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overview : With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic …

overview : Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their …

overview : Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece …

overview : Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. …

overview : A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce …

overview : Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the …

overview : When social worker Rika is sent to check on a traumatized old lady whose family have moved in at the …

overview : When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to …

overview : Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging …

overview : The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure …

overview : After winning his first competition, Takumi focuses his attention on drift racing, a sport he has unknowingly perfected while delivering …

overview : Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of …

overview : On his 18th birthday, Goku receives a mystical Dragonball as a gift from his grandfather. There are only six others …

overview : A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life …

overview : Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant …

overview : The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring …

overview : Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and …

overview : In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, …