During fourth period, high schooler Da-jeong finds his classmate Tae-gyu dead in a classroom and Jeong-hun standing in front of him with blood on his clothes. In order to stop Jeong-hun from becoming the prime suspect, Da-jeong must help him find the real murderer, who is still inside the school building, under 40 minutes before period four ends.

Movie: 700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police Romaji: Boku tachi to chuzai san no 700 nichi senso Japanese: ぼくたちと駐在さんの７００日戦争 Director: Renpei Tsukamoto Writer: Yuichi Fukuda Producer: Cinematography: Ryu Segawa Release Date: April 5, 2008 Runtime: 108 Min. Distributor: Gaga Communications Language: Japanese Country: Japan Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san...

Movie: A Man who was Superman / If I Were Superman Hangul: 슈퍼맨이었던 사나이 Revised romanization: Superman ieotdeon sanai Director: Yoon-Chul Jeong Assistant Director: Lee Jeong-Ho Writer: Yoon-Chul Jeong Producer: Joo-sung Kim Cinematographer: Young-hwan Choi Release Date: Janaury 31, 2008 Production Budget: US$ 4.1M Runtime: 102 min. Movie Studio: CJ Entertainment Distributor: CJ Entertainment Language: Korean Country: South Korea Producer SONG Soo-jung has...

Aftershock or Aftershocks (Chinese: 唐山大地震; pinyin: Tángshān Dàdìzhèn) is a 2010 Chinese drama film depicting the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake directed by Feng Xiaogang. The film stars Xu Fan and Zhang Jingchu, with a supporting cast including Li Chen. PlotIn 1976 Tangshan, Yuan Ni lives in a small apartment with her husband and their twins Fang Deng and Fang Da. Yuan Ni expresses to her husband her desire to have one more child, and they get into the...

My Tutor Friend co-stars Kwon Sang-Woo and Kim Ha-Neul go at it again in the romantic comedy Almost Love. The two play childhood friends whose connection as youth blossoms into something resembling love as adults. However, there are bumps and bruises along the way, namely other romantic partners, parallel quests to realize personal dreams, and a hideous hairdo sported by the usually dashing Kwon Sang-Woo. But there's a narrative reason for the crappy 'do, and it's one of the very...

A G-8 summit is set for Rome the day after Christmas; the Italian and Japanese governments will announce an aid package for the Balkans. Kondura arrives from Tokyo to improve security at the embassy, making waves with his direct manner. A Japanese tourist who's a single mother reports that her young daughter has been kidnapped. Posing as the woman's husband, Kondura takes the lead with the kidnappers, who want money and no cops. However, the law requires that Kondura notify...

Adolescence is one long, drawn-out nightmare for Byeong-tae. Quiet and introverted, he makes a perfect target for his school’s vicious bullies, all the more so when they catch on that his father is a policeman. Badly beaten up on a regular basis, Byeong-tae seeks a capable teacher in matters of physical combat. His quest remains a dead end until the day the mysterious Oh drifts into town.Little is known about Oh other than that he has a shady past and...

Movie: Bandage Romaji: Bandeiji Japanese: バンテイジ Director: Takeshi Kobayashi Writer: Shunji Iwai (Screenplay), Chika Kan (Novel) Producer: Shunji Iwai Cinematographer Release Date: January 16, 2010 Runtime: 119 Min. Distributor: Toho Language: Japanese Country: Japan Set in Japan in the 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school...

The prologue title card reads:"At the dawn of the millennium, the nation collapsed. At fifteen percent unemployment, ten million were out of work. 800,000 students boycotted school. The adults lost confidence and, fearing the youth, eventually passed the Millennium Educational Reform Act, AKA the BR Act...." The film concentrates on Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a charismatic young boy living in Kanagawa Prefecture. After his mother abandons him and his father commits suicide, he becomes disillusioned with life. The rest of...

Yukio, known by his friends as "Koyuki", is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy who enters junior high school with two childhood acquaintances. One is a pervert, and ironically the other is a highly sought after female student. Koyuki's boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck's owner turns out to be an emerging rock musician, Ryūsuke Minami, who soon influences Koyuki to start playing the guitar, and even gives one to...

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankinds hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on...

