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Rain Fall review by misterhappy from London

slick and enjoyable 5 April 2010
...before but he does a good job and shows an interestingly off-beat visual style. Kippei Shiina makes an appealing, charismatic hero even if the screenplay leaves out most of ... Read customer review

Kippei Shiina - filmography

Outrage on DVD (2010)
Starring: Beat Takeshi, Ryo Kase, Jun Kunimura
Director: Takeshi Kitano
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The story begins with Sekiuchi (Kitamura Soichiro), boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato (Miura Tomokazu) and right-hand man Ikemoto (Kunimura Jun), head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ..read more »

63% from 525 members

Outrage - Blu-ray (2010)
Starring: Ryo Kase, Renji Ishibashi, Kippei Shiina
Director: Takeshi Kitano
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A deadly power struggle erupts between Tokyo's Yakuza clans in this edgy thriller from actor/director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano. Fearing that his trusted second-in-command, Ikemoto (Jun Kunimura), has struck a deal with his drug-dealing rivals, the Murase family, overall Yakuza clan boss 'The Chairman' ..read more »

61% from 299 members

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

Hidden Fortress - The Last Princess on DVD (2008)
Starring: Kippei Shiina, Masami Nagasawa, Jun Matsumoto
Director: Shinji Higuchi
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Japanese pop singer Jun Matsumoto stars in this glossy remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic 1958 samurai film. Makabe Rokurota (Hiroshi Abe) has been assigned the task of escorting Princess Yukihime (Masami Nagasawa) - along with a stash of the royal family's gold bullion - to safety after the ..read more »

57% from 164 members

Sakuran on DVD (2006)
Starring: Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Shiina, Yoshino Kimura
Director: Mika Ninagawa
Certificate:
Sakuran follows the ascent of Kiyoha (Anna Tsuchiya, Kamikaze Girls) a rebellious and feisty girl sold to a brothel in the notorious Yoshiwara district; a nightlife zone that served both the elites and working classes for hundreds of years. Kiyoha rises through the ranks of the competitive brothel, ..read more »

62% from 657 members

Shinobi on DVD (2005)
Starring: Yutaka Matsushige, Kazuo Kitamura, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Ten Shimoyama
Certificate:
Japanese martial arts romance. Oboro (Yukie Nakama), a granddaughter of Ogen (Riri), is the matriarch of the Iga clan. She meets and falls in love with Gennosuke, the son of Danjo Koga (Minoru Terada), the leader of the Koga clan. Living in the remote mountains, these two clans have, over the ..read more »

65% from 1,074 member

Reincarnation on DVD (2005)
Starring: Yuka, Kippei Shiina, Karina
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Certificate:
A psychological horror-suspense film rooted in reincarnation that centers around several people who find themselves haunted by ghosts. Meanwhile, film director Ikuo Matsumara is holding auditions--prepping to make a movie about a 1970 murder spree at a hotel north of Tokyo; the killer being a ..read more »

59% from 1,154 member

Sleepless Town on DVD (1998)
Starring: Mirai Yamamoto, Kippei Shiina, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Director: Chi-Ngai Lee
Certificate:
Japanese gangster action. Takeshi Kaneshiro plays Kenichi, a small-time criminal who finds himself caught up in a gangland dispute when his old friend Fu-Chan (Kippei Shiina) returns to town years after killing the partner of a powerful mob boss. When Fu-Chan's girlfriend Natsumi (Mirai Yamamoto) ..read more »

54% from 128 members

Shinjuku Triad Society on DVD (1995)
Starring: Kyosuke Izutsu, Kippei Shiina, Ren Osugi
Director: Takashi Miike, Takashi Miike
Certificate:
When the Dragon's Claw gang from Taiwan attempts a take-over of the dope, extortion and gay prostitution rackets run by the ruling Japanese Yakuza, a lone cop predicts carnage. In a crusade against the gangs, the cop single-handedly attempts to stem the growing tide of violence. But, when he ..read more »

57% from 956 members

Kippei Shiina facts

5 most recent films

Outrage - 3.0 stars
Outrage - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Rain Fall - 2.0 stars
Hidden Fortress - The Last Princess - 3.0 stars
Sakuran - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shinobi - 3.5 stars
Outrage - 3.0 stars
Sakuran - 3.0 stars
Outrage - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Reincarnation - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Rain Fall - 2.0 stars
Sleepless Town - 2.5 stars
Hidden Fortress - The Last Princess - 3.0 stars
Shinjuku Triad Society - 3.0 stars
Reincarnation - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Renji Ishibashi - 4 times - show films
Beat Takeshi - 3 times - show films
Ryo Kase - 3 times - show films
Gary Oldman - 3 times - show films
Jun Kunimura - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Takeshi Kitano - 3 times - show films
Max Mannix - 3 times - show films
Ten Shimoyama - 1 times - show films
Mika Ninagawa - 1 times - show films
Takashi Shimizu - 1 times - show films

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