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Sunday, May 8, 2011

3 IDIOTS


Title: 3 Idiots
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Cinematographer: C. K. Muraleedharan
Release Date: 25 December 2009
Run time: 164 Minutes
Language: Hindi
Country: India

SYNOPSIS
A comedy-drama-musical full of emotions about 2 engineering students, Farhan and Raju, who have their very own complexities in life and their relationship with a new student named Rancho, who has a very unpredictable and versatile personality. The movie is full of lessons about life as an individual, a  student, a friend, a lover, a child, a brother..  But as their friendship gets deeper and deeper, problems and troubles have gathered to block their way to success. Will they be able to finish college through rough situations along the way? - CN789

MAIN CASTS
Aamir Khan as Ranchoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad / Phunsukh Wangdu
Kareena Kapoor as Pia Sahastrabuddhe
R. Madhavan as Farhan Qureshi
Sharman Joshi as Raju Rastogi
Boman Irani as Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Virus)
Omi Vaidya as Chatur Ramalingam (Silencer)
Parikshit Sahni as Mr. Qureshi
Javed Jaffrey as Ranchoddas Shamaldas Chanchad
Mona Singh as Mona Sahastrabuddhe (Pia's sister)
Sanjay Lafont as Suhas
Rahul Kumar as Millimeter


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Saturday, May 7, 2011

A CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE


Movie: A Little Thing Called Love / A Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Thai: สิ่งเล็กๆ ที่เรียกว่า...รัก
Cinematographer: Reungwit Ramasudh
Release Date: August 12, 2010 (Thailand)
Runtime: 118 min.
Distributor: Sahamongkol International and Work Point
Language: Thai
Country: Thailand

SYNOPSIS
The ordinary 14 year old girl Nam is unattractive or in simple terms...ugly. But she's always been secretly in love with an older guy in grade 10 called Chon, the most popular student in high-school. He's hot, perfect and generous, and that's what makes girls go crazy about him, including Nam too. But she doesn't give up easily. She tries to do everything to make her get noticed by the boy she loves, in the hope of him turning around to look at her just one more time.

MAIN CASTS
Mario Maurer as Chon


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DETECTIVE CONAN LIVE ACTION


Title: 名探偵コナン
Title (romaji): Meitantei Conan
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Detective mystery
Broadcast network: YTV, NTV


SPECIAL 1
Title: 名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状
Tagline: さよならまでのプロローグ
Title (romaji): Meitantei Conan: Kudo Shinichi he no Chosenjo
Tagline (romaji): Sayonara Made no Prologue
Title (English): Detective Conan: Kudo Shinichi's Written Challenge
Tagline (English): The Good-bye Prologue
Viewership ratings: 13.0
Broadcast date: 2006-Oct-02
Air time: Monday 21:00 to 22:48

SYNOPSIS
This tanpatsu celebrates the tenth year of this popular Japanese anime, originally a manga created by Aoyama Gosho. The story takes place when Shinichi was still a high school student. The talented young detective Kudo Shinichi receives a message: "I will kidnap one of your classmates during your class trip." Shinichi is going to find out the truth.

CASTS
Oguri Shun as Kudo Shinichi
Kurokawa Tomoka as Mori Ran
Jinnai Takanori as Mori Kogoro
Iwasa Mayuko as Suzuki Sonoko
Nishimura Masahiko as Inspector Megure
Fukawa Ryo as Kitajima Shingo
Mizukawa Asami as Nishida Mai
Matsushige Yutaka as Azuma Kunio
Nishimura Kazuhiko as Minamida Kyosuke
Ibu Masato as Tamagawa Keiji
Becky as Okino Yoko


SPECIAL 2
Title: 工藤新一の復活!~黒の組織との対決
Title (romaji): Kudo Shinichi no Fukkatsu! Kuro no Soshiki to no Taiketsu
Title (English): Kudo Shinichi Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization
Viewership ratings: 11.9
Broadcast date: 2007-Dec-17
Air time: Monday 21:00

