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 is a film released on December 16, 2000, in Japan — based on the novel of the same name — released on April 22, 1999, in Japan. The film was directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and stars Takeshi Kitano and Chiaki Kuriyama. Like the novel on ...
A road running below the water level of a stream or river is often known as a "watersplash". It is a common name for a ford or stretch of wet road in some areas, and sometimes also used to describe tidal crossings. They have become a common feature i...
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...
Kohei Kuryu, played by Kimura Takuya, is a former juvenile delinquent that drops out of junior high and goes on to earn a high school equivalency diploma. After passing the law board exams, Kuryu becomes a prosecutor. Not your typical prosecutor, whi...
The drama series is based on the manga and anime of the same name, both created by Fujisawa Tohru. The story is a sequel of lesser known series Shounan Jun'ai-gumi (Shounan Love Gang) where Onizuka Eikichi's rogue high school days are depicted.
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Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band...
n an unknown place and unknown time, a master swordsman by the name of Grave (Tak Sakaguchi) searches for the ultimate battle. After hearing tales of a mysterious coffin kept and guarded at the holy Tougan Temple he decides to steal it. Legend has it...
(THE 有頂天ホテル, THE Uchōten Hoteru?) (also known as Suite Dreams and Wow-Choten Hotel) is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Japanese director Koki Mitani. The film is set in a five star Tokyo hotel on New Year's Eve, and follows the misa...
(自殺マニュアル; Jisetsu Manyuaru) is a 2003 movie directed by Fukutani Osamu. The movie is centred around Yuu (starred by Kenji Mizuhashi), a cameraman who works for a small TV station. He and his assistant Rie ( Chisato Morishita) was sent by their...
Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share the small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters' li...
It was the defining moment of the 20th Century - the scientific , technological , military , and political gamble of the world's first atomic attack. This drama-documentary attempts to do what no other flim has done before to show what it is like to ...
The Handsome, Charming , Uiscount Jsubaki Eisuke was committed suicide . and his last solo masterpiece " Demon Betalls With Playing Flute " was just like the spirits in hell . wandering in the house with grudge . and seems going to form a devil body ...
After graduated from CA training centre, Yoko (ueto) starts her first international route training course as a trainee to Honolulu, Hawaii. As a newbie of international route stewardess , what kind of problem will she create this time ? Will there be...
As reported in 1976, the inhabitants of a solitary island of Yamajima were once annihilated except for a crazy man who shouted a mysterious warning: “When you hear the siren, never go out.” Thirty years later, Yuki Amamoto goes to the isl...
Rieka and her friends start recounting horror stories around a small campfire.
One guy surprised the group with a broken guardian deity's head from nowhere. When they return to Tokyo, bizzare and insane things start to befall them...
Ayano is giv...
It's probably fitting that Takeshi Kitano goes by the nickname Aniki in his yakuza spectacular "Brother" because he stirs up some serious anarchy on the Los Angeles crime scene. Mr. Kitano directed, edited and wrote "Brother" (aniki is Japanese for b...
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...
What would happen if all the continents in the world sank, leaving only Japan above water? With its tongue stuck firmly in its cheek that's exactly what this film explores. Now the only superpower in the world, Japan is able to dictate the law. Engli...
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. 故事简介
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Suicide Manual (自殺マニュアル; Jisetsu Manyuaru) is a 2003 movie directed by Fukutani Osamu. The movie is centred around Yuu (starred by Kenji Mizuhashi), a cameraman who works for a small TV station. He and his assistant Rie ( Chisato Morishita) wa...
Action suspense film about a hijacked Japanese warship and the terrorists who pointed its missiles directly at Tokyo. Just as the government gives up hope a fated group of men decide to take on the terrorists. Special features discs (2) include inter...
First time director Nishimura Ryo helms this comedy drama starring Oguri Shun (Neighbor No.13), Matsuo Toshinobu (Fly, Daddy, Fly) and Katsurayama Shingo (Ju-on 2).
Seven guys who are looking to make a quick buck arrive at the desolate Dog Days ba...
Fears are growing after a series of mysterious death occurs in Tokyo, Japan. Nothing could be more terrible to Kyoko (Mimula) as she knows she would be the next victim. In order to protect Kyoko, her boyfriend Naoto (Yu Yoshizawa) decides to keep her...
