The stars have aligned in an ominous sign, and as a legion of malevolent monsters descends upon New York City to wage war...
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Splinter
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2007
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Filmmaker Jeff Adachi turns his critical lens on Hollywood in order to highlight the dangerous but seldom explored reality...
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2006
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This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of...
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2005
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Author John Ricca (Harry Groener) is murdered, apparently for writing a nasty, warts-and-all biography of legendary Kung Fu...
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2005
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Originally created for (and telecast on) Nickelodeon, the half-hour anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in an...
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2005
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A monk and a pickpocket become unlikely allies in this action adventure story. Sixty years ago, a nameless monk...
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2003
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2003
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2003
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2003
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Season three of the animated action series Samurai Jack covers chapters "XXXVII" through "LII" in the ongoing saga of the...
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2002
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Season two of the animated action series Samurai Jack covers chapters "XXI" through "XLII" in the saga of the titular hero's...
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2002
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At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director Michael Bay became the most expensive...
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2001
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Filmmaker Masashi Nagadoi wrote and directed this noir thriller starring supermodels Jennifer Rubin and Victoria Silvstedt....
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2001
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Opening with three back-to-back half-hour episodes, the first season of Samurai Jack wastes no time in setting up its...
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2001
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The half-hour animated series Samurai Jack was the full fruition of a dream long held dear by creator Genndy Tartakovsky...
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Aku
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2001
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The biggest babies in the entertainment business take their act to Europe in this sequel to the surprise-hit animated feature...
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2000
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One of Japan's hottest young directors, Takashi Miike directs this curious adventure story set in China's picturesque Yunnan...
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Shen
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1998
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In this martial arts actioner, a karate teacher who has committed his life to improving the lives and futures of inner-city...
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1997
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This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles...
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1997
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Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight...
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Kungo Tsarong
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1997
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Based on a popular Japanese comic, this stylish, romantic French-Canadian actioner features many exciting pyrotechnic...
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1995
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Nakano
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1995
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Though this film is billed as a comedy, it does contain some violent moments as it follows a young man's journey across the...
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1994
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1994
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In this police drama, a Japanese cop scours Los Angeles in hopes of finding the crooks who killed his partner. His...
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1994
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1994
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A teenager daydreams of getting some payback from the bullies who menace him in this hybrid of...
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Mr. Lee
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1993
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When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with...
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1993
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In this martial-arts actioner a young man is forced to learn physical and spiritual self-defense tactics from a master after...
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1992
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In this second sequel to Robocop, the mechanical humanoid opposes the evil designs of his creators, who have gone corrupt and...
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1992
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Featuring plenty of high, hard kicks, and flailing furious fists, this martial arts actioner tells an exciting tale of...
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Kim
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1991
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John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer...
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Toshio Watanabe
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1990
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1990
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When a New York policeman takes a vacation in Hawaii, he finds that the serial killer he has been tracking followed him to...
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Capt. Kilalo
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1990
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Max Chin
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1989
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In this action film, an American soldier (Peter Fonda) captures a female guerrilla fighter in the jungles of Vietnam and...
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Tang
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1989
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Veteran Hawaii-born actor Mako is never less than brilliant in director Michael Toshiyuki Uno's The Wash. The film is a study...
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Nobu
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1988
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History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his...
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1988
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1988
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When his partner on the police force is murdered by the former CIA agent Kendrick (Gustav Vintas), Sam (Sam J. Jones) sets...
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1988
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This is a very macho action film in which the good guys are just that "guys". Col. Cooper (David Carridine) has been...
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Capt. Vinh
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1986
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This 2-hour revival of the old David Carradine TV series was originally titled simply Kung Fu. Set in the west of the late...
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The Manchu
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1986
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Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception....
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Akira Tanaka
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1986
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1985
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1984
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Akiro "The Wizard"
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1984
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In this martial arts movie, an American art dealer, who doubles as a Ninja, must use his fighting skill, to save a group of...
