Shin Godzilla (
2016) | IMDb:
6.8
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Starring:
Hiroki Hasegawa
,
Yutaka Takenouchi
,
Satomi Ishihara
,
Kengo Kora
,
Satoru Matsuo
,
Mikako Ichikawa
Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary (
2014) | IMDb:
5.4
Mitsumasa Kido discovers a misterious baby in the himalayas whom he adopts as his grandaughter. 16 years later, Saori Kido is a young girl troubled by her mysterious powers. She is saved by Seiya from an assassin sent to kill her. Saori then learns she is the reincarnation of the Goddess Athena with Seiya being one of her Saints sworn to protect her. Upon learning of her destiny, she heads to the Sanctuary to rebel against the Pope's murderous plot.
Starring:
Kensho Ono
,
Kenji Nojima
,
Nobuhiko Okamoto
,
Kenji Akabane
,
Ayaka Sasaki
,
Kaito Ishikawa
Directed by:
Keiichi Sato
Produced by:
Masami Kurumada
Lady Joker (
2004) | IMDb:
6.3
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.
Starring:
Satoshi Tokushige
,
Tetsuya Watari
,
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
,
Ren Osugi
,
Koji Kikkawa
,
Haruhiko Kato
Directed by:
Hideyuki Hirayama
Produced by:
The Twilight Samurai (
2002) | IMDb:
8.1
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Starring:
Hiroyuki Sanada
,
Rie Miyazawa
,
Nenji Kobayashi
,
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
,
Min Tanaka
,
Ren Osugi
Brother (
2000) | IMDb:
7.1
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.