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  • Man Behind the Sun (1988)

    1. Man Behind the Sun

    19881h 45mNot Rated
    6.1 (7.7K)
    Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
    DirectorTun-Fei MouStarsDai Yao WuGang WangYing Git Wong
  • Jun Ji-hyun in Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

    2. Blood: The Last Vampire

    20091h 31mR28Metascore
    5.3 (15K)
    A vampire named Saya, who is part of a covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.
    DirectorChris NahonStarsJun Ji-hyunAllison MillerLiam Cunningham
  • Harakiri (1962)

    3. Harakiri

    19622h 13mNot Rated85Metascore
    8.6 (80K)
    When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
    DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira IshihamaShima Iwashita
  • Daughter of Darkness (1993)

    4. Daughter of Darkness

    19931h 36m
    5.7 (750)
    Police suspect a young teenager who was horrifically abused by her family and raped by her father of finally snapping and slaughtering them all.
    DirectorKai-Ming LaiStarsLily ChungHugo NgAnthony Chau-Sang Wong
  • Han Suk-kyu, Jun Ji-hyun, Ryu Seung-beom, and Ha Jung-woo in The Berlin File (2013)

    5. The Berlin File

    20132hPG-1354Metascore
    6.6 (7.8K)
    Jong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.
    DirectorRyoo Seung-wanStarsHa Jung-wooHan Suk-kyuRyu Seung-beom
  • Gong Li and Chow Yun-Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

    6. Curse of the Golden Flower

    20061h 54mR70Metascore
    7.0 (47K)
    During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
    DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChow Yun-FatGong LiJay Chou
  • Gong Li in Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

    7. Raise the Red Lantern

    19912h 5mPG
    8.1 (37K)
    China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.
    DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiJingwu MaSaifei He
  • Versus (2000)

    8. Versus

    20001h 59m
    6.3 (14K)
    There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal.... The forest of resurrection.
    DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsTak SakaguchiHideo SakakiChieko Misaka
  • Ikiru (1952)

    9. Ikiru

    19522h 23mNot Rated92Metascore
    8.3 (97K)
    A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi Himori
  • Toshirô Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai in Yojimbo (1961)

    10. Yojimbo

    19611h 50mNot Rated93Metascore
    8.2 (138K)
    A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneEijirô TônoTatsuya Nakadai
  • Toshirô Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai in Sanjuro (1962)

    11. Sanjuro

    19621h 36mNot Rated83Metascore
    8.0 (43K)
    A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTatsuya NakadaiKeiju Kobayashi
  • Toshirô Mifune and Isuzu Yamada in Throne of Blood (1957)

    12. Throne of Blood

    19571h 50mNot Rated
    8.0 (58K)
    A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMinoru ChiakiIsuzu Yamada
  • A City of Sadness (1989)

    13. A City of Sadness

    19892h 37m
    7.8 (6.6K)
    The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
    DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiShu-Fen HsinSung-Young Chen
  • Back to 1942 (2012)

    14. Back to 1942

    20122h 25mNot Rated41Metascore
    6.9 (3.9K)
    A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
    DirectorXiaogang FengStarsGuoli ZhangHanyu ZhangWei Fan
  • 46-okunen no koi (2006)

    15. 46-okunen no koi

    20061h 25mUnrated
    6.7 (2.1K)
    A visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyûhei MatsudaMasanobu AndôShunsuke Kubozuka
  • Luke Evans in No One Lives (2012)

    16. No One Lives

    20121h 26mR26Metascore
    6.0 (26K)
    A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
    DirectorRyûhei KitamuraStarsLuke EvansGary GrubbsAdelaide Clemens
  • Sung Hyun-ah in Time (2006)

    17. Time

    20061h 37mNot Rated73Metascore
    7.1 (13K)
    To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
    DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsHa Jung-wooPark Ji-yeonBaek Gwang-Doo
  • Toshirô Mifune, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Kyôko Kagawa, and Tatsuya Nakadai in High and Low (1963)

    18. High and Low

    19632h 23mNot Rated90Metascore
    8.4 (61K)
    An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneYutaka SadaTatsuya Nakadai
  • Leslie Cheung and Joey Wang in A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

    19. A Chinese Ghost Story

    19871h 38mUnrated
    7.3 (12K)
    After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.
    DirectorSiu-Tung ChingStarsLeslie CheungJoey WangWu Ma
  • Setsuko Hara and Chishû Ryû in Tokyo Story (1953)

    20. Tokyo Story

    19532h 17mNot Rated100Metascore
    8.1 (74K)
    An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
    DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô Yamamura
  • Ha Jung-woo and Kim Yoon-seok in The Chaser (2008)

    21. The Chaser

    20082h 5mNot Rated64Metascore
    7.8 (77K)
    A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.
    DirectorNa Hong-jinStarsKim Yoon-seokHa Jung-wooSeo Young-hee
  • Ran Masaki in Dan Oniroku: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme (1985)

    22. Dan Oniroku: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme

    19851h 7m
    5.2 (508)
    A teacher is assaulted by children at her new job in the country. Then the torture begins.
    DirectorMasahito SegawaStarsRan MasakiSeiichirô FukuyamaNobutaka Masutomi
  • The Child's Eye (2010)

    23. The Child's Eye

    20101h 37mR
    4.2 (956)
    A group of friends finds themselves stranded in an old hotel. As they uncover the history beneath the walls, they're slowly drawn into its sinister past, making it harder to get out alive.
    DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsRainie YangElanne KongShawn Yue
  • Re-cycle (2006)

    24. Re-cycle

    20061h 48mR
    6.0 (5.3K)
    A writer wants to get a glimpse of some genuine supernatural occurrences while doing research for a novel, but her experiences lead her down a dark path as she witnesses vivid hallucinations and begins to lose her grip on reality.
    DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsAngelica LeeSoi CheangLawrence Chou
  • Diary (2006)

    25. Diary

    20061h 25mR
    5.9 (828)
    Winnie Leung is a lonely woman that likes to make puppets and write her diary, and she misses her boy-friend Seth Lau, who left her after breaking up their relationship. Winnie leaves messages in his mail box and unsuccessfully tries to contact him in his job. When she meets Ray Fan, she tells him that his resemblance with Seth is amazing. Ray moves to her place and when Winnie's next door snoopy neighbors calls the police because of the smell in her apartment, a dark secret is disclosed in her diary.
    DirectorOxide Chun PangStarsCharlene ChoiShawn YueIsabella Leong

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