If you want to read my review of Bad Lands, read this post. In バッド・ランズ, a couple of swindling brothers get a lot of money. The problem will be keeping it and staying alive.
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City Hunter
If you want to read my review of City Hunter, read this post. In シティーハンター, Ryo Saeba is a sweeper, a person hired to do all kinds of work, such as investigations, bodyguards and murders.
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If you want to read my review of Godzilla Minus One, read this post. In ゴジラ-1.0マイナスワン, in the final days of World War II, a group of veterans have to face the king of monsters, Godzilla.
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If you want to read my review of Hard Days, read this post. In 最後まで行く, a police officer has the worst day of his life. Accidentally, he runs over, kills and hides the body of a powerful drug dealer, gets involved in bribery and has his mother on her deathbed.
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If you want to read my review of Samurai X – The Beginning, read this post. In るろうに剣心 最終章, the deadliest swordsman of all time joins the Emperor’s factions in order to end the military dictatorship established by the Shoguns of Japan.
Continue reading “Samurai X – The Beginning”Last Winter, We Parted
If you want to read my review of Last Winter, We Parted, read this post. In 去年の冬、君と別れ, Kyosuke Yakumo is a freelance writer and risks his life to prove that a renowned photographer let one of his models die in a fire just to take morbid photos.
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If you want to read my review of After the Rain, read this post. In 恋は雨上がりのように, Akira Tachibana is a former youth athlete who has fallen in love with her work manager, Masami Kondo, a divorced man who is old enough to be her father.
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If you want to read my review of Gantz, read this post. In ガンツ, two friends save a man on the subway tracks. But, they were killed by the train. Then, a mysterious orb tells them that to be resurrected, they will have to kill.
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Recently, I’ve been falling asleep listening to music quite often, and last night I fell asleep listening to Bonnie Pink, the composer of Last Kiss, one of my favorite Japanese songs.
I met her thanks to the Gantz anime, one of the most popular of my generation, and after seeing her singing and dancing on the Thinking Out Loud tour, I fell in love.
Wherever I go in Japan I’m always getting references to Japanese movies. I think there is no greater reference than the Shibuya crossing.
So many cool productions were made here. For example, Alice in Borderland with Tao Tsuchiya and Kento Yamazaki, one of the great recent hits on Netflix.
And it was also here that Han “didn’t die” for the third time in that car chase in Fast and Furious – Tokyo Drift.