John Woo makes his return to action filmmaker with Manhunt. Du Qiu (Zhang Hanyu) is a Chinese lawyer working of the Tenjin Pharmaceutical company in Osaka, Japan. The morning after a party commemorating his departure from the company, Du Qiu wakes up with the body of a dead woman beside him. Framed for the crime, […]

A police sergeant investigates a series of murders that may be related to demonic activity in The Wailing. One morning in the isolated town of Goksung, Sgt. Jeon Jong-gu (Kwak Do-won) is called to the scene of a brutal ritualistic murder. This is the latest of a series of homicides in the city, which seems to […]

From Japanese auteur Sion Sono (Suicide Club, Cold Fish) comes the bloody action-comedy Why Don’t You Play in Hell?  Yakuza boss Muto (Jun Kunimura) is at the beginnings of a war with rival Yazuka Ikegami (Shin’ichi Tsutsumi), which stemmed from an assault ten year’s prior, in which Muto’s wife was sent to prison for murdering […]

Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki returns with a new film that is poised to be the director’s final feature before retirement. For the first time in his career, Miyazaki focuses on a character who existed in real life, in this case being aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi.  The Wind Rises follows Jiro from childhood straight through […]