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Japanese: Gake no Ue no Ponyo
崖の上のポニョ
AKA: Ponyo on the Cliff
Year: 2008
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Producer: Toshio Suzuki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Voice Cast: Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Joji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yuki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima

The plot is centered on a fish-girl who lives in an aquarium in her father's underwater castle with numerous smaller sisters. When her father takes her and her siblings on an outing in his four-flippered submarine, she is driven by a desire to see even more of the world and swims away. She ends up stranded on the shore of a small fishing town, and is rescued by a boy named Sōsuke. After taking a great liking to her, Sōsuke names her Ponyo and promises to protect her forever. Meanwhile, her father, Fujimoto, is looking for his daughter, upset that she ran away and believes the humans kidnapped her. He calls his wave spirits to return Ponyo to him. Sōsuke is heartbroken by this, and goes home with his mother, Lisa (or "Risa" in some translations), who tries to cheer him up, but to no avail. Ponyo and her father have a confrontation, where Ponyo refuses to let her father call her "Brunhilda". She declares her name to be Ponyo, and voices her desire to become human because she has started to fall in love with Sōsuke. Her father silences her with difficulty and goes to summon Ponyo's mother. Meanwhile, Ponyo, with the help of her sisters, breaks away from her father, and uses his magic to make herself human. This causes an imbalance in the world, which in turn results in a huge storm. Riding on the waves of the storm, Ponyo goes back to visit Sōsuke. Lisa, Sōsuke, and Ponyo stay the night at Sōsuke's house, hoping the storm will be over, whereupon Lisa leaves the house to check up on the residents of the nursing home where she works.

Granmamare, Ponyo's mother, arrives at Fujimoto's submarine. Fujimoto notices the moon has come out of its orbit

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Original title: Heaven's Door (ヘブンズ・ドア)
Country: Japan
Year: 2009
Genre: Drama
IMDB Rating: 6.3 52 votes
Plot: Two terminally ill patients: 28-year-old Masato (Tomoya Nagase) and 14-year-old Harumi (Mayuko Fukuda) escape from the hospital, steal a fancy convertible from the parking lot, and go on a wild final adventure to see the ocean.

* Heaven’s Door is a slightly modified remake of the 1997 German film 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'.

* Pop star Yumi Yoshimura (one half of the J-pop duo Puffy AmiYumi) and rock singer Anna Tsuchiya make in the movie small cameo roles.

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Director and Cast
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
Dae-su Oh: Min-sik Choi
Ji-tae Yu: Woo-jin Lee
Hye-jeong Kang: Mi-do
One day in 1988, an ordinary man named OH Dae-su, who lives with his wife and adorable daughter, is kidnapped and later wakes up to find himself in a private makeshift prison.

Dae-su makes numerous attempts to escape and to commit suicide, but they all end up in failure. All the while Dae-su asks himself what made a man hate him so much enough to imprison him without any reason. While suffering from his debacle, Dae-su becomes shocked when he watches the news and hears that his beloved wife was brutally murdered. At this very moment, Dae-su swears to take revenge on the man who destroyed his happy life.

Fifteen years have passed and Dae-su is released with a wallet filled with money and a mobile phone. An unknown man calls Dae-su and asks him to figure out why he was imprisoned.

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Satoshi Tsumabuki and Kou Shibasaki star in this live action adaptation of the Osamu Tezuka classic "Dororo." Long ago, in a wartorn land far, far away, a general must present the 48 pieces of his soon to be born child to demons in order to bring control over the land. After his birth, the son is presented with a false body, however, he soon discovers that by vanquishing the demons he can restore parts of his body!

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Ayase plays a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.

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This made-for-TV movie is a sobering tale of how war can bring out the worst in people. The writers added depth to the original Isao Takahata anime which mainly focused on the relationship between a teenage boy and his young sister left orphan during wartorn Japan and forced to find sustenance on their own.

The 2005 version focuses on the growing divide between the teenage boy and the family friend (played by Matsushima Nanako) who initially takes them in after their mother is killed during an air raid. As rice rations grow scarce, the kindly housewife soon turns cold as she has to choose between feeding her sick son or the two orphans.

The movie is in commemoration of the 60 year anniversary of the end of WWII, and at times, is remniscent of a CBS afterschool special. As if the antiwar message isn’t already clear, at the end of this recent version, two of the main characters reiterate the tragedies of war. “Yes my daughter, war is bad. Look at what it has done to these poor kids.”

Well casting, particularly of the little girl, makes the story enjoyable, but viewers might still prefer the original. Still, recent version was one of the highest rated programs of the year.

a definite anti-war movie. just like the anime and the book, this follows the story of how frightening a war can be, how it not only affects the powerful, but mostly those who are innocent.

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Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father's destiny who was a soldier is unknown the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they gradually succumb to hunger and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies.

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A Girls high school swimming team is having a competition. Aki persuades her friend, Sayaka, to join the swimming team. However, a mysterious virus is spreading through out the school.
After Aki discovers the incident and tries to tell other people, she is killed. The swimming team takes up the challenge to cope with it and begins the fierce battle.

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Directed by Go Ohara (the action director of Death Trance), Geisha Assassin follows the story of Kotono (newcomer Minami Tsukui), a beautiful geisha who inherits a secretly-guarded sword and uses it to pursue Hyoe, the man who killed her father. Throughout her quest to face-off against Hyoe, Kotono battles Japan s most notorious female ninjas and assassins only to learn a hidden secret.

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director: Sasuke Sasuga
starring: Yuka Kosaka · Junichi Kawamoto · Sawaco · Hiroko Mori · Chan Limei

A young woman is framed for murder and condemned to a specialized penitentiary designed to hold Japan's most ruthless female inmates. She encounters a round of sadistic guards (including particularly nasty chief warden) and a gang of ruthless prisoners who will change her life forever.

