Posts Tagged ‘tokyo-japan’

Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: Norway | USA
Actors: Cramer, Joey | Reubens, Paul | Cartwright, Veronica | De Young, Cliff | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Adler, Matt | Hesseman, Howard | Small, Robert | Whitaker, Albie | Sanger, Jonathan | Acker, Iris | Liberty, Richard | Forchion, Raymond | Caquelin, Cynthia
Directors: Kleiser, Randal
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After a mystifying disappearance aboard a spectacular, futuristic spacecraft, David Freeman returns to earth possessing vast, undiscovered knowledge about the farthest reaches of the universe. With these sudden navigational powers, David is able to take the fantastic flying machine anywhere he desires.

Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Gyllenhaal, Jake | Rossum, Emmy | Mihok, Dash | Sanders, Jay O. | Ward, Sela | Nichols, Austin | Smith, Arjay | Tomita, Tamlyn | Roiz, Sasha | Holm, Ian | Sharara, Nassim | Alacchi, Carl | Welsh, Kenneth | Samah, Michael A.
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he’s also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he’s nearly the only one going north…

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.

Akira (1988)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Iwata, Mitsuo | Sasaki, Nozomu | Koyama, Mami | Genda, Tesshô | Ôtake, Hiroshi | Kitamura, Kôichi | Ikemizu, Michihiro | Fuchizaki, Yuriko | Ôkura, Masaaki | Arakawa, Tarô | Kusao, Takeshi | Tanaka, Kazumi | Katô, Masayuki | Akimoto, Yôsuke | Hirano, Masato
Directors: Ôtomo, Katsuhiro
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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo’s supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira’s secrets were buried 30 years ago.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Knowles, Beyoncé | Green, Seth | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Caine, Michael | Savage, Fred | Mizota, Diane | Inaba, Carrie Ann | Matsuhisa, Nobu | Himelstein, Aaron | Zuckerman, Josh | Adams, Eddie
Directors: Roach, Jay
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He’s found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The “sshhh!” hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin’s father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say “Shake Your Booty,” Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.

Grudge 2, The (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Tamblyn, Amber | Chen, Edison | Kebbel, Arielle | Beals, Jennifer | Palmer, Teresa | Uno, Misako | Roemer, Sarah | Knight, Matthew | Fuji, Takako | Tanaka, Ohga | Cassidy, Joanna | Cousins, Christopher | Jarrett, Paul | Dewan, Jenna
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Set within two years after the first film and between two countries. Karen’s sister, Audrey, been affected by the supernatural curse, and trying to find the origin of it in order to find a way to free herself. But what has this quest got to do with the families who are living in Chicago, a photojournalist from Hong Kong,and the three schoolgirls from Tokyo’s International High School?

Babel (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Blanchett, Cate | Akhzam, Mohamed | Wight, Peter | Walter, Harriet | Martin, Trevor | Gibbs, Matyelok | Bousquet, Georges | Acs, Claudine | Oumansky, André | Maloney, Michael | Crowley, Dermot | Nottingham, Wendy | Maratray, Henry | Broughton, Linda
Directors: González Iñárritu, Alejandro
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Phillippe, Ryan | Bradford, Jesse | Beach, Adam | Hickey, John Benjamin | Slattery, John | Pepper, Barry | Bell, Jamie | Walker, Paul | Patrick, Robert | McDonough, Neal | Lynskey, Melanie | McCarthy, Thomas | Bauer, Chris | Ivey, Judith | Turley, Myra
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph.

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?

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thurman, Uma | Liu, Lucy | Fox, Vivica A. | Hannah, Daryl | Carradine, David | Madsen, Michael | Dreyfus, Julie | Kuriyama, Chiaki | Chiba, Sonny | Liu, Chia Hui | Parks, Michael | Bowen, Michael | Kunimura, Jun | Ohba, Kenji | Kazamatsuri, Yuki
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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“The Bride” was once part of a group of world class female assassins, until the group leader, “Bill” and the other assassins turn against her. Four years later “The Bride” awakens from the coma the assassins left her in and heads out to seek bloody revenge. Unlike conventional movies, Kill Bill is told in chapter format making the narrative flow more like a book than a film.