Released Date:
2004-03-13
Languages:
Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
135 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (2532 Reviews)
Director:
Shunji IwaiUpon entering high school, two best friends named Hana and Alice notice a boy a year older them while waiting for the train, and they both develop a pretty strong crush on him. One day while secretly following him home, Hana witnesses the boy walk right into a wall and pass out. When he wakes up, she lies and convinces him that he must have amnesia, because he doesn't remember the fact that she was his girlfriend. After this, hilarity ensues as the two girls attempt to run with the lie. Of course, complications soon arise.
Released Date:
2007-01-11
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (615 Reviews)
Director:
Masahiro TakadaGenres:
RomanceChika Umino (comic)
Masahiko Kawahara (screenplay)
Masahiro Takada (screenplay)
Shy architect Takemoto, pensive ceramics student Ayumi, hardworking senior Mayama, and super-senior artistic madman Morita are four students at an art college in Japan, each taught by Professor Hanamoto. When artistic prodigy Hagumi, the daughter of Hanamoto's cousin, arrives at the school, Takemoto falls for her immediately. However, Professor Hanamoto suspects that Hagumi may open her heart to Morita faster, leaving the dejected Takemoto to decide whether he should yield to Morita, or continue to fight for his affections. Meanwhile, Ayumi pursues Mayama, who looks right through her due to being obsessively in love with his boss...a much older, widowed woman.
Released Date:
2006-12-23
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (8232 Reviews)
Director:
Michael AriasAnthony Weintraub (screenplay)
Taiyè Matsumoto (manga 'Tekkon kinkurèto')
In Treasure Town, life can be both peaceful and violent. This is never truer than for our heroes, Black and White - two street kids who claim to traverse the urban city as if it were their own. But in this town, an undercurrent of evil exists and has its sights set on the pair of brothers, forcing them to engage in battle with an array of old-world Yakuza as well as dangerous assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis, Treasure Town.
Released Date:
2007-03-24
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
131 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (809 Reviews)
Director:
Katsuhiro ètomoGenres:
FantasyYuki Urushibara (comic)
Sadayuki Murai (screenplay)
Katsuhiro ètomo (screenplay)
Ginko, a Mushi-shi has always been attuned to the Mushi, creatures close to life itself and able to affect and alter their surroundings. He cannot stay in one place for too long so he wanders, helping the inhabitants of rural Japan understand the Mushi around them and how to coexist peacefully.
Released Date:
2010-10-09
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (5044 Reviews)
Director:
Takeshi KoikeKatsuhito Ishii (original story)
Katsuhito Ishii (screenplay)
Yoji Enokido (screenplay)
Yoshiki Sakurai (screenplay)
An action drama centered on a deadly racing tournament held every five years and the reckless dare-devil driver who wants to win it.
Released Date:
2012-08-25
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
134 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (13310 Reviews)
Director:
Keishi OhtomoNobuhiro Watsuki (manga)
Kiyomi Fujii (screenplay)
Keishi Ohtomo (screenplay)
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those in need without killing. Kenshin wanders through Japan with a reverse-edged sword during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages attached to their bodies. When Kanryuu poisons the population to get the school, Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join forces to attack their common enemy.
Released Date:
2014-08-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (6897 Reviews)
Director:
Shinji AramakiLeiji Matsumoto (manga)
Harutoshi Fukui (screenplay)
Kiyoto Takeuchi (screenplay)
2977: For many years a mighty battle has been raging across the galaxies as 500 billion humans, whose forebears were exiled from Earth, plan to return to what is still called home. Forced to flee a ravaged Earth, humans have now depleted the corners of the galaxy to which they fled. Earth has now become the most valued and precious resource of all, controlled by the corrupt Gaia Coalition which governs the human race across the different galaxies. Having been exiled and vilified during the battle of the Homecoming War, Captain Harlock and his trusted crew of the Arcadia battle cruiser are the only hope mankind has of discovering the secrets that the Gaia have kept hidden. The Coalition has demanded Harlock's death and the Gaia Fleet's new leader, Ezra, calls on his younger brother, Logan, to infiltrate the Arcadia and then assassinate Harlock, thus forever eradicating the one man standing between the Coalition and their complete control of the Universe. Logan must make a very personal sacrifice and discover that things are not always as they seem. All the while Captain Harlock and his crew will continue his mission, seeking revenge against the Coalition and establishing the return to Earth.
Released Date:
2014-09-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
134 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (3717 Reviews)
Director:
Keishi OhtomoNobuhiro Watsuki (manga)
Kiyomi Fujii (screenplay)
Keishi Ohtomo (screenplay)
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Released Date:
2015-10-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (63 Reviews)
Director:
Kiyoshi KurosawaKiyoshi Kurosawa (screenplay)
Kazumi Yumoto (based on the novel by)
Takashi Ujita (screenplay)
Mizuki's husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.
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