In this final episode of the hugely successful "One Missed Call", Emiri Kusama (Meisa Kuroki) and her classmates are on their way to South Korea for the oversea school trip. In middle of the class excursion, a familiar but dreadfully eerie melody sig...
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terroist Shuya Nanahara. 二十世纪末,一部描写中学生杀人游戏的电影《BR大逃杀》,在全日本�...
This tanpatsu celebrates the tenth year of this popular Japanese anime,originally a manga created by Aoyama Gosho. The story takes place when Shinichi receives a message: 'Will kidnap your schoolmate in your graduation trip.' Shinichi is going to f...
Due to his Western name, Tony was shunned by other kids and spent a solitary childhood. Though gifted as an artist, his drawings lacked feeling, so as an adult, he carved a career as a technical illustrator. Then in middle age, Tony suddenly falls fo...
Two teenage girls are best friends, when one doesn't have the courage to talk to a boy she likes the other acts as messenger. However the boy mistakes the messenger as the girl who likes him, and the messenger starts to wonder about her own feelings ...
Dida Diafat plays himself in this riveting account of his true-life ascent from lowlife thug to Thai Kickboxing champion. While serving time in prison, Dida meets Jean (Bernard Giraudeau), a Thai boxing instructor who urges him to go to Bangkok's fam...
TBS' Boku Tachi no Senso (Sept. 17, 9 p.m.) features a fictional young man, Kenta (Mirai Moriyama), who accidentally slips back in time from 2006 to 1944 shortly after seeing a sudden lightning flash while surfing. Soon he finds he has mysteriously t...
As more women become financially independent and career oriented, the more they have to work to stay where they are. Slowly, love becomes less important to them. 32 years old Yumi (Norika Fujiwara) is a successful editor at a well known publisher. Me...
This is the story about the contradiction of three generations. The folk generation who has the Japanese and Showa sense of the child generation who only know how to speak english, all of them have to live under one foor unwillingly.Tears, happiness,...
This is a drama talking about friendship that spans ages. Based on a true story, "Courage" which chronicles the life of a man died at the age of 23 after an illness that started with the partial collapse of his cranial bone, and a subsequent battle w...
Uzuki Nireno bids goodbye to her family in Hokkaido - in the very north of Japan - and climbs on a train bound for Tokyo to attend the university of her choice. She deals with her new situation with poise and strength. She flirts with the movers, set...
What in your past would you do differently if you could? we all have our regrets, but what if you found yourself back in the moment you most regret? hiroshi a 30 years old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. he encounters kazimi a young ...
Shinichi Kudou receives a challenge letter the day before he went to school trip. The letter said that one of his classmates will be kidnapped during the class boat tour of a lake. He tries to case the place but Sonoko gets seasick and he and Ran tak...
" Saori never liked her gay father...But when a young man comes to tell her that Himiko is dying and that the nursing home is in danger of closing, she begins to see another dimension to his life and to his work." I have seen this movie at the Montre...
From the man who brought us the classic mindfuck Tetsuo comes another flick that shows his greatness in every scene. There are very few directors out there who establish themselves to a point where as if you were to see a single frame of their movies...
The neigbor number thirteen is an adaptation of a cult manga from Inoue Santa (oh mangaka and their crazy aliases). It’s preceded by a good reputation and is showing now in only two theaters in Tokyo.
Yep, that’s how most indy flicks are treated h...
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terroist Shuya Nanahara. 二十世纪末,一部描写中学生杀人游戏的电影《BR大逃杀》,在全日本�...
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...
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kit...
Sengoku jieitai 1549 (a.k.a. "Samurai Commando Mission 1549") is a rewriting of the 1979 piece starring "Sonny Chiba" and produced by the same Kadokawa company. An SDF (Self-Defense Force) unit is blown back to 1549, the age of warring states, where ...
What in your past would you do differently if you could? We all have our regrets, but what if you found yourself back in the moment you most regret… A Heartful of Love portrays a group of characters that return to such moments and find the chance to...
Miwako, a granddaughter of a super rich millionaire becomes a detective and starts working at a male dominant police station. Her fancy fashion, elegant manners, and up class attitudes constantly gets on the nerves of the old-fashioned coworkers. How...