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- Based on internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern's award winning novel of the same name, That They May Face the Rising Sun is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980's rural community in Ireland.
- When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.
- Ray, an ex-con, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in on him as their target suspect.
- A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920s France and Spain.
- Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by smuggling it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help.
- Jiang Wen stars in his third directorial work that boasts a stellar cast including Joan Chen, Anthony Wong and Jaycee Chan. A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
- Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.
- In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.
- A tough Japanese detective seeks vengeance after his partner is killed by a deadly Yakuza ninja.
- An ex-soldier suffered some sort of injury to his genitals during World War I. Instead of going back home to the USA, he stays in Paris with several other wounded souls; some have been physically wounded, while others are suffer from psychological wounds.
- Nika is taking care of his paralyzed abusive father, Sandro, in a run-down suburban family house near Tbilisi, soon to be sold. When Nastya, Nika's girlfriend, arrives unannounced, Sandro unleashes his manipulative powers to the fullest.
- One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.
- This is about two young men who want to find the meaning of their lives. Do Chul is a boxer who never wins a game. While trying to make some money, he gets involved with Hong-Gi, a small-time crook. They somehow make friends and hang around together, but their views toward life and the world are almost opposite. Do Chul despises Hong-Gi's blind materialism. Hong-Gi mocks Do Chul's obsession with good-for-nothing boxing career.
- When the Japanese declare war on the United States of America with the attack on Pearl Harbour, Corporal Joseph D. "Joe" Griffin fights through the Pacific whilst on a mission to rescue his captured brother.
- Plagued by terrifying visions on the set of her latest film, Jennifer is forced to drop out of the spotlight and check in to a mental institution. After being stranded in the desert following her release, Jennifer seeks shelter with a nomadic band of rebels.
- Set in the 1980s, this murder mystery stars Jamie Barrett as a cub reporter who poses as a hooker to get the dirt on a shady pimp.
- Sol Nascente tells the story of the unlikely love of great friends Alice and Mário and their immigrant families.
- 2 brothers break into a warehouse to escape zombies. They are beaten by thugs and a nurse rescues one brother but they are both bitten by zombies...they must find a cure in time to prevent themselves from becoming zombies.
- Having immigrated to Canada with his family, wealthy Chinese Businessman, Dan Sun is jetting between the two continents. Protecting the assets in China at the same time as building a safe future for his family in Canada, can be dangerous.
- The classic love story between the famous actress and the plain ordinary man.
- Peder runs into his ex-girlfriend Hanna one day. Although many years have passed and they are both happily married, they are still attracted to each other. However, they do not want to jeopardize their marriages or cheat. One day they come across an antique book about dreams. With the help of the book, they manage to enter a dream world where they can live together in a life where anything is possible, while living their normal lives during the day.
- The story of a girl who grows up with a reckless father and loses her mother who dies of cancer but she goes on with her life trying to find the happiness she always longed for.
- Global traveller, Scott Wilson, returns to Japan to tour around by motorcycle, and experience the country's rich cultural and cuisine offerings found off the typical tourist trail.
- A perturbed man wakes up chained inside a room, struggling to remember his identity, and to find a way out, before the bomb in front of him explodes.
- This tells the story of three different families living a harmonious life in a traditional Beijing house.
- James Lee is a widowed father of 2 adopted children, Samantha - a tomboy teen and Presley - a younger child. James raises them in inner city LA. He's a Martial Artist and Acupuncturist, while his more recently involved father-in-law, Frank, practices Western medicine. Their diverse and unlikely friends, at the Rising Sun dojo, are involved in the fun, funny and not so funny moments.
- When The Sun Rises is a historical drama set against the eve of the Hong Kong Handover on 30 June 1997 during the final hours of British-sovereign rule over the crown colony of Hong Kong. Its return to China, the motherland is imminent.
