Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Foreign Cinema: 396 Films to Buy & Rent
- Infernal Affairs 2 (Mou gaan dou II) (2003)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Carina Lau…
- Solid prequel to the hit Hong Kong policier, goes back in time to the era of the 1991 and moves forward in three acts to the Chinese handover,…
- Infernal Affairs 3 (Mou gaan dou III) (2003)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Leon Lai…
- Actual sequel to the hit Hong Kong gangland–cop thriller attempts valiantly to tie up loose ends, both picking up where corrupt cop Ming (Lau)…
- Ong-Bak (Muay Thai Warrior) (2003)
- Dir. Prachya Pinkaew
Feat. Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao
- A martial arts juggernaut from Thailand, in which a benign village kickboxer travels to big bad Bangkok in search of a sacred statue stolen from his…
- Silmido (2003)
- Dir. Woo-Suk Kang
Feat. Ahn Sung-Ki, Kyung-gu Sol
- Korean Cold War thriller which takes the true scandal of how a team of gangsters and death–row criminals were recruited in 1968 as part of a…
- Warrior, The (2003)
- Dir. Asif Kapadia
Feat. Irfan Khan, Puru Chibber
- Award–winning debut for British born dir. Kapadia follows the quest of a lone swordsman to escape his brutal paymaster in ancient feudal…
- Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong) (2003)
- Dir. He Ping
Feat. Wen Jiang, Xueqi Wang, Vicki Zhao
- A lavish post–CROUCHING TIGER epic derived from a Chinese folktale about an Imperial assassin who is sent forth to the Gobi desert to eliminate…
- Zatoichi (2003)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
- Actor–director–cult hero Takeshi Kitano stylishly revives a hero of well–known Japanese mythology and scores his most broadly…
- 800 Balas (800 Bullets) (2002)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Carmen Maura, Sancho Gracia
- Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST) brings his wild energy to this story of a stuntman in Almeria whose career is floundering in…
- Alive (2002)
- Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Hideo Sakaki, Koyuki, Tak Sakaguchi
- A convicted murderer is sentenced to death, only to escape execution and become the subject of bizarre prison experiments in this inventive marriage…
- Dead or Alive 3 (Final) (2002)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi
- Imaginative, futuristic final entry in a remarkable action trilogy that this time presents its anti–heroic pair toughing it out in a dystopian…