North American Premiere

Yoshimasa Ishibashi and Takayuki Yamada will attend the screening.

This freaked out slab of solid psychedelia is what movies will look like in the year 23,000 AD! Makes Matthew Barney look tame.

New York Premiere

Na Hong-Jin will attend the screening.

Fresh from Cannes, Na Hong-Jin’s ultra-tense thriller about a hit man on the run just won’t quit until everyone in Seoul is bleeding.

The film is a 20th Century Fox release.

New York Premiere

Actor Takayuki Yamada will attend the screening.

The complete uncut version of Takashi Miike’s samurai masterpiece. With 17 minutes of original footage restored!

New York Premiere

A punk rock Buddhist monk wants to achieve nirvana but he can’t leave the hardcore headbanging behind. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.

With special guest, director Lee Joon-Ik

The director of Korea’s top-grossing movie of all time directs this absurdist, Terry Gilliam-esque satire of Korea’s endless medieval wars.

New York Premiere

Like Thelma & Louise crossed with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, this is the saddest, bloodiest ode to female friendship ever made.

New York Premiere

This brawling stunt-tacular features Thailand’s best stuntmen and -women unleashing dirt bike fu, shovel beatdowns, fights on fire and fights under speeding trucks.

Director Tsui Hark in person!

Tsui Hark’s feral masterpiece is one of the most important Chinese movies ever made. Rarely screened, it’s unlike any movie you’ve ever seen. Trust us.

North American Premiere

A tale of a boy, a samurai, time travel, pastries, chef vs. yakuza battles, absent fathers and single mothers.

Su Chao-pin will attend the screening.

Taiwan’s crowd-pleasing blockbuster king delivers a hyperactive comedy about a porn-addicted kid who’s desperate to move on to true love.

North American Premiere

A beautifully observed, funny, and deeply moving film from one of China’s only female directors (Li Yu, Lost in Beijing).

Writer Su Chao-pin will attend the screening.

Taiwan’s box-office king based this black comedy, about a cab driver in love with a traffic cop, on his day job as a cabbie.

Director Na Hong-jin will attend the screening.

The thriller that saved the Korean film industry, this mega-hit is what you’d get if you cross-bred Alfred Hitchcock with a pit bull.

Ryoo Seung-Wan will attend the screening.

An encore presentation of the best all-out action film from Ryoo Seung-Wan (The Unjust). Like a less ironic version of Kill Bill.

With special guest, legendary director Tsui Hark!

Tsui Hark returns to greatness in this “Sherlock Holmes in imperial China” feminist phantasmagoria. Part of The Wu Xia Focus. Screening preceded by Star Asia Award ceremony at 8:30pm. Ticketholders welcome!

Tsui Hark will attend the screening!

A brand-new print of Tsui Hark’s classic female swordswoman riff on Casablanca.

Ching Siu-tung’s sword-slashing debut features bizarre images ripped raw from his brain: hang-gliding killers, lethal puppets, exploding ninjas.

Part of The Wu Xia Focus.

North American Premiere

In this sweet’n’raunchy celebration of kink, vice cops are trying to suppress a suburban neighborhood where everyone is getting in touch with their fetishes.

New York Premiere

This dark summer superhero blockbuster is about a creep who can control minds and the simple guy who’s out to stop him.

North American Premiere

Japan does the violent porno horror thing better than anyone else and this oddity features butt-walls, weiner-eating and demon hookers.

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International Premiere

Dark on Dark

Makooto Ohtake, 2011, Japan; 17m
This short film is the directorial debut from Makoto Ohtake, a well-known Japanese comedian and actor since the 80’s (he’s worked extensively with Takeshi Kitano and the popular City Boys troupe).

New York Premiere

Presenting happy 70’s crimefighters: a boy and his motorcycle-transforming, karate-fighting robot… only the kid’s grown up now and is pushing 50.

World Premiere

When a kid believes the world is ending, he abducts his classmate in this throwback to the loopy, revolutionary, pro-sex films of the 60s.

North American Premiere

A pro-sex movie about the porno industry and the actress who discovers freedom by becoming a nerdy porn star.

New York Premiere

A rip-roaring, gonzo documentary about the Filipino exploitation films that erupted in the 70s and 80s.

One part Bourne, one part Batman, this award-winning flick about a retired spy rescuing a girl from kidnappers was Korea’s biggest blockbuster of 2010.

World Premiere

Takashi Miike returns to form with this gut-busting, bizarro flick that’s Harry Potter meets ninjas. The weirdest, wildest comedy of the year.

Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema.

New York Premiere

In a beautiful, underplayed and truly powerful film, Jet Li does drama as a father trying to teach his autistic son how to live on his own.

In a beautiful, underplayed and truly powerful film, Jet Li does drama as a father trying to teach his autistic son how to live on his own.

International Premiere

This fractured, austere, mournful revenge thriller is about a father’s love for his daughter and just how many people he’ll kill for her.

A freaky-deaky Filipino/US co-production from the roaring 80s, this rarely-screened exploitation movie is better known as Kung Fu Cannibals.

New York Premiere

The best food movie of 2010 (and one of the best romances) is about a dish of stew so good that it changes lives.

With special guest, writer and director Su Chao-pin.

This super-romantic box office champ gives Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a run for its money. Co-directed by John Woo.

The classic Hong Kong midnight action movie about prison privatization and monsters who strangle you with their guts. Rarely seen on the big screen!

International Premiere

If Robert Altman’s Nashville were about rock ’n’ roll instead of country music, it would be this hilarious, touching flick about rock music saving souls.

New York Premiere

Yeo Joon Han and Peter Davis will attend the screening.

Brace yourselves for a musical comedy from Malaysia about suicide reality shows, corporate culture and selling out. Way ahead of its time.

North American Premiere

An all-star cast (plus Jackie Chan!) in a massive summer blockbuster retelling the primal kung fu myth: the destruction of Shaolin temple.

Director, Kwok Hyeok-Jae, and Producer, Ryoo Seung-Wan, will attend the screening.

New York Premiere

A perfect popcorn movie, this is Bourne with a sense of humor as a private eye has to crack heads to escape a frame-up.

New York Premiere

Director Ryoo Seung-Wan will attend.

This sprawling corruption epic is the kind of movie Sidney Lumet would have made if he was Korean.

This sprawling corruption epic is the kind of movie Sidney Lumet would have made if he had been Korean.

Tak Sakaguchi, and writer, Yudai Yamaguchi, will attend the screening.

Tenth-anniversary screening of the yakuza vs. zombies action classic that cracked open Japan’s indie-film business like a can of cheap beer.

New York Premiere

Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi, Arata Yamanaka, and producer Yoshinori Chiba will attend the screening.

Ten years after starring in Versus, former pit fighter-turned stuntman/actor/director Tak Sakaguchi is back with this mondo trasho exploitation flick.

Tsui Hark will attend the screening.

A new print of the surreal and truly astonishing fantasy film that re-invented HK moviemaking. Still trippy after all these years.