Korean Drama: Lobbyist

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In the mid 1980s, Maria (Jang Jin-young) grows up in a quiet fishing village with Harry (Song Il-guk). Harry’s father died when a North Korean spy snuck into the country and shot him dead because he was an Army commander. Harry and his sister move to America after the incident. Maria’s family also migrate to America soon after and Maria’s father takes a job as a bus driver. While living happily in America, a mugger kills Maria’s father one day. Meanwhile, Harry meets Maria by coincidence. When his uncle sexually molests his sister Suzie, he decides to run away from home with his sister.

10 years later... Maria is 20 years old and works as a bus driver. Her sister Eva graduated from a prestigious American college and works at the naval intelligence agency in Washington D.C. One day, she meets Eva’s boyfriend Tae-hyuk (Han Jae-seok) and begins to develop feelings for him. While working at odd jobs throughout his life, Harry challenges the Mafia to save his sister Suzie. The Korean wife (Kim Mi-sook) of the Mafia boss is impressed with Harry and she offers to let him join the gang. Meanwhile, Maria learns that the FBI is investigating Eva because she is under suspicions of trying to steal sensitive military secrets. When her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, Maria’s whole life changes all of a sudden...

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Korean Movie: Our Town

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Kyung-ju is struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it would appear like the serial murders that have been occurring in his village recently. Anxious that the police might realize the latest killing was a copycat murder, he begins his own inetstigation to track down the killer with help of his detective friend.

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Chinese Movie: Yes I Can See Dead People

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Sun Boy’z member Steven Cheung sheds his bandmates to take on a starring role in Yes, I Can See Dead People, a teen horror film about that age-old movie problem: seeing ghosts. As the title might suggest, Yes, I See Dead People has moments of comedy to lighten its otherwise creepy premise, but it still features tense atmosphere and plenty of shock scares that should have teenagers cowering in delighted fear. Though the concept of “seeing ghosts” has long been overused, Yes, I See Dead People manages to separate itself from similar genre entries, managing a fine balance between creepy horror and knowing comedy. Steven Cheung departs from his usual sidekick roles to play the hero, and is joined by Kris Gu (The Eye 10), screen veteran Lau Kong, and fellow EEG singer Mandy Chiang.

Steven Cheung is Nam, a slacker who has the power to see dead people - and he seems to be pretty okay with it. From departed friends to ghostly children, the undead populate the corridors of Nam’s housing estate, and he’s used to their presence, disturbing though it should be. Things change when his brother Tung (Kris Gu) begins acting distant and wetting himself, and Nam thinks that there may be more going on than just his brother’s lack of self control. Estate security guard Fok (Lau Kong) clues Nam in: there are dangerous ghosts too, and one of them is starting to mount his own terror campaign by possessing Nam’s neighbors and family. Fok also teaches Nam that those who possess ghost-seeing powers must bear the responsibility to use them properly. But can Nam learn the tricks of the ghost-busting trade before the evil spirits take his brother or the stewardess (Kathy Yuen) that he has the hots for?

Korean Movie: Humming

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Jun-seo is tired of the relationship he is in with Mi-yeon. But one day she is in an accident and falls into a coma. Then, unbelievably Mi-yeon visits him the next day just like any other ordinary day. He starts searching for other traces of Mi-yeon and realizes how much he loved her. Will he discover the love he has never realized, which has always existed close by him?

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Japanese Movie: Welcome to the Quiet Room

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28 years old freelencer writer Sakura Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide.

Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki (Yu Aoi), who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.

Korean Movie: The Good The Bad The Weird

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Set in 1930s Japanese occupied Manchuria, tells the story of three Joseon mounted bandits who get their hands on a treasure map, only to be pursued by the army of national independence, who believe that the outlaws have a map for a new railway to be built by the Japanese army.

