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Actors: James Gammon, Nobu McCarthy, Kazuya Kimura, Priscilla Pointer, Don Opper
Synopsis: Veteran director Masato Harada spins this Bagdad Café-style drama about a group of quirky strangers stuck in the desert. The film opens with a yakuza named Jiro (Kazuya Kimura) staggering into a remote tumble-down café with an ugly shoulder wound. The place is run by tough-as-nails Read More
Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood
Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More
Actors: Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Patti Yasutake, Marian Yue, Sab Shimono
Synopsis: Veteran Hawaii-born actor Mako is never less than brilliant in director Michael Toshiyuki Uno's The Wash. The film is a study of love lost and love renewed in California's Asian community. Since his retirement, a husband (Mako) becomes increasingly sullen and withdrawn. Only when his wife (Nobu Read More
Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is devastated when police lieutenant Tanaka (Kwan Li Him in his final series performance) is killed during an undercover assignment. Though the death is officially reported as accidental, Magnum is convinced that there's a police coverup afoot--and in the course of his own Read More
Actors: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Nobu McCarthy, Danny Kamekona, Yuji Okumoto
Synopsis: This sequel to the 1984 surprise hit The Karate Kid reunites Ralph Macchio as high-schooler Danny and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita as Danny's martial-arts mentor Miyagi. Picking up where the first film left off, The Karate Kid Part II finds Danny and Miyagi making an emergency trip to Okinawa, where Read More
Actors: William Shatner, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Don Murray, Kim Miyori
Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1975 TV movie Bloodsport, this 1986 production was a spin-off of the recently cancelled police drama series T.J. Hooker. William Shatner is back as the aforementioned Hooker, a cop on special assignment to Hawaii (where the film was lensed). Accompanied by longtime Read More
Synopsis: Sam (Robert Ito) finds it impossible to believe that his friend Steve Yomoshira (Bill Saito), a kind and gentle man, had gone berserk and killed a police officer before taking his own life. The subsequent autopsy reveals that Steve suffered from radiation poisoning, possibly connected with a Read More
Synopsis: Farewell to Manzanar recounts a dark chapter in American history from the point of view of those most closely affected by it. This made-for-TV movie concentrates on the Wakatsukis, a Japanese-American family living in Santa Monica, California in the early 1940s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor Read More
Synopsis: Contacted by a man claiming to be a US intelligence agent, lawyer Ward Toyama (James Shigeta) uses his influence with his father's export firm to help the self-proclaimed spy deliver a top-secret cargo to the Middle East. As a result, Toyama becomes innocently involved in an illegal gun-running Read More
Actors: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Tom Bosley
Synopsis: Taken for granted by her Italian family, New Yorker Natalie Wood seeks solace in the arms of irresponsible jazz musician Steve McQueen. She becomes pregnant, but doesn't expect McQueen to marry her; all she wants is enough money to pay for an illegal abortion (this is ten years before Roe v. Read More
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, Juano Hernandez, Norah Howard
Synopsis: Released in Great Britain as The Spinster, this romantic drama is based on a novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Shirley MacLaine plays Anna Vorontosov, a Pennsylvania-born schoolteacher who has taken a job in rural New Zealand. The permissive habits of the Maori families whose children she teaches Read More
Actors: Ernie Kovacs, Margo Moore, Jack Warden, Nobu McCarthy, Dick Shawn
Synopsis: Wake Me When It's Over is a zany service comedy in which Ernie Kovacs plays the latest in his long line of military captains. Kovacs and his men are stationed at a dead-end Japanese island. World War II vet Dick Shawn, redrafted through a clerical error, arrives on the island and decides to liven Read More
Actors: Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta, Mel Tormé, Benson Fong, Josephine Hutchinson
Synopsis: Cowboy Line Bartlett (Jack Lord) comes to San Francisco and meets Kim Sung (Nobu McCarthy), a Chinese slave girl coveted by the manager of a whorehouse. To save her from this fate, Bartlett buys the girl himself and takes her home to serve as a housekeeper. His mother, Ma Bartlett (Josephine Hutchinson Read More
Actors: Neville Brand, Benson Fong, Ken Scott, John Morley, Patricia Owens
Synopsis: The celebrated author of 1975's Shogun, James Clavell, directs (and produced and wrote) this effective, if low-budget World War II drama. The story takes place in French Indochina (later Vietnam) where a group of two Red Cross doctors and seven nurses are captured by a guerrilla band and taken to Read More
Synopsis: Disapproving of his son Grove's romance with Japanese girl Mitsuo (Nobu McCarthy), wealthy Hudson Nichols (Ralph Dumke) hires a private detective to frame Mitsuo for the theft of his wife's valuable pearls. He tells the mortified girl that he won't press charges if she will give up Grove (Steve Read More
Actors: Michi Kobi, Richard Long, Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Dubov, Teru Shimada
Synopsis: The drama in this fact-based tale about the killing of a young Japanese man is undermined by trite characters and a transparent storyline. There is no doubt that American GI Sgt. Douglas (Richard Long) killed the youth with his own gun. The dispute lies in whether the gun discharged accidentally Read More
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa, Barton MacLane, Suzanne Pleshette
Synopsis: Jerry Lewis, plays a third-rate USO magician named Gilbert Woolley, working the Far East circuit with his pet rabbit Harry. Nearly fired for accidentally humiliating haughty movie star Marie McDonald, Gilbert's career is salvaged by kindly Japanese aristocrat Sessue Hayakawa; it seems that Gilbert Read More
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan, May Britt, Lee Philips
Synopsis: Directed with crisp efficiency by Dick Powell, The Hunters is a romantic melodrama with an aviation angle. Robert Mitchum plays veteran Air Force pilot Maj. Cleve Saville, in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea. Among the men under Saville's command are cocksure Lt. Ed Peil (Robert Read More
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