Archives for: October 2006
Trick
Type: Comedy Drama Suspense, Japan 2000
Director: K?ji Makita
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Yukie Nakama .... Naoko Yamada
Hiroshi Abe .... Jiro Ueda
Katsuhisa Namase .... Kenz? Yabe
Posted by Dominic
Story:
Yukie is a bad magician, no one… more »
The dinner game
The Dinner Game (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy, France 1998
Director: Francis Veber
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Thierry Lhermitte .... Pierre Brochant
Jacques Villeret .... Fran?ois Pignon
Francis Huster .... Just Leblanc
Daniel Pr?vost .… more »
The Russia House
The Russia House (buy from Amazon)
Posted by Sigrid
Type: Drama, USA 1990
Director: Fred Schpisi
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Sean Connery... Barley Blair
Michelle Pfeiffer .... Katya
Story:
Barley (Connery), a hard-drunking, middle-aged… more »
Belph?gor - Le fant?me du Louvre
Belphegor: Le Phantom Du Louvre (buy from Amazon) Belph?gor - Le Fant?me Du Louvre (Widescreen - Original French with subtitles) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama Suspense, France 2001
Director: Jean-Paul Salom?
My rating: 2
Key actors/actresses:
Soph… more »
Himalaya
Himalaya (buy from Amazon)Type: Drama, Nepal 1999
Director: Eric Valli
My rating: 3
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Key actors/actresses:
Thilen Lhondup .... Tinle
Gurgon Kyap .... Karma
Lhakpa Tsamchoe .... Pema
Karma Wangel .... Passang… more »
Whale Rider
Whale Rider (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, New Zealand 2002
Director: Niki Caro
My rating: 4
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Key actors/actresses:
Keisha Castle-Hughes .... Paikea
Rawiri Paratene .... Koro
Vicky Haughton .... Nanny Flowers… more »
Everybody has secrets
Everybody Has Secrets (2004) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy Drama, South Korea 2004
Director: Hyeon-su Jang
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Byung-hun Lee .... Choi Su-hyeon
Sang Mi Chu .... Han Ji-yeong
Hyo-jin Kim .... Han Mi-yeong
Ji-Woo Ch… more »
Art museum by the zoo
Type: Comedy Romantic, South Korea 1998
Director: Jeong-hyang Lee
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Eun-ha Shim .... Chun-Hi
Sung-jae Lee .... Chul-su
Sung-kee Ahn .... In-Gong
Story:
Two strangers under some unforeseen circumstances are forced… more »
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Zatoichi 20 - Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Japan 1970
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Shintar� Katsu .... Zatoichi
Toshiro Mifune .... Yojimbo
Ayako Wakao .... Umeno
Osamu Takizawa ...… more »
Kandahar
Kandahar (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Iran, France 2001
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Nelofer Pazira .... Nafas
Hassan Tantai .... Tabib Sahid
Sadou Teymouri .... Khak
Hoyatala Hakimi .... Hayat
Posted by Domi… more »
The Cube
Cube (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama SciFi Suspense, Canada 1997
Director: Vincenzo Natali
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Nicole de Boer .... Joan Leaven (The Math Student)
Nicky Guadagni .... Helen Holloway (The Doctor)
David Hewlett .... Davi… more »
Samaritan Girl
Samaritan Girl (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, South Korea 2004
Director: Ki-duk Kim
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Ji-min Kwak .... Yeo-Jin
Min-jeong Seo .... Jae-yeong
Eol Lee .... Yeong-ki
Kwon Hyun-Min .... Salesman
Oh Young .... Musicia… more »
Dogma #7 Interview
Type: Drama, South Korea 2000
Director: Hyuk Byun
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Jung-Jae Lee .... Eun-seok
Eun-ha Shim .... Yeong-heui
Story:
A film maker doing interviews of people telling their love stories, he falls in love with one of th… more »
Jam Films (7 short movies)
Type: Comedy Drama Romantic SciFi Suspense, Japan 2002
Director: See below
My rating: 5
Key actors/actresses:
Directors: Daizaburo Hanada ("Opening"), J么ji Iida ("Cold Sleep"), Shunji Iwai ("Arita"), Ryuhei Kitamura ("The Messenger - Requiem… more »
The hidden blade
The Hidden Blade (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Japan 2004
Director: Yoji Yamada
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Masatoshi Nagase
Takako Matsu
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Posted by Dominic
Story:
At the end of the Edo era, a kind hea… more »