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Thai Movie: Kung Fu Tootsie

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Set in Hong Kong where three mafia gangs are fighting to be the biggest powerful criminal in town. One of well-known and powerful gang is The Golden Dragon led by Ma Yong Hai and his son Tao. Recently, Tao was injured by the rivals causes his arm is cut off. When Tao is disabled to continue the business, Ma has to find someone to claim the rightful position as the new Godfather. Then, Ma is in quest of his lost son, Tian.

Tian is a poor guy who is Tao’s twin. He difficultly lives with his mother since a child with no support from his father Ma. However, everything seems to be perfect when Tian is back to Ma and takes the next leader of the gang, but there’s one thing about Tian that’s absolutely imperfect for Ma when Tian really is a gay who loves being pretty just like a girl.

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Chinese Movie: House Of The Invisibles

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There are a few dysfunctional inhabitants in a demolished old building. Life has been hard for Fat Chou (Lam Suet) and crippled Ah Fung, but they lived harmoniously. As Ah Fung realises that she can no longer satisfy Fat Chau, she allows him to have sex with prostitutes, but not with the same one all the time. Soon, Fat Chou falls in love with one of the prostitutes, Kil-Kil and therefore, breaks his promise. The tenants later find their lives taking a major turn.

A psychic cop (Nicholas Tse) who battles wayward ghosts for the Hong Kong police department is teamed with an eager rookie (Stephen Fung) destined to die and become his ghostly helper. But their plans are thwarted by a vengeful water spirit (Alex Fong), who emerges from the Other Side to destroy them both…

Japanese Movie: The Wall Man

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Acting on an anonymous suggestion, television reporter Kyoko (Sakai Masato) decides to do a feature on the "Wall Man", a mysterious creature, neither human nor demon, that lives in walls and observes the world. Her report is a big success, inspiring lots of audience interest in the myth. What started out as interest, however, turns into obsession as the people around Kyoko become increasingly fixated with the topic and start to exhibit strange behavior. Kyoko's own boyfriend, cameraman Nishina (Ono Mayumi), can't seem take his eyes or lens away from the walls, endlessly snapping pictures. What does he see in the blank walls?

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Korean Movie: Out of My Intention

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A couple argues during a drive, and while the man wants to pretend nothing happened, his girlfriend tries to confront it, and things start to turn worse.

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Chinese Movie: Scare 2 Die

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Au Cun is given an ancient coin to bring him good luck, however you pay for that luck with your life. Wing wakes up to find herself in a world populated by cannibals, how can she get out of there? Chan starts a game in a haunted house and has no idea how terrifying it will truly will be.

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Chinese Movie: Escape From Huang Shi

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ESCAPE FROM HUANG SHI is a US$40 million Australia-China-Germany joint production, a World War 2 movie inspired by a true story. It starts with an Associated Press reporter, George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), sneaks into Nanking, the Chinese capital city, and witnesses the killing carried out by the Japanese troops. He is then captured by the Japanese and is later rescued by Jack Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) a guerilla leader. George is arranged to stay at an orphanage, where he becomes the guardian of over 60 psychologically shattered war orphans, with help from an Australian nurse Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) and a wealthy widow Mrs. Wang (Michelle Yeoh). To protect the children from the advancing Japanese and conscription from the Chinese authority, George, Jack, Lee and the children start marching toward the snowy mountains and endless desert.

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Korean Movie: Les Formidables

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Su-hyun wants to leave the syndicate and opens a small restaurant. Helping his life-long friend from an orphanage, he gets arrested for a murder that he didn’t commit. To catch the real killer, he hurts himself in prison and is transported to the hospital. Sung-woo is a homicide detective. His wife has left him, and his son’s life is in jeopardy. He can’t afford to pay the hospital bills, not to mention the liver transplant needed to save his son’s life. To make matters worse, he gets reprimanded at work for walking out on his undercover post, which led to the death of his partner. Having gotten drunk out of guilt, he creates a scene at the funeral for his late colleague and gets kicked out, only to end up becoming a hostage of a jail breaker, Su-hyun.

