Archive for the ‘Japan’ Category

Sparrow (1993)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 19:06
Sparrow
Genres: Drama
Countries: Italy | Japan
Actors: Angela Bettis | Johnathon Schaech | Sara-Jane Alexander | Andrea Cassar | John Castle | Valentina Cortese | Sinéad Cusack | Frank Finlay | Mia Fothergill | Pat Heywood | Janet Maw | Denis Quilley | Vanessa Redgrave | Annabel Ryan | Gareth Thomas
Directors: Franco Zeffirelli
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Catania, Sicilia 1864. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent Maria to live the normal life of a teenager. In their minds Maria is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life for her is inappropriate. Nino, her handsome neighbor, falls in love for Maria who isn't indifferent to him. But when Maria comes back to her convent the way to become nun is compelled. Now Maria can understand Sister Agata, and realizes she became mad cause a lost and impossible love like the one between Maria and Nino.

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Arion (1986)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 14:06
Arion
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Daisuke Gôri | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Ichirô Nagai | Shigeru Nakahara | Hirotaka Suzuoki | Hideyuki Tanaka | Chikao Ôtsuka | Masako Katsuki | Kazue Komiya | Reiko Mutô | Miki Takahashi | Mayumi Tanaka | Takako Ôta
Directors: Mamoru Hamatsu
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Arion begins with his journey to discover a world of poverty and horror where ordinary people are barely surviving through the war. He falls in love with a blind slave girl who is then captured and imprisoned on top of Olympus by Apollo, who dreams to rule the Titans. Now, Arion must lead an army of ordinary people to fight against the three war lords (Zeus, Poseidon and Pluto) with help from a thief, a giant, a wizard, a mysterious lion-masked man and a flying dragon.

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Purasuchikku ritoru (1994)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 12:06
Purasuchikku ritoru
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Yôsuke Akimoto | Bryan Bounds | Matt Greenfield | Clint Harpman | Aaron Krohn | Jason Lee | Guil Lunde | Tristan MacAvery | Rob Mungle | Ryûsei Nakao | Joe Pisano | Dan Rockwell | Doug Smith | Joszef Sos | Spike Spencer
Directors: Kinji Yoshimoto
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Based upon the loyal story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest noble in England, disappears after the South American plague . Some years after his learned Afro-English cheuffer, Bogle, is sent to examine rumors which Tichborne survived as well as staid in Australia . An alcoholic outlaw answers Bogles inquiries claiming to be the mislaid successor . Bogle suspects rascal, though conspires with the petitioner to separate the estate should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family as well as the courts . As the petitioner earnings to England to go on his sham, sufficient people endorse his temperament to have both the petitioner as well as Bogle hold which he only competence be the legitimate successor after all...

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Sword of the Stranger (2007)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 09:06
Sword of the Stranger
Genres: Action | Animation
Countries: Japan
Actors: Yûki Chinen | Tomoya Nagase | Naoto Takenaka | Kôichi Yamadera | Akio Ôtsuka
Directors: Masahiro Andô
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A young boy and his dog find themselves the target of the Ming: a foreign dynasty that will stop at nothing. One day, a quiet and solemn warrior crosses their path, and becomes irrevocably connected with the two. A deal is struck and the warrior agrees to take the boy to a remote, Buddhist temple, where a kind monk is waiting to care for him and the dog. Unfortunately, the Ming have sent their elite, and they will test their strength, courage, and quality every step of the way.

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xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 08:06
xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Sayaka Ohara | Jun Fukuyama | Kazuya Nakai | Shizuka Ito | Kazuko Kojima | Hisayo Mochizuki | Mika Kikuchi | Miyu Irino | Maaya Sakamoto | Keiko Matsuo | Ryôka Yuzuki | Taiki Matsuno | Naomi Kusumi | Takurô Kitagawa | Daisuke Hirakawa
Directors: Tsutomu Mizushima
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Yuko receives an invitation for the opening of an auction from a mysterious unknown sender. Likewise, fanatical collectors are summoned to an old mansion whose owner doesn't make an appearance. One after another, each collector disappears and a number of other strange occurrences happen during the night. The questions of what exactly it is that's being auctioned and who the owner of the mansion is must be solved in order for Yuko and Watanuki to get to the bottom of this.

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Racoon war aka Pompoko (1994)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 07:06
Racoon war aka Pompoko
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Japan
Actors: Shinchô Kokontei | Makoto Nonomura | Yuriko Ishida | Norihei Miki | Nijiko Kiyokawa | Shigeru Izumiya | Gannosuke Ashiya | Takehiro Murata | Beichou Katsura | Bunshi Katsura | Kosan Yanagiya | Akira Kamiya | Rei Sakuma | Tomokazu Seki | Minoru Yada
Directors: Isao Takahata
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As the human city development encroaches on the raccoon population's forest and meadow habitat, the raccoons find themselves faced with the very real possibility of extinction. In response, the raccoons engage in a desperate struggle to stop the construction and preserve their home.

