Japan movies

Flight from Ashiya (1964)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Brynner, Yul | Widmark, Richard | Chakiris, George | Parker, Suzy | Knight, Shirley | Di Reda, Joe | Sugiyama, Mitsuhiro | Hughes, Andrew | Gaubert, Danièle | Frees, Paul | Ince, E.S. | Ross, William | Taki, Eiko
Directors: Anderson, Michael
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Plunge into hell with the most fearless breed of men on earth!

Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Court, Alyson | Mercier, Paul | Blum, Steve | Freeman, Crispin | Smith, Roger Craig | Sorich, Michael | Bailey, Laura | Ruff, Michelle
Directors: Kamiya, Makoto
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Resident Evil: Degeneration, known in Japan as Biohazard: Degeneration, is the first full-length CG animation feature based upon the Resident Evil series of games.

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1998)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Midorikawa, Hikaru | Yajima, Akiko | Seki, Toshihiko | Nakahara, Shigeru | Orikasa, Ai | Ishino, Ryûzô | Sakuma, Rei
Directors: Aoki, Yasunao
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The year is AC 196. A year has past since the Gundam pilots fought for peace between the colonies and Earth. Now a new threat has arisen and threatens to take over the Earth. The result: Relena is kidnapped by Trieze’s daughter and the Gundam pilots must fight for peace…one last time. The Endless Waltz has begun.

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Selleck, Tom | Takakura, Ken | Takanashi, Aya | Haysbert, Dennis | Shioya, Toshi | Toyohara, Kosuke | Fujiwara, Toshizo | Takano, Mak | Morinaga, Kenji | Nishimura, Joh | Goto, Norihide | Toita, Kensuke | Fuji, Naoki | Hozumi, Takanobu | Lee, Leon
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude.

Escaflowne (2000)

Monday, February 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Anime | Drama | Fantasy | Fantasy2 | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Sakamoto, Maaya | Seki, Tomokazu | Nakata, Jôji | Iizuka, Mayumi | Takayama, Minami | Tsujitani, Kôji | Miki, Shinichirô | Ootani, Ikue | Devall, Trevor | Dobson, Brian | Dobson, Michael | Dobson, Paul | Drummond, Brian | Francis, Andrew | Hiyama, Nobuyuki
Directors: Kazuki Akane
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High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

Trapped Ashes (2006)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | Japan | USA
Actors: Bartok, Jayce | Gibson, Henry | Lowell, Scott | Miller, Dick | Saxon, John | Cox, Richard Ian | Heindl, Scott | deLeeuw, Rob | Mina, Mina E. | Rekert, Winston | Russell, Ken | Taylor, John R. | Hiruma, Yoshinori | Ishibashi, Ryo | Itô, Yôzaburô
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Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

Silk (2007)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Pitt, Michael | Vogel, Tony | Bertorelli, Toni | Welsh, Kenneth | Molina, Alfred | Golding, Michael | Cecchi, Carlo | Fiorini, Marc | Csuth, Leslie | Tezuka, Toru | Morita, Hiroya | Ando, Akinori | Kunimura, Jun | Hongô, Kanata | Yakusho, Kôji
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Slater, Christian | Quaid, Randy | Asner, Edward | Goorjian, Michael A. | Florek, Dann | Harris, Ricky | Rolston, Mark | Murnik, Peter | Duvall, Wayne | Dysart, Richard | Baker, Ray | Patterson, Jay | Monks, Michael | Bryce, Mackenzie
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he’s the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff’s leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie’s Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam…

The Jackal (1997)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

The Super (1991)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Gardenia, Vincent | Blades, Rubén | Blank, Kenny | Benjamin, Paul | Bodibe, Bhubeshi | NGom, Abdoulaye | Heald, Anthony | Baltzman, Daniel | Hallett, Jack | Rodriquez, Steven | Robinson, Daryl | Johnson, Rynel | Bates, Paul | Margotta, Daniel
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Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie’s father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squaller his tenants endure all year round.