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Korean Movie: Muoi

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Yoon-hee, a novelist, desperately seeks for a new story and that’s when she hears from Seo-yeon, her friend in Vietnam, a very tempting story about a legend of Muoi’s portrait. A long time grudge makes Yoon-hee hesitate to go to Vietnam to meet Seo-yeon. However, fascinated by sources of the portrait Seo-yeon incessantly sends her, Yoon-hee heads for Vietnam to unveil a century-long legend of the portrait. Yoon-hee is stunned by Seo-yeon’s dazzling look never seen before but is readily welcomed by her friend. As Yoon-hee unveils the mystery of Muoi, Vietnam, seemingly an exotic place, turns into a setting of a living nightmare, and the secret of Muoi in buried as if never to be revealed.

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Malaysian Movie: Evolusi KL DRIFT

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Zack and Sham are two close friends who enjoy the same hobbies and interests, ‘DRIFT RACING’. Traditionally drift racing is monopolised by guys but it didnt stop Fasha, Zack’s girlfriend who broke all traditions and made it her hobby as she finds it very daring and aggresive. Zack is more protective of Fasha nowadays considering her identity crisis in the past and bad influences by her friends.

Joe and Karl on the other hand feels threatened when they can’t influence new kids to be interested with drift racing. In order to settle this problem Zac and Joe had made a decision that they would race as a way to let some steam off.

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Japanese Movie: Hero

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Kohei Kuryu (Takuya Kimura), the prosecutor who shirks suit and tie for a pair of jeans but is never casual about his pursuit for the truth, is back! Besides the original TV series cast, Korean heartthrob Lee-Byung Hung is in it and was shot partly in Busan. This time, he is involved in an obscure case of manslaughter that turns into the trial of the century. Failure here means the end of his career. He must solve it!

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Korean Movie: Crazy For Wait

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Four couples are heartbroken with their pending separation caused by the compulsory military service. The boys are worried their girlfriends will now have an excuse to meet other men. The girls are also having a hard time getting used to living without their boyfriends. Will the boys successfully fulfill their obligation and return to their girlfriends?

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Chinese Movie: My DNA Says I Love You

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Gigi and Marlene, two single women both in their late 20’s, work at a bio-technology company, researching and developing medicine to suppress specific genes and observe their effects on the human body. Gigi is born with the “clean-freak” gene and her obsession with keeping things tidy causes problems in her relationships. Marlene, on the other hand, is born with the “fat gene” and needs to regularly take pills to maintain her weight. Marlene panics when she learns that her “anti-fat” pills will be taken off the market. Their personal problems coincide with romantic ones. Marlene grows frustrated maintaining her long-distance relationships via the Internet, and Gigi leaves her boyfriend when she discovers he’s cheating on her. One day, Gigi meets Anteater, her college sweetheart, and they start dating again. Things are going well, and Gigi just cannot remember why she had broken up with Anteater until the day they are about to consummate their passion, Gigi discovers Anteater’s terrible secret — he is a first rate slob! Meanwhile, Marlene is oblivious of the feelings Teddy, the landlord’s son, has for her. Realising that their own genetic make-up is the cause of their relationship issues, Gigi and Marlene decide to take an “anti-clean gene” pill. Gigi and Marlene no longer care about their own appearances, but will the two women find true love and happiness without the help of technology?

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Thai Movie: Brave

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Pairote (Pairote Boongerd /Mike B) is forced by the biggest mafia gang in Thailand to steal the mainframe client information data from Wealthy Bank, an international credit card company. He holds Lita (Supakson Chaimongkon) (the company’s Vice President) hostage and forces her to give him the password that will allow him fo finish his assignment , and later manages to get away with it. He does this for his brother, Tong(Afdlin Shauki) , who has been captured, tortured and held ransom by the mafia gang, in exchage for the data they have forced him to steal. But things turn out for the worst when the mafia gang attempt to silence them both with explosives they strap around Tong. Whom they have as bait to lure B into a factory.