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Seven Samurai (1954)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 03:06
Seven Samurai
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Takashi Shimura | Toshirô Mifune | Yoshio Inaba | Seiji Miyaguchi | Minoru Chiaki | Daisuke Katô | Isao Kimura | Keiko Tsushima | Yukiko Shimazaki | Kamatari Fujiwara | Yoshio Kosugi | Bokuzen Hidari | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Kokuten Kodo | Takuzo Kumagaya
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
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In 16th century Japan, farmers in a small village face the prospect of again losing their crops to a band of roving thieves. Their solution is to go to the nearest city and see if they can hire samurai to protect them. The farmers are poor and can only offer food and lodging but they soon recruit Kambei Shimada who determines that they will need a total of seven samurai to properly guard the village. Slowly, he recruits other samurai for their task and once complete, move tho the village. There they teach the farmers basic self defense and fortify the village itself. When the bandits attack, they are prepared but suffer many losses.

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Three... Extremes (2004)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 20:06
Three... Extremes
Genres: Horror
Countries: Hong Kong | Japan | South Korea
Actors: Ling Bai | Pauline Lau | Tony Leung Ka Fai | Meme Tian | Miriam Yeung Chin Wah | Sum-Yeung Wong | Kam-Mui Fung | Wai-Man Wu | Chak-Man Ho | Miki Yeung | So-Fun Wong | Kai-Piu Yau | Byung-hun Lee | Won-hie Lim | Hye-jeong Kang
Directors: Fruit Chan
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A compilation of three different short films entitled "Cut", "Box", and "Dumplings" by directors from Japan, Korea and China that all deal with the theme of human monstrosity.

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Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki (2008)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 17:06
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki
Genres: Animation
Countries: Japan
Actors: Hiroshi Abe | Takashi Ukaji | Yuriko Ishida | Ken'yû Horiuchi | Aya Hirano | Chikao Ôtsuka | Unshô Ishizuka | Daisuke Namikawa | Maaya Sakamoto | Kunihiro Kawamoto | Tetsuharu Ohta | Nobuaki Kanemitsu | Kyosuke Suzuki | Shin Itsukaichi | Masane Tsukayama
Directors: Kobun Shizuno
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Set in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth sometime near the end of the 20th century, a nuclear war has left the world in ruins, causing the oceans to evaporate and destroying most of the world's vegetation. Most of earth's survivors include villagers who try to thrive on what little resources they have and the numerous vicious gangs and tribes who prey on them. A martial artist named Kenshiro, a man with seven scars on his chest and the chosen successor of the legendary assassin's art Hokuto Shinken, The Divine Fist of the North Star) has sworn to protect the weak and innocent from the malicious gangsters that threaten their survival. Accompanied by two young children named Bat and Lin, Ken confronts numerous violent gangs through his journey.

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Spriggan (1998)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 16:06
Spriggan
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
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Directors: Hirotsugi Kawasaki
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Yu is a young man who has a past he desperately wants to forget. His present is that he is a superhuman top agent for Arcan, an organization dedicated to protecting ancient artifacts to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. However, he receives several bloody messages, culminating in the suicide of a friend, telling that Noah would be his death. In response, Yu travels to Turkey to visit the Arcan dig at Mount Arrat, where Noah's Ark is supposed to have rested. Along the way there and at the destination, he learns of forces of his past have returned to stop him and sieze control of the Ark, which turns out to be an alien device of ultimate power.

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Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 16:06
Patlabor 2: The Movie
Genres: Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Mîna Tominaga | Toshio Furukawa | Michihiro Ikemizu | Issei Futamata | Daisuke Gôri | Shigeru Chiba | Osamu Saka | Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi | Yoshiko Sakakibara | Tomomichi Nishimura | Blair Fairman | Edward Glen | David Jarvis | Ron Lepaz | Peter Marinker
Directors: Mamoru Oshii
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A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.

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Kairo aka Pulse (2001)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 23:06
Kairo aka Pulse
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Haruhiko Katô | Kumiko Asô | Koyuki | Kurume Arisaka | Masatoshi Matsuo | Shinji Takeda | Jun Fubuki | Shun Sugata | Shô Aikawa | Kôji Yakusho | Kenji Mizuhashi | Takumi Tanji | Hassei Takano | Atsushi Yuki | Go Takashima
Directors: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?

