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Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Takashi Sorimachi, Ara
Crew: Producer
Crew: Director
Synopsis: E.T. meets Jurassic Park by way of Hello Kitty with this tale about a young girl and her baby T-Rex. Though she lives in an idyllic farm in rural Hokkaido with her scientist dad (Tsunehiko Watase), Chie (Yumi Adachi) is unhappy. Instead of taking care of her at home, her heartless mother (Shinobu Otake Read More
Actors: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Jack Thompson, Jeff Corey
Synopsis: The owner of an aircraft salvage company (Viggo Mortensen) is reported killed in a crash. However, his wife (Andie MacDowell) knows better, and she decides to find him and his secret bank accounts. She travels around the world, and winding up in Cairo, she meets Liam Neeson, who helps her uncover Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Tsunehiko Watase, Naomi Zaizen
Synopsis: Japan's answer to Don Simpson -- a flamboyant and brash producer drawn to make flamboyant and brash films -- Haruki Kadokawa takes a turn at the director's chair with this sprawling historical epic featuring a massive budget: a record-breaking five billion yen, and thousands of extras comprising Read More
Crew: Conception
Synopsis: The adventure of Prince Arslan of Parse continues in the second episode of the Heroic Legend of Arslan video series. Prince Arslan and Baron Daryoon, hoping to free their people from the invading forces of Lusitania, meet with the leaders of the kingdoms that border the kingdom of Parse. Alliances Read More
Synopsis: An epic war between the Kingdoms of Parse and Lusitania is at the center of this original animated video series from Japan. It is the year 320, and the zealous forces of Lusitania, aided by sorcerers and a sinister, mysterious figure named Silver Mask, have conquered the valiant army of Parse. Read More
Actors: Takaaki Enoki, Takeshi Kusaka, Keiko Kishi, Ittoku Kishibe
Synopsis: In this at times comic detective thriller, the head of a lineage of Noh performers is about to step down, and someone cares enough about who his successor will be to commit murder again and again in highly symbolic ways. Noh drama is the often mystifying ritualized classical drama of the Imperial Read More
Synopsis: Japan's school system is famous for its capacity to endow every student with a reliably predictable compendium of facts, figures, and memorized information. It is also notorious for its rigidity, suppression of creativity, and failure to meet even the most modest individual student needs. None of Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Takeshi Kaga, Hironobu Nomura, Mitsuko Baisho, Junko Mihara
Synopsis: A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one Read More
Actors: Tomoyo Harada, Mitsuko Baisho, Tsunehiko Watase, Mariko Kaga
Synopsis: A weak plot and the weak voice and limited dancing abilities of the teen Miho Nakamichi (Tomoyo Harada) constrain this story about a young woman looking for her father. A Kyushu ceramist, whom Miho first suspects of sending her flowers on her birthdays, accompanies her on the search for her father Read More
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Hiroku Yokoshimaru
Synopsis: As might be gathered from its title, The Legend of the Eight Samurai is set in feudal Japan. Princess Hiroku Yokoshimaru's family is wiped out, along with her bodyguards. All that stands between the princess and certain death is an inexperienced young samurai played by martial-arts expert Sonny Chiba Read More
Actors: Hironobu Nomura
Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill romantic drama, Shibuki Ogasawara (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a young kindergarten teacher who develops a passion for the divorced father of one of her students, only to discover that a travelling magician has a stronger attraction for her, an appeal that is definitely not Read More
Actors: Masao Kusakari, Atsuko Asano, Hiroshi Katsuno, Satoshi Sadanaga, Yutaka Hayashi
Synopsis: Akio Kitano (Masao Kusakari) is a road racer who has nightmares about going up in flames, but these fears are alleviated by a luxurious lifestyle, thanks to his generous love interest, Azusa Ogata (Atsuko Asano). She is a successful fashion designer and businesswoman who keeps Akio in a two-story Read More
Actors: Tomoyo Harada, Ittoku Kishibe
Synopsis: This story starts out to be about a romantic 16-year-old in love with the stars and flowers and a classmate who seems equally romantic. Eventually, the teenager starts dreaming about events before they actually happen. As it turns out, the object of her love is actually a space alien affected by Read More
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Chuck Connors, Stephanie Faulkner, Glenn Ford, Stuart Gillard
Synopsis: A double disaster film with both an American and a Japanese cast, Virus presents some pretty wild probabilities to viewers. First of all, a virus has been developed that gets loose and starts to destroy humanity on a grand scale. The only people who are remotely safe are a group of eight hundred Read More
Actors: Sonny Chiba
Synopsis: In this actioner, a brave fighter takes on a deadly quintet of his peers to save the life of his lover who has been captured by a powerful and evil wizard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Daijiro Harada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Mitsuru Hirata, Morio Kazama, Keizo Kanie
Synopsis: A has-been samurai movie star takes unfair advantage of the loyalty of one of his devoted fans in this Japanese comedy-drama. The star uses the fan's help to escape a number of sticky situations and eventually hatches a plan to use them as a double during a dangerous stunt. ~ Judd Blaise, All Read More
Actors: Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Yuko Asano, Yoshio Harada, Hideo Murota
Synopsis: Sachine (Atsuko Asano) is a young woman working in a bar who is caught between two lovers: one a jazzy biker and the other, an older and wealthier man. The latter has a live-in relationship with two women. This is complicated by the fact that he has a roommate with the same live-in relationship Read More
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Isao Natsuki, Miyuki Ono, Nana Okada
Synopsis: Transported 400 years into the past after falling into a mysterious time slip, a squadron of contemporary Japanese soldiers becomes caught between two warring samurai clans fighting to determine who will be the supreme Shogun. As the fighting between the rival samurai clans intensifies, squadron Read More
Actors: Ikko Furuya, Kunie Tanaka, Hideko Yoshida
Synopsis: Kosuke Kindaichi is a popular detective found in Seishi Yokomizo's novels, and this is one of several movies that have been made based on his character. Yokomizo's plots have more twists and turns than Japanese calligraphy and loudly invite parody. This film is not an RSVP to that invitation. Read More
Actors: Yusaku Matsuda, Jun Fubuki, Sonny Chiba
Synopsis: A super-villain with no scruples at all starts off this complex, twisting, turning action film that continues its gyrations for more than two hours. The villain wants to wrest control of a large corporation from the Japanese mafia. To that end, he commits about every type of crime on the books Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Ryoko Nakano, Isao Natsuki, Rentaro Mikuni
Synopsis: Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) is a mysterious warrior in a secret Japanese paramilitary group who, while on a training exercise in the woods, stumbles into a group of rural party-makers. In the ensuing conflict he kills everyone except one young teenaged boy. The boy was wounded in the conflict, but Read More
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