Jûmanbun no ichi no gûzen (2012)

Actors: Kôji Ishizaka (actor), Takashi Naitô (actor), Seichô Matsumoto (writer), Akio Kaneda (actor), Shirô Itô (actor), Kayoko Kishimoto (actress), Ikkei Watanabe (actor), Miki Nakatani (actress), Yuki Matsushita (actress), Masanobu Takashima (actor), Masakazu Tamura (actor), Mayumi Wakamura (actress), Kôtarô Koizumi (actor), Rina Uchiyama (actress), Hikaru Kawase (producer),

Genres: Mystery,

Space Battleship Yamato (2010)

Actors: Tsutomu Yamazaki (actor), Yumiko Fujita (actress), Ken'ichi Ogata (actor), Shin'ichi Tsutsumi (actor), Tetta Sugimoto (actor), Toshirô Yanagiba (actor), Yôji Tanaka (actor), Teruyuki Kagawa (actor), Masatô Ibu (actor), Hiroyuki Ikeuchi (actor), Kazuki Kitamura (actor), Isao Hashizume (actor), Toshiyuki Nishida (actor), Leiji Matsumoto (writer), Reiko Takashima (actress),

Plot: In 2199, five years after the start of the Gamilas attack on Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' radiation bombs and the remnants of humanity have fled underground. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iskandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The United Nations of Space Administration rebuilds the battleship Yamato, with a new type of propulsion system - the wave motion engine. This enables it to make the long trip to Iskandar and back in hopes of saving the Earth. Within 73 days the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.

Keywords: 22nd-century, alien, alien-attack, alien-race, alien-technology, based-on-anime, based-on-television-series, battleship, bomb, capsule
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: 2010 is the Year of Yamato The legendary SF animation, a live-action film at last.

Quotes:

[from trailer]::Susumu Kodai: Is that...::Juzo Okita: Yes. That's the Yamato.

[from trailer]::Juzo Okita: It is our only hope...

[from trailer]::Juzo Okita: Yamato, lift off!

Juzo Okita: Attention, all remaining ships and battle groups. We will retreat. We no longer have a single ship that can prevail.::Mamoru Kodai: Captain Okita, this is Yukikaze, Captain Mamoru Kodai! I cannot obey your command to withdraw! I could never show my face to the friends I've lost!::Juzo Okita: Whether you agree with it or not, the withdrawal is my order, Kodai. We're all that's left to defend the Earth. A true man bears the humiliation of today for the sake of tomorrow.::Mamoru Kodai: I don't think so! Even if it's hopeless, we can still take our enemies with us! Isn't that what a man does?::Juzo Okita: Kodai! Hear my order: Withdraw!::Mamoru Kodai: I'll fight while you withdraw, Captain Okita!::Juzo Okita: Kodai, don't say such a stupid thing!::Mamoru Kodai: Captain Okita... we're proud to have fought with you.

Shiro Sanada: [providing cover fire] Kodai, run! Take Yuki and save the Earth!

Juzo Okita: Dr Sado... thank you.

Yuki Mori: Saving Earth won't matter, nothing will matter if you're not there with me!::Susumu Kodai: But I will be! If I save the Earth, I'll be there in every tree, flower, and blade of grass!

Konoko no nanatsu no oiwai ni (1982)

Actors: Tatsuji Nakashizu (editor), Nenji Kobayashi (actor), Shigeru Kôyama (actor), Akira Nagoya (actor), Jinpachi Nezu (actor), Rokko Toura (actor), Shima Iwashita (actress), Kyôko Kishida (actress), Hitomi Nakahara (actress), Haruki Kadokawa (producer), Yasuzô Masumura (writer), Yasuzô Masumura (director), Shinsuke Ashida (actor), Hideo Murota (actor), Yuji Ono (composer),

Genres: Drama, Mystery,

Jûmanbun no ichi no gûzen (1981)

Actors: Keiko Takahashi (actress), Shigeru Izumiya (actor), Shin Kishida (actor), Sakae Umezu (actor), Seichô Matsumoto (writer), Kazuo Kuroki (director), Ako (actress), Toshiya Ito (actor), Shu Wada (actor), Yoshiko Ishida (writer), Tsutomu Yuzawa (actor), Yasushi Tanabe (writer), Kazushi Nemoto (actor), Yukari Matsumoto (actress),

