Director: Min Byung Hun
Cast: Kim Ji Young , Yoo Jun Sang, Kim Ji Young, Yoon Da Gyung, Lee Seung Yeon, Kim Gi Seung

"Touch" is a story of diversity and intertwined events, a film that keeps us in tune with the world. There is never sweet without sour.

We follow Suwon, a nurse who helps patients without homes. But this nurse has problems of her own. Her husband, once a member of the National Shooting Team, has lost his job due to alcoholism. This leads him to a hit and run accident. Before long, their daughter is sexually molested. Suwon's life is a constant mess, but she will learn that it is her life... the only life she knows. She will have to somehow make the best out of it.

"Surprisingly intriguing movie."
-Movie Extreme

"It was not only entertaining,
but it also got me contemplating
afterwards."
-Hankukko

Busan Film Festival 2012

UPC# 825307-930597
CAT# PH-93059 - $24.98

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Drama 99 min / Color / 16x9 wide screen video
NR / 2012 / Korea
Language: Korean with English ON/OFF subtitles

Director: Yi'nan Diao
Cast: Dan Liu, Dao Qi, Zhengjia Wang

A lonely young Chinese woman, Wu Hongyan (Liu Dan), works as a bailiff for a remote regional court that hands out death sentences. She coldly dons white gloves to assist with capital punishment, sometimes pulling the trigger herself.

Attractive, but tightly wound, she journeys afar by bus, to attend a dance hall where strangers are brought together by a dating agency. Her first date is an ingratiating man (Xu Wei) who charms her by sleight-of-hand magic tricks, but she is forced to defend herself when his passion gets out of hand.

In due course she encounters Li Yun (Qi Dao), who is tall and quiet, but it turns out that his wife is one of the prisoners that Wu has dispatched. He stalks the bailiff, but her curiosity is aroused and they begin a relationship in which hostility is clawing just below to the surface.

"Terse existential thriller."
IFC BLOG

"This film is disturbing."
IL MANIFESTO

"A chilling view of crime and punishment."
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

Canne Film Festival 2007
Athens FIlm Festival 2007
London Film Festival 2007

UPC# 825307-930498
CAT# PH-93049 - $24.98

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Drama 94 min / Color / 16x9 wide screen video
NR / 2007 / Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin with English/French ON/OFF subtitles

Director: Takeshi Sone
Cast: Mirai Aono, Satori, Toshisaku Fukuba, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Yuri Honda, Kaori Tsubaki, Tomoe Ryuno, Nanae Suzuyama, Kouji Ozaki

Roommates:
Kasumi and Yumi have been roommates for a long time. One day, Yumi moves out to be with Takayuki, Kasumi's ex-boyfriend. Their new life becomes very comfortable, until Yumi is contacted by Kasumi's mother. She tells her that Kasumi is missing...

Lotto:
A loser wins three million dollars. He realizes far too late, that his fortune is actually a stroke of bad luck.

Woman With Bandaged Face:
Ami sees a bandaged woman carrying bloody trash bags. She believes this is the murder everyone is talking about on the news. Her sister Hiromi, is envious of Ami being a college student. Hiromi appears a little off from normal. Ami begins to suspect Hiromi is the woman with the bloody trash bags.

Suicide High School:
Why are students killing themselves? Is this abandoned high school haunted? Yuri, a documentary filmmaker, decides to investigate. When Yuri enters the school, she finds her own sister, Mizuho, who lives far away. She tries to kill herself. Can Yuri help her sister before it's too late?

There stories will have you frightened long after you turned off the dvd player.  Watch if you dare.

UPC# 825307-930290
CAT# PH-93029 - $24.98

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J-Horror 70 min / Color/ 16x9 widescreen video
NR / 2013 / Japan
Language: Japanese and English ON/OFF subtitles

Director: Sergio Gobbi
Cast: Pierre Vaneck, Elsa Martinelli, Robert Hossein, Jean Topart.

From the writers of "Diabolique" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," comes "Maldonne." A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer… A man who is supposedly exiled in The Amazon.

Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. He wants nothing more than to complete his symphony in peace, but needs money and accepts the ten million. While living in Mr. Baer's villa, Christens begins to suffer a form of amnesia… as he comes to believe he actually is Mr. Baer. "Maldonne," is a riveting classic of a French thriller form the late '60's.

"From the Writers of 'Diabolique' and Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'."

UPC# 825307-930399
CAT# PH-93039 - $24.98

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Drama 91 min / Color/ Letterboxed
NR / 1969 / France
Language: French and English tracks.

