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Beautiful Target Director: Naosuke Kurosawa | |
From Description A beautiful forensic scientist tracks a killer deep into the world of criminals and prostitutes. As the life she knew begins to slip away, our sexy heroine must risk her own life to lure the murderer into the light! ... more Buy from Amazon |
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In the Realm of the Senses Actors: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda Director: Nagisa Oshima | |
From Amazon.com Nagisa Oshima's sensational, 1976 film concerns a woman (Eiko Matsuda) whose obsessive sexual relationship with her husband (Tatsuya Fuji) crosses the line from passion into the territory of life and death. One of the most sexually explicit films ever to play in mainstream theaters (though it did run into legal trouble both in the U.S. and Japan), it has an air ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Sanjuro - Criterion Collection Director: Akira Kurosawa | |
From Amazon.com Akira Kurosawa's sequel to Yojimbo is more lighthearted and less cynical, a rousing adventure with Toshirô Mifune reprising his role as the scruffy mercenary who becomes an unlikely big brother to a troupe of nine naive samurai. Shuffling into a secret meeting where the proud young men discuss the graft choking their clan, Mifune's Sanjuro scratches his scraggly beard and distractedly ... more Buy from Amazon |
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The Eel Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu Director: Shohei Imamura | |
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Gamera 2 - Attack of Legion Director: Shusuke Kaneko | |
From Description From the same crew who brought us the effects-juiced Gamera: Guardian of the Universe comes an even more CGI-enhanced adventure for our tortugan hero: A freak meteor shower near Sapporo, Japan brings with is more than just a killer light show. Electrical problems, over-grown plant life and a whole slew of rather irritable critters also drop in to threaten the human ... more Buy from Amazon |
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In the Soup Actors: Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel Director: Alexandre Rockwell | |
From Amazon.com This is a low-key gem that is at once about the power of dreams, the power of suggestion, and the tyranny of artistic vision (when there really isn't one to fight for). This disarming comedy by director Alexandre Rockwell was a hit at the Sundance Festival but barely registered commercially. Steve Buscemi stars as a hard-luck case: Adolpho, a wanna-be filmmaker ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence Actors: Akio Ôtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Tamio Ôki Director: Mamoru Oshii | |
From Amazon.com Mamoru Oshii's landmark Ghost in the Shell (1995) largely defined the cyberpunk genre and influenced the Matrix films in the U.S. The long-awaited sequel continues the adventures of Batou, Major Kusanagi's former assistant, who was left behind when she disappeared into the cyber-realm of the Net. With his new human partner, Togusa, Batou investigates a series of bloody murders involving gynoids, ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Ranma 1/2 - The Movie 2, Nihao My Concubine Actor: Ranma 1/2 | |
From Amazon.com The second theatrical feature in this popular series, based on Rumiko Takahashi's manga, continues the comic adventures of a clutch of mismatched teenaged martial artists and their families. In the best anime tradition, the girls are buxom and long-legged, and sport minimal outfits that cover less of them than do their cascades of hair; the guys are slim, cute, and somewhat ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Antonio Gaudi Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | |
From Amazon.com Creator of one of the most bizarre and organic styles in the history of architecture, Antonio Gaudi Cornet, Spain's national treasure, was blessed with not only the vision, but the patronage that allowed him to build his elaborate and surreal designs. With Antonio Gaudi, Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) gives a tour of the makings of Gaudi's world. ... more Buy from Amazon |
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Madadayo Directors: Ishirô Honda, Akira Kurosawa | |
From Amazon.com Akira Kurosawa was 83 years old when he made this, his serenely glorious final film. Kurosawa's eyesight was failing, so Madadayo would be the master's farewell to filmmaking, and one can hardly imagine a more lovely and loving way to end one of the greatest careers in motion picture history. Based on the literary works of Japanese author Hyakken Uchida, the ... more Buy from Amazon |