Murakami Haruki

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese novelist and literary translator. He was born in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City in Kyoto Prefecture on January 12, 1949 and grew up in Nishinomiya and Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture. While attending Waseda University, he owned a jazz cafe. He married his wife, Yoko, who also attended…

Man and Woman: Love Story in New York Season 2

Tamura's hard-boiled attitude is toned down, turning him into more of a comical figure as he tries to juggle an affair with a married woman named Sugiyama Tomoko and a simultaneous relationship with his young lover,…

Apocalypse of Stalls

A full-fledged hard-boiled snack battle between the best street stalls. (Source: Korean = KakaoPage || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the webtoon “The Street Stall of Apocalypse" (노점묵시록) by…

Angel of Vengeance

6.5

In the tradition of "Hard Boiled" and "Naked Killer" comes this blistering action-crime thriller in which two young women entangled in a power struggle between a trio of mobsters must struggle to survive in a world…

Anjo Leung

Tantei ga Utsuru

A major secret has been stolen from one of Japan's wealthiest men, the head of the Akutagami Group. A cool, hard-boiled detective quickly narrows down the suspects to four men: the butler of the wealthy man's house,…

Wolves

A war between those who protect, and those who take away Brutal and bloody violence of the yakuza and the Koryo mafia Women who feed the wolves Detectives and gangs chasing serial killers Hard-boiled action stained…

Dead or Alive Final

6.9

Set in a post-apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Honda Takeshi is a…

Wandering Alien Detective Robin

7.0

There are creepy films with hideous aliens and films that satirise the latter. There are also satires of hard-boiled detectives and basically every other genre. (Source: IFFR)

Bowie Lam

Lau Chi Ming

Lau Chi Ming is a Hong Kong actor and stuntman who has worked in films since 1984.

Tang Chiu Yau

Tang Chiu Yau is a Hong Kong actor, martial arts director and stuntman.

Jameson Lam

Jameson Lam is a Hong Kong actor, assistant director, editor, writer, director, and script supervisor, who was involved in a variety of aspects of filmmaking from 1988-2003.

Phillip Chan

Phillip Chan is a Hong Kong actor, producer, director, screenwriter and music composer. He worked as a Royal Hong Kong Police Force police inspector before entering the entertainment industry. Chan is the CEO of Endless Idea Management (Hong Kong) Limited and Endless Idea Management (International)…

Philip Kwok

Philip Kwok, born Chen Chv Lu (陳舉陸), is a Taiwanese actor, martial artist, and martial arts instructor based in Hong Kong. He began his career in the Hong Kong film industry in the 1970s, initially working with Chang Gong Film Company (長弓電影公司) and later with Shaw Brothers Studio (邵氏兄弟影業公司).…

Teresa Mo

Teresa Mo is a Hong Kong actress with ancestry in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. She started her career in the 1970s and joined TVB in 1981. In 1978, she was proposed to by her then-boyfriend and fellow ATV colleague Leslie Cheung.

John Woo

Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow (1986)…

In the Line of Duty: Royal Warriors

7.4

Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto is quiet, hard-boiled, leaving…

Breakout Brothers

7.2

Three inmates band together to plot a desperate escape. A gang leader doesn't want to miss his estranged daughter's wedding; a small-time hood with a good heart must donate an organ to save his dying mother; an altruistic…

Manhunt

6.9

It tells the story of international lawyer Du Qiu, who finds himself accused of murdering a female colleague following his farewell party. Detective Yamura is summoned to chase Du, but when he manages to escape repeatedly,…