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The year is 1614. Japan has been united under Tokugawa Ieyasu, first of the Tokugawa Shoguns and the land is beginning to feel at peace. Two remote ninja villages, Manjidani in the land of Koga and Tsubagakure in Iga, are ancient enemies but have long been bound by a peace agreement pressed on them by the first Hattori Hanzo forbidding them to fight. The heirs to the leadership of both clans, Gennosuke of Koga and Oboro of Iga, have fallen in love but a tragic fate awaits them in Ieyasu’s cruel plot to wipe these two clans from existence by breaking the peace agreement and forcing the two clans to battle.

Five Ninjas of each the Koga and Iga clans will battle against each other to the death. As a great war begins it brings the two young heirs together again… but this time as enemies.

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Starring: Makiko Esumi, Yu Aoi, Nao Omori, Joe Odagiri, Reisen Lee

Directed by: Katsuhiro Otomo

Produced by: Sunmin Park, Kiyotaka Ninomiya, Eiji Izumi

Synopsis / Plot
Adapted from sci-fi manga series by Yuki Urushibara, “Mushishi (Bugmaster)” tells the story of a Mushi-shi named Ginko, a master who has the ability to see supernatural beings called the Mushi, an unusual life form that is neither animal nor vegetable. Ginko travels from town to town to help people who are being plagued by the Mushi and at the same time maintain a respectful relationship with these creatures

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Onechanbara, a movie adaptation of the popular Japanese game published by D3. This is a pretty short movie running approximately 80 minutes. The plot is simple, it's about a girl, in a bikini, with a cowboy hat, killing zombies with a katana as she is looking to for revenge against her sister Saki. And right there, the plot already differs from the actual game.Saki in the movie, is the antagonist instead of being by Aya's side, kicking zombie asses with Aya.



Cast:
Satoshi Hakuzen
Manami Hashimoto
Ai Hazuki
Hiroaki Kawatsure
Sari Kurauchi
Tomoya Nagai
Chise Nakamura
Eri Otoguro
Taro Suwa
Tomohiro Waki
Tetsu Watanabe

ENGLISH HARDSUBBED

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Also known as: Sakigake!! Kuromati Kôkô: The Movie

Language: Japanese

Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)

Release Date: 2005

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

The Movie is not for everyone, nor does it pretend to be. Based on the hit manga from Eiji Nonaka, the film posits a wacky high school full of delinquents who simply can't seem to get a clue. Aside from your standard faceless wannabe toughs, Cromartie High is home to a gorilla, a Freddie Mercury-wannabe, and a robot that doesn't know he's a robot.

The toughest guy in the school has the same name as a gorgeous heartthrob idol AND is afflicted with an incredibly embarrassing penchant for motion sickness. There are also aliens who look like gorillas, and are intent on taking over the world. The key to their conquest: start at Cromartie High.

Starring:

* Takamasa Suga
* Ryûji Akiyama
* Ruben Arvizu
* Kai Ato
* Tomoaki Azuma

A touching but comic drama, with Erik Per Sullivan - better known as Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle as Mo. Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on the south shore of Long Island, New York - How his parents support him, how his wacky brother keeps him laughing, and how his friends help him to escape. After discovering that the reason behind all of his physical differences is a genetic mutation called "Marfan Syndrome", Mo is forced to come to terms with a more serious reality: he will never be able to do many of the things that the people around him take for granted and he will have to prepare himself for a major heart surgery. As we venture away from our own realities, Mo takes us into his world of hanging out, discovering girls, dealing with school and the doctor's office, going to parties, trying sports, getting stoned, and contemplating God.

Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film. Jay Santiago is a gay TV producer documenting the family of a gay hate crime victim who happens to be his namesake, Jay Mercado. In the process of producing for his TV program, Jay Santiago intrudes into the private grief of the other Jay's family and he is drawn to the secret life and love of his subject.
Warning: Do not believe everything you see as truth.

This is a story about a relationship between two gay men set in unconventional times -- when East and West Germany were divided. Felix (Sigurd Rachman) has been in a happy relationship with an American from Los Angeles. One day when the American comes for a visit, the two travel to East Berlin where they meet Thomas (Rainer Strecker), and for Felix, that is the end of his relationship with the American. From then on, Felix travels back and forth to East Berlin as often as he possibly can -- a dangerous activity because it always raises suspicions in the border guards. Sure enough, Felix is pulled over one day, and that's when the troubles begin.
NB The scenes in East Berlin were shot clandestinely with a Super-8 camera!

comediant Leslie Nielsen plays Mr. Quincy Magoo, an eccentric millionaire with very bad eyesight who refuses to use eyeglasses and therefore always gets into trouble. During a museum robbery he accidentally gets a priceless gem called the Star of Kurdistan, and begins to trace the way for the arch-criminals whose idea was to steal the gem - Austin Cloquet and Ortega "The Piranha" Peru, while two federal agents Stupak and Anders lead the manhunt for Mr.Magoo himself.

In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel. Daniel promises to return before the first game of the Brazilian National Soccer Team in the Cup. The boy is left in Bom Retiro, a Jewish and Italian neighborhood, and waits for Mótel in front of his apartment. When the next door neighbor Shlomo arrives, he tells the boy that Mótel had just had a heart attack and died. Alone and without knowing where his parents are, the boy is lodged by Shlomo and the Jewish community. Through the young neighbor Hanna, Mauro makes new friends, cheers for the Brazilian team and sees the movement of the police and militaries on the streets while waiting for his parents.

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Movie Info :
Director : Fuminori Kizaki
Writers : Eric S. Calderon & Leo Chu
Genre : Animation / Action