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Akira Emoto

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Rain Fall on DVD (2009)
Starring: Takumi Bando, Kyoko Hasegawa, Misa Shimizu
Director: Max Mannix
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Action thriller based on the novel by Barry Eisler. Japanese-American hitman John Rain (Kippei Shiina) is the best at what he does - that is, until he falls for the beautiful daughter of the man he has just killed. He must now go directly against his own self-imposed code of conduct in order to ..read more »

42% from 1,045 member

Memories Of Matsuko - Blu-ray (2008)
Starring: Gori, Akira Emoto, Eita
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
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2006 Japanese musical/mystery/fantasy film. When the body of Aunt Matsuko (Miki Nakatani), who has been living as a tramp, is found murdered, her selfish young nephew Shou (Eita) is sent to clear out her apartment. Shou finds the place crammed full of garbage but, as he begins to sort through the ..read more »

70% from 155 members

Death Notice - Ikigami on DVD (2008)
Starring: Shota Matsuda, Kôji Tsukamoto, Takayuki Yamada
Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto
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Japanese sci-fi drama based on the manga series by Motoro Mase. In the near future, the government has implemented a system in which certain people between the ages of 18 and 24 are eligible to be served with a 'death notice' informing them that they have just 24 hours to live - a policy thought to ..read more »

73% from 302 members

Starfish Hotel on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tae Kimura, Koichi Sato, Toshiki Ayata
Director: John Williams
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Surreal, noirish mystery drama from Japan-based director John Williams that blends realism and fantasy, as a salesman searches for his missing wife. A devourer of mystery writer Jo Kuroda's novels, salesman Ariso (Koichi Sato)'s take on reality changes rapidly when, searching for his recently ..read more »

61% from 130 members

Go Master on DVD (2006)
Starring: Chen Chang, Sylvia Chang, Akira Emoto
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian
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Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Go Master is a restrained, thoughtful biopic on the life of Wu Qingyuan considered by many to be the greatest player of the game Go in the 20th Century and one of the greatest of all time. Born in China in 1914 and later moving to Japan, he quickly rose to prominence, ..read more »

51% from 96 members

Memories of Matsuko on DVD (2006)
Starring: Miki Nakatani, Eita, Yusuke Iseya
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
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Norio is tired of his son Shou wasting his life, and so decides to make him face what he's become. To do this he asks him to clean out Shou's aunt's apartment, which now lies empty after her death. Doing as he's bid Shou soon discovers that his aun't life was far from mundane and throws his own ..read more »

68% from 850 members

The Eel on DVD (1997)
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho
Director: Shohei Imamura
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Worker (Yakusho of Shall We Dance?) learns of his wife's infidelity. He seems quietly surprised when he brutally stabs his wife to death, and hums a gentle tune as he bicycles to the police station to turn himself in. Eight years later, he is released, and this is where our story begins. Winner of ..read more »

66% from 343 members

Rain Fall - 2.0 stars
Memories Of Matsuko - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Death Notice - Ikigami - 3.5 stars
Starfish Hotel - 3.0 stars
Go Master - 2.5 stars

Death Notice - Ikigami - 3.5 stars
Memories Of Matsuko - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Memories of Matsuko - 3.5 stars
The Eel - 3.5 stars
Starfish Hotel - 3.0 stars

Rain Fall - 2.0 stars
Go Master - 2.5 stars
Starfish Hotel - 3.0 stars
The Eel - 3.5 stars
Memories of Matsuko - 3.5 stars

Miki Nakatani - 3 times - show films
Shinji Takeda - 3 times - show films
Misa Shimizu - 3 times - show films
YosiYosi Arakawa - 3 times - show films
Mikako Ichikawa - 3 times - show films

Tetsuya Nakashima - 3 times - show films
Max Mannix - 2 times - show films
John Williams - 2 times - show films
Zhuangzhuang Tian - 1 times - show films
Tomoyuki Takimoto - 1 times - show films

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