The cellist and teacher Mi-Ju Hong is invited by her colleague and friend Sun-Ae to assume the position of professor in her renowned institution, and gives an invitation to the concert of Hae-Young Kim, the little sister of her former school best friend Tae-Yeon Kim who died in a car accident. Before leaving the building, she is threatened by a former student that failed in her test. While driving home, she escapes from an accident on the road and once...

The movie centers on Toru Isaka (Hayato Ichihara), a student at the crossroads of teenage life, who together with his good friends Tetsuo Tamashiro (Yuta Hiraoka, who was in Be With You and Swing Girls) and Akira Motobe (Tasuku Emoto) are trying to figure out what next to do with their lives. Their mutual female friend Yui Haebaru the tomboy (Mao Inoue) and wrestling freak, offers them a ticket each to the gig of the hottest indie rap band in...

City Hunter (城市獵人; Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film based on the Japanese manga, City Hunter. Ryo Saeba (aka the City Hunter), is a private detective and a big womanizer. Ryo's hired to find Shizuko, the beautiful daughter of a publishing tycoon, much to the dismay of his sidekick Kaori. After tracking the young woman down on a cruise ship, Ryo seems more concerned with romancing Shizuko then getting her home to...

What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of deja-vu that you are reenacting the very same scenes in the...

Takashi Kamiyama, a completely normal high school student, makes the abnormal decision of enrolling in Cromartie High. It's known for having more violent thugs, prehensile mohawks, alien landings, and enrolled gorillas than any other Japanese high school.

Several months after "Crows: Episode 0" trouble brews again when thugs known as "The Army of Killers" from rival high school Hosen Academy threaten Suzuran High aka the School of Crows. The ruthless Hosen gang go after Suzuran alumni Sho Kawanishi (Shinnosuke Abe) after his released from reformatory for killing a Hosen member two years back. Kawanishi turns to his younger Suzuran gang members for protection. The Housen gang then seeks out right revenge on the entire Suzuran school, while...

The story starts with Takiya Genji (Shun Ogori), the son of a Yakuza boss, entering Suzuran All-Boys High School as a transferred senior with the goal of conquering it. During the freshman orientation lecture, Yakuza arrive at the school seeking Tamao Serizawa to avenge an injury. To show his worth, Genji fights and defeats the Yakuza, who mistake him for Tamao. One of the Yakuza, Ken Katagiri is impressed by Genji's skills. Meanwhile, Tamao greets his best friend Tokio, who...

Movie: Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp Revised romanization: Gosa Du Beonjjae Yiyagi: Gyosaengsilseop Hangul: 고사 두 번째 이야기: 교생실습 Director: Yu Seun-Dong Writer: Producer: Cinematographer: World Premiere: July 23, 2010 (Puchon International Film Festival) Release Date: July 28, 2010 Runtime: 90 min. Production Company: iHQ, Toilet Pictures, Core Content Media Language: Korean Country: South...

Death Note II The Last Name Plot Summary from Anime News NetworkPlot Summary: The Battle Continues. L is still Suspicious about Light Yagami. which he believes to be Kira and on the other Hand Light Yagami met a Girl who is believe to had a Death God Eyes and a Death Note. Now there are two Kira. Will L Succeed in Tracking Down Kira. Who will be the Last Name. Will Light Succeed in showing the new world. ...

Yagami Light is a brilliant college student who, one day, finds a notebook simply titled "Death Note." Inside of this book is a list of rules and details as for the use of the "Death Note." When he realizes the power he holds, he decides he's going to make over the world. He wants to make it into a better place by killing those who do others harm. He has been nicknamed by the police "Kira." L, a brilliant detective...

Synopsis: This story takes place 100 days before Kudo Shinichi became Edogawa Conan. Kudo Shinichi, a high school detective, arrives in Jugoya Town with Mori Ran and others. In this town a legend exists, claiming that a gigantic bull-headed shrike attacks the townspeople and kills them. The town was about to hold a festival in 3 days to put the giant bird’s spirit to rest. While being led on a tour of the bull-headed shrike Shrine by Sonoko’s parent’s friend,...

Shinichi and Ran's class decides to take a trip on a boat, but Shinichi decides against going. He quickly changes his mind when he finds a letter of challenge stating that one kid will be kidnapped during the trip. He is eager to accept the challenge, but when the one that vanishes is Sonoko, Shinichi must use all of his reasoning abilities to find Sonoko and protect the other students. When at first he doesn't succeed, he recieves a call...

