Following the phenomenal success of Asia Extreme 2003 and 2004, Tartan Films has again teamed up with Tiger Beer and Cineworld Cinemas (formerly UGC Cinemas) and for the first time PSP to bring you more of the astoundingly stylish and often violent world of Asian Cinema. This year Tiger Beer Tartan Asia Extreme season features 6 films in 12 cities and runs from September 16 to November 17.
After barely surviving an auto accident, in which his girlfriend was killed, Hiroshi is unable to remember his former life. During his convalescence, all that comes back to him is his love of medicine, prompting him to enroll in medical school. While in anatomy class, as students dissect a human body for the first time, Hiroshi's memory of his lost lover is reawakened when her body turns up on his dissection table.
One Night in Mongkok: Mongkok, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, is the hotbed of illicit business. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), a farm boy from Mainland China, is hired as a killer and is forced to enter into the coincidence of gangs of Mongkok. Lai Fu by chance meets a call girl from his home village, Dan (Cecilia Cheung), and saves her from the gangsters. The arrival of Lai Fu tenses the police and the triad. Under flashy neon lights, Lai Fu and Dan are rummaged around in Mongkok by police and gangsters. Who will find them first, the lawful force or the lawless one?
The year is 1972 and amidst the Vietnam War, nine Korean soldiers end up missing at a section located only 150km from Ho Chi Minh City known as "R Point." Despite being missing for more than six months, Korean headquarters occasionally receive radio transmissions, requesting help. Hard-boiled Lieutenant Choi Tae In (Kam Woo Sung) is assigned to take a platoon and journey to the isolated area to find the missing men. Arriving at the designated location, Choi finds an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the graves of those who entered R-Point. Before the platoon can figure out what's going on, they discover a shocking revelation - one of the men in their platoon, who they all thought was one of them, turns out to be one of the missing men they were sent to find...
The summer of 1999, a number of black garbage bags begin appearing around Seoul, filled with the assorted body parts of three murder victims. The high-priority case ends up falling into the lap of Detective Jo a disgraced cop who he has just been put through the ringer by an internal affairs investigation. With the help of his partner Oh and a dedicated task force, Jo quickly learns that all three victims were former boyfriends of a comely but quiet museum curator named Chae Su-yeon.With his attention focused on Su-yeon, Jo spends most of his time with her, uncovering clues from her troubled past as a means to track down the killer. Meanwhile, the body count continues to mount, and Jo soon finds himself in the killer's crosshairs. But who is behind these heinous crimes? Is it Kim Ki-yeon, an artist who is obsessed with Su-yeon? Or is it Su-yeon's best friend, a medical resident at a local hospital? Or could it be Su-yeon's estranged father, whom she has not seen in five years? Or could it be Su-yeon herself?
Things start to heat up considerably in this highly successful sequel when ace legal eagle Kang takes on the case of Han Sang-woo (Jeong Jun-ho), a former high school classmate and the future chairman of the Myung-Sun Foundation. Despite his innocent facade, Kang's old friend looks to be guilty of bribery, embezzlement, and even murder! But with Han always one step ahead of Kang, what can our hero do to bring this white collar "public enemy" to justice? Find out in director Kang Woo-suk's provocative look at the illicit relationship between big business and Korea's shadowy underworld!
Jiney is a photography student. One day on her way to school, a woman is knocked down by a car and dies horribly. Jiney witnesses the accident and takes a picture of the scene. Experiencing the excitement and satisfaction she's never known before, she then becomes obsessed with photographing 'death'. During this time, Jiney receives a video tape which shows a girl being beaten to death. Before Jiney finds out what to do with her abnormal behavior and who sent her the weird tape, Anson, the one who sent Jiney the tape, kidnaps her.
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