (Kikukawa Rei), but one night, she is taken away by another tribe. When Temujin rescues her, she is pregnant, and a boy is born not long thereafter.

As the boy may be a son of a stranger, Temujin names him Jochi (Matsuyama Kenichi), meaning outsider, and refuses to accept him as his son. The time goes on and Temujin is enthrowned as the King of Mongolia. He changes his name to Genghis Khan and pledges to avenge his long-time enemy, the Jin Dynasty. Genghis Khan finally acknowledges Jochi as his own son, and they decide to fight together, but Jochi is killed by the enemy.

The lonely battle of Genghis continues without end. A historical drama about the life of Genghis Khan, a hero who united the Mongol Empire. Total production cost of three billion yen, with 27,000 extras. All filmed in Mongolian locations over four months.

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Link: IMDB, Torrent

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Rokkazu (Rockers)

Synopsis:

"Freed from the need to be factual, Rockers leaves the audience free to judge it entirely on its merits as a film. With a tried and true rags-to-riches plot containing more than its share of idiosyncrasies, Rockers is a film that will please even the most uninitiated of viewers, its excellent expressive and energetic performances (the band's entire rhythm section consists of actors from the not dissimilarly spirited Kisarazu Cat's Eye TV series, penned by GO, Ping Pong, and Zebraman scribe Kankuro Kudo) making it a rewarding experience even for unsubtitled gaijin viewing (you won't be alone in this either, since most Japanese probably won't catch a good part of the dialogue due to the thick Hakata accents employed throughout). It may not offer any insights into the history of the Japanese punk music scene and even similarities with the band that inspired it are superficial at best, but Rockers transcends that admittedly narrow focus to become a film of much more universal appeal. With his debut film, Takanori Jinnai has delivered, quite simply, one of the year's most pleasant surprises."
Extract from Midnight Eye review


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Link: IMDB, MidnightEye

天国はまだ遠くFaraway Heaven

Synopsis

Chizuru (Rosa Kato), a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails.... This is the beginning of her new life.

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Link: Official Site,IMDB

Monday, December 15, 2008

Mehman


Synopsis:

A mother of a poor family, has guests coming over, yet doesnt know how to get the dinner party altogether with limited resources. The various characters in the family as well as neighbours all work together so the mother is able to save face in front of her guest. A real family film, where you won't cry or feel depressed. You'll get that feeling of family coming together and having dinner, telling jokes, etc...

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IMDB

Zura Deka ( The Rug Cop)

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A spot-on, hilarious spoof of 1970s Japanese TV cop shows, THE RUG COP follows chrome-domed officer Genda as he transfers to a new precinct just as a group of radical terrorists hijack a shipment of uranium and deliver a ransom demand of five billion yen. Genda and his crack team of detectives must solve the case using their peculiar abilities: champion eater Detective Fatty, abnormally endowed Detective Big Dick, speedy weightlifter Detective Shorty, and ladies man Mr. Handsome. But most dangerous of all is the Rug Cop, whose projectile toupee proves lethal to wrongdoers! Kawasaki s unique comic genius and his love of vintage cop shows combine to produce a silly masterpiece that will have viewers truly believing in Rug Power!

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Link: IMDB

Gosuto shisutemu (Ghost System)

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An email arrives Misaki's mobile and shocks her with the sender's name, Mai, her best friend who disappeared for a long time. Together with Mai's boyfriend, Wataru, they decide to search for her and track a mysterious building where they find Ryo, a scientist who tries to contact spirits with her discovery, the "Ghost System". Mai is found out as one of the experiment, but something out there loses control...

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Link: IMDB, YESASIA

Saturday, December 13, 2008

가벼운 잠 A Light Sleep

Synopsis:

This film is based on the real life story of a high school girl who, after losing her parents, commits suicide.

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Link: Hancinema

Kakushi toride no san akunin (The last princess)

Synopsis:

In 1958 Akira Kurosawa directed The Hidden Fortress, a great adventure where a dethroned princess, a general and two peasants had to find a way to cross enemy lines with a shipment of gold. In 1977, strongly influenced by this film, George Lucas shot Star Wars. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the first, the magician of FX, Shinji Higuchi, lets “the force” be with him and readapts Kurosawa’s movie introducing entertaining nods at Lucas’ work. A truly unbiased, in crescendo show full of young faces, where Darth Vader is, of course, a samurai.

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Link: IMDB, Official Site

Dal-lyeo-la ja-jeon-geo (Ride Away)

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Ha Jung (Han Hyo Joo), a college freshman, is interested in a boy who works at a secondhand book store near her school. Although a clerk is excited by her, he cannot forget his old girlfriend who has been unconscious since a car accident three years earlier. The growing pains mature the awkward and immature twenty-year-old.

