Asian Movies : Romance

This TV drama version of "Ichi rittoru no namida" tells the story of 15-year-old Ikeuchi Aya, an ordinary girl and a new highschool student. But soon she discovers she has spinocerebellar degeneration, an incurable disease that affects the cerebellum of the brain. Based on a true story, Aya lived he...

Galih (Rano Karno) and Ratna (Yessi Gusman) are two high school students who excel at everything they do; they are popular and receive good grades. Soon they begin falling in love. Despite Ratna's father objecting to their relationship, they continue to meet in secret. When Ratna's father finds out,...

A heartbreaking yet hopeful tale of a man who never stops loving his wife, even as she gradually loses her memory to Alzheimer's disease....

'Edward Yang died of colon cancer last June at the age of 59, leaving behind a body of...work that stands with the world's finest cinema. Yang's films are expansive masterworks of psychology and compassion, studying the sociology of Taiwanese culture through a latticework of characters and incidents...

Shawn Yue plays a young police officer who has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Edison Chen plays a young mafia member who is infiltrating the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Tony Leung and Andy Lau respectively, race against time to expose the mole within thei...

Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up wh...

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At approximately the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their...

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...

This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged geisha who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own......

Picking Waves synopsis Fly Fauziah Ashaari novelist's work, Izzah, orphan girl's mother and father's death due to misfortune highway. Indeed, the father of his brother, Taha, took the task of maintaining Izzah. Taha's wife is not happy with the presence of accused Izzah Izzah and bring reinforcement...