Japan movies

The Jackal (1997)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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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.

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Christian Slater | Randy Quaid | Edward Asner | Michael A. Goorjian | Dann Florek | Ricky Harris | Mark Rolston | Peter Murnik | Wayne Duvall | Richard Dysart | Ray Baker | Jay Patterson | Michael Monks | Mackenzie Bryce
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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 Super (1991)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Joe Pesci | Vincent Gardenia | Rub?n Blades | Kenny Blank | Paul Benjamin | Bhubeshi Bodibe | Abdoulaye NGom | Anthony Heald | Daniel Baltzman | Jack Hallett | Steven Rodriquez | Daryl Robinson | Rynel Johnson | Paul Bates | Daniel Margotta
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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.

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Kevin Conroy | Gary Dourdan | David McCallum | Corey Burton | Will Friedle | Brian George | Jason Marsden | Scott Menville | Jim Meskimen | George Newbern | Corey Padnos | Rob Paulsen | Kevin Michael Richardson
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Anime-inspired direct-to-DVD anthology film. Comprised of six short stories, from diverse creators, including Academy Award-nominated Josh Olsen (A History of Violence), Batman Begins writer David S. Goyer, and comics scribe Brian Azzarello. It’s planned for a release window of two to four weeks prior to the release of The Dark Knight, and would bridge the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

Vexille (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Shosuke Tanihara | Tetsuya Kakihara | Toshiyuki Morikawa | Takahiro Sakurai | Akio ?tsuka
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Japan, 2077: A female agent named Vexille is dispatched to Tokyo to investigate whether Japanese are developing robotic technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind.

The Machine Girl (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Y?ya Ishikawa | Ry?suke Kawamura | Kentaro Kishi | Nobuhiro Nishihara | Ry?ji Okamoto | Kentaro Shimazu | Taro Suwa | Demo Tanaka
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The Machine Girl is about a teenager named Ami who sets out for revenge on a gang of bullies who tortured her little brother to death. She winds up losing an arm along the way, and replaces it with a high-powered gun, ? la Rose McGowan in Grindhouse. But she doesn’t stop at one limb; Ami continues to lose body parts and replace them with more weapons.

Nightmare Detective (2006)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Ryuhei Matsuda | Masanobu Ando | Ren Osugi | Yoshio Harada | Shinya Tsukamoto
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Japanese detective Keiko Kirishima discovers that two suicide cases were in fact murders after the evidence reveals that both victims were attacked in their dreams. This supernatural thriller follows Keiko as she tries to enlist the help of the NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE her only hope against a paranormal serial killer.

Graveyard Shift (1990)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: David Andrews | Kelly Wolf | Stephen Macht | Andrew Divoff | Vic Polizos | Brad Dourif | Robert Alan Beuth | Ilona Margolis | Jimmy Woodard | Jonathan Emerson | Minor Rootes | Kelly L. Goodman | Susan Lowden | Joe Perham | Dana Packard
Directors: Ralph S. Singleton
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Based on Stephen King’s short story about a Maine textile mill, where it’s workers come into contact with something far more gruesome than anyone might expect.

One Missed Call (2008)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Edward Burns | Shannyn Sossamon | Azura Skye | Ana Claudia Talanc?n | Ray Wise | Rhoda Griffis | Margaret Cho | Jessica Brown | John Bailey | Charles W. Beasley | Brian Beegle | Baxter Bradham | Matthew Browning | Neill Calabro | Robert Cannon
Directors: Eric Valette
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In this remake of the Japanese horror film “Chakushin Ari” (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves — messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK
Actors: Atsuko Tanaka | Akio ?tsuka | Tamio ?ki | Iemasa Kayumi | K?ichi Yamadera | Tessh? Genda | Richard Barnes | Steven Jay Blum | Steve Bulen | Richard Cansino | Tom Carlton | George Celik | Shigeru Chiba | Stephen Davis | Richard Epcar
Directors: Mamoru Oshii
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.

The Grudge (2004)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar | Jason Behr | William Mapother | Clea DuVall | KaDee Strickland | Grace Zabriskie | Bill Pullman | Rosa Blasi | Ted Raimi | Ryo Ishibashi | Yoko Maki | Yuya Ozeki | Takako Fuji | Takashi Matsuyama | Hiroshi Matsunaga
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient’s house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it’s victims.

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Samantha Morton | Sam Riley | Alexandra Maria Lara | Joe Anderson | Toby Kebbell | Craig Parkinson | James Anthony Pearson | Harry Treadaway | Andrew Sheridan | Robert Shelly | Matthew McNulty | Ben Naylor | Herbert Gr?nemeyer | Nigel Harris | Tim Plester
Directors: Anton Corbijn
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

