Posts Tagged ‘television-commercial’

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Selleck, Tom | Takakura, Ken | Takanashi, Aya | Haysbert, Dennis | Shioya, Toshi | Toyohara, Kosuke | Fujiwara, Toshizo | Takano, Mak | Morinaga, Kenji | Nishimura, Joh | Goto, Norihide | Toita, Kensuke | Fuji, Naoki | Hozumi, Takanobu | Lee, Leon
Directors: Schepisi, Fred
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A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude.

Hoot (2006)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Lerman, Logan | Larson, Brie | Linley, Cody | Wilson, Luke | Phillips, Eric | Collins, Dean | Nelson, Tim Blake | Gregg, Clark | Kiersten Warren | Flynn, Neil | Cauffiel, Jessica | Wagner, Robert | Buffett, Jimmy | Archie, John | Donner, Robert
Directors: Shriner, Wil
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A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he’s compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

Lost in Translation (2003)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Johansson, Scarlett | Murray, Bill | Takeshita, Akiko | Minamimagoe, Kazuyoshi | Shibata, Kazuko | Take | Baba, Ryuichiro | Yamaguchi, Akira | Lambert, Catherine | du Bois, François | Leffman, Tim | Pekar, Gregory | Allen, Richard | Ribisi, Giovanni | Yukai, Diamond
Directors: Coppola, Sofia
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Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for “her place in life,” and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?

Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Glover, Danny | Pesci, Joe | Ackland, Joss | O'Connor, Derrick | Kensit, Patsy | Love, Darlene | Wolfe, Traci | Kahan, Steve | Rolston, Mark | Goldstein, Jenette | Norris, Dean | Smith, Juney | Serrano, Nestor | Suriano, Philip
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh and his partner, Sergeant Martin Riggs, are working on yet another drug related case. Soon after finding 1 million dollars worth of South African krugerrand in a crashed red BMW after a chase, Riggs and Murtaugh are assigned to keep an eye on Leo Getz, who is scheduled to testify in a case. There are people who don’t want Leo to testify, and they are a group of drug smugglers led by Arjen Rudd, the minister of diplomatic affairs for the South African consulate. Rudd turns out to be the man that Riggs and Murtaugh are after in the drug case they were working on before Leo was placed in their protective custody, which doesn’t look very protective when Leo is kidnapped by Rudd’s right hand man Pieter Vorstedt. Riggs ends up falling for Rudd’s secretary Rika Van Den Haas, who doesn’t like Rudd. In a confrontation with Vorstedt, Riggs is told the true circumstances behind the death of his wife Vicky, who died in a car crash in 1984 the car crash was caused by Vorstedt, who was supposed to have killed Riggs. Minutes after Vorstedt tries to kill Riggs, Riggs finds Rika dead, and this sends Riggs over the edge.