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July 2013

Despicable Me 2
Despicable Me 2 is an all-new comedy adventure featuring the return of (former?) super-villain Gru (Steve Carell), his adorable girls, the unpredictably hilarious Minions... and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.

Liv & Ingmar
Radiant actress Liv Ullmann reflects on her relationship with the master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in this personal documentary. The film mixes Ullmann's candid reminiscences and voice-over narration with clips from Bergman's films, passages from his love letters to her and luscious archival photos and footage. Ullmann (at the time a shy 25) first met Bergman, then 46, on the set of his film Persona in 1965. Although both were married to others at the time, their attraction was powerful and immediate. In his letters, Bergman called them "painfully connected". Ullmann left her husband and went to live on Faro Island with Bergman, later bearing him a daughter. Their fraught affair ended five years later, but their breathtakingly fruitful collaboration and friendship continued until the end of his life. In all, she acted in 12 of his films and directed two of his screenplays.

A Story Of Yonosuke
It is 1987 - the zenith of Japan's economic success - and eighteen-year-old Yonosuke Yokomichi has moved to Tokyo from Nagasaki. Normalin every way possible, Yonosuke finds himself out of step with his seemingly more worldly counterparts at university. Despite his somewhat goofy exterior, Yonosuke befriends fellow freshmen Ippei Kuramochi and Yui Akutsu during the opening commencement ceremony. Together with his new friends he joins the samba club. Although showing little talent, Yonosuke takes to dancing with wild abandon. During lunch one day Yonosuke meets Kato, a handsome boy popular with the girls,and the two become good friends. Soon after, while taking driving classwith Kato, Yonosuke meets Shoko, an eccentric rich girl who shows interest in Yonosuke. But Yonosuke hardly notices her advances. He is infatuated with a mysterious older woman named Chiharu who plays the plethora of rich men prevalent during the "bubble time" like pawns in a game of chess. Juxtaposed against the depiction of this year of college life in the late 1980s, the characters of A Story Of Yonosuke are also seen sixteen years later. However, missing is the affable Yonosuke, who is said to have become a cameraman after college. Little do they know of the selfless tragedy that has befallen their "ordinary" friend.

Blind Detective
Chong used to be a highly gifted detective in the police force but was forced to retire early after getting blind accidentally during an action a few years ago. Since then he works as a private eye on cold cases and earns rewards to make a living. Tung is an up-and-coming hit team detective harboring a personal secret. Ever since her junior high best friend Minnie went missing after she refused to go out with her one night over ten years ago, she has been troubled by a sense of guilt.

Monsters University
Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

Liar Game: Reborn
Adapted from Shinobu Kaitani's popular manga series, an invitation letter to the game "Musical Chairs" arrived on the doorstep of pretty college graduate, Yu Shinomiya (Mikako Tabe), along with a briefcase containing a million dollars. She asked her professor Shinichi Akiyama (Shota Matsuda) to join her for the game.

Tales From The Dark 1
The project of Tales From The Dark was initiated as a result of the recent commercial and critical success of a string of local productions. By assembling six remarkable Hong Kong filmmakers, each of them well crafted and diversified with their own style, it brings viewers to a uniquely mystical realm of wickedness. Adapting from the horror novel series by best-selling author Lilian Lee, the two-parter delivers audience six different dimensions of horror. Without constraint on its subject matter, Tales From The Dark puts your sanity to the ultimate test.

Sister
Simon is a12-year old thief who rides up to and down the ritzy resort every day ona season pass to steal unattended skis, goggles and winter gloves. He lives with his older sister Louise, a scruffy Kate Moss lookalike whose passivity extends to everything except partying and getting into cars with louts. Leading a tough life too early of his age to bear, the smart boy lives to survive, physically, financially and emotionally, by trading the proof of love with his sister with money. The two siblings share a secret that they hide well - something that maintains the bleak but unabandonable relationship under the sunny, beautiful landscape of the Alps.

I'm So Excited
A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots, hardened, experienced professionals are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution. Life in the clouds is as complicated as it is at ground level, and for the same reasons, which could be summarized in two: sex and death. The travellers in Business Class consist of a pair of newly-weds, party goers, worn out by their wedding celebration, a financier and embezzler, unscrupulous in business but also a father afflicted by his daughter's estrangement, an inveterate Don Juan with an uneasy conscience who is trying to say goodbye to one of his women (girlfriends), a rural psychic, a queen of the gossip magazines and a Mexican with an important secret. Each of them has a project in Mexico City, either to work or to escape. They all have some kind of secret, not just the Mexican.