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1983
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Based on true incidents, this movie follows the plight of a young American girl who travels to Japan to start work as a club...
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1983
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Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film...
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1983
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Congregating at a French restaurant, the A-Team is reunited with Lin Duk Coo (Mako), formerly the cook at the Vietnamese POW...
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1983
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A valuable Kenzan ceramic plate purchased in Japan by Robin Masters is stolen in transit from its guardian, a grim-visaged...
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1983
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1983
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When his undercover-detective friend Michael Moroshima is killed in the line of duty, Quincy's assistant Sam (Robert Ito)...
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1982
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1982
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Made for television, When Hell Was in Session is the true story of Navy commander Jonathan Denton Jr., here played by Hal...
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1982
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In this comedy, a hotel becomes a chaotic place during the 1938 filming of The Wizard of Oz, when it is inundated with groups...
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1981
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The frequently used title An Eye for an Eye was applied to a Chuck Norris martial-arts festival in 1981. Norris plays Sean...
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James Chan
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1981
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The Bushido Blade is set in 19th century Japan, at the time of American Commodore Matthew Perry's opening up of the ancient...
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1980
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After the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, writer/director Robert Clouse made several attempts to reproduce the success of his...
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Herbert
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1980
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Delayed by a Hollywood writer's strike, the ninth season of M*A*S*H was launched on November 17, 1980 with this typically...
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1980
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Hawkeye (Alan Alda) crosses swords with Lt. Hung Lae Park (Mako), a ruthless and determined ROK officer. At the center of the...
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1979
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In an episode obviously inspired by the death of Bruce Lee, Quincy's assistant Sam (Robert Ito) takes it personally when his...
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1977
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Though worn to a frazzle from 24 straight hours of surgery, Hawkeye (Alan Ada) and Potter (Harry Morgan) offer to provide...
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1976
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Farewell to Manzanar recounts a dark chapter in American history from the point of view of those most closely affected by it....
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1976
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This second-string Sam Peckinpah action film features James Caan as ex-CIA agent Mike Locken, who has retired due to injuries...
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Chung
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1975
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This Disney family adventure, directed by Robert Stevenson in his Jules Verne mode, concern a group of explorers who travel...
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Oomiak
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1974
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In this interesting murder mystery a Chinese detective from the 7th century must solve a strange case involving a trio of...
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1974
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Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) conducts an intensive search of San Francisco's Chinatown when one of the community's elder...
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1974
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The 2-hour pilot film for the long-running (1972-77) TV detective series first aired on September 16, 1972. Veteran police...
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1972
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The ABC network chose to recognize the thirtieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor with the "revisionist" TV movie...
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1971
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Chinmoku or Silence is a story about the suppression of Christianity in Japan, as seen from the point of view of a fugitive...
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1971
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In this drama, a romance is sparked when two people, dissatisfied with their lives, move to San Francisco in hope of a fresh...
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1970
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This TV movie proposes that at some future date, America will be at loggerheads against some unnamed Asiatic power. Realizing...
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1970
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The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener....
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1970
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In this western comedy, a bogus evangelist and his assistant travel to the town of Friendly and endeavor to rob the West's...
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1969
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O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is a navy sergeant who tries to boost the moral of the men by bringing in a shipment of beer. When the...
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1968
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Heavily in debt to a homicidal gambler named Burton (John Vernon), San Francisco banker Lawrence Reynolds (Bradford Dillman)...
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1968
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Fort Courage endures a Japanese invasion in the form of a fierce Samurai warrior (Mako), who has arrived in town in pursuit...
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1967
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Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel...
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1966
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General Stone (Byron Morrow), the father of Tony's fiancée Melissa (Karen Sharpe), invites him to join him overseas as his...
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1965
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1965
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Gidget (Sally Field) and her friends are aghast when "their" beach cove is invaded and claimed by a rival bunch of kids. In...
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1965
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