Tag: Masanobu Andô
Posted on June 26, 2022 |
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The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman / Dao jiàn xiào (2010)
Action | Comedy
A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.
Starring: Masanobu Andô, Yuqi Zhang, Benchang You, Xiaoye Liu, Ashton Xu, Swanson Han
Director: Wuershan
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Tags: Ashton Xu, Benchang You, Masanobu Andô, Swanson Han, Wuershan, Xiaoye Liu, Yuqi Zhang
Posted on May 6, 2022 |
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Zokki (2020)
Comedy | Drama
Three of Japan's most talented and prolific actor-directors have joined forces to adapt Hiroyuki Ohashi's cult manga series about characters in "an obscure corner" of the world. The film's five loosely connected storylines concern the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate their daily encounters.
Starring: Riho YoshiokaShinnosuke Mitsushima, Fuku Suzuki, Yurina Yanagi, Sara Minami, Masanobu Andô
Director: Takumi Saitoh, Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada
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Tags: Fuku Suzuki, Masanobu Andô, Naoto Takenaka, Riho YoshiokaShinnosuke Mitsushima, Sara Minami, Takayuki Yamada, Takumi Saitoh, Yurina Yanagi
Posted on November 19, 2021 |
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The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill / The Fable: Chapter Two / Za faburu korosanai koroshiya (2021)
Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Akira Sato is the legendary killer known as The Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully with his partner Yoko as ordinary siblings. Akira still works part-time at design company Octopus with CEO Takoda and employee Misaki. CEO Takoda and Misaki are unaware of Akira's background as an assassin. Meanwhile, Utsubo is a representative for an NPO. However, Utsubo works with contract killer Suzuki to set people up for extortion purposes. They target someone at design company Octopus.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Fumino Kimura, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Yurina Hirate, Masanobu Andô, Mizuki Yamamoto
Director: Kan Eguchi
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Tags: Fumino Kimura, Junichi Okada, Kan Eguchi, Masanobu Andô, Mizuki Yamamoto, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Yurina Hirate
Posted on November 13, 2021 |
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning / Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part II – The Beginning / Rurôni Kenshin: Sai shûshô – The Beginning (2021)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Before becoming a protector, Kenshin is a fearsome assassin known as Battosai, but his story changes when he meets the gentle Tomoe Yukishiro.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Kasumi Arimura, Issey Takahashi, Nijirô Murakami, Masanobu Andô, Kazuki Kitamura, Yôsuke Eguchi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
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Tags: Issey Takahashi, Kasumi Arimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Keishi Ohtomo, Masanobu Andô, Nijirô Murakami, Takeru Satoh, Yôsuke Eguchi
Posted on July 19, 2021 |
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Still Life of Memories (2018)
Drama | Romance
Rei herself a museum employee is impressed by the photography exhibition of Suzuki Haruma and hires him for a project on the condition that he asks no questions in advance and surrender all photographs and negatives to her. It turns out the assignment is Rei, more specifically her vagina. Haruma sets out to conduct his work professionally and studiously, but as the work progresses the nature of the relationship may be changing. There is at least one person who is suspicious of the relationship between employee and employer.
Starring: Masanobu Andô, Natsuko Kobayashi, Rima Matsuda, Vivienne Sato
Director: Hitoshi Yazaki
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Tags: Hitoshi Yazaki, Masanobu Andô, Natsuko Kobayashi, Rima Matsuda, Vivienne Sato
Posted on December 22, 2016 |
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Sadako vs Kayako / Sadako v Kayako (2016)
Horror
The vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off.
Starring: Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Aimi Satsukawa, Misato Tanaka, Masahiro Kômoto, Masanobu Andô
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
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Tags: Aimi Satsukawa, Kôji Shiraishi, Masahiro Kômoto, Masanobu Andô, Misato Tanaka, Mizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro
Posted on August 8, 2016 |
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation / Seirâ fuku to kikanjuu: Sotsugyou (2016)
Action | Romance
Yakuza underboss and schoolgirl Hoshi Izumi intends to become a regular student once again following a period of unleashing bloody revenge upon those who murdered the former yakuza boss. However, the fix is in when a classmate dies in a haze of drug-related circumstances. Izumi is compelled to redraw her machine gun and train it on a cadre of unsavoury businessmen, politicians and yakuza.
Starring: Kanna Hashimoto, Hiroki Hasegawa, Masanobu Andô, Takurô Ohno, Shôhei Uno
Director: Kôji Maeda
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Posted on April 7, 2016 |
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Gonin Saga / Gonin sâga (2015)
Action
Seiji (Masanobu Ando) is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist (Tasuku Emoto) investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato (Masahiro Higashide), Daisuke (Kenta Kiritani) and Asami (Anna Tsuchiya).
