Best Asian Movies 2013
Best Asian Movies 2013
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- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsWu JiangBaoqiang WangTao ZhaoFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
- DirectorXin Xin XiongStarsEric TsangFelix WongGigi LeungWhen gold goes missing in ancient China, royal guards entrusted with its recovery realize they are not the only people in pursuit.
- DirectorGordon ChanStarsChao DengLiu YifeiAnthony Chau-Sang WongFour detectives, each with supernatural powers, dedicate their unique and special skills to solving crimes and apprehending powerful criminals.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsMasaharu FukuyamaMachiko OnoYôko MakiRyota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsHideaki AnnoHidetoshi NishijimaMiori TakimotoJiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsChloë Grace MoretzJames CaanMary SteenburgenKaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.
- DirectorShinji AramakiStarsShun OguriHaruma MiuraYû AoiMankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him.
- DirectorYasuhiro YoshiuraStarsYukiyo FujiiNobuhiko OkamotoShintarô ÔhataA young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.
- DirectorYôichi FujitaStarsTomokazu SugitaDaisuke SakaguchiRie KugimiyaGintoki travels into the future and discovers it to be a wasteland with his friends fallen apart. He reunites them to find out what went wrong and how to fix things.
- DirectorKanji WakabayashiHiroshi HamasakiTakuya SatôStarsMamoru MiyanoAsami ImaiKana HanazawaAfter the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
- DirectorSang-il LeeStarsKen WatanabeShioli KutsunaJun KunimuraJapanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar®-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film.
- DirectorTôya SatôStarsTôri MatsuzakaGô AyanoAyame GôrikiHostile forces are taking over the planet, plotting to exterminate human life. Young children with special powers are recruited to lead the fight. 13 years later, 5 special people must come together as one to save the day for humanity.
- DirectorHwan-kyung LeeStarsRyu Seung-ryongKal So-wonOh Dal-suA story about the love between a mentally-ill father and his lovingly adorable daughter.
- DirectorJu-hyoung LeeStarsKim Yu-miSon Byung-hoJung WooA group of North Korean spies, disguised as an ordinary South Korean family, work as spies in South Korea.
- DirectorYeon Sang-hoStarsKwon Hae-hyoPark Hee-bonYang Ik-joonA convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
- DirectorTae-hwa EomStarsRyu Hye-youngKim Joon-baeEom Tae-gooTae-sik, a carp-human who is active online as 'black-bean' is attacked by another character called the 'Johnson' in the same community. A video of himself being beaten up is spread online in no time. Tae-sik plans to take revenge on Johnson. He starts learning how to fight with his friend Hee-joon.
- DirectorKittikorn LiasirikunStarsOranate D. CaballesNadech KugimiyaNitit WarayanonStarring Nadech Kugimiya as Kobori, a Japanese Military Officer who is in the Japanese troop that invaded Siam, and Oranate D.Caballes as Angsumalin (Hideko), a Siamese girl who has complicated feelings toward Kobori, due to her feelings of guilt towards a commitment she had made with her boyfriend who went to study in England, and also because of her sense of nationalism. The story depicts first love from the perspective of young people, and how it affects their lives and their aspirations.
- DirectorPrachya PinkaewStarsTony JaaRZAPhetthai VongkumlaoWhen the owner of a major elephant camp is murdered, Kham finds himself the number one suspect and on the run from both the police and the deceased's vengeful twin nieces. But luck is on Kham's side when he runs into an Interpol agent sent to Thailand on a secret mission.
- DirectorMouly SuryaStarsNicholas SaputraAyushitaKarina SalimAt a high school for the visually impaired student, the students are like any other teenagers: they attend classes, pursue artistic endeavors, and fall in love regardless of physical barriers.
- DirectorDanial RifkiStarsAtiqah HasiholanJoe TaslimArio BayuDuring her study in Japan, Viona (Atiqah Hasiholan) falls in love with a Japanese photographer but their relationship is ruined when her long lost crush reenters her life.
- DirectorAhmad IdhamStarsAaron AzizHazama AzmiSimon KookA gang of debt collector kidnap the ex-army's little sister, the biggest mistake that they ever made.
- DirectorNik Amir MustaphaStarsRedza MinhatCristina Suzanne StockstillHarun Salim BachikA suicidal young man enters into a contract with a secretive organization to end his life. The kill will be anonymous and he won't know any details. Then, he falls in love with a vivacious woman and begins to regret his decision.
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsYann Yann YeoTian Wen ChenAngeli BayaniIn 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.
- DirectorMichelle ChongStarsAlexander LeeCalvin ChenJae LiewThree college students studying in Australia go on a road trip before they graduate.
- DirectorAmit VirmaniStarsAditi MittalOnly 1 in 10 menstruating women in India use sanitary pads. The rest use rags, husk, sand, and even ash. One man is out to change that.