Director: Masato Tsujioka
Cast: Nori Horikoshi, Guts Ishimatsu, Hironari Ohshima, Koji Yokokawa, Yukari Ono.

An ex-boxer wakes up in chains. His name is Machimura. In this unfamiliar room, he sees his old boxing partner, Matoba; and his long time rival, Ushijima; both being held captive.

A woman's voice erupts: "Choose which one to kill… or you die." Machimura must choose or meet his fate. Machimura chooses… but the nightmare doesn't end. He must continue "choose," between the people from his past.

Ex-wife. Former boss. Past lovers… Where is this going? When will it end? How many judgments must he make, before this is over?

In the tradition of SAW and BATTLE ROYALE comes a new tale of horror, JUDGMENT.

16x9 anamorphic video. On/OFF English subtitles, Trailer, Making of.

UPC# 825307-930191

CAT# PH-93019 - $24.98

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Drama 72 min / Color/ 16 x9
NR / 2012 / Japan
Language: Japanese with ON/OFF English .

Director: Jean Périssé
Cast:Valentine Teisseire, Bernard LeCoq, Patricia Karim, Roger Souza

One stormy evening in 1829, the aging writer René de Chateaubriand, takes refuge in a mountain retreat at Cauterets, a small town in the Pyrenees. Here, he meets Léontine de Villeneuve, an aristocratic woman forty years his junior, who ignites his passion and who seems to be as equally attracted to him. Under the watchful gaze of the maître d'hôtel, Chateaubriand embarks on what will be his last great love affair, with a woman he will later refer to in his writings as L'Occitanienne.

•16x9 anamorphic video, Trailer, ON/OFF English, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese Subtitles, Storyboards, Digital Brochure in French.

"STRIKING... SUBLIME PERFORMANCES...
CAPTIVATING WORK... a compelling chamber piece
that feels like an Ingmar Bergman film seen through
the prism of French romanticism."
- Films de France

"Magnificent film!"
-Allo Cine

UPC# 825307-930092
CAT# PH-93009 - $24.98

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Drama 90 min / Color/ 16 x9
NR / 2008 / France
Language: French with ON/OFF English (Spanish, German, Portuguese) subtitles.

Director: Sung-hee Jo
Cast:Min-ji-I Lee, Hae-il Park, Seung-mok Yoo,
Se-jong-I Park, Yeong-ho-I Kim

"End of Animal" conjures up an apocalypse whose implications are out of all proportion with the film's own scale. You could think of it as a broken-down road movie. Soon-Young is travelling by taxi to her mother's place in Taeryung when the driver picks up a second passenger who soon reveals that he has no money or plastic to pay his share of the fare.

What the stranger does have, though, is uncanny insights into the minds of both Soon-Young and the driver (the latter's marriage has been in trouble since he was caught with an underage girl), and he goes on to predict that all electrical power will fail any moment now... which it does.

The driver walks ahead to seek help, the stranger vanishes and Soon-Young is left alone. Before you know it, the road has become a dog-eat-dog world in which everyone has dark secrets and no-one can be trusted. Only the stranger seems to have Soon-Young's best interests at heart, but he's never in touch when she needs him. Jo Sung-Hee's remarkable film reaches a heart of darkness that ordinary disaster movies cannot reach.

•16x9 anamorphic video, ON/OFF English subtitles, Trailer

Maybe the most striking debut in Korean film history, this pocket-sized apocalypse shows the day when electricity disappears and the road becomes a dog-eat-dog world.
-Tony Rayns

Official Selection:
Rotterdam International Film Fest
Vancouver International Film Fest
BFI London Film Fest

UPC# 825307-929690
CAT# PH-92969 - $24.98

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Horror-Mystery 114 min / Color/ 16 x9
NR / 2010 / Korean
Language: Korean with ON/OFF English subtitles.

Director: Mich Medvedoff
Cast:Bora Soth, Maly Seng, Med Heng,
Sophaline Mao, Jefferson Ouch

Bora is 40, jobless and stills lives at home. When his family kicks him out, he is homeless... until his sleazy uncle offers him an opportunity... to marry a Cambodian bride.
Bora is gay and hates women, but must accept. When the money runs out, he is forced to marry another wife... followed by another... and another... until he has more wives than he can handle.

•16x9 anamorphic video, Short Film "Private Eye Candy", FIlmmaker Interview, Deleted scenes, Trailer

"Really like it!"
-Justin Lin (Dir. "Fast Five")

"A profile subject worthy of Werner Herzog or Gus Van Sant"
-Paul Cullum (FIlm Quote Quarterly)

UPC# 825307-929997
CAT# PH-92999 - $24.98

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Comedy 79 min / Color/ 16 x9
NR / 2011 / USA
Language: Englis, Cambodian with English subtitles.

Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Cast:Jeong-min Hwang, Seung-beom Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo, Ho-jin Cheon, Dong-seok Ma, Don-gi Woo

A serial killer targeting elementary school students is on the loose—and 5 victims means even the president gets involved in the investigation. When the most probable suspect dies in custody and the case looks like it's reached a dead end, high ranking police brass decide to create a killer—and anyone will do.

Though Detective CHOI Cheol-gi boasts an incredible number of arrests over his career his rank never showed it. He was framed and demoted for another crime and decides that this is his last chance at professional redemption. He makes a deal with mob boss JANG Seok-gu, who he has been investigating, and together they decide to set up one of the existing suspects as the serial killer. The only hurdle in their plan is public prosecutor JU Yang, who takes on the case. JU himself had been involved in a deal with the boss of a rival criminal organization, and President Kim wants CHOI dismissed from his position. When the secret deals and back alley agreements start to come to light, it only serves to drag CHOI, JU, JANG, and KIM deeper and deeper into a dark hole of questionable ethics and abuse of the law.

UPC# 825307-929898
CAT# PH-92989 - $24.98

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Crime Thrileer 119 min / Color/ 16 x9
NR / 2010 / Korea
Language: Korean with ON/OFF English subtitles.

Director: Woo-suk Kang
Cast:Sung-kee Ahn, Kyung-gu Soi, Jun-ho Heo

January 1968, 31 members of North Korean Special Unit 124 infiltrated South Korea with the ultimate mission of attacking the Blue House (Presidential Palace in Korea) and assassinating President PARK Chung-hee.

A gritty, realistic portrayal of war and its casualties. In 1968, After stopping a team of North Korean assassins, South Koreans decided to form their own group of assassins, straight from the dregs of society. The mission, to kill Kim Il-Sung, the then North Korean leader. These men endured the hellish training. However, the changes in political climate and the detente between North and South Korea made these men a liability - their government turned them into killers, then abandoned them.  A superb drama of individuals caught in the maelstrom of politics and history.

UPC# 825307-929799
CAT# PH-92979 - $24.98

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Action Drama 133 min / Color / 16x9
NR / 2003 / Korea
Language: Korean with ON/OFF English subtitles.

Director: David Hamilton
Cast:Patti D'Arbanville, Mona Kristensen, Bernard Giraudeau

A schoolgirl spends the summer with a couple whose marriage is on the brink. Only, the schoolgirl falls in love with the wife. Meanwhile, she pursues a local teenage boy and tries to find a "suitable male lover" for the wife, so that they can both enjoy an affair simultaneously. Can the schoolgirl accomplish this before the end of summer?

Famed female photographer David Hamilton directed this beautifully sensual study of the awakening sexuality of a young schoolgirl, written by a young Catherine Breillat ("Fat Girl", "Romance", "The Last Mistress"), based on the French classic "Les Chansons de Bilitis".
Unavailable in the US for nearly three decades, Bilitis is vintage, French erotic cinema at its finest.

UPC# 825307-926293
CAT# PH-92629 - $24.98

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Romance Drama 92 min / Color
NR / 1977 / France
Audio Tracks: French, English, German and ON/OFF English subtitles, Music from the movie, Interview with Catherine Breillat.

Director: JANG JIN
Cast:LEE SOON-JAE JANG DONG-GUN GOH DOO-SHIM LIM HA-RYONG
HAN CHAE-YOUNG

The film takes viewers to the private quarters of the Blue House during the terms of three fictional presidents. Kim Jong-ho wins the lottery just before retiring. Cha Ji-uk, a young, handsome single parent, romantically involved with his childhood sweetheart, must deal with diplomacy problems. Last but not least, the nation's first female president, Han Gyeong-ja, has to deal with a loving but rather troublesome husband.

"Jang does a very good job of achieving the impossible by turning politicians into likeable and noble figures, and the film is not only hilarious, but deeply sympathetic".
-Beyond Hollywood

UPC# 825307-928891
CAT# PH-92889 - $24.98

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Comedy 132 min / 16x9
NR / 2009 / Korea
Language: Korean with ON/OFF English subtitles

Director: EVA JIN
Cast:ZHANG ZIYI FAN BINGBING SO JI-SUB PETER HO RUN DONG

"Sophie's Revenge" stars international sensation, Zhang Ziyi ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Rush Hour 2" and "Memoirs of a Geisha"). Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's. The two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two best friends, Lucy and Lily. At the eve of her success, Sophie suddenly realizes that she has been so focused on revenge that she has not heard her own change of heart...

