Released Date:
2001-09-15
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1834 Reviews)
Director:
Shinobu YaguchiYasushi Fukuda (screenplay)
Shinobu Yaguchi (screenplay)
In a Japanese high school, a class of adolescent geeks joins the new synchronized swimming teacher and takes up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen".
Released Date:
2003-12-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
116 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (890 Reviews)
Director:
Isshin InudèSeiko Tanabe (novel)
Aya Watanabe (screenplay)
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage. Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josèe.
Released Date:
2007-03-15
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
139 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (2045 Reviews)
Director:
Akihiko ShiotaOsamu Tezuka (comic)
Masa Nakamura (screenplay)
Akihiko Shiota (screenplay)
In the year 3048, the wounded Lord Kagemitsu Daigo proposes a deal to rule the whole world to forty-eight demons in their sealed temple. In return, the demons ask forty-eight parts of the body of his unborn son. When the mutilated baby is born, his mother puts him in a basket in the river flow to save his life. The baby survives and becomes the demon slayer Hyakkimaru that slash demons to retrieve his body parts. During his journey, he meets the female thief Dororo, who was raised as a boy after the death of her parents by the evil Lord Daigo, in a small town and she befriends Hyakkimaru and joins him in his quest seeking revenge against the Daigo's clan.
Released Date:
2008-08-02
Languages:
Japanese, Thai, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
138 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (168 Reviews)
Director:
Junji SakamotoSogil Yan (based upon the novel)
A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network.
Released Date:
2010-09-11
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
139 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (852 Reviews)
Director:
Sang-il LeeGenres:
DramaShèichi Yoshida (based on the novel by)
Shèichi Yoshida (screenplay)
Sang-il Lee (screenplay)
A young woman's murder provokes reflection on the ugliness and villainy of modern society.
Released Date:
2013-11-09
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (300 Reviews)
Director:
Kèki MitaniGenres:
HistoryKèki Mitani (based on the novel by)
Kèki Mitani (screenplay)
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honno-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
Released Date:
2014-01-25
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
136 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (526 Reviews)
Director:
Yèji YamadaGenres:
DramaKyèko Nakajima (based on the novel by)
Yèji Yamada (screenplay)
Emiko Hiramatsu (screenplay)
A woman looks back on her family's life in Tokyo before and during WWII. A maid arrives from the countryside to work for an upper middle class family. She fits in well, but everyone's emotions are stirred up with the arrival of a student.
Released Date:
2014-06-27
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1064 Reviews)
Director:
Tetsuya NakashimaAkio Fukamachi (based on the novel by)
Tetsuya Nakashima (screenplay)
Miako Tadano (screenplay)
Nobuhiro Monma (screenplay)
Kanako, a beautiful girl and one of the best students at school, goes missing with all the belongings left behind in her room. Her father Akikazu is now asked by his ex-wife to look for their daughter. He starts a desperate search of Kanako using any means, in the hope of getting his "ideal" family back in place despite the fact that the very reason of the family breakup was because of his problematic personality and behaviors. Following tracks of her past and present and talking to her "friends," he starts to get to know his daughter whom he never knew or didn't even attempt to know. When Akikazu is led to one clue, he realizes the world Kanako was facing beyond his imagination... Can the father find his daughter, and get back his perfect happy family he has dreamed of after all these years?
Released Date:
2015-08-27
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
(299 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien HouCheng Ah (screenplay)
T'ien-wen Chu (screenwriter)
Hsiao-hsien Hou (screenplay)
Hai-Meng Hsieh (screenplay)
Xing Pei (short story)
The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history. Nie Yinniang returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyrany of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins".
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