(DramaWiki) – “Goemon” is based on the life of Ishikawa Goemon a legendary 16th century ninja warrior and bandit who stole valuables and gave them to the poor. There is little historical information on Goemon’s life, and thus he has become a folk hero, whose background and origins have been widely speculated upon.
Now, more than a month ago I bought some movies off of YesAsia.com when they were having this sale. Some were out of stock, so I only got them in the mail a few days ago.
After I put the order through I realized that Goemon had no English subtitles, and unfortunately, I could not cancel it.
So I watched this film entirely without subtitles. The general plot was easy to follow, though I was lost of some specifics. I understood a few words here and there, but mostly I had no idea what they were saying. I looked around the internet and found out more details of it, including the fact that it’s very loosely based off a true story. Who knew?
It was quite an action packed revenge film which relied a lot on special effects. It was pretty, full of lots of pretty people, and was quite entertaining. If you can find it somewhere with subtitles, I’d rec it. Or if you know Japanese. That would be helpful. My basic knowledge of Japanese wasn’t quite enough to understand what they were saying. Maybe I’ll rewatch it one day when I actually know Japanese *crosses fingers*
It’s 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the poor die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend frames simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes…
(IMDB) – When several people are killed in a peculiar manner, a Europol agent suspects that it could be the work of Ninja assassins. Her superiors warn her that she’s entering dangerous territory. But she investigates nonetheless and it leads her to another dead agent who was also investigating the same thing. When she is marked for death, she is saved by another Ninja, whom she learns has gone renegade.
(IMDB) – Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo (Cha) and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed into assisting the girl because the other passengers mistakenly think she is his girlfriend. Once he helps her, Kyun-woo develops a deep sense of responsibility for her which enables him to tolerate (somehow) the girls abuses. 
(IMDB) – Chein is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
Avantika (Kareena Kapoor), a professor at an Indian college, falls in love with Ehsaan (Saif Ali Khan), another professor, after a chance meeting. They quickly get married as Avantika is asked back to her previous job at a college in New York. After moving into a Muslim neighborhood, Avantika begins to discover that Ehsaan is not really the man she believed him to be.
(IMDB) – Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth’s core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world’s population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world’s leaders race to build “arks” to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family.
(IMDB) - In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
(IMDB) - The film deals with a newly married couple caught on camera at a hotel during their honeymoon. The video is released on the Internet and the bride ultimately commits suicide. The husband, in pursuit of revenge, delves into the world of underground pornography, eventually traveling to Amsterdam and Switzerland to seek out the criminals of the underground pornography industry that profited from the film. 
(YesAsia.com) – Andy Lau is ‘Aaron’, a rich, successful businessman who falls off a boat, and drifts ashore an island located in Hong Kong’s rural outskirts. He’s mistaken for an illegal immigrant, and is taken in by a family who runs a small grocery store. The owner (Deannie Ip) is a bit unscrupulous, but ‘Aaron’ falls in love with her daughter ‘Yvonne’ (Sharla Cheung), who just so happens to work at his company. Discovering rest and enjoyment in his new pauper lifestyle, the former rich playboy hides his identity and goes about trying to win ‘Yvonne’s’ heart. But ‘Yvonne’ desires to leave her poor life, and ‘Aaron’s’ company is threatened by a hostile takeover! Can the pauper return to being a prince and win the heart of his chosen princess?
