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Samu Life / Samulife / Samuraifu (2015)
Drama
Nagaoka (Takahiro Miura) is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal education environment. To achieve his goal, Nagaoka struggles to make money by running a bar and publishing company.
Starring: Takahiro Miura, Mayu Matsuoka, Masaki Kaji, Reiya Masaki, Ryôsuke Yamamoto
Director: Takeshi Moriya
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Tags: Masaki Kaji, Mayu Matsuoka, Reiya Masaki, Ryôsuke Yamamoto, Takahiro Miura, Takeshi Moriya
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The Hidden Blade / Kakushi ken oni no tsume (2004)
Drama | Romance
An honest, low-ranking samurai, Munezo Katagiri finds himself buffeted by the confusion of old and new in mid-19th century Japan. Facing outside pressure, the Shogunate is trying to open Japan to the West and some carefully selected Western ways, while maintaining its fragile political base. Munezo, and his colleague Samon Shimada try to maintain their footing, paying heed to the demanding moral code of the samurai while also learning new military strategies, particularly the mastery of Western artillery. But Munezo also has a personal complication. He is secretly in love–so secretly, he may not even admit it to himself–with his family's maid, the sweet and beautiful country girl, Kie. His passion leads him to rescue Kie from a loveless marriage after she leaves his household; the samurai even shocks propriety by carrying away the low-caste young woman on his back. Just as Munezo starts to get his domestic situation in something to resembling order, Munezo hears devastating news. A comrade, Yaichiro Hazama, has been caught up in a plot in Edo. Their clan has sent the rebellious samurai home in the humiliating transport of a "prisoner's basket." Munezo comes under suspicion because he and Yaichiro, the clan's best swordsmen, shared a famed instructor, but Munezo refuses to cooperate with the chief retainer's witch hunt. Tension finally leads Munezo to confess his growing affection to Kie, a development that the young woman begins to hope will lead to the abandonment of caste structures. But before Munezo can realize his romantic destiny, Yaichiro escapes. Munezo is ordered to kill him, and the loyal, honorable samurai is faced with one final challenge to his principles.
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Tomoko Tabata
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Be with You / Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son, Yuji. His wife, Mio, promised before her passing that she'd be with them again when the rainy season starts. On the first anniversary of her death, Takumi and Yuji comes across a woman in the woods taking shelter from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Yôsuke Asari, Yûta Hiraoka
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
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Tags: Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Nobuhiro Doi, Shidô Nakamura, Yôsuke Asari, Yûko Takeuchi, Yûta Hiraoka
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Lila & Eve (2015)
Drama | Thriller
When teenage Stephon is killed in a drive-by shooting, his mother, Lila, slips into a paralyzing grief. She joins a support group for women who have lost children to crime and meets Eve, a woman whose little girl was killed the same night as Stephon. Lila and Eve form a friendship, and Lila begins to crawl out of her depression. She develops a burning desire to find justice for her son, and she presses the authorities for answers, but they are slow-moving and ineffective. It's Eve who has the idea first-join together, find the drug dealers who shot Stephon dead, and bring them to justice themselves.
Starring: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham, Aml Ameen, Chris Chalk, Andre Royo
Director: Charles Stone III
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Mia madre / My Mother (2015)
Drama
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Starring: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti
Director: Nanni Moretti
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Clockstoppers (2002)
Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Scientist George Gibbs invents a mechanism that speeds up the molecules of any target, making it seem as though the rest of the world is frozen in time. When his son is zapped by the device, George must find a way to reverse the effects.
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Paula Garcés, Michael Biehn, Julia Sweeney, French Stewart, Garikayi Mutambirwa
Director: Jonathan Frakes
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Tags: French Stewart, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Jesse Bradford, Jonathan Frakes, Julia Sweeney, Michael Biehn, Paula Garcés