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Posted on May 6, 2022 | Comments Off on Tokiwa The Manga Apartment (1996) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment / Tokiwa-so no seishun (1996)
Drama
A look at the youthful beginnings of manga giants Motoo Abiko, aka Fujiko Fujio, Fujio Akatsuka and Hiroo Terada, when they all lived in the same, dingy apartment building — named Tokiwa-so — in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Sadao Abe, Arata Furuta, Kazuo Hara, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Jun Ichikawa
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Posted on April 29, 2017 |
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The Long Excuse / Nagai iiwake (2016)
Drama
Based on a book by writer – director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita, Tamaki Shiratori, Keiko Horiuchi
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
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Tags: Keiko Horiuchi, Kenshin Fujita, Masahiro Motoki, Miwa Nishikawa, Pistol Takehara, Tamaki Shiratori
Posted on July 4, 2016 | Comments Off on Sumo Do Sumo Dont (1992) 720p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't / Shiko funjatta (1992)
Comedy | Sport
Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger generation is more interested in "Western" sports like baseball and basketball. Professor Anayama, a former university sumo champion, blackmails graduating (and slim) student Shuhei into joining the decimated university team, or he doesn't graduate. Along with a pro wrestler, an unpopular, chubby guy, and a gaijin (white guy), the team begins training for competition, even though none of them cares about sumo at all. Gradually, they develop a love and respect for the traditional sport.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Kaori Mizushima, Hiromasa Taguchi, Robert Hoffman
Director: Masayuki Suo
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Tags: Akira Emoto, Hiromasa Taguchi, Kaori Mizushima, Masahiro Motoki, Masayuki Suo, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Robert Hoffman
Posted on February 24, 2016 |
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The Big Bee / Tenkû no hachi (2015)
Thriller
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter. Yuhara (Yosuke Eguchi), who is the helicopter designer, and Mishima (Masahiro Motoki), who is the nuclear power engineer, work frantically to save the child and find the criminal.
Starring: Yôsuke Eguchi, Masahiro Motoki, Yukie Nakama, Gô Ayano, Akira Emoto, Jun Kunimura
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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Tags: Akira Emoto, Gô Ayano, Jun Kunimura, Masahiro Motoki, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yukie Nakama, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Posted on January 10, 2016 |
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The Emperor in August / Japan's Longest Day / Nihon no ichiban nagai hi ketteiban (2015)
Drama | History | War
On August 14th, 1945, at an Imperial conference, the Showa Emperor, Hirohito (Masahiro Motoki), finally decided to accept the Potsdam Declaration. However, some young firebrand Army officers insisted on continuing the war and conspired to launch a coup. Anami (Koji Yakusho), the Minister of War, was pressed to make an extremely difficult decision.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tôri Matsuzaka
Director: Masato Harada
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Tags: Koji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Masato Harada, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tôri Matsuzaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Posted on May 3, 2015 | Comments Off on Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Four Days of Snow and Blood / Ni-ni-roku / 226 (1989)
Action | Drama | War
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki
Director: Hideo Gosha
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Tags: Hideo Gosha, Kenichi Hagiwara, Masahiro Motoki, Tomokazu Miura
Posted on May 3, 2015 | Comments Off on Fancy Dance (1989) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Fancy Dance / Fanshî dansu (1989)
Comedy
Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Honami Suzuki, Ken Osawa, Hikomaro, Hiromasa Taguchi, Kazuo Chikada, Paul Silverman, Yu Tokui
Director: Masayuki Suo
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Tags: Hikomaro, Hiromasa Taguchi, Honami Suzuki, Kazuo Chikada, Ken Osawa, Masahiro Motoki, Masayuki Suo, Paul Silverman, Yu Tokui
Posted on April 13, 2014 | Comments Off on Heat Wave (1991) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-CG
Heat Wave / Kagerô (1991)
Crime | Drama
Jojima Orin is orphaned when Tsunejiro murders her father. She is later adopted by the Kosuji family, who run a restaurant called Yagumo, and becomes a gambler just like her father. Orin meets Tsunejiro again and confronts the Iwabune mob to take back Yagumo that rightfully belongs to her brother.
Starring: Kanako Higuchi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiko Oginome, Masahiro Motoki, Rino Katase, Takuzô Kawatani, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Hideo Gosha
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Tags: Hideo Gosha, Kanako Higuchi, Keiko Oginome, Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Rino Katase, Takuzô Kawatani, Tatsuya Nakadai
Posted on June 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Departures (2008) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
Departures / Okuribito (2008)
Drama | Music
Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as an undertaker. He sees himself as a sort of gatekeeper between life and death. However, Daigo's work is despised by all the people around him. But it is through his relationship with death on a daily basis that Daigo begins to understand what life is really about.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Yôjirô Takita
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