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Link: Hancinema

Cicakman 2: Planet Hitam

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The evil Professor Klon (Aznil Nawawi) is back… This time, not only to overthrow the Government and become the President of Metrofulus, but also to control the world’s supply of fresh water through his ingenious plan, “Black Water”.

When our blue planet has only 72 hours before turning black, Cicakman (Saiful Apek) comes to the rescue. But much to his surprise he faces his old enemies, Ginger Boys, who return even more powerful in a spiritual form… as Ginger Ghosts. In addition he is now faced with Professor Klon’s hired assassin, Rrama… an assassin who derives pleasure in killing as if it were a pure art form.

As the situation starts taking a downward spiral, even a super hero needs help. And much to his surprise, help appears in the most unexpected forms, including Danny his demised best friend, a powerful feng shui master and an unlikely party.

Apart from his heavy responsibilities to save the world, he also has his own personal dilemmas to address… that is Hairi vs. Cicakman. He has to resolve his personal feelings towards Tania (Fasha Sandha), who is seeking the true identity of Cicakman… and he also has to choose whether to sacrifice his own life to save Iman (Danny’s blind sister)(Sharifah Amani).

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

あの空をおぼえてる I Remember the Sky

Synopsis

Photo shop owner Masahito (Takenouchi Yutaka) and his wife Keiko (Mizuna Miki) have seemingly the perfect life, living in a small town rural town with son Eiji (Hirota Ryohei), daughter Erina (Yoshida Riko), and a golden retriever. All of this disappears in the blink of an eye when Eiji and Erina are involved in a tragic car accident. In that dark tunnel, Erina walks towards the light, and Eiji is left on earth to carry the guilt of failing to protect his little sister. Erina's death bears a grave toll on Eiji and his parents, and their previous happiness suddenly slips away. Eiji decides that he must do all he can to save his family from falling apart.

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Link: IMDB,wiki

过界 Out of Control

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In the movie, Guo Tao plays some Car company's high-level marketing managers attend to Tao, the accident meets “the paranoia” the customer (Zheng Ze the Shi decoration), because cannot bear opposite party approach “abnormal” on a nitpicking vehicles body's small slight defect, erupted finally, lets slip has killed Zheng Ze Shi. This accident suddenly, changed has given a thought to the Tao complete life, he (Li Xiao jan decoration) opened that with wife young An to bring the slight defect automobile in a panic to flee the horizon.

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Link: Torrent

Wool-hak-kyo I-ti (Our School ET)

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Seong-gun (Kim Soo-ro) is a lazy high school gym teacher. But when the school decides to strengthen its English program, Seong-gun decides learning and teaching English is the only way to survive.

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Link: Official Site, IMDB

Luang Phee Theng 2 (The Holy Man 2)

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Luang Pee Teng II, the sequel to the comedy Luang Pee Teng, introduces you to meet a new young monk named Luang Pee Joey (Joey Boy) who replaces the position of the former Luang Pee Teng.

Once he arrives at the temple, Luang Pee Joey is assigned to develop the run-down temple as well as solve the problem that the temple is now facing; rock explosion that covers the temple causes allergenic dust and capitalization threatens the living of the locals. Luang Pee Joey creatively makes his own way to solve the problems that still come along with humor and the beats of hip-hop baby!

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The Witch of the West Is Dead (Nishi no Majo ga Shinda)

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A 13-year-old girl named Mai refuses to go to school due to her asthma. Her parents send her to to stay with her British grandmother in the countryside. Thinking her grandmother is a witch, Mai asks for witch lessons. Her grandmother plays along, but instead ends up teaching Mai lessons which help her become more responsible and enjoy the simple aspects of life.

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Link: IMDB,Nipponcinema

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

ôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu (Samurai Rebbelion)

IMDB RAting: 8.1

Synopsis:

During peace in 1725, aging swordsman Isaburo is living a henpecked life when his clan lord requests that Isaburo's son marry the lord's mistress, with whom he's displeased, even though she's born him a son. Isaburo wants to refuse, but his son Yogoro accepts the woman, Ichi, and they fall deeply in love. Their love renews Isaburo, so when the clan lord's elder son dies and the lord sends for Ichi to return to his side as mother of his heir, Isaburo opposes his lord. Yogoro and Ichi, who now have a baby daughter, stand with him. The clan orders their suicide, then sends soldiers to kill them. Isaburo's only hope is to take his case to Edo to expose the clan's cruelty. Can he?

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Link: IMDB, Torrent