- The film is a narrative of three Sikh women living in Widows Colony wherein they lost their homes and men in the violent killings of 1984 when over 2733 Sikhs were killed in Delhi and over 9000 in India after the death of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.It is the biggest state sponsored massacre in India which has been systematically removed from the public memory calling it anti-Sikh riots. Every evening Sikh women from the "Widows Colony" share their lives. They are nestled away from the so-called developed Metropolis New Delhi to a rehabilitated colony as their men and family members who were daily wage earners were killed in the massacre of 1984. Three decades later, the filmmaker Teenaa Kaur who has witnessed the impact of violence in her home and had grown up listening to stories wants to know the truth about the incident and how it influences her identity. She connects with the women and children to know their journey and impact of violence after so many years. One evening, the women question what happened to the dead bodies of their men who were killed in the massacre? This brings a turn around in the lives of the women as they set on a journey to reconcile the truth. Harbans Kaur works each day but dreams about her husband whose dead body no one ever found. Kuldeep Kaur won the case of her husband's murder for battling for eleven long years but is still looking for the house that she lived 33 years ago.The young Mohan Singh, born in 1984, is into drugs and misses his son. And his mother Meera Kaur struggles to put him into the drug rehab. The women negotiate the tragedy in their lives each day but they work and move ahead with resilience and fortitude. The film follows an observational approach to the lives of the women and Mohan Singh who negotiate everyday to live bravely. The primary themes in the film are courage, resilience, justice and identity.
- The 5 members of Aerosmith were told to refrain from going to Japan after the Fukushima disaster in 2011. They didn't listen.
- A young Detective teams up with an American to solve the murder of a young woman and end up unraveling an international conspiracy to kill thousands.
- Horror over the Pacific in the form of Japanese perfidy is the theme of this special two reel. The amazing story of the Jap double-cross from the naval conference in 1921-22 to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the present war in the Pacific.
- The Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth, rise and legacy of The East, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi, The East embodied Black self-determination, building more than a dozen institutions, including its own African-centered school, food co-op, newsmagazine, publisher, record label, restaurant, clothing shop and bookstore. The organization hosted world-famous jazz musicians and poets at its highly sought-after performance venue, and it served as an epicenter for political contemporaries such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords and the Congress of Afrikan People, as well as comrades across Africa and the Caribbean. In effect, The East built an independent Black nation in the heart of Central Brooklyn. The Sun Rises in The East is the first feature-length documentary to explore The East and its continued influence on the fabric of Black Brooklyn. The film also examines challenges that led to The East's eventual dissolution, including its gender politics, financial struggles and government surveillance. Featuring interviews with leaders of The East, historians and people who grew up in the organization as children, The Sun Rises in The East delivers an exhilarating and compelling vision for just how much is possible.
- TV Series
- Disgraced NYPD Detective, Jake Trilleau, returns to his hometown to grapple with his sister?s recent death. There he confronts the family he ran from years earlier. And, haunted by her wandering spirit, learns the sinister truth about his sister?s demise.
- Japan's involvement in WWII is a complex and difficult question to answer, in this film we prepare to answer that question. As the skies brighten on the land of the rising sun we take a look at the conquests and failures of the Japanese military in the run-up to the horrors of the atom bomb.
- A first feature film that engages in a process of knowledge sharing between two women with different occupations - sex work and cinematographic work - that try to start a dialogue, while both filming and allowing themselves to be filmed.
- The President of East Timor (Timor-Leste), Xanana Gusmao, takes us on a breathtaking and intimate journey. Revelations from the 24-year Resistance against Indonesian occupation, to the present-day challenges of the world's youngest nation.
- This documentary follows the Rock Kidz Crew, a revolutionary street dance team that forever changed the world of modern breakdancing. Among notable crew members are Benny Kimoto, a legend in the industry, and Dergin Tokmak, a victim of childhood polio who has overcome his handicap and leaned to dance on crutches. An inspiring film that disseminates life lessons as well as entertaining content.
- The members of a cursed mysterious clan look at daytime and regain their youthful looks after sundown.
- The love you will always never have.
- A solitary woman living in Pennsylvania writes in her diary the events which have shaped her character. In between writing, she walks in the woods with her dog. Four writing scenes, each are defined by a season. The fifth scene, time stretches to the point that her soul snaps. She finds herself wandering through the streets of an ancient village in Iran. At a cemetery, she recalls an ancient memory of how it all began for her when she was a young turtle. Standing at the edge of a cliff, she recites a poem and asks for courage. Back at her home she chants a mantra as she prepares to step out into the world for a tennis match.
- On the growth of the political consciousness of German workers in the 1930s.