DMC (Detroit Metal City) is an up and coming death metal band that is taking Japan by storm. It is fronted by Krauser II who in reality is Soichi Negishi. Negishi can't stand metal and wants to make fashionable pop music. His alter ego Krauser on the other hand portrays himself as a demon who rapes and murders. As the band becomes more popular these two egos will crash and hilarity ensues.

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood...

Movie: Gantz Romaji: Gantz Japanese: 前編 Director: Shinsuke Sato Writer: Hiroya Oku (manga), Yusuke Watanabe Producer: Takahiro Sato Cinematographer: Taro Kawazu Release Date: January 29, 2011 Runtime: 130 min. Production Company: NTV, Toho, Nikkatsu Distributor: Toho Country: Japan College student Kei Kurono (Kazunari Ninomiya) notices former childhood friend Masaru Kato (Kenichi Matsuyama) helping a drunk man who fell from a subway platform. Kei Kurono then jumps...

Onizuka goes to Hokkaido, where he once again helps troubled students with their problems of growing up. All while being tracked by a pesky reporter. _________________________________________________________________________________

Onizuka goes to Hokkaido, where he once again helps troubled students with their problems of growing up. All while being tracked by a pesky reporter.

it's the year UC 0223. With the Earth Federation collapsed, a new govenment has risen: The Congress of Settlement Nations (CONSENT). This new government tries to cover up the discovery of a new enzyme that could change humankind by feeding millions of who are starving to death. However, a rebel group led by Mark Curran tries to prevent this from happening. Their only hope is their new secret weapon: The G-Saviour (Gundam Saviour).

Kohei Kuryu, played by Takuya Kimura, is a former juvenile delinquent that drops out of junior high and goes on to earn a high school equivalency diploma. After passing the law board exams, Kuryu becomes a prosecutor. Not your typical prosecutor, which is quickly seen through the clothes that he wears, Kuryu possesses quick instincts and a kind of cleverness that only someone raised on the streets could have. Although earning a reputation as a bad apple, the...

The live-action movie of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is an alternate re-telling of the first chapter of the anime series, Onikakushi-hen. (Spirited away by a demon chapter). It's 1983 in the peaceful town of Hinamizawa when transfer student Keiichi Maebara moves in. He learns about the mysterious chain of bizarre deaths, known to the villagers of Oyashiro-sama's curse.

Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun (Lee Byung-hun), a top secret agent, decides...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060256/ Ichi is a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.  

Initial D: Drift Racer Plot Summary High school student Takumi Fujiwara is a gas boy by day and delivery boy by night, transporting tofu uphill on the twisting Mt. Akina highway in his father's Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno. Street racers Ryousuke Takahashi and Takeshi Nakazato take notice of Takumi's outstanding drifting skills after he overtakes Nakazato on his way home. Soon, other racers like Kyouichi Sudou and Seiji Iwaki of the team Emperor challenge Takumi to see who...

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life no better, a debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money. The debt collector then offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 year paying off your loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay your debt & possibly make a...

The Hikari Studio arrives in a new world. Natsumi realizes that they're in Decade's World, Tsukasa's home, as his photos are developing perfectly. Tsukasa and company meet a girl called Sayo, who says that Tsukasa is her brother. Tsukasa doesn't remember her as Nobuhiko Tsukikage tells him that his arrival has distorted the world and only the strongest Rider can stop it. Regaining his memory, Tsukasa has Nobuhiko summon every Rider to find the strongest one. The battle comes down...

Deneb and the crew of DenLiner recruit the young Yu to help them retrieve the powerful Trump Stone from the Oni Brothers, also known as Kamen Riders Goldra and Silvra. Along the way, they encounter the Imagin Sieg and the Hikari Studio gang. Together, Kamen Riders Den-O, Cho Den-O and Decade must defeat the Oni Brothers and their legendary Onigashima Battleship.

Kamen Rider G was a television special featured on Japanese boy band SMAP's television show SmaSTATION on January 31, 2009. Produced in association with Toei Company, TV Asahi, and Ishimori Productions, the special celebrated TV Asahi's 50th year being on the air as well as act as a promotional piece for the 10th Heisei Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider Decade.    

After the Mammoth Mecha is dropped, Decade survives the attack and gets on the Machine Decader as he is chased by the Neo Organism-possessed Super Crisis Fortress as Kamen Rider Double pursues the Dummy Dopant in its Dummy Wheel form on the HardBoilder. Within moments, the two Rider's battles intermingle as Decade and Double recognize each other and join forces as the other Kamen Riders join in the battle Decade uses the All Riders Final Form Ride Card to transform...

