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Actors: Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyoka Suzuki, Takehiro Murata, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shingo Tsurumi
Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto revives his similarly named 1960s television series about happy-go-lucky avenger-for-hire Sukeroku (Hiroyuki Sanada) who prefers to brandish a wooden pole or a rope rather than a sword. The film opens with Sukeroku returning to his home in the mountainous Joshu Read More
Actors: Takehiro Murata, Shiro Sano, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Mayu Suzuki, Tsutomu Kitagawa
Synopsis: Following Roland Emmerich's controversial Americanization of the Japanese monster icon in Godzilla (1998), the Beast from the East comes roaring back in this sci-fi adventure tale. Yuji Shinoda (Naomi Nishida), a scientist devoted to researching Godzilla, is setting up equipment on a fog-shrouded Read More
Actors: Yoshitaka Zushi, Katsuo Nakamura, Rikiya Yasuoka
Synopsis: After being raped by her stepfather, teenaged Yuki (Saki Kamiryo) takes shelter in a remote mental hospital. In the course of her stay, she meets a host of fellow patients whose stories tend to be as troubling as her own. Included amongst them are schizophrenic Kuro; Hidemaru, a stately student of Read More
Synopsis: Following the release of his Minbo No Onna -- less a film than a textbook on how to extricate oneself from yakuza harassment -- veteran director Juzo Itami was attacked and almost killed by the mob for his effort. In this crime-comedy, he voices his outrage at the attack, which he viewed as an Read More
Synopsis: Juzo Itami's Minbo no Onna -- a virtual textbook on how to beat yakuza harassment -- was a big hit and almost got its director killed in the wake of a gangland knife-attack. Itami's follow-up is a light-hearted meditation on death and dying, strongly recalling Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece Ikiru. Read More
Actors: Kenpachiro Satsuma, Megumi Odaka, Momoko Kochi
Synopsis: Everybody's favorite Tokyo-trashing mutant lizard strikes again. This go-around features not only the big guy, but also his Scrappy-Doo-like companion, Godzilla Junior. On the human side, the film features a teenaged wunderkind whose father not only narrowly survived the green monster's first Read More
Actors: Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata
Synopsis: Takehiro Nakajima directs this romantic drama about a love triangle between two men and a young woman. The film centers on Sayoko (Misa Shimizu of Unagi fame) who works as a voice-over artist for television cartoons. One day she happens upon a lithe young man and his middle-aged lover in mid-kiss. Read More
Actors: Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata
Synopsis: Godzilla is reunited with one of his arch-enemies in this remake of the Japanese monster classic. When a meteorite crashes to Earth in the Pacific Ocean near Japan, the consequences are remarkable; it manages to awaken the dormant monster Godzilla, it uncovers a huge egg that had been buried on Read More
Actors: Nobuko Miyamoto, Akira Takarada, Yasuo Daichi, Takehiro Murata, Hideji Otaki
Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker Juzo Itami spins this biting satire cum do-it-yourself video about the do's and don'ts of dealing with yakuza extortion techniques. The film centers on the posh Europa Hotel that lost a big conference bid to its rival; the reason was because gangsters were openly conducting Read More
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