Japan movies

Seven Samurai

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Shimura, Takashi | Mifune, Toshirô | Inaba, Yoshio | Miyaguchi, Seiji | Chiaki, Minoru | Katô, Daisuke | Kimura, Isao | Tsushima, Keiko | Shimazaki, Yukiko | Fujiwara, Kamatari | Kosugi, Yoshio | Hidari, Bokuzen | Tsuchiya, Yoshio | Kodo, Kokuten | Kumagaya, Takuzo
Directors: Kurosawa, Akira
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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.

Three… Extremes

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Horror
Countries: Hong Kong | Japan | South Korea
Actors: Bai, Ling | Lau, Pauline | Leung Ka Fai, Tony | Tian, Meme | Yeung Chin Wah, Miriam | Wong, Sum-Yeung | Fung, Kam-Mui | Wu, Wai-Man | Ho, Chak-Man | Yeung, Miki | Wong, So-Fun | Yau, Kai-Piu | Lee, Byung-hun | Lim, Won-hie | Kang, Hye-jeong
Directors: Chan, Fruit
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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.

Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Animation
Countries: Japan
Actors: Abe, Hiroshi | Ukaji, Takashi | Ishida, Yuriko | Horiuchi, Ken'yû | Hirano, Aya | Ôtsuka, Chikao | Ishizuka, Unshô | Namikawa, Daisuke | Sakamoto, Maaya | Kawamoto, Kunihiro | Ohta, Tetsuharu | Kanemitsu, Nobuaki | Suzuki, Kyosuke | Itsukaichi, Shin | Tsukayama, Masane
Directors: Shizuno, Kobun
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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.

Fist of the North Star: New Saviour Legend

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Animation
Countries: Japan
Actors: Abe, Hiroshi | Ukaji, Takashi | Shibasaki, Kou | Ôtsuka, Akio | Ôtsuka, Hôchû | Horiuchi, Ken'yû | Ishizuka, Unshô | Namikawa, Daisuke | Sakamoto, Maaya | Irino, Miyu | Fujimoto, Yuzuru | Amada, Masuo | Fujiki, Seiko | Hanawa, Eiji
Directors: Imamura, Takahiro
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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 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.

Spriggan

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
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.

Patlabor 2: The Movie

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Tominaga, Mîna | Furukawa, Toshio | Ikemizu, Michihiro | Futamata, Issei | Gôri, Daisuke | Chiba, Shigeru | Saka, Osamu | Ôbayashi, Ryûnosuke | Sakakibara, Yoshiko | Nishimura, Tomomichi | Fairman, Blair | Glen, Edward | Jarvis, David | Lepaz, Ron | Marinker, Peter
Directors: Oshii, Mamoru
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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.

Kairo aka Pulse

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Katô, Haruhiko | Asô, Kumiko | Koyuki | Arisaka, Kurume | Matsuo, Masatoshi | Takeda, Shinji | Fubuki, Jun | Sugata, Shun | Aikawa, Shô | Yakusho, Kôji | Mizuhashi, Kenji | Tanji, Takumi | Takano, Hassei | Yuki, Atsushi | Takashima, Go
Directors: Kurosawa, Kiyoshi
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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?

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Thursday, February 11th, 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.

Shinobi

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Japan
Actors: Nakama, Yukie | Odagiri, Jô | Kurotani, Tomoka | Sawajiri, Erika | Shiina, Kippei | Masu, Takeshi | Koga, Mitsuki | Sakaguchi, Tak | Kinoshita, Houka | Ito, Shun | Lily | Terada, Minoru | Nishina, Masaki | Nagasawa, Toshiya | Matsushige, Yutaka
Directors: Shimoyama, Ten
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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!

The Sky Crawlers aka Sukai kurora

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | War
Countries: Japan
Actors: Kikuchi, Rinko | Kuriyama, Chiaki | Tanihara, Shosuke | Hitchcock, Bryce | Kase, Ryo
Directors: Oshii, Mamoru
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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.