In an unknown place and unknown time, a lone Samurai known only as Grave (Tak Sakaguchi) thirst for the ultimate battle. Grave has stolen a mysterious coffin from the holy Tougab Temple – a coffin said to contain great power. Trapped inside the sealed coffin is the Goddessof Destruction, confined and held at bay from laying waste to this world. …
The Cave Of The Silken Web
This Shaw Brothers film adaptation of the classic novel Journey to the West, follows a gang of plucky monk heroes who find themselves trapped in the cave of the seven seductive spider fairies. The sexy sirens believe that eating the flesh of monks will bring them immortality. Can Monkey, Pig and Friar Sand defend their master from the temptresses’ evil …
Super Inframan
Soon after an evil princess rises from the Earth’s core and decides to invade Hong Kong, the inhabitants of planet Earth attempt to defend themselves by building a robotic fighting machine they dub Inframan. Danny Lee, Terry Liu and Hap Wong co-star in this 1970s Shaw Brothers production that’s divided into three episodes, much like a television serial. Title Super Inframan Year 1975 …
Matango
After a yacht is damaged in a storm and stranded on a deserted island, the passengers: a psychologist, his girlfriend, a wealthy businessman, a famous singer, a writer, a sailor and his skipper take refuge in a fungus covered boat. While using the MUSHROOMS for sustenance, they find the ships journal describing the mushrooms to be poisonous, however some members of the shipwrecked party continue to …
Moon Child
Filmmaker Takahisa Zeze weaves a surreal world of crime and kinship in this futuristic tale charting four decades in the lives of enterprising teen thug Sho (Gackt Camui), his vampire friend (Hyde), their troublemaking buddy, Son (Lee-Hom Wang), and his mute sister (Zeny Kwok). The makeshift group forms a bond, but Sho and Son find themselves on opposite sides years …
The Mysterians
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the armed forces attempt to stop them with every weapon available. Title: The Mysterians Year: 1959 Country: Japan Director: Ishirô …
The Dimension Travelers
Freakish events jolt Midori from her ordinary schoolgirl life. First, mysterious soldiers appear to terrorize her, declaring her a dangerous mental patient (with which her family soon agrees). Then, her best friend, who claims to be perfectly sane, appears to be from another dimension. Is Midori losing her mind? Or is she a dimension traveler, with powers that could blow …
Mighty Peking Man
Johnny (Danny Lee) leads intrepid explorers into the dark Indian jungle to find the mysterious, giant apelike creature that lives there — the Mighty Peking Man. Johnny finds the creature along with his beautiful but scantily clad human ward and brings both of them back to the big city. The creature, however, proves he can never be chained as he runs amok in Hong …