Tagged: mood: stressed

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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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Grey, The (2012)

Liam Neeson and Joe Carnahan work together once again in The Grey, a survival thriller based on Ian MacKenzie Jeffers’s short story, Ghost Walker.

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W no Higeki

In the world there’s two people that look exactly the same without being related. Fate makes it possible for these two people to never meet, for if they ever do, bad things will happen.

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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.

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Game Change

Ah… politics — American politics — hate to love ’em, love to hate ’em. But how delicious they are with a little gossipy insight, huh?

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J. Edgar (2011)

With the right cast, the screenwriter and the right subject, an interest may spark. So it did with J. Edgar. I mean, what couldn’t be interesting in the life of the person who set up the FBI?

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Haine, La

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