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
Posted on June 4, 2012 |
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Battle Royale II: Requiem / Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka (2003)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai, Haruka Suenaga
Director: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku
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Tags: Ai Maeda, Ayana Sakai, Haruka Suenaga, Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku, Shûgo Oshinari, Tatsuya Fujiwara
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 May 24, 2012 |
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The Incite Mill / Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Haruka Ayase, Satomi Ishihara, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda
Director: Hideo Nakata
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Tags: Haruka Ayase, Hideo Nakata, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Satomi Ishihara, Shinji Takeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara
