Category: Action
Posted on December 20, 2013 |
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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert / Zatôichi Jigoku tabi / Zatôichi 12 (1965)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert is a visual feast of swordplay and relentless action. The blind swordsman befriends a wandering, chess-loving, battle-thirsty samurai and helps a young girl who has been accidentally wounded in a brutal sword fight. This spectacular film, photographed in gorgeous color and directed by samurai specialist Kenji Misumi, shows Zatoichi at his best: battling rival yakuza and angry relatives seeking retribution.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
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Posted on December 19, 2013 |
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Out of Inferno / Tao chu sheng tian (2013)
Action
On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire incident happened to a busy commercial tower, a gaggle of fire fighters with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Angelica Lee, Sicheng Chen
Director: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
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Posted on December 19, 2013 |
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man / Zatôichi sakate giri / Zatôichi 11 (1965)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Mori
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Posted on December 19, 2013 |
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Barracuda (2010)
Action | Adventure
Based on actual events, Barracuda is an original, vengeance themed story and fresh take on sexual perversions, the lives it affects and the pursuit of it. When we first meet Summer, a sensitive yet cynical portrait artist who supplements her income as a phone sex operator from her rickety old houseboat in Venice, she is at the end of her emotional rope. The callers, whom she began recording as proof of how normal, professional men can also be pedophiles and rapist, have entered her dreams at night. When no one will believe or listen to the taped phone conversations with these otherwise ordinary men, Summer take matters into her own hands and drives her vintage Plymouth Barracuda across the country, surprising and exposing these deviants at their homes. Accountability, closure with ones demons and how love conquers even the most cynical ensues. Barracuda is a witty and brazenly honest story of the unbeatable human spirit.
Starring: Christy Oldham, Shane Woodson, Pippa Hinchley, Elina Madison, Kaden Graves, David Castro, Will Beinbrink
Director: Christy Oldham, Shane Woodson
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Tags: Christy Oldham, David Castro, Elina Madison, Kaden Graves, Pippa Hinchley, Shane Woodson, Will Beinbrink
Posted on December 18, 2013 |
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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon / Di Renjie: Shen du long wang (2013)
Action | Crime
The action-packed and captivating tale of Dee Renjie's beginnings in the Imperial police force. His very first case, investigating reports of a sea monster terrorizing the town, reveals a sinister conspiracy of treachery and betrayal, leading to the highest reaches of the Imperial family.
Starring: Angelababy, Mark Chao, Kun Chen, Shaofeng Feng, Carina Lau
Director: Hark Tsui
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Posted on December 18, 2013 |
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Zatoichi's Revenge / Zatôichi nidan-kiri / Zatôichi 10 (1965)
Action | Adventure | Drama
When a scheme to enslave young women into forced prostitution causes his old master to be murdered in cold blood, Ichi sets mercy aside until his vengeance is meted out and the young women are set free.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Akira Inoue
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Posted on December 18, 2013 |
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Fairy Tail: The Phoenix Priestess / Fairy Tale the Movie (2012)
Action | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
The mightiest team of mages from the magic kingdom's most infamous guild faces evil rising from the embers in this action-packed feature length adventure. Follow Fairy Tail's dream team-Natsu, Gray, Erza, Lucy, Wendy, Happy, and Carla-as they lend a helping hand to a girl with little memory and a grudge against wizards. As they uncover clues about her mysterious past, a lunatic prince hatches a half-baked plan to sacrifice her in exchange for immortality. When the fool unleashes an ancient force, a raging war becomes the fiercest inferno Fairy Tail has ever faced. Can the guild with a heart of gold save the planet from a fiery finish?
Starring: Tetsuya Kakihara, Aya Hirano, Rie Kugimiya, Yuichi Nakamura, Sayaka Ohara, Satomi Sato
Director: Masaya Fujimori
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Posted on December 18, 2013 |
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The Negotiator (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Desperate to clear himself of murder charges, police officer Danny Roman takes a group of government employees hostage and then requests a specific negotiator from another precinct. When that master comes in to defuse the situation and bring Roman in, he learns there may be far more to the situation than anyone realizes, and he may actually have to protect the rogue cop.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, J.T. Walsh, Paul Giamatti, Ron Rifkin
Director: F. Gary Gray
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Posted on December 18, 2013 |
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Adventures of Zatoichi / Zatôichi sekisho yaburi / Zatôichi 9 (1964)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Posted on December 17, 2013 |
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The Call of the Wild (1935)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan — who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found — Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter.