Pacific Rim
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes - a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) - who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Turbo
Turbo is a little guy with big dreams. Not satisfied with living life at a snail's pace, he has a powerful and resolute need for speed. Turbo trains tirelessly, measuring his progress with a yard stick. (His new record: covering the 36-inch-long "track"... in 17 minutes.) Turbo's single-minded goal is to compete in the greatest race in the world: the Indy 500. When we meet Turbo, he's somewhat of an outcast in the snail community, which is less about big dreams and more about punching a time clock at their place of employment (and principal source of nourishment) - the [tomato] "plant". Turbo's brother Chet, whose credo is, safety first, last and only, shares the community's insistence on a snail-paced routine. Chet loves his brother, but he is concerned that Turbo's obsession with all things fast could lead to disaster - or worse!

Outrage Beyond
The Sanno crime family has grown into a huge organization, expanding its power into politics and legitimate big business. The Sanno's upper ranks are now dominated by young executives, and the old-guard members with mounting resentment are being pushed to the sidelines. This vulnerable spot in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police force prepares a full-scale crackdown. With secret plots and dirty tricks, the ambitious Kataoka instigates conflict between the Sanno and their long-time ally, the Hanabishi, in the hopes that they ultimately destroy each other. With the sense of approaching yakuza warfare, deception and betrayal smolder among the families as everyone watches out for the other's next move. It's impossible to guess who will come out on top in this fierce power game. It's not over until it’s over.

Disconnect
Disconnect explores the consequences of modern technology and how it affects and defines our daily relationships. A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this compelling drama about ordinary people desperate for a human connection.

Beyond The Hills
Alina (Cristina Flutur) arrives to an isolated Orthodox monastery in Romania to visit her friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan), one of the nuns in training. As children, the two young women lived together in an orphanage where the tough, short-tempered Alina served as a protector for her more delicate friend. Now, Alina wants Voichita to leave her cloistered life and run away to Germany with her. But Voichita is determined to become a nun and is disinclined to go. In an attempt to win her affection back, Alina challenges the priest. The people of the monastery suspect that she is possessed by the Evil One and they perform an exorcism on her that leads to her death.

HK: Forbidden Super Hero
High school student Kyosuke Shikijo (Ryohei Suzuki) is the most talented member of the school's martial arts of the fist club. His late father was a detective and Kyosuke share his father's strong sense of justice. Kyosuke also has a secret. Kyosuke likes to wear female underwear and transforms himself into the alter ego "Pervert Mask", wearing female underwear and gaining superhuman powers. This unusual interest also comes from his parents, with his father a masochist and his mother a sadist. By chance, Kyosuke gets the underwear of female high school student Aiko Himeno (Fumika Shimizu). With her underwear, he gains various pervert techniques and attempts to protect Aiko from a dirty and heinous teacher (Ken Yasuda).

The Wolverine
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, The Wolverine finds Logan, the eternal warrior and outsider, in Japan. There, samurai steel will clash with adamantium claw as Logan confronts a mysterious figure from his past in an epic battle that will leave him forever changed.

Tiny Times
This is a generation with shining dream, also a generation with a frozen dream; This is the worst time, but also the best. This is our Tiny Times. This story occurs in this speedy developing Shanghai city, and describes the lives of these four main female roles, Lix Xiao (Yang Mi) , Nan Xian (Kuo Bi-Ting), Gu Li (Amber Kuo) and Tang Wan Ru (Hsieh Yi-Ling) .These four girls have been classmates since young and developed a very deep friendship even they all have various life-value and personal goal. They have spent their school time together in university and started to face various challenges in peaceful life, including the challenges from part-time job and enormous living pressure in life. In this peaceful camp life, there is diverse dilemma for them to make decisions which involves love, friendship, working value and carrier life. Meanwhile, some sweet and bitter relationship has just flourished between them and Gu-Yuan (Kai Ko), Gong-Ming (Rhydian Vaughan), Jian-Xi (Li Yuen-Ming), and Chong-Guan (Cheney Chen)...

SDU: Sex Duties Unit
The Special Duties Unit (SDU), nicknamed Flying Tigers, is the first paramilitary tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force to be specialised in tackling serious crimes. Since its establishment in the 1970s, the SDU has been consistently recognized as one of the top three tactical units in the world. It is an annual custom that several members of the SDU are chosen to take part in military training programmes from around the world. The chance to work with the Navy SEALs in the United States this year is handed by Inspector Michael to Team A, which is known for its teamwork, at the expense of Team B, whose members have failed to finish a 10km run in 35 minutes. The decision has incurred the wrath of Team B's second-in-command, Keung, who is also unhappy about his own failure to make captain over the years. It only gets worse when Michael reveals to Keung that his team member Josh has been applying for a transfer to Team A.
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