Asian Movies : Music

Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisem...

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their miserable fields....

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...

The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years....

Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent s...

Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop-cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop ...

When the singer of their band walks out on them 3 high-school girls recruit a Korean exchange student as their new vocalist. Now they have to rehearse and get ready for the school festival....

Ye Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music. Director: Jay Chou Writers: Chi-long To, Jay Chou (story...

NAM Hyun-soo was once a popular idol star among teens and worshiped liked a god. Although he's in his mid-thirties now, he's still a sought-after celebrity and the host of a popular radio show. But one day a very young single mom named Jung-nam sends her stories to the radio show that Hyun-soo hosts...

Filmed on location mostly in Paris, amongst other European locations...