Crying out love in the centre of the world 在世界中心呼喚愛
Crying out of Love in the Centre of the World (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama Romantic, Japan 2004
Director: Isao Tukisada 行定勲
My rating: 5
Key actors/actresses:
Sakutaro(Today) 朔太郎...Takao Osawa 大… more »
The Returner
Returner (buy from Amazon)
Type: SciFi, Japan 2002
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Takeshi Kaneshiro .... Miyamoto
Anne Suzuki .... Milly
Kirin Kiki .... Xie
Goro Kishitani .... Mizoguchi
Yukiko Okamoto .... Dr. Ya… more »
Osama
Osama (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Afghanistan 2003
Director: Siddiq Barmak
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Marina Golbahari .... Osama
Arif Herati .... Espandi
Zubaida Sahar .... Mother
Story:
Another movie about Afghanistan during the Ta… more »
The tale of the unusual
Type: Comedy Drama Horror SciFi, Japan 2000
Director: Mamoru Hosi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Masayuki Suzuki
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Kazuyuki Aijima .... Manabe (segment: One Snowy Night)/Salaryman (segment: The Storyteller)
Izumi In… more »
36 Quai des Orf?vres
36 Quai des Orfevres (Original French Version with English Subtitles) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, France 2004
Director: Olivier Marchal
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Daniel Auteuil .... L?o Vrinks
G?rard Depardieu .... Denis Klein
Andr? D… more »
Copycat Killer
Type: Thriller, Japan 2002
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Masahiro Nakai .... Koichi Amikawa
Kanji Tsuda .... Hiromi Kurihashi
Takashi Fujii .... Kazuaki Takai
Tsutomu Yamazaki .... Yoshio Arima
Yoshino Kimura ...… more »
8 femmes
8 Women (buy from Amazon)
Type: Suspence, France 2002
Director: Fran?ois Ozon
My rating: 4
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Key actors/actresses:
Danielle Darrieux .... Mamy
Catherine Deneuve .... Gaby
Isabelle Huppert .... Augustine
Emman… more »
Twilight Samurai
The Twilight Samurai (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Japan 2002
Director:Yoji Yamada
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Hiroyuki Sanada .... Seibei Iguchi
Rie Miyazawa .... Tomoe Iinuma
Nenji Kobayashi .... Choubei Kusaka
Ren Osugi .... Toyotarou… more »
Nathalie
Nathalie (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, France 2003
Director: Anne Fontaine
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Fanny Ardant .... Catherine
Emmanuelle B?art .... Nathalie/Marl?ne
G?rard Depardieu .... Bernard
Posted by Dominic
Story:
A woman is… more »
Resurrection
Type: Drama SciFi, Japan 200x
Director:TBD
My rating: 3
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Posted by Dominic
Story:
In a small Japanese village, some dead people begin to return to life, some were dead for years and some died only very recently.… more »
Touch
Type: Drama, Japan 2005
Director: Isshin Inudou
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Masami Nagasawa .... Minami Asakura
Keita Saito .... Kazuya Uesugi
Syota Saito .... Tatsuya Uesugi
Posted by Dominic
Story:
Based on the comic book by Mitsuru Ad… more »
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Thriller, Suspense, USA 2004
Director:Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Ashton Kutcher .... Evan Treborn
Melora Walters .... Andrea Treborn
Amy Smart… more »
The Closet
The Closet (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy, France 2001
Director:Francis Veber
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Daniel Auteuil .... Fran?ois Pignon
G?rard Depardieu .... F?lix Santini
Thierry Lhermitte .... Guillaume
Mich?le Laroque .... Mlle B… more »
La Boum
La Boum / La Boum 2 (3 DVD Box Set) [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import] (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, France 1980
Director:Claude Pinoteau
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Claude Brasseur .... Fran?ois Beretton
Brigitte Fossey .... Fran?oise… more »
La Boum 2
La Boum 2 (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, France 1982
Director:Claude Pinoteau
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Claude Brasseur .... Fran?ois Beretton
Brigitte Fossey .... Fran?oise Beretton
Sophie Marceau .... Vic Beretton
Lambert Wilson ....… more »
Jetlag
Jet Lag (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy Drama, France 2002
Director: Dani?le Thompson
My rating: 3
