, 1h37 OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Crime ActorsJamie Chung, Matt O'Leary, Beau Bridges, Scott Mechlowicz, Tantoo Cardinal, Russell Hodgkinson Rating65% Hyune Jae is a Korean-American teenager girl living in New Mexico in 1994 with her immigrant parents. HyunJae works at her father’s taxidermy shop, but is bored. After convincing her reluctant mother to let her go out on a Friday night, she joins her friend Abby at a local bar with fake IDs. Jae meets a good-looking young man in a fireman uniform, and accepts his offer to drive her home. In the car, HyunJae notices that there is a policeman uniform costume in the backseat and the firefighter badge is fake. HyunJae attempts to escape from the car, but is caught. She is bound, gagged, and thrown into the trunk of a second car driven by a second man.
, 20minutes OriginUSA ActorsJoseph Steven Yang, James Kyson, Jun Hee Lee, Joon Park, Roland Young Roles Sooyoung Rating76% Deface is the story of Sooyoung, a faceless factory worker in a small town in North Korea who stays quiet and follows the rules. But when his daughter dies of starvation, Sooyoung is driven by his outrage to vandalize the large propaganda posters that decorate the town with happy, assuring slogans. Sooyoung risks his life to deface the billboards, repainting the messages to reflect the harsh reality of life in North Korea, and desecrating the images of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. He manages to avoid capture by the newly formed “Anti-Graffiti” patrol, but when he sees that his act of protest leads to the arrest of local innocents, he must question to what end do his rebellious actions really serve. Will Sooyoung continue his campaign of revolution or will the government silence another individual voice? Original, controversial and painstakingly researched, DEFACE sheds light on the Hermit Nation through dramatic storytelling, amazing performances and compelling imagery.
, 2h25 Directed byRob Marshall OriginUSA GenresDrama, Historical, Romance ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsZhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Suzuka Ōgo, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Samantha Futerman Rating73% The film tells the story of Chiyo Sakamoto, a poor Japanese girl who has been sold along with her older sister Satsu into a life of servitude by her parents. Chiyo is taken in by the proprietress of a geisha house, Mother, but Satsu is rejected and is sold to another house in the "pleasure district" of the Hanamachi. At the okiya, she meets another young girl named Pumpkin, and also has numerous unpleasant run-ins with the okiya's senior geisha Hatsumomo.