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CIA Agent Betty Lee is thrust into a quagmire of family rivalry, assassination, betrayal and revenge as she fights to stop Charles Wong, the Chinese boss of the most powerful crime family in the Philippines, from flooding the United States with counterfeit one-hundred dollar bills.

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Several months after “Crows: Episode 0″ trouble brews again when thugs known as “The Army of Killers” from rival high school Hosen Academy threaten Suzuran High aka the School of Crows.

The ruthless Hosen gang go after Suzuran alumni Sho Kawanishi (Shinnosuke Abe) after his released from reformatory for killing a Hosen member two years back. Kawanishi turns to his younger Suzuran gang members for protection. The Housen gang then seeks out right revenge on the entire Suzuran school, while in-fighting at Suzuran High makes them even more susceptible to the Housen threat. – imdb

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At Suzuran High, hallways are battle zones, bloody brawls are everyday occurrences, and student life is dominated by the political winds of the school’s many factions. Genji didn’t end up here by accident though. He’s here to do what even his yakuza father (Kishitani Goro) couldn’t accomplish years before – rule the school. Already stirring up a storm on the first day, Genji is determined to fight his way up the pecking order and unite the gangs. But not if alpha crow Serizawa Tamao (Yamada Takayuki) has anything to say about it – imdb

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On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base’s general that Saya learns of her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection… – imdb

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A close-knit trio of dashing art thieves (Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung) undertake one last lucrative job before their planned retirement, only to be torn apart when the heist goes awry as the result of a double-cross from their criminal mentor. Once reunited, the team resolves to get revenge. ONCE A THIEF showcases a more comical side of Woo, who packs his script with screwball double-entendres that translate shakily from Cantonese but retains his facility for deft action photography and his thematic interest in friends trying to remain loyal in a world full of betrayal. Also features Woo’s trademark gratuitous tearjerking montages set to sappy Cantopop ballads. – imdb

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Having knocked out judges at this year’s Cannes, winning the Grand Prix Du Jury prize and championed by Tarantino, Park Chan-Wook’s startling OLD BOY comes out on DVD in a fantastic DTS Special Edition. Unsettling but ingenious and darkly comic, it’s a revenge movie wrapped in a mystery that twists the nerves at every scene. Following a drunken spree, a businessman is arrested and imprisoned for 15 years, not knowing his crime or who his captors are. Suddenly, he’s released and given three days to discover why he was shut away and who was responsible. A critical and box-office hit. - imdb

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Director Shunji Iwai follows up on the wild success of his star-crossed romantic drama Love Letter with this slick, brooding tale about a trio of mental asylum inmates and one really long wall. Koko (played by pop icon Chara) is placed into an institution after she embarrasses her rich family by killing crows. Sporting a skimpy black dress and a crow’s feather boa, she believes that the world was created when she was born and will end when she dies. At the institution, she befriends Tsumuji (Tadanobu Asano), a lad who killed his bullying teacher in a fit of rage and is now haunted by his ghost. After reading a Bible that a priest had given him, Tsumuji becomes convinced that the world is coming to an end. His friend Satoru (Koichi Hashizume) is a quiet retiring sort who is obsessed with rules and who compulsively masturbates. One day, this strange threesome decides to leave the asylum and have a picnic before the world’s eminent end. Sensitive to Satoru’s neuroses, the trio doesn’t hop the hospital walls, but instead walks on top of them. Fortunately, this wall happens to be the longest such edifice this side of China, as it extends to the sea. There, their own personal apocalypse unfolds. – imdb

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A reckless youngster, Eun-Soo, drives to his mother’s place, and has a car accident. When Eun-Soo wakes up, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale-like house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-Soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Soon he learns all the adults who visited or stayed in the house have met mysterious yet terrible ends. More shockingly, their cruel deaths are drawn in details and made into a fairytale book by the children. Scared, Eun-Soo tries to find the way out, but the house is secluded in the forest with no way out. Thereafter, Eun-Soo discovers a book which tells a brutal end of none other than himself! – imdb

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At a certain house, a son brutally and methodically murders all five of his family members after failing the bar exam. He then hangs himself, leaving behind a cassette recorder at the scene on which he can be heard saying, “Go… Go now.” in unison with a strange female voice. That voice belongs to a victim of the family massacre, the elementary school best friend of teenager Akane (Minami). When the two were young they wore yellow hats and red satchels to school. Akane, who has a strong sense of the supernatural, soon begins seeing visions of a female ghost wearing a yellow hat and red satchel. – imdb

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We’re just a few months away from 2010, the centenary of the birth of one of Japan’s master filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa. Quite a few special events and released are already in the works to commemorate the occasion including the production of Kurosawa’s last script, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” and a rumored 25 film DVD box set from the folks at the Criterion Collection. Now word comes of a a very impressive panel discussion being held at the very same festival at which Kurosawa’s 1950 film “Rashomon” made history by “introducing the world to Japanese film”.

On September 6th The 66th Annual Venice Film Festival will be holding a roundtable discussion moderated by film historian Peter Cowie and titled “Akira Kurosawa: a Century of Cinema”. Kurosawa experts and colleagues script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, author and film historian Donald Richie, French critic Michel Ciment, Time Magazine film critic Richard Corliss, and Italian film scholar Aldo Tassone will discuss the influence that politics, literature and filmmaking contemporaries like Ozu and Mizoguchi had on Kurosawa’s work as well as the influence that that work had on cinema and the arts around the globe.

As I said, it’s only fitting that this summation of Kurosawa’s filmography is taking place at the Venice Film Festival seeing that it was in 1951 that the fest’s jury honoured “Rashomon” the Golden Lion, the first time a Japanese film won this highly coveted award, and a feat that wouldn’t be repeated until 1997 when Takeshi Kitano was honoured in the same way for his film “Hana-bi (Fireworks)”. So if you’re lucky enough to be in Venice this year make sure to check out “Akira Kurosawa: a Century of Cinema” at the Sala Pasinetti (Palazzo del Cinema) on September 6th at 3:00PM.

fonte: J-Film Pow Wow

O site oficial da adaptação para filme live action da manga Kyō kara Hitman de Hiroshi Mutō colocou online um trailer promocional.

Shinji Takeda (Cromartie High – The Movie’s Mechazawa) representa o papel de um simples trabalhador que é obrigado a substituir uma legendário assassino. O filme vai estrear este Outono.

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