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy (仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー THE MOVIE 超・電王トリロジー, Kamen Raidā × Kamen Raidā × Kamen Raidā Za Mūbī: Chō Den'ō Torirojī?) is a series of films part of the Kamen Rider Den-O franchise, particularly its Cho-Den-O Series. It was released beginning on May 22, 2010, with each subsequent chapter of the trilogy released in two week intervals. Each of the films' subtitles contains the name of the protagonist. To promote the film, the...

The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game...

After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living results in the return of Ozzy and a long dead team of American baseball players who drowned off the shores of Kisarazu. It's down to Bussan and the Cats to save the day and restore the...

After writing his own name in the Death Note in order to beat Light Yagami, L now has only 28 days before he dies of a heart attack. But L can't call it quits yet. Sent by F, L receives a mathematical genius child, whom witnessed his home village destroyed by terrorists armed with a deadly virus. Now, L must battle K and her group of terrorists, as they attempt to develop an antidote to save themselves before they...

Movie: Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen ZhenChinese: 精武風雲.陳真 (Ye Xing Xia Chen Zhen)Director: Wai-keung LauWriter: Gordon Chan, Chi-Sing CheungProducer: Gordon Chan, Wai-keung Lau, Wang Chang Tian, John ChongCinematographer: Wai-keung Lau, Man-Ching NgWorld Premiere: September 1, 2010 (Venice Film Festival)Release Date: September 23, 2010Runtime: 105 min.Language: CantoneseCountry: Hong Kong While China is traumatized by military cliques during the Warlord Era in the 1920s, Japan has grown into the most powerful foreign national group there, taking over much of...

Country: JapanLanguage: JapaneseSubtitle: EnglishYear: 2010Genre: Drama / ThrillerThe Psychological thriller directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama dethroned US movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians at number 2 following its release this week at Japan Box Office. Starring Shota Matsuda and Erika Toda  (Death Note). Based on a manga created by Kaitani Shinobu, this movie is set where the 2nd season of the drama series left off. In the first series, a college student Nao Kanzaki is lured into a mysterious game by...

The film opens up with a red orb of energy chasing after a blue orb of energy throughout space. Upon landing on a desert-like moon, the blue orb reveals itself to be the monster, Bemular. The red orb reveals itself to be Ultraman Mebius and two face off. After a short battle, Ultraman Mebius destroys Bemular and returns to his home planet of the Land of Light (光の国, Hikari no Kuni?) in Nebula M78, where he is reunited with Ultraman,...

* Movie: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac * Romaji: Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita * Japanese: 誰かが私にキスをした * Director: Hans Canosa * Writer: Gabrielle Zevin (novel) * Producer: Hans Canosa, Kwesi Collisson, Ash Nukui, Wendy Reeds, Jun Sanders * Cinematographer: Jaron Presant * Release Date: March 27, 2010 * Runtime: 124min. * Language: Japanese, English * Country: Japan PlotNaomi is an ordinary high school student who goes to an international school. One day, she loses her memory for...

1375. Nine Koryo warriors, envoys exiled by Imperial China, battle to protect a Chinese Ming Princess from Mongolian troops. Musa (武士, 무사, Musa), released as The Warrior in English-speaking countries, is a 2001 South Korean epic film directed by Kim Seong-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ahn Sung-ki, Ju Jin-mo and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. The semi-historical story follows the adventures of a Korean peace delegation as they try to get back to Korea through the inhospitable deserts of northern China. The...

Mushi are ethereal organisms comprised of and related to the source of all life. Their very existence is enough to spur on supernatural phenomena. Ginko is a Mushi-shi, one who investigates and counteracts the ill-effects of mushi encounters/infestations. As Ginko wanders from town to town learning more of the Mushi and helping those in his wake; we learn of the fate that brought him into his present circumstances.

Two girls, both named Nana and of the same age, coincidentally meet on a train trip to Tokyo. They soon find themselves living with each other under the same roof because of an even bigger coincidence. Even though they share the same name and age, they differ in just about everything else. Even so, through hard experiences in love and life, a strong friendship is born between them, as both Nanas grow through their hardships and struggle to win the...