The complete uncut version of Takashi Miike’s samurai masterpiece. With 17 minutes of original footage restored!

A punk rock Buddhist monk wants to achieve nirvana but he can’t leave the hardcore headbanging behind. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.

A celebratory screening of Kinji Fukasaku’s masterpiece about a class of grade schoolers who must fight each other to the death to win the right to be the one survivor allowed to leave an island compound.

The director of Korea’s top-grossing movie of all time directs this absurdist, Terry Gilliam-esque satire of Korea’s endless medieval wars.

Like Thelma & Louise crossed with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, this is the saddest, bloodiest ode to female friendship ever made.

This brawling stunt-tacular features Thailand’s best stuntmen and -women unleashing dirt bike fu, shovel beatdowns, fights on fire and fights under speeding trucks.

Tsui Hark’s feral masterpiece is one of the most important Chinese movies ever made. Rarely screened, it’s unlike any movie you’ve ever seen. Trust us.

A tale of a boy, a samurai, time travel, pastries, chef vs. yakuza battles, absent fathers and single mothers.

Taiwan’s crowd-pleasing blockbuster king delivers a hyperactive comedy about a porn-addicted kid who’s desperate to move on to true love.

A beautifully observed, funny, and deeply moving film from one of China’s only female directors (Li Yu, Lost in Beijing).

Taiwan’s box-office king based this black comedy, about a cab driver in love with a traffic cop, on his day job as a cabbie.

The thriller that saved the Korean film industry, this mega-hit is what you’d get if you cross-bred Alfred Hitchcock with a pit bull.

An encore presentation of the best all-out action film from Ryoo Seung-Wan (The Unjust). Like a less ironic version of Kill Bill.

This short film is the directorial debut from Makoto Ohtake, a well-known Japanese comedian and actor since the 80’s (he’s worked extensively with Takeshi Kitano and the popular City Boys troupe).

Tsui Hark returns to greatness in this “Sherlock Holmes in imperial China” feminist phantasmagoria. Part of The Wu Xia Focus.

A brand-new print of Tsui Hark’s classic female swordswoman riff on Casablanca.

Ching Siu-tung’s sword-slashing debut features bizarre images ripped raw from his brain: hang-gliding killers, lethal puppets, exploding ninjas.

In this sweet’n’raunchy celebration of kink, vice cops are trying to suppress a suburban neighborhood where everyone is getting in touch with their fetishes.

The sequel finds the two teens now tasked with the job of fighting the aliens from Planet Black Suit.

Based on Japan’s existential sci fi action manga, Gantz follows two teens who, after trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

This dark summer superhero blockbuster is about a creep who can control minds and the simple guy who’s out to stop him.

“King of Pink Films” Takahisa Zeze spent almost two years shooting this 4 hour movie about two random murders and the heartbreak, trauma and healing that spills out from them over the next two decades. Monumental and strange, passionate and philosophical, this is an epic in every sense of the word.

Japan does the violent porno horror thing better than anyone else and this oddity features butt-walls, weiner-eating and demon hookers.

Presenting happy 70’s crimefighters: a boy and his motorcycle-transforming, karate-fighting robot… only the kid’s grown up now and is pushing 50.

When a kid believes the world is ending, he abducts his classmate in this throwback to the loopy, revolutionary, pro-sex films of the 60s.

A pro-sex movie about the porno industry and the actress who discovers freedom by becoming a nerdy porn star.

A rip-roaring, gonzo documentary about the Filipino exploitation films that erupted in the 70s and 80s.

One part Bourne, one part Batman, this award-winning flick about a retired spy rescuing a girl from kidnappers was Korea’s biggest blockbuster of 2010.

This freaked out slab of solid psychedelia is what movies will look like in the year 23,000 AD! Makes Matthew Barney look tame.

Takashi Miike returns to form with this gut-busting, bizarro flick that’s Harry Potter meets ninjas. The weirdest, wildest comedy of the year.

In a beautiful, underplayed and truly powerful film, Jet Li does drama as a father trying to teach his autistic son how to live on his own.

The much-anticipated animated epic based on Osamu Tezuka’s landmark life of the Buddha.

This fractured, austere, mournful revenge thriller is about a father’s love for his daughter and just how many people he’ll kill for her.

A freaky-deaky Filipino/US co-production from the roaring 80s, this rarely-screened exploitation movie is better known as Kung Fu Cannibals.

The best food movie of 2010 (and one of the best romances) is about a dish of stew so good that it changes lives.

This super-romantic box office champ gives Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a run for its money. Co-directed by John Woo.

The classic Hong Kong midnight action movie about prison privatization and monsters who strangle you with their guts. Rarely seen on the big screen!

If Robert Altman’s Nashville were about rock ’n’ roll instead of country music, it would be this hilarious, touching flick about rock music saving souls.

Brace yourselves for a musical comedy from Malaysia about suicide reality shows, corporate culture and selling out. Way ahead of its time.

An all-star cast (plus Jackie Chan!) in a massive summer blockbuster retelling the primal kung fu myth: the destruction of Shaolin temple.

A perfect popcorn movie, this is Bourne with a sense of humor as a private eye has to crack heads to escape a frame-up.

This sprawling corruption epic is the kind of movie Sidney Lumet would have made if he was Korean.

Tenth-anniversary screening of the yakuza vs. zombies action classic that cracked open Japan’s indie-film business like a can of cheap beer.

Ten years after starring in Versus, former pit fighter-turned stuntman/actor/director Tak Sakaguchi is back with this mondo trasho exploitation flick.

Fresh from Cannes, Na Hong-Jin’s ultra-tense thriller about a hit man on the run just won’t quit until everyone in Seoul is bleeding.

A new print of the surreal and truly astonishing fantasy film that re-invented HK moviemaking. Still trippy after all these years.