Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Foreign Cinema: 396 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bittersweet Life, A (2005)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Byung-hun Lee
- A suave mob enforcer's mercy for one of his intended victims results in the full wrath of the Korean organised crime world in this slick, ultra…
- Death Trance (2005)
- Dir. Yuji Shimomura
Feat. Tak Sakaguchi
- Another insane, neo–samurai fantasy from the VERSUS camp involving the battle over a mysterious coffin that, if opened, could destroy the…
- Duelist (Hyeongsa) (2005)
- Dir. Lee Myung-Se
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-won Kang
- A restless, meta–revisionist sword epic from the dir. of NOWHERE TO HIDE places two undercover police officers in pursuit of an elusive…
- Initial D (Tau Man Jid) (2005)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau
Feat. Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong…
- Sleak and light, this adaptation of the Shuichi Shigeno's famous 'manga' comic by the makers of INFERNAL AFFAIRS, concerns a boy–racer (played…
- Mangal Pandey (2005)
- Dir. Ketan Mehta
Feat. Aamir Khan, Toby Stephens
- Accomplished and stirring Hindi epic based on the life and times of Mangal Pandey (Khan), leader of the 1857 'Indian Mutiny' which severely…
- Myth, The (San Wa) (2005)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Jackie Chan
- Alternating between past and present, Jackie Chan plays a warrior general during the Qing Dynasty and a modern day archaeologist respectively in this…
- Promise, The (Wu ji) (2005)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung…
- Visually exquisite, if utterly frivolous Golden Globe–nominated romantic epic from the director of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE relays the story of…
- Protector, The (Tom yum goong, Warrior King) (2005)
- Dir. Prachya Pinkaew
Feat. Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao
- Muay Thai phenomenon Tony Jaa continues his reinvigoration of the martial arts genre with this hotly anticipated follow–up to ONG–BAK: a…
- Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005)
- Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
Feat. Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki
- Flashy remake of Sonny Chiba's 'time slip' shogun fantasy G.I SAMURAI, with a unit of advanced Special Forces soldiers inadvertently transported back…
- Seoul Raiders (2005)
- Dir. Jingle Ma
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Shu Qi, Richie Ren
- Hokey but fun pseudo–sequel to 'Tokyo Raiders' that finds Hong Kong special agent Lam (Tony Leung) on the hunt for counterfeiters in Seoul,…