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Key actors/actresses:
Juliette Binoche .... Rose
Jean Reno .... F?lix
Other similar movies: La Fid?lit?, Anth… more »
l'Etudiante
L' ?tudiante (buy from Amazon)Type: Drama, France 1988
Director: Claude Pinoteau
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Sophie Marceau .... Valentine
Vincent Lindon .... Edward
?lisabeth Vitali .... Celine
Jean-Claude Leguay .... Charly
Elena Pompei… more »
Anthony Zimmer
Anthony Zimmer (Original French Version with English Version) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Suspense Thriller, France 2005
Director: J?r?me Salle
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Sophie Marceau .... Chiara
Yvan Attal .... Francois Taillandier
Sami… more »
Yureru
Posted by Ryoko
Type: Drama Suspense, Japan 2006
Director:Miwa Nishikawa
My rating: 5
Key actors/actresses:
Joe Odagiri : Takeshi
Teruyuki Kagawa: Minoru
Story:
"Yureru" (literally "swing") is a story of two brothers. Minoru works for the fami… more »
All about my mother
All About My Mother (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Spain 1999
Director:Pedro Almod髒ar
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Cecilia Roth .... Manuela
Marisa Paredes .... Huma Rojo
Candela Pe馻 .... Nina
Story:
Also known as Todo sobre… more »
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai (Widescreen Edition) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, USA 2003
Director:Edward Zwick
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Ken Watanabe .... Katsumoto
Tom Cruise .... Nathan Algren
William Atherton .... Winchester Rep
Chad Lindberg .… more »
Inochi
Type: Drama, Japan 2002
Director:Tetsuo Shinohara
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Makiko Esumi .... Miri Yu
Etsushi Toyokawa .... Yutaka Higashi
Toshio Kakei .... Kamata
Story:
Based on a best-selling autobiography.
Miri was unexpectedly pre… more »
Talk to her - Hable con ella, Drama Romantic, Spain 2002
Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama Romantic, Spain 2002
Director:Pedro Almod?var
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Javier C?mara .... Benigno Mart?n
Dar?o Grandinetti .... Marco Zuluaga
Leonor Watling .... Alicia
Rosario… more »
Lilya 4 ever, Sweden, 2002
Lilja 4-ever (buy from Amazon)
Drama, Sweden, 2002
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Actors/Actresses:
Oksana Akinshina .... Lilja
Artyom Bogucharsky .... Volodya
Lyubov Agapova .... Lilja's Mother
Liliya Shinkaryova .... Aunt Anna
Elina Benen… more »
Farinelli
Farinelli (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Italy 1994
Director:G?rard Corbiau
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Stefano Dionisi .... Farinelli/Carlo Broschi
Enrico Lo Verso .... Riccardo Broschi
Elsa Zylberstein .... Alexandra
Story:
Farinelli,… more »
Bad Education (La mala educacion)
Posted by Ryoko
Bad Education (Original Uncut NC-17 Edition) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Spain 2004
Director:Pedro Almodovar
My rating: 5
Key actors/actresses:
Gael Garcia Bernal: Angel/Juan/Zahara
Fele Martinez: Enrique Goded
Javier Camara:… more »
La Fid?lit?
Fidelity (Fidelite) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ] (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, France 2000
Director:Andrzej Zulawski
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Sophie Marceau .... Cl?lia
Pascal Greggory .... Cl?ve
Guillaume Canet .... N… more »
Queen Margot
Queen Margot (La Reine Margot) (buy from Amazon)
ype: Drama, France 1994
Director:Patrice Ch閞eau
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Isabelle Adjani .... Margot
Daniel Auteuil .... Henri of Navarre
Jean-Hugues Anglade .... Charles IX
Vince… more »
The Emperor's Journey
March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition) (buy from Amazon)
Posted by Irene
Type: Documentary, France 2005
Director:Luc Jacquet
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
The Emperor Penguins
Story:
A story of penguins' life in Antarctica from winter t… more »
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Posted by Ryoko
The Fabulous Baker Boys (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, USA 1989
Director:Steven Kloves
My rating: 5
Key actors/actresses:
Jeff Bridges: Jack Baker
Beau Bridges: Frank Baker
Michelle Pfeiffer: Susie Diamond
Jennifer Tilly: Monic… more »
Needing You
Posted by Ryoko
Needing You (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy Romantic, Hong Kong 2000
