Movie List for "japanese 2"

Why Not? (1981)

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura. Year 1981.

Generes: Drama
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Writer: Shôhei Imamura, Ken Miyamoto
Actors: Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Izumiya, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run. Year 1979.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Writer: Masaru Baba (screenplay), Ryûzô Saki (novel), Shunsaku Ikehata
Actors: Ken Ogata, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako, Mitsuko Baishô

1941 (1979)

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. Year 1979.

Generes: Action, Comedy, War
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Robert Zemeckis (screenplay), Bob Gale (screenplay), Robert Zemeckis (story), Bob Gale (story), John Milius (story)
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary

The Glacier Fox (1978)

The story of a family of foxes struggling to survive in the hostile environment of northern Japan. Year 1978.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara
Writer: Walter Bloch, Koreyoshi Kurahara (Japanese narration)
Actors: Arthur Hill, Eiji Okada

Death Force (1978)

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai. Year 1978.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Cirio H. Santiago
Writer: Howard R. Cohen (screenplay), Cirio H. Santiago (story), Robert E. Waters (story)
Actors: James Iglehart, Carmen Argenziano, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy

The Cannonball Run (1981)

A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country road race. However, the eccentric entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks. Year 1981.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Sport
Director: Hal Needham
Writer: Brock Yates
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise

The Bushido Blade (1981)

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it. Year 1981.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani
Writer: William Overgard (screenplay)
Actors: Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Mike Starr, Timothy Patrick Murphy

Makai tenshô: The Armageddon (1999)

An evil sorcerer summons seven legendary Samurai warriors to aid him in his conquest of the world. One valiant warrior stands against them. Year 1999.

Generes: Action, Fantasy
Director: Kazumasa Shirai
Writer: Eric P. Sherman (english version), Fûtarô Yamada
Actors: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Tomorô Taguchi, Yûko Moriyama, Hitomi Shimizu

Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999)

Ten-year old Sakura Avalon, Cardcaptor of the elusive, magical Clow Cards, unexpectedly wins a trip to Hong Kong where strange dreams lead her to an imprisoned sorceress with close connections to the creator of the cards. Year 1999.

Generes: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Director: Morio Asaka, Terry Klassen
Writer: Jennifer Pertsch (English adaptation), Jennifer Pertsch, Nanase Ôkawa (original script), Nanase Ôkawa, Clamp (comic), Clamp (manga)
Actors: Sakura Tange, Aya Hisakawa, Junko Iwao, Motoko Kumai

Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado. Year 1999.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Actors: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott

Gorgeous (1999)

A romantic girl travels to Hong Kong in search of certain love but instead meets a kind-hearted professional fighter for whom she begins to fall instead. Year 1999.

Generes: Action, Comedy, Romance
Director: Vincent Kok
Writer: Jackie Chan, Ivy Ho (story), Vincent Kok, Yiu Fai Lo
Actors: Jackie Chan, Qi Shu, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Emil Chau

San luen oi sai gei (1998)

Movie Year 1998.

Generes: Comedy, Romance
Director: Jing Wong
Writer: Jing Wong
Actors: Leon Lai, Qi Shu, Carina Lau, Ann Lee

A Doll in the Dark (1997)

While visiting L.A., a Japanese tourist named Ryoko is drugged and kidnapped by a young man who believes her to be a reincarnation of a lover who died years before. Investigating the case … Year 1997.

Generes: N/A
Director: Phil Scarpaci
Writer: Brian Everingham (screenplay)
Actors: Billy Drago, Joe Ho, Josh Brauer, Alan Charof

Broken English (1996)

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her … Year 1996.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Gregor Nicholas
Writer: Gregor Nicholas, Johanna Pigott, James Salter
Actors: Rade Serbedzija, Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga, Marton Csokas

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994)

The brothers, Andy & Terry Bogard, along with Joe Higashi and Mai Shiranui, try to help Sulia Gaudeamus stop her ambitious brother Laocorn from finding the magical armor of Mars. Year 1994.

Generes: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Director: Masami Ôbari
Writer: Yuji Matsumoto, Takashi Yamada
Actors: Mark Hildreth, Peter Wilds, Jason Gray-Stanford, Lisa Ann Beley

Defending Your Life (1991)

In an afterlife way station resembling a block of hotels, the lives of the recently-deceased are examined in a court-like setting. Year 1991.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Albert Brooks
Writer: Albert Brooks
Actors: Albert Brooks, Michael Durrell, James Eckhouse, Gary Beach