Posted on June 17, 2016 |
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Uzumasa Limelight / Uzumasa raimuraito (2014)
Action | Drama
The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, the admirable story of Seiichi Kamiyama dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul.
Starring: Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda, Hirotarô Honda, Hisako Manda, Nenji Kobayashi, Hiroki Matsukata
Director: Ken Ochiai
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Tags: Chihiro Yamamoto, Hiroki Matsukata, Hirotarô Honda, Hisako Manda, Ken Ochiai, Masashi Goda, Nenji Kobayashi, Seizô Fukumoto
Posted on April 15, 2015 |
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Uzumasa Limelight / Uzumasa raimuraito (2014)
Action | Drama
The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Using Charlie Chaplin's film Limelight as an underlying theme, the admirable story of Seiichi Kamiyama dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul.
Starring: Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda, Hirotarô Honda, Hisako Manda
Director: Ken Ochiai
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Tags: Chihiro Yamamoto, Hirotarô Honda, Hisako Manda, Ken Ochiai, Masashi Goda, Seizô Fukumoto
Posted on December 23, 2014 |
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Kikaider: The Ultimate Human Robot / Kikaidâ Reboot (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
Set in the near future in Japan. Nobuhiko Komyoji is an expert on robots. He leads the "ARK Project" and creates Robot Kikaider (Jingi Irie). After Nobuhiko Komyoji's mysterious death, Robot Kikaider begins to fight against the "ARK Project" which has gone astray from the project's original mission.
Starring: Jingi Irie, Aimi Satsukawa, Yûto Ikeda, Maryjun Takahashi, Shingo Tsurumi, Kazushige Nagashima, Hirotarô Honda, Ryûji Harada, Renji Ishibashi, Daisuke Ban
Director: Ten Shimoyama
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Tags: Aimi Satsukawa, Daisuke Ban, Hirotarô Honda, Jingi Irie, Kazushige Nagashima, Maryjun Takahashi, Renji Ishibashi, Ryûji Harada, Shingo Tsurumi, Ten Shimoyama, Yûto Ikeda
Posted on September 25, 2013 |
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Shield of Straw / Wara no tate (2013)
Action | Thriller
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing. Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad states "Please kill this man Kunihide Kiyomaru and I will pay you 1,000,000,000 yen as a reward." Meanwhile, Kunihide Kiyomaru sees the ad and begins to fear for his life. Kunihide Kiyomaru then turns himself in at the Fukuoka Police Station. Five detectives from the security section (SP) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department travel to Fukuoka to escort Kunihide Kiyomaru back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The distance between Fukuoka and Tokyo is apprixmately 1,200 km. During their fateful trip, a significant portion of the Japanese population plot to kill Kunihide Kiyomaru. Many of those people, actually pursue Kunihide Kiyomaru while he goes back to Tokyo to get the 1 billion yen reward. The lonely fight of the five detectives to protect this man begins…
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Ohsawa, Gorô Kishitani, Masatô Ibu, Kento Nagayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Hirotarô Honda
Director: Takashi Miike
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Tags: Gorô Kishitani, Hirotarô Honda, Kento Nagayama, Kimiko Yo, Masatô Ibu, Nanako Matsushima, Takao Ohsawa, Takashi Miike, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki
