Sakuran - impressive japanese drama starring Anna Tsuchiya
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Takashi Miike's Crows Zero was a huge hit in Japan in 2007, raking in over 2.4 billion yen about high school boys beating the crap out of each other is getting sequel. Takashi Miike is again in director's chair and Shun Oguri is reprising his role as a protagonist Genji Takiya.
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A challenge of a new genre: an "Oriental Western".
Set in Manchuria in 1930s, the story deals with three Korean men and their entanglement with the Japanese army, Chinese and Russian bandits, accompanied with many exciting action scenes.
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Director Hirokazu Koreeda (Nobody Knows, After life) subverts the samurai film genre with Hana Yori mo Naho (a.k.a. Hana). He turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community.
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Squidoo lens about beautifully filmed Japanese samurai movie by Oshima Nagisa.
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Remake of classic Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western Django (1966). A crazy offering even by Miike standards, the deliriously entertaining Sukiyaki Western - Django had camp cult classic stamped all over it from day one, and the cast and crew deliver with straight-faced, winking exuberance.
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Winner of the Grand Prix de Jury in Cannes, "Oldboy" is Park's today most complex and cruel film. Where all his films study cause and effect, "Oldboy" is a Kafka-ian ping pong game.
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A story of an undercover cop who infiltrates a crime gang, and a police mole secretly working for the same gang.
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Acclaimed actor Takeshi Kaneshiro returns to Japanese Cinema for his first Japanese film in six years. The pan-Asian heartthrob stars as a grim reaper with the power to determine life and death in Accuracy of Death directed by Kekei Masaya.
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Impressive Japanese movie with Anna Tsuchiya in leading role.
Swayed by passion, choosing love: a young women set on living life her way.
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impressionistic art film by Kim Ki-Duk, drama about dreamy girlfriends prostituting to save money for a trip to Europe.
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The first film in Yamada Yoji's acclaimed samurai trilogy, The Twilight Samurai presents a touching cinematic masterpiece about love and agony starring Sanada Hiroyuki (The Last Samurai) and Miyazawa Rie.
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Adapted from Tezuka Osamu's popular manga, Dororo is a rollicking period adventure for all ages. A blockbuster success in Japan, with not just one but two sequels already in the works, Dororo features the idol pairing of Tsumabuki Satoshi and Shibasaki Kou as storied demon hunters Hyakkimaru and Dororo.
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Do you like classical american westerns, famous spaghetti westerns or rare osterns? And how about asian westerns? Here you'll find featured bunch of trailers on new movie experiments by famous asian directors (Takashi Miike, Ji-woon Kim, Chalerm Wongpim) in such american genre as western.
Do not miss hot releases!
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Renowned director Yamada Yoji brings his acclaimed samurai trilogy to a beautiful close with Love and Honor (a.k.a. Bushi no Ichibun). Like Twilight Samurai and Hidden Blade, Love and Honor is based on the works of Fujisawa Shuhei
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Squidoo lens about The Host - Korean monster film taking over the whole world, a hit on the festival circuit for almost a year now, premiering at Cannes last summer, and is actually the most successful South Korean film of all time.
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From Stephen Chow, the King of Comedy, the director and star of Kung Fu Hustle, comes CJ7, a new sci-fi fantasy tale featuring Chow's trademark slapstick antics and state of art visual effects. Swept into theaters across Asia in February, CJ7 topped the box office with record numbers and is quickly making its way up the rankings.
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My favorite j-dorama actor, who also stars in japanese movies. One of his last works in success movie Dororo was amazing, and now Tsukigami is coming.
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"Birds of a feather fight each other"
Based on Takahashi Hiroshi's bestselling manga Crows, Crows Zero takes Miike to familiar territory - high school gang violence - and he cuts through the subject matter at high-octane speed for a stylized, action-packed, and entertaining schoolyard brawl of a movie.
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Car chases, fast paces, great direction and some mythological skills thrown in make Wanted an action film worth seeing. Read the whole review here!
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Slumdog Millionaire is is set and filmed in India, and tells the story of a young man named Jamal who is from the slums of Mumbai, and ends up on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Because he greatly exceeds the expectations of the game show host and law enforcement he ends up being interrogated and tortured.
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Mamma Mia the Movie is being described as the feel good cinema event of the summer. Mamma Mia, the film, is an adaptation of the worldwide production of the smash hit musical that has already been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. This movie will be having people dancing in the isles.
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impressionistic art film by Kim Ki-Duk, drama about dreamy girlfriends prostituting to save money for a trip to Europe.
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This is my own little spot where I place the new and up-coming movies I have recently learned are coming in the near future.
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