"Sophie's Revenge is remarkably export-ready for a female-targeted Chinese comedy"
-efilmcritics.com

"Infectious fun"
-San Franscisco Chronicle

UPC# 825307-929195
CAT# PH-92919 - $24.98

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Romanctic Comedy 107 min / 16x9
NR / 2009 / China
Language: Chinese with ON/OFF English subtitles

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cast:Denise Aron-Schropfer, Michel Trillot, Sandra Sammartino

A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital. But the aunt lives with a man, Jean-Pierre, who seems to be a little too nice with the girl.

"My name is Mimi. My mom took a lot of drugs last night and now she's all pale and in the hospital. Aunt Solange took me to her apartment. My bed is in a very little closet. At night, I hear a man hurting Solange. His name is Jean-Pierre.

There's nothing to do at my aunt's apartment. The apartment is really hot. Jean-Pierre messes with me.nI'm scared he's going to hurt me like he hurts my aunt at night.

Drugs have many, many colors, there are many to choose from... Maybe if I take them, I can go be with my mom again."

Official Selection:
Canne Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Avignon Film Festival
Tronto International Film Festival
Helsinki International Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival

UPC# 825307-929393
CAT# PH-92939 - $24.98

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Drama 52 min / 16x9
NR / 1997 / France
Language: French with ON/OFF English subtitles
Interview with Director and Gasper Noe (Camera)

Director: Jang-soo Lee
Cast:Jin-hee Ji, Ha-neul Kim, Yoo-jeong Kim, Soo-kyeong Jeon, Mi-seong Jeong, Gi-bang Kim

Kim Ha Neul stars as Mi Kyung, a woman recently released from prison who boards a boat to an island called Paradise, just because she saw it written on a flier on the train. She meets a kind-hearted teacher (Ji Jin Hee), who accepts her for who she is, despite knowing her past and learns to open her heart again. When she rescues a student from making the same mistake that landed her in jail years ago, Mi Kyung finds herself once again in turmoil. Written by Okada Yoshikazu (Maison Ikkoku, Bambino) and directed by Lee Jang Soo (Stairway to Heaven, Shoot for the Star).

"Perfect in every way"
-Drama Fever

UPC# 825307-928990
CAT# PH-92899 - $24.98

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Drama: 109 min
NR / 2009 / Korea
Language: Korean with ON/OFF English subtitles

Director: Kil-woong Ji
Cast:Cheong-ah Lee, Ki-woong Park, Yeong-ha Lee, Yeong-sam Yoon, Dal-hwan Jo, Yeong-ran Jang

Junko (Lee Cheong Ah), a half Japanese, half Korean girl, travels to Seoul as an exchange student in hopes of finding a Korean student whom she had fallen in love with in Japan. When she arrives at her new university, she finds out that her love-to-be is in the army. On top of that, the boarding house she's staying at is full of rowdy young guys, including the owner's abrasive son Jongman (Park Ki Woong). Junko is set on finding residence elsewhere, but agrees to stay in exchange for Korean lessons from Jongman. This disagreeable tutor, however, is a lot more interested in teaching her inappropriate words than conjugation. The two initially spend all their time feuding, but Junko slowly discovers there's more to Jongman than his insensitive exterior.

"Four stars. Cute and Hilariously Entertaining".
- Eternity Heaven

"Love this movie".
- Han Cinema

"Hilarious scenes of culture shock and language mishaps".
-Selapana.com

UPC# 825307-929096
CAT# PH-92909 - $24.98

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Comedy: 125 min
NR / 2007 / Korea
Language: Korean with ON/OFF English subtitles

Director: Jessica Yu
Cast:Dakota Fanning, Larry Pine, Henry Darger

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL, an innovative feature length documentary, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu and produced by Susan West, explores the parallel lives of legendary outsider artist Henry Darger. Reclusive janitor by day, visionary artist by night, Darger's 15,000 page novel details the exploits of the Vivian Girls, seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against godless, childenslaving men.

Featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning (I AM SAM, CAT IN THE HAT) and Larry Pine (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, THE ICE STORM), the music of Emmywinning composer Jeff Beal and the work of a team of animators, this wholly original film tells the story of a hidden universe.

Official Selection:
Sundance Fil Festival
Cleveland Int'l Film Festival
Provincetown Int'l Film Festival
Gotham Awards

Winner:
Vancouver Film Festival (Best Documentary)

UPC# 825307-929591
CAT# PH-92959 - $24.98

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Documentary 82 min
NR / 2004 / USA
Language: English