Asian Movies : Starting with T

Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder-suicide of one of their friends. They’re approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who...

The first story'The Iron Bow', follows a mother and daughter who run a hillside inn. The latter is pursued by a lecherous local general, but she insists that only a man who can fire her late father's sacred bow can have her hand in marriage. His pitiful attempts show he is clearly not the chosen one...

In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil, who heads the Brotherhood, a vigilante group trying to stamp out vampirism. But their methods are random and misplaced and the only result is a terrorised populace. The real threat l...

Chein is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factor, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break t...

Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy is a Beijing opera, and one of the eight model plays allowed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The story is based on the novel Lin hai xue yuan, which in turn, is based on the real life story of an incident in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, involving a com...

Along with Ghosts: This, the third of three "Yokai" movies produced in the 1960s by Daiei Studios, is not quite of a piece with its two predecessors, Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters and Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare. The concept of the Yokai (spirits) is still there, but you will not see the same famil...

Horus, a kid living in a unnamed Scandinavian-Eastern Europe culture of the Iron Age, recovers the Sword of the Sun from the rock giant Moog and learns from his dying father that he must returns to his ancestral territory. In the process, he defends a village from the attacks of Grundewald, a warlor...

Jimmy Wang Yu heads an all-star cast from the golden era of Shaw Brothers swordplay films in The Trail of The Broken Sword. It's a sword hero tragedy directed by the critically acclaimed director Chang Cheh that plays like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, yet done 34 years earlier. It features bludge...

Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep the pressure off his old boss. AKA-Tokyo nagaremono(original Japanese)...

This is the 2nd in the 26 Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman movie series. Blind swordsman/masseur Zatoichi is pursued by the retainers of a lord who fear that he will reveal a secret weakness of their master. Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zato...