Asian Cinema – MovieLog

Parasite (2019)

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Gisaengchung

Misplaced familyhood

Bong Joon Ho

South Korea

8.6

IMDb

Dark Figure Of Crime (2018)

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A criminal thriller about the fierce psychological confrontation between a detective and a killer who confessed to multiple murders.

Amsusarin

Tae-Gyun Kim

South Korea

6.6

IMDb

Ring 2 (1999)

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Reiko takes Yôichi into hiding when her son begins to display frightening powers. Meanwhile, Mai Takano and the authorities begin a desperate search for them, as the mysterious Ring curse spreads.

Ringu 2

Hideo Nakata

Japan

IMDb

Raid, The (2011)

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In Jakarta, Indonesia, Lieutenant Wahyu organizes the invasion of an apartment building that is the safe house of the powerful and cruel drug lord Tama and his gang. The SWAT team breaks in the building but one lookout sees and warns the gangsters and the police force is trapped on the seventh floor. They learn that Lt. Wahyu has not informed his superiors about the operation. Now the police officers have to fight with limited ammunition against the armed and dangerous gangsters.

Serbuan Maut

The Raid: Redemption

When there’s nowhere left to run or hide… you fight or die.

Gareth Evans

Indonesia

7.6

IMDb

Hero (2002)

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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Ying Xiong

Kono kuni wa mada, hontô no hero wo shiranai [Japan] (This land doesn’t know a real hero. Yet.)

Yimou Zhang

China, Hong Kong

7.9

IMDb

New World (2013)

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As Korea’s biggest crime organization ‘Goldmoon’ expands its powers, Kang, the head of police investigation planning department, orders the undercover cop Ja-Seoung to participate in project New World, that will take down ‘Goldmoon’. Ja-seong must choose either to follow Kang’s orders as a cop or to keep his loyalty with Jeong Cheong, the under-boss of the ‘Goldmoon’ crime organization.

New World

Shin-sae-gye

Trust No One

Hoon-jung Park

South Korea

7.5

IMDb

Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow (1978)

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An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.

Se Ying Diu Sau

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Woo-Ping Yuen

Hong Kong

7.3

IMDb

Confession Of Murder (2012)

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Lee Du-seok publishes an autobiography describing murders he committed after the statute of limitations expires. A detective and one of the victim’s mothers search for the author while another killer begins a spree of murders.

Nae-ga Sal-in-beom-i-da

Byeong-gil Jeong

South Korea

6.8

IMDb

Cure (1997)

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A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere. An odd young man is arrested near the scene of the latest murder, who has a strange effect on everyone who comes into contact with him. Detective Takabe starts a series of interrogations to determine the man’s connection with the killings.

Cure

, he Cure

Madness. Terror. Murder.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Japan

7.3

IMDb

Tell Me Something (1999)

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In Seoul, parts not matching of severed copses of three men are found in cars and bags left in public spaces. Detective Cho, who is under investigation of the Internal Affairs, is assigned to lead the investigation with his team. When the identities of the men are discovered, the police finds that the artist Su-Yeon Chae, who lives with her friend Seungmin Oh, had been lover of the men. Detective Cho and his force protect Su-Yeon and follows the leads based one the information she tells, while the killer executes other victims. However, Cho discloses very dark secrets in the end, finding the real motives of the murderer.

Telmisseomding

Youn-hyun Chang

South Korea

6.5

IMDb