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  • Ran

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    Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

  • Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

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    A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city.

  • Grave Keeper: The Coffin of Marquis of Haihun

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    Revealing the secret of the tomb of Marquis of Haihun! Villagers continuously die in strange ways. While there is more to the beautiful owner of the gold store than what she seems to be. Is she an evil spirit or is there another hidden secret? (Source: iQIYI) ~~ The story is inspired from the literary…

  • The Princess a Little Cute

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    Liu Xiangxiang, trapped in a dream, is tasked with assassinating Prince Mu Chunshen in the Kingdom of Chu, with four chances before facing death by poison. Disguising herself in various roles within the prince’s mansion, her attempts are repeatedly thwarted by unforeseen events. As she gets closer to Mu Chunshen, she discovers his kindness and…

  • A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era

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    In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed…

  • Schindler’s List

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    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  • Wells Fargo

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    In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn’t let them slow…

  • Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

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    Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.

  • Britannic

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    It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic… and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a shattering demise. With the world at war, an undercover British agent (Amanda Ryan), embarks…

  • Gladiator

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    After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome’s most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

  • Princess Mononoke

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    Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to…

  • Titanic

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    101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic’s departure through to its death—on its first and…

  • After the Truth

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    Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the ‘Death Angel of Auschwitz’, who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is assigned to defend him, but Rohm himself — an expert on…

  • The 13th Warrior

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    A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.

  • The Musketeer

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    Young D’Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father’s death – but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.

  • Justice Bao the Legend of Young

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    The story tells about various bizarre mysteries such as “Blood Soul Forest”, “Pouling Town”, and “Ghost Valley” that Bao Zheng experienced in his youth on his way to Beijing to rush to the exam.

  • Good Girls Revolt

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    A look at the personal and professional lives of employees at an American news magazine in the late 1960s.

  • Heo’s Diner

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    The story follows a character from the Joseon Dynasty who travel 400 years into the future to the modern era and unwittingly open a restaurant, leading to a series of comedic and chaotic events.

  • Troy

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    In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help…

  • The King and the Clown

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    Two clowns living in Korea’s Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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    In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in…