Genres: Mystery,

Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori (1972)

Actors: Shunsuke Kikuchi (composer), Yôichi Numata (actor), Isao Natsuyagi (actor), Yôko Mihara (actress), Osamu Tanaka (editor), Hideo Murota (actor), Meiko Kaji (actress), Saburô Date (actor), Fumio Watanabe (actor), Nenji Kobayashi (actor), Akemi Negishi (actress), Fumio Kônami (writer), Teruo Shimizu (actor), Hirô Matsuda (writer), Kôji Hio (actor),

Plot: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to...), Matsushima Nami's desire for revenge knows no bounds. Her failed attempt at stabbing Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters results in her doing hard time in a female prison run by sadistic and horny male guards. To Sugimi's surprise, Matsushima refuses to testify against him and his connections to the mob, and now the sheer fact that she knows such secrets makes her a liability. So Sugimi and the Japanese mafia orchestrate a plan whereby Matsushima will succumb to an "accidental" death in prison. They enlist the help of Kagiri, another female inmate with ties to both Sugimi and the mafia, thus their formidable plan is quickly set in motion. Little do they realize, however, how hotly Matsushima's desire for revenge burns within her.

Keywords: anger, bare-breasts, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, betrayal, bitterness, blood, clothes-ripping, corruption, criminal
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,

Quotes:

Nami Matsushima: To be deceived is a woman's crime.

Yakuza deka: Kyofu no doku gasu (1971)

Actors: Shin'ichi Chiba (actor), Tôru Abe (actor), Ryôhei Uchida (actor), Masao Yagi (composer), Fumio Kônami (writer), Toshiaki Minami (actor), Yoshiki Nagasawa (editor), Ryuichi Takamori (writer), Ryuichi Takamori (director), Kenji Takamura (producer), Koji Ota (producer), Shigeyoshi Fujioka (actor),

Genres: Action, Crime,

Yakuza deka: Oretachi ni haka wa nai (1971)

Actors: Shin'ichi Chiba (actor), Ryôhei Uchida (actor), Masao Yagi (composer), Fumio Kônami (writer), Akira Hitomi (actor), Yoshiki Nagasawa (editor), Ryuichi Takamori (writer), Ryuichi Takamori (director), Kenji Kawai (actor), Kenji Takamura (producer), Koji Ota (producer),

Genres: Action, Crime,

Ruten no ôhi (1960)

Actors: Eiji Funakoshi (actor), Tatsuya Ishiguro (actor), Ken Mitsuda (actor), Shôzô Nanbu (actor), Mitsuko Mito (actress), Sadako Sawamura (actress), Hiroaki Fujii (producer), Masaichi Nagata (producer), Chûji Kinoshita (composer), Kinuyo Tanaka (director), Chishû Ryû (actor), Chieko Higashiyama (actress), Machiko Kyô (actress), Natto Wada (writer), Kiyoko Hirai (actress),

Genres: Drama, Romance, War,

Ningen no jôken (1959)

Actors: Eitarô Ozawa (actor), Nobuo Nakamura (actor), Junkichi Orimoto (actor), Tatsuya Nakadai (actor), Shinsuke Ashida (actor), Masao Mishima (actor), Seiji Miyaguchi (actor), Tôru Abe (actor), Ryûji Kita (actor), Akio Isono (actor), Hôsei Komatsu (actor), Yoshio Kosugi (actor), Akitake Kôno (actor), Kôji Mitsui (actor), Keiji Sada (actor),

Plot: In the World War II, the pacifist and humanist Japanese Kaji accepts to travel with his wife Michiko to the tiny Manchurian village Loh Hu Liong to work as supervisor in an iron ore mine to avoid to be summoned to the military service. Kaji works with Okishima (Sô Yamamura) and he implements a better treatment to the laborers and improves the mine production. When the feared Kempetai (The "Military Police Corps", the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945) brings six hundred Chinese POWs to the mine, Kaji negotiates with their leaders expecting them to control their comrades. However the methods of Kaji upset the corrupt system in the site, and the foreman Furuya (Kôji Mitsui) plots a scheme to use the naive Chen (Akira Ishihama) to turn off the electrical power of the barbwire fences to allow the prisoners to escape. When seven prisoners are falsely accused of an attempt of fleeing, a cruel Kempetai sergeant uses his sword to behead the prisoners. When Kaji protests, the POWs react sparing the lives of four prisoners but Kaji is arrested and tortured. When he is released, he is summoned to join the army and accused of being Red.

