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Posted on January 5, 2014 |
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Zatoichi at Large / Zatôichi goyô-tabi / Zatôichi 23 (1972)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her fate.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Mori
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Posted on January 4, 2014 |
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Secretly Greatly / Secretly, Greatly / Eun-mil-ha-gae eui-dae-ha-gae (2013)
Action | Comedy | Drama
Two years ago, North Korean agent Won Ryu Hwan (Kim Soo Hyun) was sent to the South to lay low and await an assignment. His cover: the village idiot. Once a great soldier of the Republic's most elite and brutal special forces, Ryu Hwan can now only diligently play the part of the bumbling fool, right down to daily missions of falling down in public and getting bullied by kids. Soon, more sleeper agents show up in his neighborhood including his former subordinate Ri Hae Jin (Lee Hyun Woo), now a high school student, and the cynical and rebellious Lee Hae Rang (Park Ki Woong), who has no musical talent but is supposed to somehow become a rock singer. Just when the three spies have befriended the neighbors and grown accustomed to their small-town life, shocking orders from the North come in.
Starring: Soo Hyun Kim, Park Ki-Woong, Lee Hyun Woo
Director: Chul-soo Jang
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Posted on January 3, 2014 |
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack / Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidorâ: Daikaijû sôkôgeki (2001)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Strange incidents occur when an American submarine has been destroyed by a mysterious force at sea off the shores of Guam. Only Admiral Tachibana was certain that behind the disaster was none other than the destructive King of the Monsters, Godzilla! 50 years after his attack on Tokyo in 1954, Godzilla has mysteriously returned to life to destroy Japan, and General Tachibana, whose parents died in the monster's destructive wake, was prepared for his return to protect Japan from yet another tragic disaster, but is dismissed by the overly confident Japanese government, who underestimate Godzilla's power. But to further prove Tachibana's claim, his daughter Yuri, who works for the TV news program "Digital Q," investigates strange phenomena in three separate areas in Japan (two of which involve the deaths of immoral youths), and meets a mysterious old man named Isayama, who proclaims that aside from his infamous nuclear origins, Godzilla is an accumulation of vengeful souls (of both Japanese and non-Japanese) abandoned to die in the Pacific War, and thus, mere weapons cannot kill him. While Tachibana has now been vindicated by the government, Isayama awakens the Three Sacred Guardian Beasts of Yamato, which protected Japan in its ancient past, and were then put into hibernation in the aforementioned three areas of Japan. The three monsters, King Ghidorah (sky), Mothra (water) and Baragon (earth), fight the ravaging Godzilla, while Tachibana also prepares to go into battle against his old radioactive nemesis…
Starring: Chiharu Niiyama, Ryûdô Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi, Shirô Sano, Shirô Sano, Takashi Nishina, Hiroyuki Watanabe
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
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Posted on January 3, 2014 |
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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman / Shin zatô Ichi: Yabure! Tôjin-ken / Zatôichi 22 (1971)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsmen find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and language barriers leading to misunderstandings keep the two kindred spirits apart?
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Posted on January 2, 2014 |
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival / Zatôichi abare-himatsuri / Zatôichi 21 (1970)
Action | Adventure | Drama
In a town where women are bought and sold, Zatôichi stumbles upon a secret organization headed by Yamikubo, the Dark Imperial Lord. The "Boss of Bosses, blind like Zatôichi, takes an interest in the masseur, guiding him on the path of destiny and the duty of the sightless. However, a chance encounter with two beautiful women might be the end of Zatôichi, as both a jealous husband and the town Yakuza want his head!
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
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Posted on January 2, 2014 |
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Rush (2013)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
This dramatic portrayal of the intense 1970s rivalry between race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt captures the contrasts between the two champions. While Hunt was a charming and handsome ladies' man, Lauda was a loner with a single goal: victory.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Dormer, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Brühl, Alexandra Maria Lara, Patrick Baladi
Director: Ron Howard
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Posted on January 1, 2014 |
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo / Zatôichi to Yôjinbô / Zatôichi 20 (1970)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Ichi seeking peace in a village he remembers fondly, finds it a changed place, controlled by Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have gold stolen from the shogunate. The boss has hired a hard-drinking Yojimbo as his enforcer, but he in turn is both a spy tracking the gold for the shogunate, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress. Ichi works as the merchant's masseur and buys the mistress' freedom with his employer's own money. This upsets Yojimbo. With the two heroes quarreling will they kill each other or become allies fighting for the same cause?
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
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Posted on January 1, 2014 |
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Samaritan Zatoichi / Zatôichi kenka-daiko / Zatôichi 19 (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
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Posted on December 31, 2013 |
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Shaolin Warrior / Kungfu Kid (2013)
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A kid rushed into the Shaolin Temple and defeated some monks as proof he was qualified for being a disciple of Shaolin Abbot. Shaolin monks refused his request. The Shaolin Abbot was touched by seeing his knee down in front of the Shoalin temple for three days. The Abbot sent him to plant vegetable fields as a start of kung fu skill practice. Meanwhile, the kid was eager to learn kung fu skills. One day, the king of Chu visited Shaolin Temple and found out the kid was the man on his 'wanted list'. What hatred behind those men, a battle between them was about to start.
