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'Journey to the Shore': Review

Edit Screen Daily 17 May 2015
Director. Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Jap-Fr. 2015. 128 mins. A supernatural romantic road movie takes an initially intriguing but ultimately dead-end route in Japanese maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest feature ... This extended metaphor for the grieving process relies too heavily on ambience alone ... Then a man in an orange trenchcoat wanders out of a dark corner into her living room ... Music ... Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano, Masao Komatsu, Yu Aoi, Akira Emoto....

Sumo comedy a classic Japanese film (Massey University)

Edit noodls 29 Apr 2015
(Source. Massey University). The people of Third Street © 2012 "Always3" Film Partners. The May 4 screening of Japanese films at Massey University's Auckland campus should prove a welcome respite from the cooling autumn nights ... The sumo team only has one other member - the rather pathetic Aoki who hasn't won a single bout in four years ... JUNE SCREENING ... Directed by ... Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto. Rating....

Mirai Moriyama stars in ‘PLUTO,’ an allegory about equality

Edit The Japan News 18 Jan 2015
By Hitomi Seki / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff WriterActor Mirai Moriyama is starring in “PLUTO,” his first major theatrical production since returning to Japan after a year overseas as a cultural envoy of the Cultural Affairs Agency beginning in October 2013 ... A successful actor, Moriyama has also danced since his childhood ... Slide 1 of 1. The Yomiuri Shimbun ... Other members of the cast include Hiromi Nagasaku, Akira Emoto and Yasufumi Terawaki ... ....

We Are What We Are, The Book Thief, Non-Stop: this week's new films

Edit The Guardian 01 Mar 2014
We Are What We Are . The Book Thief . Non-Stop . Ride Along . As The Palaces Burn . Unforgiven . Funny Face. We Are What We Are. We Are What We Are (18). (Jim Mickle, 2013, US) Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner. 103 mins ... It's a wise decision ... (Brian Percival, 2013, US/Ger) Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson. 131 mins ... 106 mins. Neeson seems rather taken with his Taken persona ... (Lee Sang-il) Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Kôichi Satô ... 300....

Trailer for the Japanese Remake of Unforgiven Starring Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, and Jun Kunimura

Edit IMDb 13 Feb 2014
Hit the jump to check out the trailer, which we posted last year, but this new one now has subtitles.  The film stars Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Jun Kunimura, and Shiori Kutsana ... » ... ....
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