Tagged: ghost recommends

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Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance

Miroku Tachi is a socially awkward young man who’s facing the harsh reality — people aren’t good by nature. When he meets the cold Hikaru Baba, a high school girl who’s a prostitution ring leader that enjoys making weak people suffer, Miroku takes on the task of eliminating the vermin of the world.

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Taiyo Matsumoto – Black & White

There are some manga that manage to push the understanding of human nature to the very edges of its periphery. Taiyō Matsumoto’s Black & White cracks open your psyche and forces you to put your morals into hard focus.

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Love Letter (1995)

Love Letter is Shunji Iwai’s first feature length film, and it’s a quintessential Asian romance — scratch that, Love Letter is a classic of the genre.

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Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Comrades: Almost a Love Story is a love story (it really is, it’s not an almost). However, the story almost adds elements that take you to the precise time and place alongside these people, who stop being characters from a movie and become real people.

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Cabin in the Woods, The

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard bring us The Cabin in the Woods, an addition to the horror genre that is part masterpiece and part commentary.

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Triad Election

We all know power corrupts, so when Brother Lam Lok’s two-year term as the Wo Shing Wo chairman is up — without chances of re-election — he begins shuffling his influences to bend the rules to his favor, even if it’s by using his Brothers.

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Election (2005)

Wo Shing Wo members, Lam Lok and Big D, face off for the chance to be the newest chairman. However, before that, one of them must retrieve the Dragon Head Baton. All of a sudden it’s a game of mouse against mouse, when brothers of the same society fight one another for the chance at power.

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Seediq Bale

This historical epic — the most expensive Taiwanese movie ever made at $25M USD and directed by Wei Te-Sheng — depicts the Wushe Incident, in which the Taiwanese aborigines rose against the Japanese, killing over 130 of them.