Starring: Ye Jianwei, Chen Ke, Liu Ruicheng
Director: Dou Xiao
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Posted on December 31, 2013 |
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Freezer (2013)
Action | Thriller
Knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner, Robert Saunders wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's walk-in freezer. But why he's there – and how he'll survive – will reveal a chilling nightmare of mistaken identity, the Russian mob, a missing $8 million, and a wounded cop who may hold the key to it all.
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Dylan McDermott, Yuliya Snigir
Director: Mikael Salomon
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Posted on December 30, 2013 |
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The Flu / Gamgi (2013)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
A group of illegal immigrants travel from Hong Kong to South Korea in a container. However, when the container arrives, the Korean smugglers discover that all of them are dead except for one, a carrier of a deadly strain of avian flu. The survivor escapes, spreading the flu throughout the city in hours. Soon, thousands are infected and dying within 36 hours. To contain the virus, the government quarantines the entire suburb. Among those trapped in the city are rescue worker Ji Koo (Jang Hyuk) and virologist Dr. Kim In Hae (Soo Ae), who met just before the outbreak. When Dr. Kim suspects her daughter of contracting the virus, she works with Ji Koo to find a cure.
Starring: Hyuk Jang, Soo Ae
Director: Sung-su Kim
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Posted on December 30, 2013 |
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Last Passenger (2013)
Action | Mystery | Thriller
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle their warped driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
Starring: Dougray Scott, Lindsay Duncan, Iddo Goldberg, David Schofield, Kara Tointon, Joshua Kaynama
Director: Omid Nooshin
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Posted on December 30, 2013 |
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives / Zatôichi hatashi-jô / Zatôichi 18 (1968)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi becomes involved with a gang of bandits hiding out in a small village. While they hide in the attic of a silk mill, they manipulate the corrupt chief official of the town. Simultaneously Zatoichi tries to rescue a young woman from the sweatshop conditions of the mill. Eventually he must confront not only the leaders of the town but the outlaw gang in battle.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Posted on December 28, 2013 |
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Zatoichi Challenged / Zatôichi chikemuri kaidô / Zatôichi 17 (1967)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save tha man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town .
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
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Posted on December 25, 2013 |
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The Myth / San wa / Shen hua (2005)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Chan stars as Jack, an intrepid and world-renowned archaeologist who has begun having dreams of a past life as a warrior in ancient China. When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as he discovers his amazing visions are based in fact. When they discover an ancient sword and a magical gemstone that can defy the laws of gravity, the past collides violently with the present with often comical consequences.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Hee-seon Kim, Tony Leung, Mallika Sherawat, Ken Lo, Rongguang Yu
Director: Stanley Tong
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Posted on December 25, 2013 |
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Zatoichi the Outlaw / Zatôichi rôyaburi / Zatôichi 16 (1967)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this house's seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme. The sixteenth Zatoichi film is the first from its star's own Katsu Productions, and is one of the series' most daring.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
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Posted on December 24, 2013 |
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Spies of Warsaw (2013)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
At the French embassy in Warsaw, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier (Tennant), is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage (Montgomery), a lawyer for the League of Nations. Risking his life, Mercier works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known to him as spies, some never to be revealed. It is a city where people drink and fight and spy and love, because no one knows what tomorrow will bring.
Starring: David Tennant, Janet Montgomery
Director: Coky Giedroyc
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Posted on December 24, 2013 |
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword / Zatôichi tekka tabi / Zatôichi 15 (1967)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Combining violent action with slapstick comedy, Zatôichi's Cane Sword is a superb example of samurai filmmaking. The village of Tonda is ruled by violent and unscrupulous yakuza, and Zatôichi takes it upon himself to clean up the town. The film blends brilliant color photography with breathtaking action sequences while offering a look into Zatôichi's past, as the blind swordsman learns the origin of his famous cane sword, and discovers it may soon fail in battle.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Posted on December 22, 2013 |
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Sniper (1993)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller, who's more of an office-type. Together they plan to seek out an important rebel leader, whilst avoiding a rogue marksman who frequents this part of the jungle.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young, Ken Radley
Director: Luis Llosa
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Posted on December 21, 2013 |
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Special ID / Dak siu san fan (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Zi Long has been an infiltrating cop in Xiong's Hong Kong mafia clan for many years. The failure of his recent negotiation on behalf of Xiong with the other three local clans makes Xiong suspicious of Zi Long's identity. Xiong sets to wipe out every undercover in his gang. Sensing the danger, Zi Long requests an end to his undercover career from his supervisor Sir Zhang. However, Zhang sends Zi Long to Mainland China to infiltrate a business of "Special Identity" trading instead. The business is run by Xiong's best protégé Sunny who was Zi Long's previous buddy in the gang. Zhang promises to reinstate Zi Long's Police identity in conclusion of the mission once Sunny's business is broken down. Zi Long agrees, joining local Police Officer Lei Peng and Fang Jing in the force.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Tian Jing, Andy On, Ronald Cheng, Collin Chou, Terence Yin, Zhigang Yang, Hanyu Zhang, Hee Ching Paw, Cheung-Ching Mak
Director: Clarence Fok
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