SYNOPSIS
Conan attends a party for the "Miss Japanesque" awards, where he happens to eat a cake that temporarily transforms him back into Kudo Shinichi. While there, a murder takes place and he has to solve the case. The special will also feature the first live-action appearance of the Black Organization. --Tokyograph

CASTS
Oguri Shun as Kudo Shinichi
Kurokawa Tomoka as Mori Ran
Kashii Yu as Miyano Shiho
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Gin
Ibu Masato as Inspector Megure
Jinnai Takanori as Mori Kogoro
Iwasa Mayuko as Suzuki Sonoko
Tayama Ryosei as Professor Agasa


SPECIAL 3
Title: 工藤新一への挑戦状~怪鳥伝説の謎~
Title (romaji): Kudo Shinichi e no Chousenjou~Kaichou Densetsu no Nazo~
Viewership rating: TBA
Broadcast date: 2011-Apr-15
Air time: Friday 19:00
Theme song: To you... by Dream

SYNOPSIS
This story takes place 100 days before Kudo Shinichi became Edogawa Conan. Kudo Shinichi, a high school detective, arrives in Jugoya Town with Mori Ran and others.
In this town a legend exists, claiming that a gigantic bull-headed shrike attacks the townspeople and kills them. The town was about to hold a festival in 3 days to put the giant bird’s spirit to rest.
While being led on a tour of the bull-headed shrike Shrine by Sonoko’s parent’s friend, Mr. Wakura, a crime related to the legend occurs. Starting with Kosaka, member of the Wakura family are slowly murdered in the same way...

CASTS
Mizobata Junpei as Kudo Shinichi
Kutsuna Shiori as Mori Ran
Otsuka Nene as Kisaki Eri
Akimoto Sayaka Suzuki Sonoko
Ibu Masato as Megure Juzo
Jinnai Takanori as Mori Kogoro

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OTHER DRAMAS & MOVIES

JAPANESE
   DRAMA
      DETECTIVE CONAN - LIVE ACTION

THAI
   MOVIE
      A CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE

BOLLYWOOD
   MOVIE
      3 IDIOTS

SECRET


Movie: Secret
Pinyin: Bùnéng shuō de mìmì
Simplified: 不能说的秘密
Director: Jay Chou
Producer: William Kong
Cinematographer: Lee Ping-pin
Release DateJuly 27, 2007 (Taiwan)
Runtime: 101 minutes
Language: Mandarin
Country: Republic of China (Taiwan)

SYNOPSIS
 The story was about high school student Ye, who studied in the school his father taught. Ye?s piano skill was above others.On the first day of school, while walking around the piano rooms, he heard an unknown and beautiful melody, played by Lu. From then on, the two were always together.However, Lu seemed mysterious and when Ye tried to get to know her more, she always brushed off his questions by saying that it was a secret.There was a misunderstanding between the two of them, and subsequently Lu never came to school anymore. Ye was heartbroken.But the more he tried to find out, he realized that things were not as they seemed.

MAIN CASTS
Jay Chou as Ye Xianglun
Kwai Lun-mei as Lu Xiaoyu

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TAIWANESE MOVIES

2007
SECRET

THE BEAST AND THE BEAUTY


Movie: The Beast and the Beauty
Revised Romanization: Yasuwa Minyeo
Hangul: 야수와 미녀
Director: Lee Gye-byeok
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Runtime: 102 mins.
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

SYNOPSIS
It involves voice-actor Dong-gun (Ryu Seung-beom), whose blind girlfriend Hae-ju (Shin Min-a) suddenly receives surgery to regain her eyesight. Having lied to Hae-ju about his appearance, the beastly Dong-gun chooses to undergo extreme measures to change his appearance, while promising Hae-ju that he will return soon. Meanwhile, Hae-ju bumps into the Joon-ha (Kim Kang-woo)—Dong-gun's high school friend whose appearance is how Dong-gun described himself to Hae-ju—and mistakes him for Dong-gun. Hilarity ensues, and Dong-gun finds himself struggling to hold onto the love of the woman he loves.

