4 Movies Starring Sadao Abe

Kamikaze Girls

Kamikaze Girls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-05-29

Languages:

Japanese, French, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (5301 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Nobara Takemoto (novel)

Tetsuya Nakashima (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Momoko Ryugasaki is the daughter of a smalltime gangster that forges Versace brand and a lowlife woman. Momoko is smitten by the Rococo period and dresses in a Lolita style, with frilly dresses and embroidery bonnet. She is raised by her father since her mother divorced him to marry her gynecologist, and he has taught her how to perfectly embroider. When Mr. Ryugasaki includes the Universal Studios brand in his products, he is forced to move to the rural Shimotsuma with Momoko to live in the house of her grandmother. Momoko decides to sell her collection of forged Versace and Universal Studios to make money to buy her expensive clothing. The rebel "yanki" Ichigo Shirayuri visits Momoko to buy clothes and soon they begin the most unlikely friendship.

Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-04-02

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

124 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (337 Reviews)

Director:

Kankurè Kudè

Cast:

Writer:

Kotobuki Shiriagari (comic)

Kankurè Kudè (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Maiko haaaan!!!

Maiko haaaan!!!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-06-16

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (460 Reviews)

Director:

Nobuo Mizuta

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.

Yatterman

Yatterman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-03-07

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

111 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1409 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Cast:

Writer:

Tatsuo Yoshida (characters and story)

Masashi Sogo (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Every week, toy-shop owner Gan and his cute assistant Ai battled the evil Doronbo gang. The gang led by femme fatale Doronjo and her assistants-pig-nosed muscleman Tonzra and rat-faced mecha genius Boyacky-for pieces of the mystical skull stone, and every week the Doronbo gang failed (usually due to incompetence). Then there was a mushroom cloud, Gan and Ai did their Yatterman dance and the gang regrouped the following week to do it all over again.

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