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Kenta Kiritani, Anna Tsuchiya, Masanobu Andô, Tasuku Emoto, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Takashi Ishii
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Tags: Anna Tsuchiya, Kenta Kiritani, Masahiro Higashide, Masanobu Andô, Naoto Takenaka, Takashi Ishii, Tasuku Emoto
Posted on April 29, 2015 |
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The Railroader / Railroad Man / Poppoya (1999)
Drama
A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. He is visited by a young woman, who mysteriously appears to cheer him up.
Starring: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ôtake, Ryôko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masanobu Andô, Ken Shimura, Tomoko Naraoka, Yoshiko Tanaka, Nenji Kobayashi
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
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Tags: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Ken Shimura, Ken Takakura, Masanobu Andô, Nenji Kobayashi, Ryôko Hirosue, Shinobu Ôtake, Tomoko Naraoka, Yasuo Furuhata, Yoshiko Tanaka
Posted on November 3, 2013 |
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Pedaldance / Petal Dance (2013)
Comedy
Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives.
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Shiori Kutsuna, Sakura Andô, Kazue Fukiishi, Masanobu Andô
Director: Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Tags: Aoi Miyazaki, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kazue Fukiishi, Masanobu Andô, Sakura Andô, Shiori Kutsuna
Posted on October 20, 2012 |
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Smuggler / Sumagurâ: Omae no mirai o hakobe (2011)
Drama
Eccentric Japanese director Katsuhito Ishii (A Taste of Tea, Funky Forest: First Contact) takes us on a wild ride through the Japanese underworld in this darkly comic, visually dazzling tale of a failed actor who goes to extraordinary lengths to pay off an unjust Yakuza debt.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masatoshi Nagase, Hikari Mitsushima, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masanobu Ando
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
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Tags: Hikari Mitsushima, Katsuhito Ishii, Masanobu Andô, Masatoshi Nagase, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yasuko Matsuyuki
Posted on June 4, 2012 |
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Battle Royale / Batoru rowaiaru (2000)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island, where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, each student knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya and Noriko form an alliance and try to weather it through together.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tarô Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Tags: Chiaki Kuriyama, Kinji Fukasaku, Masanobu Andô, Takeshi Kitano, Tarô Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara
Posted on April 21, 2012 |
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Part II / Sàidékè balái Part II (2011)
Action | Drama | History
Part II depicts the grisly guerrilla warfare employed as the Seediq, led by Chief Mona Rudao (Lin Ching Tai), use Taiwan's mountains and forests to their advantage. But the Japanese employ modern warfare – airplanes, cannons, tear gas, and explosives – to mount their counterattack and the vastly outnumbered Seediq can only withstand for so long.
Starring: Masanobu Andô, Umin Boya, Chi-Wei Cheng, Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Jun'ichi Haruta, Michio Hayashida, Akira Hibino, Vivian Hsu
Director: Te-Sheng Wei
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Tags: Akira Hibino, Chi-Wei Cheng, Da-Ching, Jun'ichi Haruta, Lin Ching-Tai, Masanobu Andô, Michio Hayashida, Te-Sheng Wei, Umin Boya, Vivian Hsu
Posted on April 21, 2012 |
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Part I / Sàidékè balái Part I (2011)
Action | Drama | History
Seediq Bale Part 1 sows the seeds for the film's powerful final conflict, depicting how the Seediq people are demoralized and finally reborn by their continued subjugation by the Japanese. Stripped of their native hunting grounds and forced to work deforesting the very mountains they called home, the rival Seediq tribes rallied together and violently rose up against years of Japanese repression in the 1930 Wushe Incident.
Starring: Masanobu Andô, Umin Boya, Chi-Wei Cheng, Lin Ching-Tai, Da-Ching, Jun'ichi Haruta, Michio Hayashida, Akira Hibino, Vivian Hsu
Director: Te-Sheng Wei
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Tags: Akira Hibino, Chi-Wei Cheng, Da-Ching, Jun'ichi Haruta, Lin Ching-Tai, Masanobu Andô, Michio Hayashida, Te-Sheng Wei, Umin Boya, Vivian Hsu
Posted on March 11, 2012 |
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Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
Action | Western
During "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Yûsuke Iseya, Masanobu Andô, Takaaki Ishibashi, Kaori Momoi
Director: Takashi Miike
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Tags: Hideaki Itô, Kaori Momoi, Kôichi Satô, Masanobu Andô, Takaaki Ishibashi, Takashi Miike, Yûsuke Iseya