After Kovit(Sahaschai Chumrum), the gangster boss , learns of their escape from this trap , he sends his right-hand men after them B gets shot by Mai (a former friend, now enemy) and falls from the top floor of an abandoned building to almost certain death. Tong, fearing the worst, decides he will return to Malaysia , but finds that B survived the fall. They dicide to avenge themselves and go looking for Mai to force him to lead them into the underground world to find Kovit. They end up being captured and find out that the data theft was a set-up and that Kovit needed a fall guy-B.

They come across Lita who has been attacked and raped, and find out her husband Somboon, who was the President of Wealthy Bank , killed himself in the aftermath of the of the data theft. B and Tong are wracked with guilt and manage to escape the clutches of the underground bringing Lita with them. But the finally have to confront the gangsters and fight them all.

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Chinese Movie: Slam

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Mouth, a shy insecure 15-year-old, and his best friend Monkey, an undersized energetic loudmouth, get ready for the start of summer break and transition into high school. The future is looking bright for Mouth, whose longtime crush, Xiao Xiao, the prettiest and smartest girl at school, has finally turned her attention to him.

The fun start to school break turns sour, when Monkey’s cousin, Jason, comes to Beijing for the summer. Jason gets the boys on the wrong side of Li Wei, the arrogant and cocky captain of the school basketball team. Since Mouth’s humble father, Lao Lin, works for Li Wei’s powerful and rich father, Mouth desperately tries to avoid any trouble. Nevertheless, Jason convinces the boys to take revenge. The boys score a minor victory, but Li Wei vows to make their lives a living hell.

Mouth’s life takes a turn for the worse during Monkey’s birthday party, when Li Wei and his friends humiliate Xiao Xiao. Angry and pushed over the edge, Mouth attacks Li Wei and ends up damaging public property and injuring Li Wei. The police show up along with both of their fathers. As a result, Lao Lin has to get a second job in order to pay for the damages caused by Mouth. Frustrated, Mouth gets into a fight with Xiao Xiao and breaks up with her.

To pay for the damages, Mouth, Monkey and Jason enter the annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament in hopes of winning the grand prize money. During the tournament, the team’s remarkable performance makes them the crowd’s favorites. They are even stealing the thunder away from Li Wei’s team, the defending champions.

The night before the semi-finals, Mouth’s father discovers that his son has failed his final exams. He lashes out, hitting his son in anger. The next day, Mouth plays horribly, causing a huge fight between him and Jason. Out of a fluke, they still manage to win a spot to the finals against none other than Li Wei’s team. Unable to settle their differences, do the boys have what it takes to overcome impossible odds?

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Korean Movie: My New Partner

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Young-joon, a fresh prosecutor, takes a big affair to leave for Busan and unwillingly gets cooperation from his father, Min-ho who is a veteran detective who deserted his family at one time. Since then, they are living separately without keeping touch each other for years. Now that their destiny to trace the same host of the accident related with a big drug trade gives the father and son a chance to recover their affection over the long time.

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Korean Movie: My Love Yurie

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A tragic love story is about deal with the devil. Dong-a is a boy who is longing for eternal love. Yu-rie is a call girl whose name comes from an alaska native. Donga works at the Heaven gas station, across from the Papa motel where Yu-rie works as a call girl. Donga loves Yu-rie so passionately, that he sells his soul to the Devil in return for 10 years of love with Yu-rie. When the devil returns at the end of ten years to claim Donga’s soul, Donga decides to kill the devil.

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Japanese Movie: Crows Zero

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The Suzuran Senior High School for Boys, nicknamed "The School of Crows", is the poorest achieving, most violent school in the country. The students are called "crows" and they band together in factions, battling each other for influence and power. But they all share a common goal ... one that has never been reached in the school's history: unification. No one faction has ever reigned supreme.

Oguri plays the role of Genji Takiya, a transfer student who attempts to take over Suzuran Boys High School and is mentored by old boy yakuza Katagiri (Kyosuke Yabe) as he faces off against rival Serizawa (Takayuki Yamada).