Keywords: 1940s, advice, barbed-wire, based-on-novel, brothel, china, chinese, concentration-camp, conscientious-objector, decapitation
Genres: Drama, History, War,

Quotes:

Kaji: The investigation is over, but I don't believe you tried to escape.::Kô: You're turning us over to the Kenpeitai?::Kaji: I don't intend to. But you never had faith in me before. Perhaps it's best to doubt me now as well. Those men have all the power! I have none! I'll do everything I can until tomorrow evening.

Kuroki Shochô: This is wartime. Peacetime reasoning does not apply.

Kuroki Shochô: You know, Kaji, theory may be correct and yet not always apply to reality.::Kaji: Then either the theory is wrong or it was incorrectly applied.

Kaji: Can't you see? Force has meaning only when overcoming tyranny.

Kaji: [furious over the recent escape of Chinese POWs under his supervision] I've given up on all of you. You said you'd wait. You might think I'm a fool, but even a fool has his limits! Another escape and you'll all go without food for three days. I'll turn your men against you and break your authority in this camp!::Kô: You Japanese are all the same!::Kaji: Fine! Then I'll act accordingly. All promises are hereby retracted. Now I realize there can be no trust between us.

Okishima: Where you been hidin'?::Kaji: What's wrong with you? Drunk, I see.::Okishima: Think I got drunk and came to make trouble? I had a drink with the boss, but I'm not drunk.::Okishima: [they enter Kaji's house and Okishima lays on the floor] I have some hot news. They're issuing commendations for the increased production. Okazaki will surely be included. I told the boss you were the only one in Labor who deserved a commendation... The boss felt the same way, but he feared that this old-timer might feel slighted... You don't think I'd feel slighted, do you?::Kaji: Why have you suddenly turned to brute force?::Okishima: [snickering] The boss asked the same thing. I was born a brute... Good enough?::[Kaji shifts in contemplation]::Okishima: How long do you plan to keep on like this?::Kaji: Meaning what?::Okishima: Straddling a fundamental contradiction and trying to justify it... I'm out of breath. If I'm being a nuisance, just say so and I'll back off.

Michiko: We'll have lunch together and then go to the apple orchard. It's so wonderful, I feel as light as a balloon!

Michiko: I'm sorry about yesterday; I failed as a wife and a woman.::[Kaji gives a refreshed sigh]::Michiko: I couldn't sleep.::Kaji: This is your home. You can sleep soundly here.::Michiko: Promise you'll share both your joys and your sorrows with me.::Kaji: Sorrow for one is enough.::Michiko: It's not! I'm walking down the same path you are. It's okay if I lose my way. Just tell me we might get lost and take me along. I'll follow you... and do my best to keep up.::Kaji: I understand.::Michiko: If I don't walk fast enough, will you wait just a tiny bit for me? Just a very tiny bit?::Kaji: Of course.::Michiko: I'll never ask you the same question twice.

[first lines]::Michiko: This isn't like you.::Kaji: Why?::Michiko: You're running away. Don't you want me?::Kaji: Of course I do.::Michiko: And I want you, too. Yet we can't marry-...::Kaji: How many times must I explain?::Michiko: Because you might be called up? I wouldn't care if it was the day after. Of course I'd cry. I'd cry bitterly. But happiness only lies in marrying the one you love.::Kaji: Alright. I'll take you back to my dormitory. You'll stay with me tonight. Alright?::Michiko: Yes, I'll go.::[they start trudging through the snow]::Kaji: No, you better go back to your own dormitory... I can't take you to mine.::Michiko: You were just testing me. You shouldn't have done that. You're a coward and a weakling! Now I see that!

Tôfuku Kin: Drink. It'll relax you.