Author: Ghost Writer

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Painted Skin

We’ve all heard the story — or maybe you’re new to Asian folklore? Spirit foxes — you can maybe compare them to mischievous forest nymphs in the West — they sometimes like to live among humans just for fun… this is the story of one of them.

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Hysteria (2011)

Set in the Victorian era, Hysteria tells the story of how Dr. Mortimer Granville invented the vibrator to the comfort of millions of women around the world.

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Haine, La

Mathieu Kassovitz’s black and white 1995 French film, La Haine, still captivates after all these years.

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Ai Love (2012)

Doze Niu’s follow-up to his gangster drama is a complex dramedy about various types of love in contemporary China-Taiwan relations.

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Usagi Drop

Based on the josei manga by Yumi Unita, Usagi Drop tells the story of 27-year-old Daikichi, who ends up living with his grandfather’s 6-year-old illegitimate child, Rin, after his passing.

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Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess

Japanese foreign diplomat Kosaku Kuroda is in Andalucia to investigate the death of a Japanese investor, suspected to have been killed. The only witness or culprit is a young clerk from Victor Bank.

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Sorcerer and the White Snake, The

The Sorcerer and the White Snake is a re-telling of the really old and always told story of a White Snake demon who takes the shape of a woman and unnaturally falls in love with a human man.