Kinji Fukasaku

Battle Royale 2

Drei Jahre nach der ersten "Battle Royale" ist der Überlebende Shuya Nanahara ein international bekannter Terrorist, der mit seiner Terrorgruppe "The Wild Seven" allen Erwachsenen den Krieg erklärt hat. Sein Ziel: Die Abschaffung des BR-Gesetzes, das es der Regierung ermöglicht, Kinder und Jugendliche für perverse Spiele um Leben und Tod mediengerecht zu missbrauchen. Die Regierung reagiert mit einem neuen Programm namens "Battle Royale 2" und schickt 42 Schüler, die Nanahara und seine ...

NR

4.937

2003 Action 127 min Spielen

5

Battle Royale II: Requiem

It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They ...

NR

5

2003 Action 155 min Spielen

7.3

Battle Royale

Japan, zu Beginn des neuen Milleniums. In den Schulen ist Brutalität und Gewalt an der Tagesordnung. Die Regierung sieht sich gezwungen, einzugreifen und ein Exempel zu statuieren. Ein Battle Royale-Gesetz soll die randalierenden Schüler wieder zur Raison bringen. Jährlich wird nun eine Schulklasse willkürlich ausgewählt und auf einer verlassenen Insel ausgesetzt. Die Regeln des Spiels sind simpel, aber gnadenlos: Jeder Teenager wird mit ausreichend Proviant sowie einer tödlichen Waffe ...

NR

7.3

2000 Action 122 min Spielen

7.6

The Geisha House

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense ...

NR

7.6

1999 Drama 113 min Spielen

5.8

Legend of the Eight Samurai

The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight ...

NR

5.8

1983 Action 133 min Spielen

7.5

Lovers Lost

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.

NR

7.5

1982 Drama 126 min Spielen

6.3

Samurai Reincarnation

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.

NR

6.3

1981 Action 122 min Spielen

6.3

Virus

Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.

NR

6.3

1980 Adventure 156 min Spielen

7.3

The Shogun’s Samurai

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even ...

NR

7.3

1978 Action 130 min Spielen

6.6

The Fall of Ako Castle

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and ...

NR

6.6

1978 Action 159 min Spielen

6.2

Message from Space

The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.

PG

6.2

1978 Action 105 min Spielen

6.6

Graveyard of Honor

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.

NR

6.6

1975 Action 94 min Spielen

7.1

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

NR

7.1

1974 Action 100 min Spielen

7.6

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

NR

7.6

1973 Action 100 min Spielen

7.5

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

NR

7.5

1973 Action 119 min Spielen

7.5

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...

NR

7.5

1973 Action 99 min Spielen

7.6

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

NR

7.6

1972 Drama 96 min Spielen

7.2

Street Mobster

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

NR

7.2

1972 Action 92 min Spielen

6.9

Sympathy for the Underdog

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

NR

6.9

1971 Action 93 min Spielen

7.1

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

G

7.1

1970 Drama 144 min Spielen

6.1

Blackmail Is My Life

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.

NR

6.1

1968 Crime 90 min Spielen

5

The Green Slime

A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

G

5

1968 Drama 90 min Spielen

5

Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley

The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.

NR

5

1961 Action 62 min Spielen