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The movie opens with Chun Li narrating her experience growing up aspiring to be a concert pianist. As a child, she moves from San Francisco to Hong Kong with her family. There, along with piano, she learns Wushu from her father, Xiang, who is a well connected businessman. One night, her home is [...]
In: Akira Kurosawa| japan| japan cinema
24 Apr 2009Tengoku to jigoku High and Low
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Thriller / Drama
An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the [...]
In: Akira Kurosawa| japan| japan cinema
24 Apr 2009One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood re-imagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne [...]
In: Akira Kurosawa| japan| japan cinema
24 Apr 2009Considering this is the first collaboration between one of the ‘heavyweight’ director/star combos in cinema (tops in the Japanese film world, probably their equal to America’s Scorsese/De Niro), this is quite a powerhouse of drama. That’s not to say it’s a completely dour film- some of Akira Kurosawa’s trademark ironic (and subtle) humor [...]
In: Akira Kurosawa| japan| japan cinema
24 Apr 2009The earliest bits – detailing Kurosawa’s youth and family were most appealing (in spite of the re-enactments); about 1/3 of the way in this documentary really loses steam, offering few insights into Kurosawa’s work – with some shocking omissions: STRAY DOG, THE IDIOT, BAD SLEEP WELL, LOWER DEPTHS, HIDDEN FORTRESS and HIGH & [...]
In: hayao miyazaki| hollywood| japan| japan cinema
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In: japan| japan cinema
1 Apr 2009 Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 ,Miyazaki Hayao?, born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan) is a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company.
He remained largely unknown to the West, outside of animation communities, until Miramax released his 1997 Princess [...]
In: japan| japan cinema
1 Apr 2009Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
2008
Achilles and the Tortoise
Takeshi Kitano
Beat Takeshi
BLEACH the Movie: Fade to Black, I Call Your Name
Noriyuki Abe
Voices of Masakazu Morita, Fumiko Orikasa, Kentarō Itō
Supernatural/action/anime
Based on a manga/anime series created by Tite Kubo/Sequel to The DiamondDust Rebellion
Departures
Yojiro Takita
Masahiro Motoki
Won best foreign film in the 2009 Academy Awards
Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear
Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, [...]
7.0/10
www.imdb.com/title/tt1018102/
A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child. Now both remarried, Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are forced to test their love and their commitment to one another by putting their current relationships in danger. A [...]
8.1/10www.imdb.com/title/tt0423866/A young drifter enters strangers’ houses – and lives – while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her [...]