Japan Sinks (Nihon chinbotsu) (2006)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi | Kou Shibasaki | Etsushi Toyokawa | Mao Daichi | Mitsuhiro Oikawa | Mayuko Fukuda | Hideko Yoshida | Akira Emoto | Jun Kunimura | Koji Ishizaka | Kenichi Endo | Takeshi Kat? | Hideaki Anno | Harutoshi Fukui | Narushi Ikeda
Directors: Shinji Higuchi
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In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in time, lowered from a helicopter. Scientists predict that Japan will sink within 40 years, due to subduction of a tectonic plate to the west. However, Dr. Tadokoro, who leads an oceanic scientific team that includes Toshiro, calculates that this will happen far sooner, in only 338.54 days. He presents his findings to Prime Minister Yamamoto who decides to create a new department for impending disaster relief assigning Saoro Takamori to cover the new duties, since of all his ministers she will take it seriously but also bring “heart” to the process. As further earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions devastate Japan, the government pleads with other countries to take refugees. Yamamoto flies to China to negotiate relocations there, but his plane is destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Saoro fills the resulting vacuum in leadership and decides that Dr. Tadokoro’s plan to blow holes in the disintegrating tectonic tectonic plate is the best remaining hope to not only save the people, but what remains of the country itself. Ironically it was her career that hastened their divorce 20 years earlier. Misaki becomes orphaned following her mother’s death from earthquake injuries, and bonds with Reiko who was similarly rescued from, but orphaned by the Kobe quake. Toshiro is offered a job in England and wants Reiko and Misaki to come with him, but Reiko feels bound to help others and refuses to leave. Fellow submarine pilot Shinji Yuki also turns down Toshiro’s offer to work with him in England. Drillships place massive explosives deep in the crust, but the detonator is not placed properly and Yuki dies attempting to place it by submarine.

Timecop (1994)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Mia Sara | Ron Silver | Bruce McGill | Gloria Reuben | Scott Bellis | Jason Schombing | Scott Lawrence | Kenneth Welsh | Brent Woolsey | Brad Loree | Shane Kelly | Richard Faraci | Steven Lambert | Kevin McNulty
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In Washington DC in 1994, the Senate Oversight Committee (SOC) is being spoken to in the capitol building by George Spota, who explains that for the past 20 years, Doctor Hans Kleindast, the Nobel laureate who help the government with the space program back in the 1960s and 1970s, has been doing research, and his field of research has been time travel. The SOC believes that Hans is a quack — until George tells the SOC that Hans actually succeeded in his research and took a trip to the past then back to the present. You can’t travel into the future because the future hasn’t happened yet. George makes it clear that a covert agency is needed to police time travel, so the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is formed. Named as the director of the TEC is Commander Eugene Matuzak, formerly of the Washington DC police department. Senator Aaron McComb, who sees possibilities, agrees to chair the oversight on the new program. Sometime later, at a shopping center, TEC agent Max Walker and his wife Melissa are being watched by a pair of shady looking men. Later, at home. Max and Melissa spend some passionate time together. That night, Melissa is about to tell Max something extremely important when the phone rings. Max answers the phone and is told to go to TEC headquarters. Max gets dressed and as soon as Max opens the front door to go outside, he is attacked by the two men from the shopping center. As the two men are beating Max up. Max sees Aaron looking out the window of the bedroom that Melissa is still in, and Aaron is holding Melissa hostage, forcing Melissa to watch Max’s beating. The two men outside then shoot Max, who is wearing a bulletproof vest — and then an explosion engulfs the house, killing Melissa. On October 30, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, a man named Lyle Atwood enters an office building and rides an elevator up to an office. There is a sudden ripple in the office, and Max enters from the future. It turns out that Lyle is Max’s partner, and Lyle is planning to stop the depression from happening. Max wants to know who Lyle is working for, and Lyie calls two security men into the office to deal with Max. Max beats up the two security men, and Lyle pulls out a gun and opens fire on Max. When Lyle runs out of bullets, Max forces Lyle to admit that he’s working for Aaron, and that Aaron has paid off a lot of other TEC agents as well. Lyle then jumps out the window. Max jumps out after Lyle, grabs him, and takes Lyle with him back to present time, which is now the year 2004, ten years after Melissa’s murder. TEC judge Marshall sentences Lyle to be immediately executed, so Lyle is sent back to 1929 and is dropped to his death from the point in midair where Max and Lyle disappeared to 2004. At TEC Headquarters in 2004, Aaron, Max, and Matuzak are showing Senator Malcolm Nelson around the TEC building. Aaron reminds everyone that people who go back in time risk coming into contact with a past version of themselves. The same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time, because if that happens, and if it’s a person accidentally making physical contact with their past version, that person will die, and their body will disappear from the face of the Earth. Later, Max tells Matuzak that Aaron wants to shut down the TEC so no one can stop him from altering the past to his advantage, because Aaron is now running for President of the United States. Aaron’s fading campaign for president is dealt a blow when he is denied federal campaign matching funds. Just before Max wakes up, two men break into his home to kill him, but Max turns the tables and kills the two men who broke in. TEC internal affairs investigator Sarah Fielding questions Max. Max soon learns that Sarah may be on the wrong side in this. Max must travel back and forth in time to bring Aaron down…and when Max goes back to 1994 and finds out what Melissa wanted to tell him 10 years ago, it gives Max incentive to at least try to prevent Melissa’s murder.

Akira (1988)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Mitsuo Iwata | Nozomu Sasaki | Mami Koyama | Tessh? Genda | Hiroshi ?take | K?ichi Kitamura | Michihiro Ikemizu | Yuriko Fuchizaki | Masaaki ?kura | Tar? Arakawa | Takeshi Kusao | Kazumi Tanaka | Masayuki Kat? | Y?suke Akimoto | Masato Hirano
Directors: Katsuhiro ?tomo
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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo’s supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira’s secrets were buried 30 years ago.