Asia Rising: The Next Generation of Hip-Hop

With the help of record label 88rising, we look through the eyes six different artist from six different backgrounds, all within Asia, as they share their thoughts on the recent rise of hip-hop throughout the region.

SR サイタマノラッパー

Ikku, Mighty and Tomu live in Saitama, not exactly the coolest places to get involved in a wanna-be rap star lifestyle. But try they do with their freestyle rap band Sho-Gung. Yu Irie, who gained the Grand Prize at Yubari Fantastic Film Festival with this film, grew up in Saitama and inserts the grim realities of suburban youth skillfully in his comedic style.

帰ろうYO！

SR サイタマノラッパー ロードサイドの逃亡者

'Roadside Fugitive' follows Mighty's non-successful story after '8,000 Miles 1,' at the end of which he parts company with Ikku and Tom, members of his hip hop group, 'Sho-Gung,' and leaves for Tokyo. Will Mighty be able to keep faith in the tiny little soul burning somewhere inside him?

KANDYTOWN LIFE

The Keeper

A special group of military veteran hikers help a fellow vet battle depression, PTSD, and suicidal tendencies as he hikes the Appalachian Trail while carrying 363 military name tapes on a mission to prevent veteran suicide. A true story.

Avatar

Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.

Alcatraz

In 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them.

L'Ombre au tableau

ফ্রেnd

Abhiroop Mukherji, an ambitious scientist, is trying to connect with aliens and finally succeeds in his experiment. But when a gangster kidnaps him to gain power using his experiment, an unexpected friend helps him.

Leftover Women

In China, single women are under immense pressure to marry young or face the stigma that comes with being "leftover." Leftover Women follows three hopeful singles seeking to define love on their own terms.

Our Time Machine

When influential Chinese artist Ma Liang (a.k.a. Maleonn) realizes that his father Ma Ke, an accomplished Peking Opera director, is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he invites his father to collaborate on his most ambitious project to date - a haunting, magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets called "Papa's Time Machine". Through the creation of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.

特攻！ヤンママ仁義

Ayako, who was the leader of the ladies gang until five years ago, washed her hands of gang life at the time of her husband's death. Now, she and her daughter-in-law are on a trip. With gangsters targeting children in the port town, things quickly become dangerous.

Yılan Soyu

The Masseuse Returns

After a world-class mountain biker endures a devastating loss, he begins to question his loss, he begins to question his ability as an athlete. His manager, Coach sees what is getting Joe down and comes up with the perfect solution - hiring Lee, a stunning female athlete to come in and get Joe back on track. Slowly, Lee massages Joe back into shape with a series of on course and off course lesions that leave Joe begging for more and determined to win.

Eden

Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.

Jan Cimbura

Boomerang !

A Swiss right-wing populist and a veiled, Kurdish Muslim asylum seeker swap bodies before an election.

アレノ

'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.