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Korean Movie: Open City

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The Regional Crime Squad consists of the finest elites of Korea’s police force, and veteran detective CHO Dae-young outshines them all as the officer with the most arrests on his record. Dae-young receives orders from his superiors to oversee the case over a pickpocket ring affiliated with the Yakuza. PAIK Jang-mi, arrestingly beautiful and ingenious with her hands, attempts to bring in KANG Man-ok, a legendary pickpocket, into her international ring in hopes of expanding it. Dae-young and Jang-mi first meet when he rescues her from danger. Little do they know what lies ahead.

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Japanese Movie: The Slit Mouthed Woman 2

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Mayumi, a cheerful high-schooler on the track and field team who is the youngest of three sisters. One day, her older sister's ex-boyfriend disfigures her face with sulfuric acid, leading her to soon become a terrifying killer.

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Even it's a low-budget movie, i got a feeling it's gonna be scary as hell.

Korean Movie: Scout

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1980, Kwang-ju is fired up about a genius pitcher, a senior in high school. Ho-chang takes confident strides across the field making his way by cutting through the sand dust. He’s a university scouter on a mission. His task is to scout the genius pitcher, SUN Dong-yeul, a master of baseball who may be scouted to a rival university. But he is no where to be seen. But Ho-chang is determined to not let down his reputation as a successful scouter, and his scouting mission of 10 days begin! An original story of a scouter on a 10 day mission full of undisclosed history will now unfold!

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Korean Movie: Seven Days

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Ji-yeon is a successful lawyer and single mother to a seven-year-old girl. On her daughter’s field day, Ji-yeon competes with other parents in a running race and almost comes in the first place. However, nowhere could she find the girl who’s been watching and rooting for her mother to win. Later that day, Ji-yeon’s receives a phone call from an anonymous man, who tells her he has her daughter in custody and proposes a deal. To see her daughter alive, Ji-yeon needs to prove a convicted murderer not guilty on his second trial, only within a week. Ji-yeon tries to convince herself the murderer should be innocent, but the encounter with the victim’s mother makes her understand what drove crime-to-crime.

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Japanese Movie: Shaolin Girl

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About a young kung fu teacher, Rin, who must take over her grandfather's dojo. In order to prepare herself, she make a journey to China for 3,000 days of grueling Shaolin kung fu training. Upon her return to Japan, she works to rebuild the dojo and joins her university lacrosse club, putting her considerable prowess to work for the team.

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Well, this is a direct sequel to Shaolin Soccer but Stephen Chow isn't in it. Sincerely, the first one was great and fun and hopefully the sequel will follow his steps by any means.

Chinese Movie: Forbidden Kingdom

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An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

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Thai Movie: Bangkok Love Story

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An explosive love story of two men who live seemingly parallel lives without any real chances of meeting. Until one day, a twist of fate brings their paths to a crossroads of an unimaginable yet unforgettable love affair. “Maek” (Rattanabanlang Tosawad), a man of few words, has loved no one and never thought of loving anyone except his mother and his only brother “Mork” (Weeradit Srimalai). Maek lives a solitary life and constantly changes his name and address for the sake his safety due to his job. Uncertainty is what his job is all about and it allows him no love. How could it? He is an assassin. He is assigned a new mission: “Ith” (Chaiwat Tongsaeng), a handsome, wealthy man with an unanswered loneliness in his heart. Loneliness even though “Ith” has “Sine” (Chadcha Rujinanonth), his bride to be, nearby… Maek follows Ith’s every step to complete his assignment. Unfortunately, when the trigger moment arrives he cannot kill. There is something inside of him holding him back…. something too powerful…

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Chinese Movie: Rule #1

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Rookie Sergeant Lee (Yue) is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious- sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong (Cheng), a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD's role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD's rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly-inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation. MAD begins investigating a string of bizarre teenage suicides... impossible suicides, unless the victims were possessed. As Lee and Wong follow the clues, they realize something sinister is heading their way.

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