Détective privé de Los Angeles spécialisé dans le rapt et les disparitions d'enfants, Chandler Jarrell est contacté par une secte tibétaine pour retrouver l'Enfant Sacré qui a été enlevé par les sbires sataniques de Sardo Mumpsa. Il a d'abord du mal à croire la jolie Kee Nang, mais il se laisse convaincre et, après avoir été initié par la mystérieuse Kala et l'honorable Docteur Hong, il se lance dans une lutte particulièrement dangereuse.
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
En 1908, le petit Pu Yi, âgé de trois ans, lointain parent de l'impératrice douairière, est choisi par elle pour lui succéder. Trois ans plus tard, il doit abdiquer par suite de la révolution de Sun Yat Sen qui établit la première république de Chine. Il est cependant autorisé à rester comme figure symbolique dans la Cité interdite, palais traditionnel de l'empereur à Pékin. Chassé en 1924, il s'établit à Tientsin sous la protection des Japonais qui en font un souverain fantoche lorsqu'ils prennent le contrôle de la Mandchourie en 1931. Après la guerre, Pu Yi devient le prisonnier des communistes chinois qui le soumettent à une rééducation.
À la fin de l'été 1939, l'alpiniste autrichien Heinrich Harrer, qui rêve de conquérir le Nanga Parbat, sommet inviolé de l'Himalaya, accepte de l'argent nazi pour y planter le drapeau à croix gammée. La guerre éclate. Prisonnier des Britanniques à la frontière de l'Inde, il s'évade. Commence alors une longue errance qui se termine à Lhassa, résidence du jeune dalaï-lama avec qui il se lie d'amitié.
The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the Gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. 500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains. Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse. With the help and encouragement from this special child, Monkey King saves the village from the evil monsters.
In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
An epic fantasy loosely based on Buddhist mythology, it is set in the mythical realm of Asura — the dimension of pure desire which is threatened by a coup from a lower heavenly kingdom.
Cette épopée bollywoodienne élaborée retrace le cheminement d'un guerrier fourbe et vengeur devenu leader légendaire et enseignant du bouddhisme.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Ku Shen Chai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-ching, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Ku into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritual guidance transforms him into a valiant fighter.
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic.
Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.
Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and cold. As his isolation from society becomes unbearable, he suddenly finds himself on a train heading far away from his miserable home. Accompanied by Campanella, an acquaintance from school, Giovanni embarks on a journey that will define the rest of his life.
In 1951, a young Vietnamese girl arrives at a Saigon household as their new servant.