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Dead or Alive (Unrated Director's Cut) Actor: Sho Aikawa Director: Takashi Miike | |
From Amazon.com The director of Dead or Alive, Takashi Miike, made his name on the international scene with Audition, a chilling psychological thriller that builds from a quiet start towards a prolonged torture sequence almost too unbearable to watch. But such deliberate pacing isn't typical of Miike, whose movies often assault the viewer with an onslaught of slam-bang action that makes John Woo ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Man on the Train (L'Homme du Train) Actors: Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin Director: Patrice Leconte | |
From Amazon.com You wouldn't think a movie that's mostly two old guys talking could be a thriller, but that's exactly what Man on the Train is. French singer Johnny Hallyday plays a professional criminal who comes to a small town to take part in a robbery. By chance, he meets talkative Jean Rochefort (The Hairdresser's Husband), who invites the laconic Hallyday to stay ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Ju Dou Actors: Li Gong, Wei Li, Baotian Li Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | |
From Amazon.com Zhang Yimou, the celebrated "fifth generation" filmmaker from China, trained as a cinematographer before he turned to directing, and it shows in every color-drenched, exquisitely composed frame of this 1989 romantic tragedy. The aging Yang Jin-shan (Li Wei) runs a successful textile dying factory and purchases the beautiful Ju Dou (Gong Li) to continue his line, but when his own impotence ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Kikujiro Director: Takeshi Kitano | |
From Amazon.com When words like "sweet" pop up in a review of a Takeshi Kitano film, you want to check that billing again. But yes, this really is Beat Takeshi, the funkiest dead-eyed gangster in Japanese cinema, in a gooey road movie about a glum orphan and a bumbling would-be tough guy who becomes his droopy guardian angel. The shambling walk is the ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Beautiful Beast Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | |
From Amazon.com Kaori Shimamura is the beautiful beast in this Japanese "breasts and bullets" thriller, playing a Chinese assassin in Japan assigned to take out a yakuza boss and his associates. Along the way she falls in love with the ex-yakuza barman who becomes her guardian angel, bonds with a young Chinese woman trapped in a life of sexual slavery, and finally tracks ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Mobile Suit Gundam F 91 Movie Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino | |
From Amazon.com Set in the year 0123 of the Universal Century--the main Gundam continuity--F91 the Movie premiered in Japan in 1991. Although she was raised as a normal girl in the space colony of Frontier IV, Cecily Fairchild is really Berah Ronah, the daughter of a powerful, aristocratic family. Her father and grandfather are plotting to create an extraterrestrial empire, Cosmo Babylon. But ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Dragon Ball Z - Bojack Unbound (Uncut) Director: Daisuke Nishio | |
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The Bird People in China Director: Takashi Miike | |
From Description Wada, a Japanese Salaryman is sent on a job to survey a Chinese village for a strain of Jade for his company. On the way though he meets up with a Yakuza collector named Ujjie who wants the money from the jade for his organization. The two set out with their trusty guide Shen for the mysterious village. They travel through ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Steamboy - Director's Cut (DVD Gift Set) Actors: Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | |
From Amazon.com The first feature Katsuhiro Otomo has written and directed since his watershed Akira (1988), Steamboy offers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo of Akira, Steamboy is set in England in 1866. Young Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses covet the Steam Ball, and ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer Director: Masami Obari | |
From Description At the Belnar Institute, superhuman teens recieve unique martial arts training. And when young Isato clashes with a mysterious transfer student, the stage is set for a cataclysmic battle! ... more Buy from Amazon |