Movie List for "japanese 2"

Ghost in the Shell (1995) Animation Action Crime Movie

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. Year 1995.

Generes: Animation, Action, Crime
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Shirow Masamune, Kazunori Itô
Actors: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka

Run Lola Run (1998) Action Crime Thriller Movie

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. Year 1998.

Generes: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup

Wings of Desire (1987) Drama Fantasy Romance Movie

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin’s residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal. Year 1987.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Comedy Drama Romance Movie

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way. Year 1961.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: Truman Capote, George Axelrod
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal

Fallen Angels (1995) Comedy Crime Drama Movie

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner. Year 1995.

Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro

An Autumn’s Tale (1987) Drama Romance Movie

Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city Year 1987.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Mabel Cheung
Writer: Alex Law, Chi-Yeuh Low
Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan

Red Sorghum (1988) Drama History Romance Movie

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. Year 1988.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Jianyu Chen, Yan Mo, Wei Zhu
Actors: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng

Sansho the Bailiff (1954) Drama Movie

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression. Year 1954.

Generes: Drama
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer: Ogai Mori, Fuji Yahiro, Yoshikata Yoda
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa

A City of Sadness (1989) Drama History Movie

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror” that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s. Year 1989.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer: T’ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
Actors: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen

Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993) Drama Movie

If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to ex Year 1993.

Generes: Drama
Director: Fei Xie
Writer: Fei Xie, Daxin Zhou
Actors: Gaowa Siqin, Yujuan Wu, Kesheng Lei

Fist of Legend (1994) Action Drama Movie

In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese. Year 1994.

Generes: Action, Drama
Director: Gordon Chan
Writer: Gordon Chan, Kwong-Kim Yip, Lam Kay Toa
Actors: Jet Li, Shinobu Nakayama, Siu-Ho Chin

Empire of the Sun (1987) Drama History War Movie

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II. Year 1987.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Tom Stoppard, J.G. Ballard, Menno Meyjes
Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson

Until the End of the World (1991) Action Drama Sci-Fi Movie

In 1999, Claire’s life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being inv… Year 1991.

Generes: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Peter Carey, Wim Wenders, Solveig Dommartin
Actors: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Adventure Drama War Movie

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. Year 1957.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, War
Director: David Lean
Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Actors: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

The Killer (1989) Action Crime Drama Movie

A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded. Year 1989.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: John Woo
Writer: John Woo
Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh