Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Monday, January 10, 2011

Miyazaki

Miyazaki

Actors: Yasuko Sawaguchi , Rumi Hiragi , Mari Natsuki , Ryûnosuke Kamiki , Takashi Naitô , Tatsuya Gashûin , Yumi Tamai , Shiro Saito , Bunta Sugawara , Tsunehiko Kamijô , Yô Ôizumi , Noriko Kitou , Miyu Irino , Takehiko Ono , Koba Hayashi
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
IMDB Rate: 8.5 out of 10 (92346 votes)
Plot Summary:Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad dont hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a nearby building, which turns out to be a bathhouse for the thousands of Japans gods and spirits. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotels stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guests dinner.

Returner (Ritana)

Returner (Ritana)

Actors: Anne Suzuki , Dean Harrington , Takeshi Kaneshiro , Kisuke Iida , Yukiko Okamoto , Kirin Kiki , Xiaoqun Zhao , Kazuya Shimizu , Mitsuru Murata , Gorô Kishitani , Masaya Takahashi , Chiharu Kawai
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
IMDB Rate: 6.7 out of 10 (4781 votes)
Plot Summary:After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.

Screamers

Screamers

Actors: Peter Weller , Ron White , Leni Parker , Roy Dupuis , Jennifer Rubin , Liliana Komorowska , Andrew Lauer , Jason Cavalier , Bruce Boa , Michael Caloz , Charles Edwin Powell , Tom Berry , Henry Ramer , Sylvain Massé
Director: Christian Duguay
IMDB Rate: 6 out of 10 (8423 votes)
Plot Summary:(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But mans greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Blocs decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.

Pokemon 9: Ranger and the Temple of the Sea

Pokemon 9: Ranger and the Temple of the Sea

Actors: Ikue Ootani , Kayzie Rogers , Ken Gates , Craig Blair , Jimmy Zoppi , Michele Knotz , Bill Rogers , Sarah Natochenny , Emily Williams , Eric Schussler , Simcha Whitehill , Sean Elias-Reyes , Rich McNanna , Annie Silver , Rhonda Krempa
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
IMDB Rate: 5.6 out of 10 (178 votes)
Plot Summary:It all started with a legend passed down from the People of the Water... Somewhere in this world, there is a Sea Temple created by the People of the Water. The Sea Temple contains a hidden treasure called the Sea Crown, but no one has ever seen the Sea Crown, or even the Sea Temple, because the temple is protected by a secret mechanism. The temple drifts through a vast ocean undetected, waiting... waiting... Ash and Pikachu meet Lizabeth, a descendant of the People of the Water, and learn about the legend. They also meet Jackie, a Pokmon Ranger on a secret mission to protect a Manaphy egg (Manaphy is mysteriously known as The Prince of the Sea) and find the Sea Temple as well. The Phantom plans to obtain the Sea Crown and take over the world - but first he needs the Manaphy egg. Now Lizabeth and Ash must help Jackie protect the egg and stop the nefarious pirate! What is the Sea Crown? How does Manaphys mysterious power connect it to the Sea Temple? Can Ash help Jackie complete his mission?

Saturday, January 8, 2011

One Missed Call

One Missed Call

Actors: Ray Wise , Edward Burns , Meagan Good , Shannyn Sossamon , Jason Beghe , Ariel Winter , Azura Skye , Rhoda Griffis , Johnny Lewis , Margaret Cho , Ana Claudia Talancón , Raegan Lamb , Karen Beyer , Sarah Jean Kubik , Dawn Dininger
Director: Eric Valette
IMDB Rate: 3.5 out of 10 (12184 votes)
Plot Summary:After the death of their friend Shelley, Leann Cole receives a voice mail from the future of the date and time when she would die. On the scheduled day, Leann sees weird things and in the precise informed hour, Leann is attacked by a supernatural force on a footbridge over a train station while talking to her friend Beth Raymond. Beth meets Leanns boyfriend Brian, who also received a call, and witnesses his death on the street. When her roommate Taylor Anthony receives a call, Beth befriends Det. Jack Andrews, who tells her that his sister was the first victim of the phone call. They decide to investigate the connections of Jacks sister and find the name of Marie Layton, who apparently abused of her daughters. Jack and Beth run against time trying to save Beth from her fate.