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live action adaptation of manga

6.2

♡ 15

Sci-Fi

terrorist group

warrior

Hideaki Anno Director

Tôru Tezuka as Butler

Hideko Yoshida as Kyoko Onitani

Hideaki Anno as Office Worker

Ryô Kase as Todoroki

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

BraveStorm

2017

4.7

♡ 11

80%

Junya Okabe Director

Mitsu Dan as Hitomi Kasuga

Hisashi Yoshizawa as Kenichiro Kurenai

Shu Watanabe as Ken Kurenai

Tom Fujita as Shu

In the year 2050, mankind is extinct. The last survivors travel back in time to stop the invader, Killgis, aided by roboticist Kenichiro Kurenai. When they arrive at the past, they start to build a giant robot, Red Baron, and the pilot of the Red Baron races against time aided by reinforced humans to identify the alien in a fierce battle which starts in Tokyo for the survival of Earth. This is a re-imagining of the 1970s TV series' "Silver Kamen" and "Super Robot Red Baron".

The Twilight Samurai

2002

8.1

♡ 44

99%

94%

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Yamazaki as

Hiroyuki Sanada as Seibei Iguchi

Rie Miyazawa as Tomoe Iinuma

Senri Sakurai as Tozaemon's temporary soldier

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?

Mojin: The Lost Legend

2015

Chinese

5.9

♡ 25

56%

Wuershan Director

Kevin Lee as Body Guard

Angelababy as Ding Sitian Qi Shu

Qi Shu as Shirley Yang

Cherry Ngan as Yoko

Three tomb raiders retire from their roles and move to New York to enjoy the rest of their lives. However, they are asked to resume duty in order to find out the reason behind the loss of a loved one.

Dynasty Warriors

2021

Cn

4.8

♡ 15

25%

Roy Hin Yeung Chow Director

Rich Ting as Liu Bei

Louis Koo as Lu Bu

Carina Lau as Master of the Sword Forge Castle

Feodor Chin as Yuan Shao

In the turbulent late Eastern Han Dynasty, ambitious Dong Zhuo controls the court and the commonalty, and heroes from all over the country begin to rise.

Double World

2020

Chinese

6.2

♡ 33

64%

Teddy Chan Director Shi Shi

Shi Shi as

Mark Cheng as Him Law

Him Law as

Henry Lau as Dong YiLong

Keen to bring honor to his clan, young villager Dong Yilong embarks on a perilous journey to compete in a tournament that selects warriors for battle.

Tekken: Blood Vengeance

2011

5.8

♡ 71

44%

Yoichi Mori Director

Ryôtarô Okiayu as Lee Chaolan

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Nina Williams / Mokujin

David Vincent as Shin Kamiya

Mamoru Miyano as Shin Kamiya

Set in the rich Tekken universe, Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D follows Xiaoyu Ling, seasoned martial artist and high school student, tasked by the G Corporation to infiltrate an international school in Kyoto to gather information on the mysterious student Shin Kamiya. Before she can make any progress in the investigation, Shin is kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Digging deeper into Shin’s background in an attempt to rescue him, Xiaoyu learns about the frightening underbelly of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima… and the late Heihachi Mishima’s conspiracy that’s stained with blood.

Ajin: Demi-Human

2017

6.3

♡ 11

female lead action scenes

based on manga

government conspiracy

Katsuyuki Motohiro Director

Minami Hamabe as Eriko Naga

Mamoru Miyano as IBM

Takeru Satoh as Kei Nagai

Yûki Yamada as Takahashi

Kei Nagai dies in a car accident, but realises he is a type of immortal known as Ajin. Hunted by humans, Ajin is eventually found by the government and used as a subject in cruel experiments. He finds fellow demi-humans along the way as he escapes and goes on the run.

The Pirates

2014

Korean

6.5

♡ 35

57%

Seok-hoon Lee Director

Bae-soo Jeon as Baek Seon-gi

Hae-soo Park as Hwang Joong-geun

Nam-gil Kim as Jang Sa-jung

Ye-jin Son as Yeo-wol

At the cusp of the founding of Joseon Dynasty, an envoy from China is delivering Emperor’s Ming’s Royal Seal. But nature in the form of a giant whale intervenes and swallows the royal seal. When a generous reward is offered to whomever can retrieve the royal seal from the belly of the whale, the race is on. A group of mountain bandits led by Jang Sa Jung and a group of pirates led by Yeo Wol go after the lost treasure, but who will get to to it first?

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

2018

7.7

♡ 770

98%

89%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Adventure

Christopher McQuarrie Director

Henry Cavill as August Walker

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt

Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust

Vanessa Kirby as The White Widow

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

After the Storm

2016

7.4

♡ 40

96%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Lily Franky as

Makoto Nakamura as

Hiroshi Abe as Shinoda Ryôta

Yôko Maki as Shiraishi Kyôko

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

8.0

♡ 20

100%

93%

black and white movie

Robert Hamer Director

Cecil Ramage as Crown Counsel

Valerie Hobson as Edith

Dennis Price as Louis

Arthur Lowe as The Reporter

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

2016

7.8

♡ 192

97%

91%

Adventure

Taika Waititi Director

Sam Neill as Hec

Mike Minogue as Joe

Taika Waititi as Minister

Julian Dennison as Ricky

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

8.6

♡ 543

91%

James Cameron Director

Mark Christopher Lawrence as Burly Attendant

Dean Norris as SWAT Team Leader

Robert Patrick as T-1000

Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Woman in the Dunes

1964

8.4

♡ 42

100%

93%

art house

Hiroshi Teshigahara Director

Hideo Kanze as

Sen Yano as

Robert Dunham as ?

Eiji Okada as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Oslo, August 31st

2011

Norwegian

7.6

♡ 22

97%

82%

Joachim Trier Director

Anders Danielsen Lie as Anders

Malin Crépin as Malin

Renate Reinsve as Renate

Eskil Vogt as Stemmer: 'jeg husker...'

A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.

Headhunters

2011

Norwegian

7.5

♡ 33

93%

85%

Morten Tyldum Director

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Clas Greve

Synnøve Macody Lund as Diana

Kyrre Haugen Sydness as Lander

Aksel Hennie as Roger

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Donnie Darko

2001

parent child relationship

8.0

♡ 289

88%

presidential election

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Richard Kelly Director

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko

Drew Barrymore as Karen Pomeroy

Stuart Stone as Ronald Fisher

Mary McDonnell as Rose Darko

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Tokyo Story

1953