Starring: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Katherine DeMille, Sidney Toler
Director: William A. Wellman
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Posted on December 17, 2013 |
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Line of Duty (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
"Mission Park" follows the lives of four best friends who choose very different paths. Torn apart over time by their ambitions, their choices ultimately bring them back together on different sides of the law. In this urban crime drama, two young F.B.I. agents, Bobby Ramirez (Jeremy Ray Valdez) and Julian Medina (Will Rothhaar), go undercover to infiltrate an illegal drug organization run by the untouchable drug lord Jason Martinez (Walter Perez) and his right-hand man Derek Hernandez (Joseph Julian Soria).
Starring: Jeremy Ray Valdez, Will Rothhaar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Bryan Ramirez
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Posted on December 17, 2013 |
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Riddick / Riddick: Rule the Dark / The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking (2013)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Bautista, Bokeem Woodbine, Jordi Mollà
Director: David Twohy
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Posted on December 17, 2013 |
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear / Ninja II (2013)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Ninjitsu master Casey is back and out for revenge when his pregnant wife is murdered.
Starring: Scott Adkins, Vithaya Pansringarm, Kane Kosugi, Tim Man, Mika Hijii
Director: Isaac Florentine
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Posted on December 17, 2013 |
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Ninja (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Casey journeys from the U.S. to Japan to study the ancient martial art of ninjutsu with the greatest masters on the planet. Now his training will be put to the test when he's summoned by his sensei to return to New York on a dangerous mission. Casey must protect the Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest containing the weapons of a legendary ninja.
Starring: Scott Adkins, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Mika Hijii
Director: Isaac Florentine
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Posted on December 16, 2013 |
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Christmas Bounty (2013)
Action | Comedy
A former bounty hunter turns into an elementary schoolteacher. Determined to have a normal life and keep her bounty hunter past a secret, she reluctantly returns home for Christmas to help save the family business by catching the one bounty that got away. But when her fiancé follows her home for the holiday, she struggles to hide her wild family business and a bounty hunter ex-boyfriend she thought she'd left behind.
Starring: Mike Mizanin, Francia Raisa, April Telek, Chelan Simmons, Aleks Paunovic, Will Greenberg
Director: Gil Junger
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Posted on December 15, 2013 |
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Mayor / The Major (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
That day Sergey Sobolev, police officer, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he's driving too fast and when he sees a boy on a passage walk, it's too late. The boy died, and now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal his crime and stay free. All the characters in this film have to choose – to cross or not to cross the line, when the price for your choice is life… yours and of the ones you love.
Starring: Yuri Bykov, Ilya Isayev, Dmitriy Kulichkov, Boris Nevzorov, Irina Nizina, Kirill Polukhin, Denis Shvedov
Director: Yuri Bykov
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Posted on December 14, 2013 |
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Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara! / Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai 2 (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama
The story of Shoaib, an underworld don who came to power by killing his mentor and has extended his kingdom with the help of his best friend, Javed, and his former lover, Mumtaz. While visiting the area where he grew up, he meets Aslam, who becomes his protégé.
Starring: Sonakshi Sinha, Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Vidya Balan, Sophiya Chaudhary
Director: Milan Luthria
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Posted on December 14, 2013 |
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Machete (2010)
Action | Crime | Thriller
After a violent shakedown from a notorious drug lord nearly kills him, Machete, a renegade Mexican Federale and tough-as-nails vigilante for justice, roams the streets of Texas, working as a day laborer. When Machete is hired by a crooked US Senator to execute a covert hit, Machete is double-crossed and forced to run from the cops and an endless stream of assassins. But what they don't know is that Machete is looking for them so he can settle the score.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeff Fahey
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Ethan Maniquis
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Posted on December 12, 2013 |
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight / Zatôichi kesshô-tabi / Zatôichi 8 (1964)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
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Posted on December 11, 2013 |
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Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 – Ghost Whisper (2013)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The anime's story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in arms-dealing bribes is gunned down. During the investigation, Public Security Section's Daisuke Aramaki encounters Motoko Kusanagi, the cyborg wizard-level hacker assigned to the military's 501st Secret Unit. Batou, a man with the "eye that does not sleep," suspects that Kusanagi is the one behind the bombing. The Niihama Prefectural Police detective Togusa is pursuing his own dual cases of the shooting death and a prostitute's murder. Motoko herself is being watched by the 501st Secret Unit's head Kurutsu and cyborg agents.
Starring: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Shunsuke Sakuya, Ikkyu Juku, Takurou Nakakuni, Yôji Ueda
Director: Kazuchika Kise, Masahiko Murata
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Tags: Ikkyu Juku, Kazuchika Kise, Kenichiro Matsuda, Maaya Sakamoto, Masahiko Murata, Shunsuke Sakuya, Takurou Nakakuni, Yoji Ueda
