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Mako - what members say
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conan 2nd time around! 30 January 2004
Mako - filmography
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TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Mako
Director: Kevin Munroe
Certificate: 
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in this all new action packed movie. Tech-industrialist Max Winters is amassing an army of ancient monsters to take over the world. Only one super-ninja fighting team can stop them - those heroes in a half shell; Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and ..read more »
 
55%
from 16,542 members
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The Bird People in China
(1998)
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako
Director: Takashi Miike, Takashi Miike
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One of Japan's hottest young directors, Takashi Miike directs this curious adventure story set in China's picturesque Yunnan province.
Workaholic Tokyo salaryman Wada (Masashiro Motoki) ventures into deepest, darkest China to investigate a massive deposit of high-quality jade. Tailing him is Ujiie ..read more »
68%
from 15 members
Currently unavailable
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Seven Years in Tibet
(1997)
Starring: Ric Young, Benedick Blythe, Ngawang Chojor
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head ..read more »
69%
from 5,443 members
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Hidden Tiger
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Billy Blanks, Mako, James Lew
Director: Rick Bennett, Rick Bennet
Certificate: 
Martial arts expert Niko (Billy Blanks) runs a school for under-privileged kids in a crime-ridden area of town. He already has trouble with the mafia trying to collect protection money, but when one of his students is killed by mob gunfire he vows to take his revenge. Meanwhile, the boss of the ..read more »
46%
from 14 members
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Crying Freeman
(1995)
Starring: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tcheky Karyo
Director: Christophe Gans
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A live-action adaptation of stories from Japanese Manga comics. Emu Hino, a beautiful artist witnesses a Samurai assassin executing three Yakuza gangsters and as the killings only witness she realises her own life is now in danger. However, she can't help but notice that the killer sheds a tear at ..read more »
59%
from 1,046 member
Currently unavailable
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Highlander 3
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Jean-Pierre Perusse, Raoul Trujillo
Director: Andy Morahan
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Third entry in the 'Highlander' series, but set between the first and second films. Following the death of his first wife, Heather, Immortal Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) headed to feudal Japan in search of the sorcerer Nakano. However, Mac Leod was followed by fellow immortal Kane (Mario ..read more »
53%
from 5,207 members
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Tucker - The Man And His Dream
(1988)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Christain Slater
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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The true story of the automobile designer Preston Thomas Tucker (Jeff Bridges), the American who built a revolutionary car, the 'Tucker Torpedo', 20 years ahead of its time. When industrial giants tried to stop him, he fought back. When they tried to break him, he became a legend.
63%
from 90 members
Currently unavailable
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Kung Fu - The Movie
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: William Lucking, Luke Askew, Mako
Director: Richard Lang
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David Carradine returns as fugitive Shaolin Kwai Chang Caine in this movie spin-off from the popular television series, made ten years after the show finished its original run. When Caine's own son (Brandon Lee) comes under the influence of an evil warlord (Mako), he becomes a deadly assassin. His ..read more »
57%
from 254 members
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Conan The Destroyer
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Pat Roach, Grace Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard, this fast-paced, occasionally humorous sequel to Conan the Barbarian features the hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as he is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) to safely escort a teen princess (Olivia D'Abo) and her powerful bodyguard ..read more »
59%
from 5,664 members
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Conan The Barbarian
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Narr), Ben Davidson, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Director: John Milius
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John Milius's jingoistic direction and pulpy screenplay fit perfectly into this film version of the Robert E. Howard fantasy story of the sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. Complementing Mulius's heavy metal production is Arnold Schwarzenegger's leaden acting, which in any other context ..read more »
62%
from 10,127 members
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Conan The Barbarian - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Narr), Ben Davidson, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Director: John Milius
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Mythical hero Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) vows to take revenge after the murder of his parents and destruction of his village. Determined to learn the 'riddle of steel', he sets off with his companions, Subotai the Mongol (Gerry Lopez) and Queen of Thieves (Sandahl Bergman), to kill Thulsa Doom (..read more »
73%
from 125 members
Not available for rental
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Battle Creek Brawl
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kristine De Bell, Ron Max, David Sheiner
Director: Robert Clouse
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Jackie Chan's first film for Western audiences is an action-packed martial arts comedy set in 1930s Chicago. Chan plays Jerry Kwan, a kung-fu expert who goes against his father's advice and enters a local fight contest. Using his devastating Wing Chun technique our hero beats one opponent after the ..read more »
59%
from 734 members
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The Killer Elite
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: James Caan, Gig Young, Robert Duvall
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Mike Locken (James Caan) is a field operative for an organisation that takes the jobs the CIA do not want to handle. After being shot and crippled by his former partner George (Robert Duvall), he trains back up to peak fitness through a punishing martial arts regime. When his former employer brings ..read more »
53%
from 490 members
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The Island At The Top Of The World
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jacques Marin, David Hartman, Mako
Director: Robert Stevenson
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It is 1908 and Sir Antony Ross (Donald Sinden) from London has co-ordinated a team of explorers to go looking for his missing son in the Arctic Circle. The group's expert is John Ivarson (David Hartman), a professor of Nordic history. On their voyage they stumble into uncharted land - a mysterious ..read more »
61%
from 219 members
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Silence
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction - coupled with a pensive score by the ..read more »
62%
from 279 members
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The Sand Pebbles
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: S, Charles Robinson, Steve McQueen
Director: Robert Wise
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Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo, is ordered to patrol the Yangtze River to ..read more »
68%
from 1,015 member
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The Sand Pebbles - Blu-ray
(1966)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough
Director: Robert Wise
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In China, 1926, the US gunboat San Pablo cruises the Yangtze river on a peacekeeping mission. New crew member Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) causes friction when he insists upon looking after the San Pablo's engines himself, rather than leaving the hard labour to the Chinese helpers. Holman ruffles ..read more »
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Voyagers!
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Meeno Peluce, Jon-Erik Hexum, Ed Begley Jr.
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All 20 episodes of the childrens sci-fi adventure series. Join former pirate Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) and 12-year-old orphan Jeffrey Jones (Meeno Peluce) on their action-packed adventures through history, guided by the mysterious Omni device. From rescuing Cleopatra to saving the Foundling ..read more »
60%
from 53 members
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...parts and the final battle is great. The supporting cast varies from very good (Mako) to very poor (Tracy Walters). But the overall adventure is worthwhile. Pity th...
