Asian Movies : Starting with Y

Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, wh...

Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo (Cha) and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed int...

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions agains...

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them......

Biopic of 1930’s Chinese actress Ruan Ling Yu....

Swordsman Chang Chieh Liang, known as the "Twin Blades," kills several members of the Ghost Gang as they attempt a robbery. When the bandits kill his wife and son in retaliation, Chang vows vengeance. After eliminating Yellow Killer, Chang meets and befriends actor Lo Hua and daughter Yin Sai Erh. L...

On the Chinese side of the China-Russia-North Korea border, in the Yanbian, Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Ku-Nam (Ha Jung-Woo) toils his days away as a taxi driver. When he's not working he's often found in the gambling halls. Ku-Nam is now in serious debt. His wife left to work in South Korea and p...

The story starts with Ah Sai (Chiu-wai Leung) and his partner Wai trying to rob a bank, but Wai's sudden asthma attack and their clumsiness results in them being trap inside the bank with police surrounding them. Not known to them is that among the hostages is Yeung, who is an accomplished robber a...

The Blood of Rebirth (Yomigaeri no Chi) is a 2009 Japanese movie directed by Toshiaki Toyoda which is based on the famous kabuki legend of Oguri Hangan....

After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much martial arts mayhem and mistaken-identity silliness ensue....