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Blue Spring is a story about high school anarchy in the long, bruised-and-battered tradition of BE-BOP HIGH SCHOOL and FUDOH. This school is surrounded by misleadingly picturesque cherry trees in full bloom, it's the students who set the rules while uncooperative teachers are dangled from windows. In this power structure, the leader is decided by a peculiar game of dare: hanging from the rooftop fence... |
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Final film release in the "Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call)" series of Japanese horror films! Emily Kusama is looking forward to her school trip to Korea except for the fact that her best friend Asuka won't go along because of teasing at her school. On the trip, one of her classmates gets a mysterious phone call that plays the "Ring Tone of Death" and, as fabled, soon dies. As everyone around Emily begins meeting a simillarly grim fate, Emily looks for clues to free her friends from the curse. The only way out it seems... |
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Takashi Miike is a busy man, but his hard schedule doesn't seem to be affecting the quality of his films. "Chakushin Ari," released in theaters in early 2004, is the story of college student Yuki Nakamura, played by Shibasaki Kou (Battle Royale). Bored at a singles party, Yuki waits for her friend Yoko, who arrives to the party late after finishing work. While Yoko is changing clothes in... |
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Cinematicaly-beautiful and impressively-nostalgic pure love story. The original novel sold more than 3 million copies, and they added a few more twists to make the movie version. 20 years ago, Sakutaro's girlfriend passed away with lukemia. Current Sakutaro goes back to his home town to look for his fiance, Ritsuko, and traces his happy and tragic memory, to find out where he stands now and in the future. Two stories in two different time period is told concurrently, wth strong acting by the main cast and beautiful sceneries, and it surely makes you cry. |
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In an unknown place and unknown time, a master swordsman by the name of Grave (Tak Sakaguchi) searches for the ultimate battle. After hearing tales of a mysterious coffin kept and guarded at the holy Tougan Temple he decides to steal it. Legend has it that if taken to a specific spot in the desert, the coffin will grant any man's deepest desire. However, others say that inside the coffin rests the Goddess of Destruction who was banished from Heaven for trying to destroy the world and that releasing her will bring about the Apocalypse. A young monk from the Tougan Temple (Takamasa Suga) is sent to retrieve the coffin and prevent it from being opened. But many other forces are also searching for Grave and his prize (both human and not) and an all-out free-for-all ensues as they all struggle to discover the secret power of the coffin. |
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Based on a supposed true story, the film stars Yamada Takayuki (from Water Boys and Crying Out Love in the Center of the World) as a twentysomething computer nerd who goes by the chat room screen named "Densha Otoko" ("Train Man"). Out of nowhere, he soon finds himself in an unfamiliar role as "protector" when he ends up saving a woman from the advances of a drunken... |
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