MAIN CASTS
Ryu Seung-beom as Dong Gun
Shin Min-a as Hae Ju

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MY SASSY GIRL


Movie: My Sassy Girl
Hangul: 엽기적인 그녀
Revised Romanization: Yeopgijeogin geunyeo
Director: Kwak Jae-Young
Writer: Kim Ho-Sik (novel), Kwak Jae-Young
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Release Date: July 27, 2001
Runtime : 123 min.
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean

SYNOPSIS
Gyun-woo (Cha Tae-Hyun), a hopeless college student, enjoys picking up girls, drinking with friends and avoiding his mother as much as possible. Then, he meets ‘her’ - a drunken girl on the subway who calls him ‘honey’, pukes on a passenger, and passes out. Gyun-woo finds himself forced into a relationship he never wanted to be in. Beaten with vacuum cleaner, pepper-sprayed, held hostage at gun point, and chased by the Koren army, Gyun-woo is in the weirdest relationship of his life. Yet he finds himself falling in love with this mysterious yet intriguing girl.

MAIN CASTS
Cha Tae-Hyun as Gyun Woo
Jun Ji-hyun as The Girl

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THE CLASSIC


Movie: The Classic
Revised Romanization: Keulraesik
Hangul: 클래식
Director: Kwak Jae-yong
Producer: Jee Yeong-joon
                      Lee Jae-soon
Cinematographer: Lee Joon-kyoo
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Runtime: 127 minutes
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

SYNOPSIS
The film tells a tale about a young college student Chi-hye (Sun Ye-jin) who is involved in a love triangle with her friend Su-kyong (Lee Sang-in) and a young modish playwright Sang-min (Jo In-seong). Meanwhile, she uncovers the romance and tangles her mother Chu-hui (also played by Sun) fell into in the late 1960s.
Bouncing back and forth, the film delicately unfolds the two romances of the two generations. Though the time and people differ in the two stories, the "classic" love feelings remain unchanged.

MAIN CASTS
Son Ye-jin - Ji-hye and Joo-hee (Mother of Ji-hye)
Jo Seung-woo - Joon-ha
Jo In-seong - Sang-min

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DEATH BELL


Movie: Death Bell
Revised romanization: Gosa: Piui Jungkan Gosa
Hangul: 고死: 피의 중간고사 / 고사: 피의 중간고사
Director: Yun Hong-Seung
Writer: Kim Eun-KyungChang
Producer: Kim Kwang-Su, Lim Seong-Bin, Hong Jung-Pyo
Cinematography: Heo Seong-Ryong
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Runtime: 88 min.
Distributor: SK Telecom
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

SYNOPSIS
On the eve of the dreaded university entrance examinations, the lives of 24 of the smartest and brightest students at one high school, are on the line. Locked inside a classroom and nowhere to escape, a television monitor broadcasts a terrified Hae-yeong, the top student at the high school, tied up and seated on a chair inside an aquarium that slowly begins to fill with water. A voice from the monitor announces if the 24 cannot finish the exam administered within the allotted time given, Hae-yeong will die and so will everyone held captive inside the classroom. Thus begins the examination that will determine whether they live or die.

MAIN CASTS
Nam Gyu-Ri as Kang In Na
Kim Beom as Kang Hyeon
Lee Beom-Su as Hwang Chang Ok
Yun Jung-Hee as Choi Seo Yeong

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A TALE OF TWO SISTERS


Movie: A Tale of Two Sisters
Revised Romanization: Janghwa, Hongryeon
Hangul: 장화,홍련
Director: Kim Ji-woon
Producer: Jeong-wan Oh
                  Ki-min Oh
Cinematographer: Lee Mo-Gae
Release Date: June 13, 2003
Runtime: 115 minutes
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

SYNOPSIS
Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother?s obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.

MAIN CASTS
Im Soo Jung as Su-mi
Moon Geun Young as Su-yeon
Yeom Jeong-ah as Eun-joo
Kim Kap-su as Moo-hyeon

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