Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts

Air Doll (2009)

Air Doll 2009 DVDRip x264 AC3-Tree
125 min - Drama | Fantasy

IMDB: 6.9/10 (2,560 users) 24 reviews | Critics: 75 reviews
Tomatometer: 43/100 (based on 21 reviews from Rottentomatoes.com)

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writers: Yoshiie Goda (manga), Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)
Stars: Doona Bae, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles




The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011)

Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom 2011 720p HDTV x264-EbP
39 min - Documentary | Short

IMDB: 7.1/10 (178 users) 4 reviews | Critics: 18 reviews

Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.

Director: Lucy Walker

Country: USA
Language: Japanese with English hard subtitles




Campaign (2007)

Campaign (2007) DVDRip x264
120 min - Documentary

IMDB: 6.7/10 (62 votes) 4 reviews | Critics: 4 reviews

Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party...

Director: Kazuhiro Soda
Stars: Seiko Hashimoto, Nobuteru Ishihara and Yoriko Kawaguchi

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles 





Arakimentari (2004)

Arakimentari 2004 DVDRip XviD-iMBT
85 min - Documentary | Biography

IMDB: 7.0/10 (158 votes) 4 reviews | Critics: 19 reviews
Metascore: 61/100 (based on 7 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

Director: Travis Klose
Stars: Araki, Nobuyoshi Araki and Björk

Country: USA
Language: Japanese with English subtitles




Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

Ghost in the Shell 2 2004 DVDRip XviD-QiX
PG13 - 100 min - Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi

IMDB: 7.6/10 (10,890 votes) 90 reviews | Critics: 112 reviews
Metascore: 66/100 (based on 26 reviews from Metacritic.com)

In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot...

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writers: Masamune Shirow (comic "Koukaku-Kidoutai"), Mamoru Oshii (screenplay)
Stars: Akio Ohtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka and Tamio Ôki

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles



Babel (2006)

Babel 2006 BDRip 480p x264 AC3-CHD
R - 143 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.6/10 (107,290 votes) 868 reviews | Critics: 271 reviews
Metascore: 69/100 (based on 38 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writers: Guillermo Arriaga, Guillermo Arriaga (idea)
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael García Bernal

Country: France | USA | Mexico
Language: English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese with English subtitles



Audition (1999)

Audition 1999 BDRip XviD-FLS
R - 115 min - Drama | Horror | Mystery

IMDB: 7.3/10 (24,476 votes) 367 reviews | Critics: 152 reviews
Metascore: 69/100 (based on 19 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Director: Takashi Miike
Writers: Ryû Murakami (novel), Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina and Tetsu Sawaki

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles



Chaos (1999)

Chaos 1999 DVDRip XviD AC3-WAF
90 min - Crime | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB: 6.6/10 (849 votes) 12 reviews | Critics: 30 reviews
Metascore: 63/100 (based on 6 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand...

Director: Hideo Nakata
Writer: Hisashi Saito
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Ken Mitsuishi and Masato Hagiwara

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles



Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo 2009 DVDRip XviD-VH-PROD
90 min - Documentary

IMDB: 6.1/10 (89 votes) 4 reviews | Critics: 27 reviews
Metascore: 75/100 (based on 12 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties underlying Japan's deep fascination with insects.

Director: Jessica Oreck
Writer: Jessica Oreck

Country: USA
Language: Japanese with English subtitles


Fear and Trembling (2003)

Fear and Trembling (2003) DVDRip x264
107 min - Comedy

IMDB: 7.1/10 (2,411 votes) 39 reviews | Critics: 36 reviews
Metascore: 75/100 (based on 17 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie...

Director: Alain Corneau
Writers: Amélie Nothomb (novel), Alain Corneau (scenario)
Stars: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji and Tarô Suwa

Coutnry: France
Language: French & Japanese with English subtitles



Café Lumière (2003)

Cafe Lumiere (2003) DVDRip x264
103 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.0/10 (1,428 votes) 23 reviews | Critics: 53 reviews
Metascore: 80/100 (based on 9 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Yoko, a freelance writer researching musical legend Jiang Ewn-Ye, befriends Hajime, the owner of a secondhand bookstore. They spend many hours together in the district's coffee shops and train stations... 

Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Writers: Hsiao-hsien Hou (screenplay), T'ien-wen Chu (screenplay)
Stars: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano and Masato Hagiwara

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles


The Eel (1997)

Unagi 1997 Extended Cut DVDRip XviD-iMBT
117 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.4/10 (2,915 users) 22 reviews | Critics: 37 reviews
Tomatometer: 76/100 (based on 25 reviews from Rottentomatoes.com)

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her...

Director: Shôhei Imamura
Writers: Shôhei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan,
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu and Mitsuko Baishô

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with Enlish subtitles



Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi 2011 DVDRip x264-UioP
PG - 81 min - Documentary

IMDB: 7.6/10 (1,170 users) 12 reviews | Critics: 48 reviews
Metascore: 77/100 (based on 26 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his business in the basement of a Tokyo office building, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.

Director: David Gelb
Stars: Jiro Ono and Yoshikazu Ono

Country: USA
Language: Japanese with English subtitles




Still Walking (2008)

Still Walking 2008 CC BDRip x264 AAC-REGRET
115 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.9/10 (3,655 users) 26 reviews | Critics: 97 reviews
Metascore: 89/100 (based on 21 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day...

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writers: Hirokazu Koreeda (original story), Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)
Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa and You

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles



The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (2006)

Great Happiness Space 2006 DVDRip XviD-HNR
75 min - Documentary

IMDB: 7.9/10 (777 users) 9 reviews | Critics: 7 reviews

Welcome to The Great Happiness Space: Rakkyo Café. The club's owner, Issei (22), has a staff of twenty boys all under his training to become the top escorts of Osaka's underground love scene...

Director: Jake Clennell

Country: USA
Language: Japanese with English hard subtitles





I Wish (2011)

I Wish 2011 DVDRip XviD-WRD
PG - 128 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.7/10 (627 users) 2 reviews | Critics: 42 reviews
Metascore: 80/100 (based on 19 reviews from Metacritic.com)

12-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, begins to believe that the new bullet train service will create a miracle when the first trains pass each other at top speed.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)
Stars: Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda and Ryôga Hayashi

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles


Tony Takitani (2004)

Tony Takitani (2004) DVDRip XviD
105 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.3/10 (2,550 users) 32 reviews | Critics: 62 reviews
Metascore: 80/100 (based on 22 reviews from Metacritic.com)

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

Director: Jun Ichikawa
Writers: Jun Ichikawa, Haruki Murakami (short story)
Stars: Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa and Shinohara Takahumi

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles



Eureka (2000)

Eureka (2000) DVDRip x264
217 min - Drama

IMDB: 7.8/10 (1,717 votes) 33 reviews | Critics: 38 reviews
Metascore: 78/100 (based on 22 reviews from Metacritic.com)

This beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan...

Director: Shinji Aoyama
Writer: Shinji Aoyama
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki and Masaru Miyazaki

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish


Norwegian Wood (2010)

Norwegian Wood 2010 BDRip XviD-SPRiNTER
133 min - Drama | Romance

IMDB: 6.5/10 (2,881 votes) 33 reviews | Critics: 102 reviews
Metascore: 59/100 (based on 15 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.

Director: Anh Hung Tran
Writers: Haruki Murakami (based upon the novel), Anh Hung Tran (screenplay)
Stars: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi and Kiko Mizuhara

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English subtitles



Tokyo! (2008)

Tokyo 2008 DVDRip XviD-CoWRY
UR - 112 min - Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

IMDB: 7.0/10 (3,149 votes) 21 reviews | Critics: 84 reviews
Metascore: 63/100 (based on 18 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories.

Directors: Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry
Writers: Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax
Stars: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase and Ayumi Ito

Country: France | Japan | South Korea
Language: Japanese with English subtitles