Asian Movies : Starting with P

Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a ...

A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better tea...

Cha Ta-chu (Chang Yi), master of the 'Palm of Death' is recruited by a Qing government official to collect a manuscript written by the leader of the Ming rebels and kill all those who get in his way. A host of heroic resistance fighters are no match for him alone, but mount an unconventional trap wi...

Galih Rakasiwi (Paundrakarna) finally left Yogyakarta, a city full of memories, a city filled with stories of love, a city filled with Gita, Gita Love In high school, with the hope that he can forget his girlfriend Rachael who has gone to bring her love and the hope that he can pursue his ideals int...

The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword-wielding ruffians, among other things. Her only hope is her betrayer's new wife, played by the strong and sensual Ivy Ling Po. Dawn may come, but the...

The Jade Tiger, a bloody and expansive martial arts epic, follows the self-destructive standoff between the Zhao and Tang clans in ancient China. It opens at the wedding of Zhao Wuji (Ti Lung), when a traitorous assassin working for the Tang clan beheads his father at the Zhao's Dafeng Hall. Wuji se...

The Gun Club: Pastoral Hide and Seek: a film about a film-maker's re-examination (and attempted revision) of his own childhood. His boyhood self is an unprepossessing lad who lives with his monstrous, widowed mother, fantasises about the desirable girl-next-door, and finds the visiting circus a touc...

The film is based upon the exploits of a real life 18th century Chinese Pirate called Cheung Po Tsai (Ti Lung), who apparently lorded over a massive fleet of 600 ships which sailed the South China Sea at the time. Unfortunately, the noble pirate finds himself in a bit of a scrape when he attracts th...

Tanaka's skillful blend of sexploitation and arthouse centers on a courtesan-filled temple frequented by royalty, where lovers of a "death goddess" (Rie Nakagawa) mysteriously die....