Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Kai Aono is a high school student. He transfers to a scenic island in the Seto Inland Sea from Kyoto. There, he meets high school student Akimi Inoue, who was born on the island and lives with her mother. They fall in love with each other, but they are forced to make a choice due to their own fates.

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

This is the crazy bet of a mother ready to do anything to help her 12-year-old son, Louis, wake up from his coma. After Louis' accident, Thelma decides to do for him the "10 things to do before the end of the world" that he had written in his diary. By listening to these adventures, Louis will see how beautiful life is and that he must come back! By fulfilling a teenager's dreams at the age of forty, Thelma will experience an incredible journey that will take her farther than she ever imagined.

China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair and a child who holds all the secrets.

Through a grey blanket of clouds, we barely discern the contours of Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces. 4,500 exceptional and diverse photographs from the past 150 years form the basis for Ascent. Made entirely with stills, it is a filmic experiment balancing between documentary and fiction, photography and film, where an English woman and her deceased Japanese partner, Hiroshi, lead the way. As Mount Fuji is climbed across geographical, temporal and cultural divides, the narrative unfolds, exploring unexpected paths.

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place.

In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.

Blue-eyed ronin Nemuri Kyōshirō is ordered to eliminate assassins targeting a senior official. A rosary links the plot to hidden Christians, drawing him into rival power struggles—and multiple factions trying to kill him.

Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.

In industrial Yangon, young factory worker San Kyi dreams of returning to her native village. Her relationship with co-worker Theint Theint Oo evolves from closeness to growing distance, revealing tensions between their expectations and life prospects. Amid exhausting labour, social repression, and economic uncertainty, both women seek escape and intimacy.

A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan.

The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her daughter to stop the film project. What they do not take into account is that Chen and her daughter lost contact long ago.

Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border for 32 years.

Lin Gensheng comes to work in the desert.

Xiaoma, a young woman who has recently moved to Beijing, finds an apartment in an old courtyard apartment complex owned by Grandma, an elderly woman. Xiaoma and Grandma’s relationship almost immediately becomes strained. After trying to tidy up the courtyard, Grandma insists that Xiaoma turn over her share of the profits. Tightfisted, the elderly landlady resists even allowing Xiaoma to install a telephone. At the same time the older woman becomes increasingly interested in Xiaoma’s personal (and romantic) life. Grandma, for example, tries to pass off her grandson to the younger woman. Annoyed, Xiaoma nevertheless is flattered at the older woman’s concern. Over the course of four seasons, Xiaoma begins to learn from her landlady of the old world that the modern city of Beijing has left behind, while Grandma begins to enjoy the youth and vitality of her tenant. The two women become closer and eventually develop a deep friendship.

After the Korean War, General Feng Shi leads a heroic army into the Gobi Desert on a mission from the Central Committee. At the same time, scientist Lu Guangda returns from the U.S. and says goodbye to his wife. As talented individuals from scientific institutions join the effort, they face harsh conditions—scarce resources, outdated technology, and frequent natural disasters—but work together toward a common goal.

At the foot of Mount Panderman, in a house of 6 x 7 m, Iwan dreams to build a bedroom. Living with six other people in the cramped little house, a bedroom is truly a luxury. His father is a public car driver who can’t remember his own birthday, while her mother didn’t finish elementary school. Iwan grows up together with his four sisters. It is education that grants a way out. With tenacity, the Apple Town boy can work in the Big Apple, New York. Ten years of his exploration in that most cosmopolitan city makes him able to raise his family’s dignity. He manages to hold an important position in one of the biggest multinational corporations. However the bright lights of New York can’t heal a bitter memory. A shocking event brought forth someone who takes him to revisit the past. It is family love that saves all.

Cahyo and Diana are from different religions. Both of them want seriously continue their relationship and marry. Will their relationship work?

It is an omnibus consisting of six stories.

The relationship between four best friend turns complicated when a woman enters their lives, and once their past returns to torment them.

A story of friendship between women who have a background and also the differences in age and their own personal twists. When Kartika Rahayu (Agni Pratistha) who was wounded and sad because after being left by the fiancée who canceled their marriage. Kartika who was called Tika before thought that she was a strong woman but could not face the problem of his life at this time. So her aunt (Ira Maya Sopha) can finally force Tika to get out of her wounds and sadness and advise Tika to move to her house in order to move on from her past. Tika and Anind finally meet new people in their lives. They meet and know Ken (Dhea Seto) a dancer as well as a college blogger and Baby (Alexandra Gottardo) a model for adult men's magazines that are the savages of a thick-kneed masher.

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to defend themselves. Within the giant walls, humans lived in peace, but, 100 years later, the giant wall is broken.

Eren Yeager leaves to restore a break in the wall destroyed by a Titan. He comes under attack by the Titans and is cornered. Shikishima comes to his aid. The titans never stops attacking. Eren is now injured and tries to protect Armin, but is swallowed by a titan. A Titan with black hair appears and begins to expel the other titans.

A retired assassin's past catches up with him and his brutality surfaces as he goes on a final killing spree to make things right.

Out of work and forced to marry a man she dislikes, young San Kyi plans to run away with her best friend, but complications unfold.

Disgraced by a public backlash after producing fraudulent paranormal content, an ambitious video blogger ventures into a legendary, forbidden forest to capture authentic supernatural evidence, only to become permanently ensnared within a malevolent metaphysical realm.

Can beauty be standardized? What challenges will a girl with non-standard beauty played by Yoko Raame face in a world where everyone is beautiful?

Minghao, who came to him in a sad childhood, grew up step by step with his only sister and his dream of singing. On the way to pursue his dream of music, he met a woman who loved him for a lifetime, and had a short period of happiness and joy. When the beauty collapsed, Ming Hao concealed that his sister Hongmei chose to live a flamboyant life. At the moment when he was about to fall into the abyss, he suddenly realized that his free life finally settled in the harbor of family affection and love. (Source: Douban

Zhao Yali meets Shanzhuang Gao through the app, who invites him to a gathering at a villa. The place exudes a strange atmosphere, and Zhao mysteriously disappears after receiving a message from Gao. Inside, Zhao’s friends—Ding Li, the villa’s owner, and Zhang Huaqiang, a hired troublemaker—fall victim to bizarre accidents. As the truth unravels, it’s revealed that the terror isn’t from ghosts, but from humanity twisted by hatred. (Source: MyDramaList)