Ashura: Demon Slayer/"Blood Gets In Your Eyes" (2005)

Genre: "Horror"/Samurai/Action/Fantasy
Directed by Yojiro Takita
Written by Sei Kawaguchi, Masashi Todayama & Kazuki Nakashima
Japanese with English subs

/5


(Watch the Trailer Here)

The Deal...
Izumo, revered leading man of a small medieval Japanese theatre has a secret: he was once a Demon Warden- a warrior with the charge of ridding medieval Edo of its on-going demon infestation. Now enjoying a largely event-less existence, Izumo believes his demon-hunting days are long over, but his life is turned upside-down when he encounters a mysterious girl named Tsubaki with an eye-shaped scar on her back that seems to be growing in size with each encounter. As Izumo pursues Tsubaki for her love and companionship, Jaku, Demon Warden and Izumo's ex-colleague, along with the demon priestess Bizan are pursuing her for a much different reasons: they believe that she is the key to awakening the long-sleeping demon emperor Ashura - for it is in Edo, the bridge between the world of the living and the damned, that Ashura is prophesied to finally appear.

Ab-Normal Beauty (2004)

Genre: Horror
Directed by Oxide Pang Chung
Written by Oxide Pang Chung & Thomas Pang
Cantonese w. English subs

/5

(Watch the Trailer Here)

The Deal...
High school student Jinny is a super-enthusiastic artist and photographer. She spends much of her time with best friend (and lover?) Jas, photographing Hong Kong scenery; flowers, trees, and wildlife. Until, that is, Jinny witnesses a fatal car accident on her way home from school. Rather than simply run or watch, Jinny feels compelled to take a photograph of the dead woman. Later, in her basement dark room, she develops her film and believes she has finally taken the perfect photograph. From here, she discovers an unhealthy obsession with seeking out the dead and dying to photograph the moment of death. In order to overcome this obsession, Jinny must staunch her violent compulsions by coming to terms with her traumatising past... and as if this weren't difficult enough, someone else has learned of her death-capturing hobby: a mysterious, hooded killer with the very same interest...