Japan movies

Super, The (1991)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Gardenia, Vincent | Blades, Rubén | Blank, Kenny | Benjamin, Paul | Bodibe, Bhubeshi | NGom, Abdoulaye | Heald, Anthony | Baltzman, Daniel | Hallett, Jack | Rodriquez, Steven | Robinson, Daryl | Johnson, Rynel | Bates, Paul | Margotta, Daniel
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Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie’s father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squaller his tenants endure all year round.

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Conroy, Kevin | Dourdan, Gary | McCallum, David | Burton, Corey | Friedle, Will | George, Brian | Marsden, Jason | Menville, Scott | Meskimen, Jim | Newbern, George | Padnos, Corey | Paulsen, Rob | Richardson, Kevin Michael
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Anime-inspired direct-to-DVD anthology film. Comprised of six short stories, from diverse creators, including Academy Award-nominated Josh Olsen (A History of Violence), Batman Begins writer David S. Goyer, and comics scribe Brian Azzarello. It’s planned for a release window of two to four weeks prior to the release of The Dark Knight, and would bridge the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

Vexille (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Tanihara, Shosuke | Kakihara, Tetsuya | Morikawa, Toshiyuki | Sakurai, Takahiro | Ôtsuka, Akio
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Japan, 2077: A female agent named Vexille is dispatched to Tokyo to investigate whether Japanese are developing robotic technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK
Actors: Tanaka, Atsuko | Ôtsuka, Akio | Ôki, Tamio | Kayumi, Iemasa | Yamadera, Kôichi | Genda, Tesshô | Barnes, Richard | Blum, Steven Jay | Bulen, Steve | Cansino, Richard | Carlton, Tom | Celik, George | Chiba, Shigeru | Davis, Stephen | Epcar, Richard
Directors: Oshii, Mamoru
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth.

Machine Girl, The (2008)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Ishikawa, Yûya | Kawamura, Ryôsuke | Kishi, Kentaro | Nishihara, Nobuhiro | Okamoto, Ryôji | Shimazu, Kentaro | Suwa, Taro | Tanaka, Demo
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The Machine Girl is about a teenager named Ami who sets out for revenge on a gang of bullies who tortured her little brother to death. She winds up losing an arm along the way, and replaces it with a high-powered gun, à la Rose McGowan in Grindhouse. But she doesn’t stop at one limb; Ami continues to lose body parts and replace them with more weapons.

Nightmare Detective (2006)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Matsuda, Ryuhei | Ando, Masanobu | Osugi, Ren | Harada, Yoshio | Tsukamoto, Shinya
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Japanese detective Keiko Kirishima discovers that two suicide cases were in fact murders after the evidence reveals that both victims were attacked in their dreams. This supernatural thriller follows Keiko as she tries to enlist the help of the NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE her only hope against a paranormal serial killer.

Graveyard Shift (1990)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Andrews, David | Wolf, Kelly | Macht, Stephen | Divoff, Andrew | Polizos, Vic | Dourif, Brad | Beuth, Robert Alan | Margolis, Ilona | Woodard, Jimmy | Emerson, Jonathan | Rootes, Minor | Goodman, Kelly L. | Lowden, Susan | Perham, Joe | Packard, Dana
Directors: Singleton, Ralph S.
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Based on Stephen King’s short story about a Maine textile mill, where it’s workers come into contact with something far more gruesome than anyone might expect.

One Missed Call (2008)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Burns, Edward | Sossamon, Shannyn | Skye, Azura | Talancón, Ana Claudia | Wise, Ray | Griffis, Rhoda | Cho, Margaret | Brown, Jessica | Bailey, John | Beasley, Charles W. | Beegle, Brian | Bradham, Baxter | Browning, Matthew | Calabro, Neill | Cannon, Robert
Directors: Valette, Eric
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In this remake of the Japanese horror film “Chakushin Ari” (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves — messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

Grudge, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Behr, Jason | Mapother, William | DuVall, Clea | Strickland, KaDee | Zabriskie, Grace | Pullman, Bill | Blasi, Rosa | Raimi, Ted | Ishibashi, Ryo | Maki, Yoko | Ozeki, Yuya | Fuji, Takako | Matsuyama, Takashi | Matsunaga, Hiroshi
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient’s house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it’s victims.

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Morton, Samantha | Riley, Sam | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Anderson, Joe | Kebbell, Toby | Parkinson, Craig | Pearson, James Anthony | Treadaway, Harry | Sheridan, Andrew | Shelly, Robert | McNulty, Matthew | Naylor, Ben | Grönemeyer, Herbert | Harris, Nigel | Plester, Tim
Directors: Corbijn, Anton
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.