Japan movies

Ponyo (2008)

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Japan
Actors: Nara, Yuria | Doi, Hiroki | Tokoro, Jôji | Yamaguchi, Tomoko | Amami, Yûki | Nagashima, Kazushige | Yano, Akiko | Hatori, Shinichi | Hidari, Tokie | Hiraoka, Eimi | Hîragi, Rumi | Naraoka, Tomoko | Ohashi, Nozomi | Yoshiyuki, Kazuko | Ishizumi, Akihiko
Directors: Miyazaki, Hayao
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The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father’s magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo’s father sends the ocean’s mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo’s dreams of becoming human.

Body Count aka Codename: Silencer (1995)

Friday, February 5th, 2010
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Davi, Robert | Bauer, Steven | Nielsen, Brigitte | Chiba, Sonny | Vincent, Jan-Michael | Ambuehl, Cindy | Keener, Eliott | LeJohn, Lawrence | Codora, Eric | Opinato, Mario | Chimento, Jim | McAuley, Annie | Weston, Eric | Melerine, Celeste | Johnson, Angela
Directors: Hsu, Talun
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A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he and his sexy and lethal partner set out to execute the agents who sent them away. As the Special Crimes Agents are systematically gunned down, Cook and Rizzo find themselves in a deadly race to find the assassins and stop the bloodbath.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Balsam, Martin | Yamamura, Sô | Cotten, Joseph | Mihashi, Tatsuya | Marshall, E.G. | Whitmore, James | Tamura, Takahiro | Tôno, Eijirô | Robards, Jason | Addy, Wesley | Shimada, Shogo | Aletter, Frank | Senda, Koreya | Ames, Leon | Usami, Junya
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Japan
Actors: Hidaka, Noriko | Sakamoto, Chika | Itoi, Shigesato | Shimamoto, Sumi | Kitabayashi, Tanie | Takagi, Hitoshi | Maruyama, Yûko | Washio, Machiko | Suzuki, Reiko | Hirose, Masashi | Amagasa, Toshiyuki | Chiba, Shigeru | Tatsuta, Naoki | Tarako | Nishimura, Tomohiro
Directors: Miyazaki, Hayao
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Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.

Shogun Assassin (1980)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Wakayama, Tomisaburo | Matsuo, Kayo | Ohki, Minoru | Kobayashi, Akiji | Kishida, Shin | Tomikawa, Akihiro | Johnson, Lamont | Efron, Marshall | Bernhard, Sandra | Davis, Vic | Weinrib, Lennie | Cooke, Lainie | Weisman, Sam | Lindsay, Mark
Directors: Houston, Robert
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Shogun decapitator, lone wolf, ronin. Travels with his son, Daigoro, in search of the Shogun that is paranoid of his skills. In the attempts to kill Lone Wolf, Shogun’s ninja kills his wife and leaves him to care for the boy. Lone Wolf swears that Shogun will pay for his deeds. Revenge and justice drive Lone Wolf through Japan’s forests and deserts in search of vengeance.

Fatal Beauty (1987)

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Goldberg, Whoopi | Elliott, Sam | Blades, Rubén | Yulin, Harris | Ryan, John P. | Warren, Jennifer | Dourif, Brad | Jolly, Mike | Hallahan, Charles | Harris, David | LeGros, James | Barry, Neill | Pellegrino, Mark | Landey, Clayton | Asparagus, Fred
Directors: Holland, Tom
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Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don’t know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of ‘Fatal Beauty’ begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is ‘clean’. Mike becomes Rita’s constant companion as the drug hijackers (who are nearly psychotic and very well armed) are hunted, while more and more bodies continue to turn up.

L: Change the World (2008)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Matsuyama, Ken'ichi | Aoyama, Sota | Bueno, David | Fujimura, Shunji | Fujiwara, Tatsuya | Fukuda, Narushi | Groot, Lex de | Hiraizumi, Sei | Hosokawa, Shigeki | Ishibashi, Renji | Kanai, Yuta | Man, Tim | Masana, Bokuzô | Nakamura, Shido | Namioka, Kazuki
Directors: Nakata, Hideo
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A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.

Lawnmower Man, The (1992)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Fahey, Jeff | Brosnan, Pierce | Wright, Jenny | Bringleson, Mark | Lewis, Geoffrey | Slate, Jeremy | Norris, Dean | Coffey, Colleen | Landis, Jim | Evans, Troy | Mayeux, Rosalee | O'Brien, Austin | Gregory, Michael | Hart, Joe | Laughlin, John
Directors: Leonard, Brett
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A trip into virtual reality. Angelo has developed a virtual reality system, which truly immerses the user into the world of computer make-believe. The lawnmower man, Jobe, who is retarded, is put ‘into’ the system to find out if his intelligence can be improved. It can, but not without some serious side-effects.

Patlabor: The Movie (1989)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Animation | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Furukawa, Toshio | Tominaga, Mîna | Ôbayashi, Ryûnosuke | Sakakibara, Yoshiko | Inoue, Yô | Ikemizu, Michihiro | Futamata, Issei | Chiba, Shigeru | Dufries, William | Erholtz, Doug | Fairman, Blair | Fellows, Don | Fitzpatrick, Michael | Glen, Edward | Gôri, Daisuke
Directors: Oshii, Mamoru
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A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo. Step by step, the police find themselves tangled up by the web of a perfect crime which awaits the approaching Typhoon to activate thousands of virus affected robots. As time runs out, Asuma and his team must complete a task that is doomed to be a failure before the Typhoon lands Tokyo.

Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007)

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Genres: Animation
Countries: Japan
Actors: Ishida, Akira | Morita, Masakazu | Pak, Romi
Directors: Abe, Noriyuki
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An artifact known as the “King’s Seal” is stolen during transport from the Soul Society by an unidentified Soul Reaper and two Arrancar resembling girls who control fire and lightning. During the attack, Toshiro Hitsugaya corners and seems to recognize the Soul Reaper, who immediately stabs him in the stomach. In the middle of battle, Hitsugaya abandons his post to pursue him and leaves his squad behind to fend for themselves. After the battle, The Soul Society suspects Hitsuguya of treason and orders his immediate capture. The whole 10th Squad is then put on house arrest at which time they can surmise whether or not the division should be abolished. With the whole of Soul Society looking for Hitsugaya, Ichigo as a soul reaper on patrol accidentally stumbles upon Squad 2 Captain Soifon while she is conducting an investigation of the transport site. Soifon informs him of the events happening in the Soul Society and dispels the kido surrounding them. As Soifon disappears with her crew, Toshiro makes his presence known and passes out in front of Ichigo and Uryu. Awakening in the Kurosaki residence, Toshiro refuses to explain what’s happening. In the midst of their discussion, Ichigo is attacked by the two arrancar before he can force the issue more. Toshiro escapes, continues to avoid capture. However, things only get worse when the Soul Reaper thief, identified as Former Soul Reaper Sojiro Kusaka also uses Hyorinmaru, a sword identical to Hitsugaya’s, to injure Shunsui Kyoraku. Toshiro’s capture is then made top priority and his execution is approved.