7 Movies Starring Yèki Kudè

The Crazy Family

The Crazy Family

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-02-11

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (536 Reviews)

Director:

Gakuryè Ishii

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Gakuryè Ishii (screenplay)

Norio Kaminami (screenplay)

Yoshinori Kobayashi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide...

Typhoon Club

Typhoon Club

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-12-12

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (260 Reviews)

Director:

Shinji Sèmai

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Mystery Train

Mystery Train

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-11-07

Languages:

English, Japanese, Italian

Countries:

USA, Japan

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (16951 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Fullplot:

A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.

Picture Bride

Picture Bride

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-05-05

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

Japan, USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (859 Reviews)

Director:

Kayo Hatta

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Kayo Hatta (screenplay)

Kayo Hatta (story)

Mari Hatta (screenplay)

Mari Hatta (story)

Diane Mei Lin Mark (story)

Fullplot:

The story of 16-year-old Riyo who journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged. Hoping to escape a troubled past and to start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age and Hawaii is not the paradise she expected. As Riyo comes to terms with her new home, she discovers a land full of hardship, struggle--and unexpected joy.

Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-01-07

Languages:

English, Japanese, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (12092 Reviews)

Director:

Scott Hicks

Cast:

Writer:

David Guterson (novel)

Ronald Bass (screenplay)

Scott Hicks (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in his own nets, but with a serious head wound. Was he murdered? Post-war anti-Japanese sentiments are still running high, and a murder suspect is found in the local Japanese-American community in the form of Kabuo, another fisherman, who had a grudge against Carl's family. Ishmael, the small town's newspaperman, may have the information that would acquit Kabuo, but can he ever put his jilted love for Hatsue (Kazuo's wife) aside?

Typhoon Club

Typhoon Club

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-12-12

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (260 Reviews)

Director:

Shinji Sèmai

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Blood: The Last Vampire

Blood: The Last Vampire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-08-17

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

Japan, USA

Runtime:

48 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (9390 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Kenji Kamiyama (screenplay)

Katsuya Terada

Fullplot:

In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demons.

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