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Shinobi (2005)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 17:06
Shinobi
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Japan
Actors: Yukie Nakama | Jô Odagiri | Tomoka Kurotani | Erika Sawajiri | Kippei Shiina | Takeshi Masu | Mitsuki Koga | Tak Sakaguchi | Houka Kinoshita | Shun Ito | Lily | Minoru Terada | Masaki Nishina | Toshiya Nagasawa | Yutaka Matsushige
Directors: Ten Shimoyama
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Shinobi centers on the drama resulting from the war between two ninja clans in the early part of the Tokugawa era. In the film, Nakama Yukie portrays Oboro, the granddaughter of Ogen (Lily), the respected Iga clan matriarch, while Odagiri Jo plays Gennosuke, the son of Danjo Koga (Minoru Terada), the powerful Koga clan leader. While living deep within the mountains, the two ninja clans have honed their skills to superhuman levels. Unfortunately, the clans do not get along and are forbidden by imperial decree from sharing their techniques with each other. Viewing the two ninja clans as a threat to his scheme for total domination, the nefarious Nankobo Tenkai (Ishibashi Renji) plots to intensify the rivalry between the two clans. Nakobo creates a contest in which the clans are forced to choose five of their best warriors to participate. The battle, however, isn't just a friendly contest - it's a duel to the death!

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The Sky Crawlers aka Sukai kurora (2008)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 16:06
The Sky Crawlers aka Sukai kurora
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Rinko Kikuchi | Chiaki Kuriyama | Shosuke Tanihara | Bryce Hitchcock | Ryo Kase
Directors: Mamoru Oshii
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The story unfolds in another 'possible' modern age. The main characters are youngsters called "Kildren", who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last, because they fight a "war as entertainment" organized and operated by adults. But as they embrace the reality they are faced with, they live their day-to-day lives to the full.

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Wasabi (2001)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 13:06
Wasabi
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Japan
Actors: Jean Reno | Ryoko Hirosue | Michel Muller
Directors: Luc Besson
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Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace. There he mets his former colleague Momo and his daughter Yumi who he did not know was ever born. Hubert eventually finds out why his girlfriend left him and the reason becomes his and his new daughters problem.

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Guyver (1991)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 05:06
Guyver
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Greg Paik | Jimmie Walker | Peter Spellos | Michael Berryman | Spice Williams-Crosby | Mark Hamill | Jack Armstrong | Johnnie Saiko | Vivian Wu | Deborah Gorman | Danny Gibson | Willard E. Pugh | David Gale | 'Evil' Ted Smith
Directors: Screaming Mad George
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A young man discovers a mechanical device that merges with his own body, turning him into a cyborg superhero. When strange creatures start appearing, trying to take the device back, he begins to uncover a secret plot to genetically engineer terrifying monsters.

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Patlabor 2 (1993)

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 06:06
Patlabor 2
Genres: Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Mîna Tominaga | Toshio Furukawa | Michihiro Ikemizu | Issei Futamata | Daisuke Gôri | Shigeru Chiba | Osamu Saka | Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi | Yoshiko Sakakibara | Tomomichi Nishimura | Blair Fairman | Edward Glen | David Jarvis | Ron Lepaz | Peter Marinker
Directors: Mamoru Oshii
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A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.

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Arsene Lupin and the Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 06:06
Arsene Lupin and the Castle of Cagliostro
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Japan
Actors: Bob Bergen | Yasuo Yamada | Eiko Masuyama | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Makio Inoue | Gorô Naya | Sumi Shimamoto | Tarô Ishida | Kôhei Miyauchi | Ichirô Nagai | David Hayter | Dorothy Elias-Fahn | Ivan Buckley | Bridget Hoffman | Kirk Thornton
Directors: Hayao Miyazaki
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After pulling off a heist at a Monaco Casino, Lupin and Jigen soon discovered that they just stole counterfeit money, which gives Lupin an idea on what their next job should be. So they set off for Cagliostro, a small European nation that's known for the Goat Bill Conterfeiting. When they entered the country, they saw a Bride in a car being chased by another car with a group of thugs. Lupin & Jigen tailed them, and got rid of the thugs, Lupin prevents the Bride from falling from a cliff, but he fell and broke the Bride's fall. The Bride left but was captured by another group of thugs. Jigen checked if Lupin was alright, Lupin got up, only to discover that the Bride left him a ring. Which he remember seeing sometime in the past. Who was that Bride?, where is the source of the Goat Bills?, and what connection does the ring have?

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Crows Zero 2 (2009)

Monday, June 7th, 2010 07:06
Crows Zero 2
Genres: Action
Countries: Japan
Actors: Nobuaki Kaneko | Haruma Miura | Shun Oguri | Kyôsuke Yabe
Directors: Takashi Miike
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Takiya Genji and his newly formed gang, GPS, have successfully taken over Suzuran and overthrown their former leader, Serizawa. He soon realises however, that reaching the top is tough, but staying there is even tougher. Unity is fast deteriorating as inner turmoil begins to grow within the grounds and loyalty crumbles. Genji is soon beset by a malaise as he doubts his ability as a leader and fighter. Meanwhile, a certain rival school declares all-out war on Suzuran and this conflict will test Genji?s ability to rise up to the challenge.

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