Director:Johnny To
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Andy Lau: Wah
Sammi Cheng: Kinki
Story:
Wah is a computer programmer and Kinki is a secretary in the same… more »
Swimming Pool
Posted by Ryoko
Swimming Pool (Unrated Version) (buy from Amazon)
Swimming Pool
Type: Suspense, Britian 2003
Director:Francois Ozon
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Charlotte Rampling: Sarah Morton
Ludivine Sagnier: Julie
Charles Dance: John… more »
Iron Ladies(Satree-lex)
Iron Ladies (Sub) (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy, Thailand 2000
Director:Youngyooth Thongkonthun
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Jesdaporn Pholdee .... Chai
Sahaphap Tor .... Mon
Ekachai Buranapanit .... Wit
Giorgio Maiocchi .... Nong
Chaich… more »
Shinobi - Heart under blade 甲賀忍法帖
Shinobi Heart Under Blade (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Japan 2005
Director:Ten Shimoyama
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Yukie Nakama .... Oboro (Iga)
J? Odagiri .... Kouga Gen-no-suke (Kouga) (as Joe Odagiri)
Tomoka Kurotani .... Kagerou (K… more »
Swallow tail Butterfly
Type: Drama Thriller, Japan 1996
Director:Shunji Iwai
My rating: 2
Key actors/actresses:
Hiroshi Mikami .... Feihong Chara .... Glico Ayumi Ito .... Ageha Yosuke Eguchi .... Ryou Ryanki
Story:
This is a story about "Yen Town", the name given to il… more »
Shall We Dance
Shall We Dance? (buy from Amazon)
Type: Comedy Drama, Japan 1996
Director:Masayuki Suo
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Koji Yakusho .... Shohei Sugiyama Tamiyo Kusakari .... Mai Kishikawa Naoto Takenaka .... Tomio Aoki Eriko Watanabe .... Toyoko… more »
Hypnosis (Saimin)
The Hypnotist (buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama Thriller, Japan 1999
Director:Masayuki Ochiai
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Goro Inagaki .... Toshiya, Saga
Miho Kanno .... Yuka, Irie
Takeshi Masu .... Jissoji
Story:
Several incidents resulted… more »
Bayside Shakedown
Type: Comedy Thriller, Japan 1998
Director:Katsuyuki Motohiro
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Yuji Oda .... Shunsaku Aoshima
Toshir?Yanagiba .... Shinji Muroi
Eri Fukatsu .... Sumire Onda
Posted by Dominic
Story:
Aoshima, a police detective… more »
Summer Vacation 1999
Type: Drama, Japan 1988
Director:Shusuke Kaneko
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Eri Fukatsu .... Norio
Eri Miyajima .... Yu/Kaoru
Hiromi Murata
Miyuki Nakano .... Naoto
Tomoko Otakara .... Kazuhiko
Story:
The time setting of the story is th… more »
Love letter 情書
Type: Drama Romantic, Japan 1995
Director:Shunji Iwai 岩井俊二
My rating: 5
Key actors/actresses:
Miho Nakayama 中山美穗
Story:
Hiroko Watanabe's fiance Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain cl… more »
Kamikaze Taxi
Type: Drama Thriller, Japan 1995
Director:Masato Harada
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Koji Yakusho .... Kantake
Kazuya Takahashi .... Tatsuo
Reiko Kataoka .... Tama
Story:
A young gangster in the yakuza whose prostitute girlfriend was kille… more »
I love you, (Ai rabu yu)
Type: Drama, Japan 2000
Director:Yutaka Osawa, Akihiro Yonaiyama
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Akiko Oshidari .... Asako
Minoru Tanaka .... Ryuichi
Ai Okazaki .... Ai
Story:
Unuttered love is all the more melodious. Asako is an ordinary hou… more »
Bounce ko gals
Drama, Japan 1999
Director:Masato Harada
My rating: 3
Key actors/actresses:
Hitomi Sato .... Jonko Yasue
Sato .... Raku Yukiko
Okamoto .... Lisa
Story:
This is a story about 3 school girls who are trying to earn some quick buck by working as cal… more »
Battle Royale
Battle Royale Directors Cut
Type: Drama Thriller, Japan 1998
Director:Kinji Fukasaku
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Tatsuya Fujiwara .... Shuya Nanahara
Story:
In future Japan, the younger generation has lost faith of the government and they… more »
After Life
After Life(buy from Amazon)
Type: Drama, Japan 1998
Director:Hirokazu Koreeda
My rating: 4
Key actors/actresses:
Arata .... Takashi Mochizuki
Erika Oda .... Shiori Satonaka
Susumu Terajima .... Satoru Kawashima
Story:
"What is the most memoria… more »
Leglessbird International Movies Guide
I love watching movies, all sorts of movies, it allows us to stretch our imgination, to live our fantasy. Also, many movies really touch us, move us. It is also a great way to learn something from cultures other than our own. Therefore, I would like to… more »