Takashi Miike
3) 13 Assassins
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日本語
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Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era. 13 Assassins - a "masterful exercise in cinematic butchery" (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.
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日本語
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Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to protect a young girl named Rin and help her avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine...the 100th film by master director TAKASHI...
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Ultraman Max The Complete volume 16
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日本語
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DASH's members begin to suffer from a mysterious form of amnesia.
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Ultraman Max The Complete volume 15
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日本語
Description
A mysterious white object has appeared, the twisted monster If emerges.
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Masters of Horror volume 13
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English
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In 19th-century Japan, an American journalist (Billy Drago of THE HILLS HAVE EYES) searches for the prostitute he'd loved and left behind years earlier. But on an island where demons and whores rule the night, a deformed courtesan awaits with a tale of extreme cruelty and perverse vengeance. What follows is an unspeakable orgy of torment and depravity, where the lusts of the damned will inflict wounds that remain forever. Youki Kudoh (RUSH HOUR 3)...
12) First Love
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日本語
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The film is the prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
13) Zebraman
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日本語
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Shinichi is a second-rate third-grade teacher who gets no respect from his family, and little from his students. Back in 1978 he fell in love with a TV superhero named Zebraman. Unfortunately the show was canceled shortly after airing. Shinichi decides it's time to escape his drab, everyday life by secretly dressing up as Zebraman and roaming the city. His harmless escapism quickly becomes hard reality when he runs into a half-crab, half-man serial...