The story takes place in Japan during the Sengoku period, or the Warring States period. Forty-eight major demons, known as majins (lit. demon gods), sense the impending birth of a powerful human, who will grow up to be the vanquisher of demonkind...
This TV drama is based on a hit manga by Rumiko Takahashi, this is a romantic comedy about the relationship of Kyoko Otonashi, the beautiful widow and manager of a aparment and Yusaku Godai, a poor student tenant. Godai is a ronin (someone who has fa...
in 2003,an experimentai force field developed bu rei kanzaki(kyoka suzuki)failed to work as expected - it sent the armored division testing it back to the year 1547,where they are promptly attacked bu a local army.two and a half years later,in the pr...
Continuing the story from the forst film,Punk rock singer Osaki Nana(Nakashima Mika) and Komatsu Nana (Yuilchikawa)have been sharing an apartment for a while.To cheer up Hachi who has just broken up with her boyfriend,Nana introduces her to Hachi's i...
Young samurai Mimura Shinnojo(Takuya Kimaru)has a fairly happy and stable life with his loving wife kayo(Dan Rei).All This comes crashing down,however,when Shinnojo as the lord's food taster,eats poisoned shellfish and become blind.Distressed by his ...
A remake of the 2005 Korean movie " A Moment to Remember",also known as "Eraser in My Head".The movie is bassed on the 2001 drama series Pure Soul-Kimi ga boku wo wasuretemo.The young couple ,the woman is an art school student while the man is an art...
A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder.A nurse is able to save dying patients with her "life force". A woman visits her sister on a rainy night to celebrate her birthday, but finds a stranger in her house who may be a murderer ...
This drama is about a gurl who was diagnosed with a disease called Spinocerbellar Degeneration when she was 15 years old, and she was only able to continue her life until her death more or less at the age 25 years old. she keeps wondering if will be...
1942.Malaysia.Sgt.YASUO FUJII,a war cameraman,is huddled in a trench,waiting to film the Japanese 6th Army cross the Slim River on its way south to Kuala Lumpur.An enemy mortar shell lands in the trench and,in a heartbeat .Sgt .FUJII is running throu...
1942.Malaya.Sgt.YASUO FUJII.a war cameraman,is huddled in a trench.waiting to film the Japanese 6th Army Cross the Slim River on its was south to Kuala Lumpur.
1942,马来亚.中士金康夫,一个战地摄影员多在一个沟遭中,等着拍摄日军第六师璜过石林河道基隆波...
Orphaned as a little girl,Azumi is raised in the forest with a group of ten children by their master,who trains them to be peerless assassins.Azumi and Nachi are the strongest of the fighters.
SynopsisA middle aged salary man named Suzuki (Tsutsumi Shinichi),happy with his wife and 17years old only daughter.But Someone hits her andshe is hospitalized,while her companion, a high school senior boxing champion goes to a place called Ishihara....
This drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer ho...
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Hiromi Okadecides to join the high school tennis club from the moment she saw the star player Reika's excellent and smashing play.However,once the tennis lesson began,Hiromi finds herself bored in the succession of smplr pratice swings.
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A re-make of the 1986 hit, which scored 80-precent in the Aizu district of Fukushima prefecture."Byakkotai"is a historical drama centered around the Boshin War which leads up to the Meiji Restoration.With possible influential foreign allies...
Most overbearing of the Family members is Isojiro's mother ,Shimako,who seems to think Kimiko is the perfect wife whose know ledge of the traditional Kapanese arts knows no bounds.Kimiko on the other hand is sloppy ,a bad cook unless it happens to be...
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A remake of the 2004 hit horror movie of the same name,Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call) in which the "message of death " is spread througt the city via cellphones .Yumi the ex-student of Meiwa's Girls High School and Sendou,a dectective is b...
A few of you may remember that a while ago I submitted a review for a rather curious film by the title of Kibakichi. The basic premise was that a samurai-werewolf, with no fixed abode, is wandering around the countryside. If he meets up with some evi...
Light Yagami (Or Raito) is an ace student with great aspects who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note a notebook held by a shinigami (Death God). with the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world. A world withou...
When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it had any value. What he finds is a revelation. Talented film director, Tetsuya Nakashima (“Kamikaze Girls" 04), ...
Naoko Yamada is a magician whose show attracts almost no viewers. She and Jiro Ueda find out how fake "spiritualists" are using their "power" and expose them; officers Yabe and Ishihara tag along. These spiritualists turn out to really just be magici...
Battles Without Honor and Humanity is a groundbreaking 1973 yakuza film by Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku and adapted from a series of newspaper articles by Koichi Iiboshi, a journalist and former yakuza[1]. It is the first film in a five-part ser...
The global scientific community has discovered that in less than 40 years the archipelago of Japan will sink, due to a collision of tectonic plates. A massive plan for the exodus of a nation’ s population gets underway as Prime Minister Yamamoto (Ke...
Fall Guy depicts the inside story of a film studio in a comical touch, where a nearly has-been movie star takes full advantage of an adoring fan. At times moving, funny, and romantic, Fall Guy is directed by Japanese cult filmmaker Funkusaku Kinji...
The shooting of "Umizaru" is done with the full cooperation of the Japan Coast Guard, including the provision of vessels, helicopters, uniforms, and other props. Although he became a rescue diver a year before, Daisuke Senzaki was frustrated from hav...
Many Years ago when cammy was in primary school, she played Kokkurisan with 3 kids, Suddenly, a kid vanishe strangely. Now Cammy is grown up becomes a sales representative of a propety company. One day she goes to investugate about the strange cases ...
Kagemusha is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa. The title means "Shadow Warrior" in Japanese, a term for an impersonator. It is set in the Warring States era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a...
Yohei, a punk roker, has to struggle between the appeal of modem life in Tokyo and his obligation as an eldest son to take ovr his father's position as abbot of a rural Zen temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, Yoh...
Battle Royale II: Batoru rowaiaru tsū: "Rekuiemu"?), abbreviated as BRII (Bii āru tsū), is a 2003 Japanese, dystopian, action-thriller film. It is a sequel to the 2000 film, Battle Royale, which in turn was based upon a controversial 1999 novel of...
Battle Royale, a film by the veteran Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku, tells the story of a dystopic future in which each year, a randomly-selected 9th grade class is kidnapped and sent to a deserted island where they are equipped with weapons and ar...
Ran (Japanese: "chaos", "wretchedness") is a 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging Sengoku-era warlord who ...
"In this final episode of the hugely successful “One Missed Call” franchise, the timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending a disturbing photo with the message: I...
Early Summer (Japanese Bakushū ) is a 1951 film by Yasujiro Ozu. Noriko lives contentedly in an extended family household that includes her parents and her brother's family, but an uncle's visit prompts the family to find her a husband. Like most Oz...
The shooting of "Umizaru" is done with the full cooperation of the Japan Coast Guard, including the provision of vessels, helicopters, uniforms, and other props.
Although he became a rescue diver a year before, Daisuke Senzaki was frustrated from ...
Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins the Seishun Gakuen junior highschool, one of the best tennis schools in J...