AKA: Wiretap Hong Kong: 2009
Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo Tin-Lok, Daniel Wu Yin-Cho Action/Adventure / Crime
Plot: Three cops at the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo, and Daniel Wu) are sent in to set up a wire tap on a high profile corporation, but the more they overhear the more deadly their game becomes.
AKA: Wiretap Hong Kong: 2009
Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo Tin-Lok, Daniel Wu Yin-Cho Action/Adventure / Crime
Plot: Three cops at the Criminal Intelligence Bureau (Lau Ching-Wan, Louis Koo, and Daniel Wu) are sent in to set up a wire tap on a high profile corporation, but the more they overhear the more deadly their game becomes.
Plot: This basketball horror slasher film stars Fred Travalena (who had appeared in over 100 TV shows before his death). Here Travalena plays three different roles. Also stars Greg Calpakis and Claude Genest.
AKA: Dead People; Return Of The Living Dead; Revenge Of The Screaming Dead; The Second Coming; Messiah Of Evil: The Second Coming USA: 1974
Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Royal Dano Horror / Thriller
Plot: When the messiah of evil returns, the moon will turn red, and the living dead will prowl the night and previously "regular" people will become flesh-eating zombies!
AKA: The Creeper USA: 1977
Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James Horror / Mystery
Plot: Five doctors on vacation in a remote area become the main course for someone--or something--lurking in the woods. As they each struggle to survive, the social order breaks down quickly.
Plot: In this suspenseful award-winning drama, an old schoolteacher travels from his small village to the city of Wuhan in search of his missing son, whom his dying wife wants to see one last time.
Plot: For his final film, Akira Kurosawa paid tribute to the popular writer and educator Hyakken Uchida, here played by Tatsuo Matsumura. Poignant and elegant, this is an unforgettable farewell from one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known.
Plot: An epic drama of feudal conflict in 16th century Japan, "Kagemusha" was nominated for two 1980 Academy Awards and was co-winner of the grand prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. It is a milestone in the career of Akira Kurosawa.
AKA: Dodesukaden; Clickety-Clack; Dodes' Kaden Japan: 1970
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Kazuo Kato, Junzaburo Ban Drama
Plot: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa's film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo who, desperate as their circumstances are, find reasons to carry on.
AKA: Dodesukaden; Clickety-Clack; Dodes' Kaden Japan: 1970
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Kazuo Kato, Junzaburo Ban Drama
Plot: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa's film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo who, desperate as their circumstances are, find reasons to carry on.
Plot: Toshiro Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's exemplary film noir, based on Ed McBain's detective novel, "King's Ransom".
Plot: In this companion piece to "Yojimbo", jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a "proper" samurai on its ear.
AKA: Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru; The Rose In The Mud; The Worse You Are, The Better You Sleep Japan: 1960
Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura Drama / Crime
Plot: A grieving son seeks revenge for his father's murder. Mind manipulation and danger reign, as Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) infiltrates the corrupt construction company that was responsible for his father's death.
AKA: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin [Japanese Title]; Three Bad Men In A Hidden Fortress; Three Rascals In The Hidden Fortress; The Three Villains Of The Hidden Fortress Japan: 1958
Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura Action/Adventure / Drama
Plot: This superb Japanese adventure film centers around a faithful but cynical general who, with the aid of two eccentric, oddball farmers, helps a headstrong princess safely cross a dangerous wasteland.
AKA: Donzoko Japan: 1957
Koji Mitsui, Eiko Miyoshi, Ganjiro Nakamura, Akemi Negishi Drama
Plot: In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire, the thief Sutekichi.
Plot: Set in feudal Japan, it follows the path of an ambitious warlord who fulfills a prophecy stating the he will become king. But he only achieves his goal by murder... setting off a chain of violence that will ultimately claim him, too.
AKA: Ikimono No Kiroku; I Live In Fear; What the Birds Knew Japan: 1955
Kamatari Fujiwara, Kazuo Kato, Toshiro Mifune, Ken Mitsuda Drama
Plot: Greedy relatives and mistresses plot over shares of a wealthy businessman's estate after they level insanity charges against him because of his overwhelming fear of nuclear war.
Plot: A powerful, thought-provoking drama about a petty bureaucrat who discovers that he is dying of cancer. Coming to the realization that his life has been a meaningless quest for following petty company rules, he tries to create one thing of lasting worth.
Plot: The story of the honest prince, the perverse beauty, and the gloomy merchant's son takes place in Hokkaido instead of Petersburg. The beauty toys with the affections of both men, while the prince is also attracted to an upstanding general's daughter.
Plot: Director Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Plot: A painter and a popular singer meet at a resort hotel, and scandal-mongering journalists blow it up into a secret romance. The two decide to fight the press in court, and an impoverished old lawyer takes it upon himself to help.
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