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When Joji Hibiki’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) father is dying he tells his son of a deep dark secret that sends Joji reeling into another time, to his childhood. His father tells him that he is not his father and that Joji’s is not his son. He learns that his real name is Joji HINOHARA and that he was a child who he kidnapped, one of two twin brothers and a sister now blind still living in Japan. Soon Joji is in flight to Japan his homeland from America, but not before learning of the chilling fate his real parents suffered one night under mysterious circumstances. He also learns of his twin brothers recent and supposedly random death. Read More »
Shin’ichi Chiba
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Norifumi Suzuki – Hoero tekken AKA Roaring Fire (1982) (HD)
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Kinji Fukasaku – Fûraibô tantei: Misaki o wataru kuroi kaze AKA Drifting Detective: Black Wind in The Harbor (1961)
Kinji Fukasaku1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanSonny Chiba returns as Goro Saionji, a private detective fighting against drug smuggling gang at a fishing village.Read More »
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Jun’ya Satô – Shinkansen daibakuha AKA The Bullet Train (1975)
1971-1980ActionJapanJun'ya SatôThrillerKen Takakura stars as a mad bomber who plants a device on a high-speed Japanese train, programmed to detonate if the train’s speed drops below 80 kilometres per hour. The trains conductor (Sonny Chiba) must keep the train moving whilst the police track the madman down.
Most well-known for inspiring the 1994 Hollywood blockbuster Speed, The Bullet Train is a remarkably tense thriller from director Junya Satō.Read More »
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Kinji Fukasaku – Funky Hat no kaidanji: Nisenman-en no ude aka Hepcat in the Funky Hat: The Case of the 2,000,000 Yen Arm (1961)
Kinji Fukasaku1961-1970AsianFilm NoirJapanShinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues. Meanwhile, the body of an orthopedist is discovered in the river. Two cases come into play and are finally connected into one case. A sequel created by Director Kinji Fukasaku and Superstar Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, chock full of action and refreshing laughter that will satisfy any audience!Read More »
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Kinji Fukasaku – Funky Hat no kaidanji AKA Hepcat In The Funky Hat (1961)
1961-1970ActionComedyJapanKinji FukasakuIchiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends get themselves involved in some shady business dealings involving a kidnapping.Read More »
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Wai-Keung Lau – Fung wan: Hung ba tin ha AKA The Storm Riders (1998)
1991-2000ActionAdventureHong KhaouWai-Keung LauThe Storm Riders is a 1998 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy film based on the manhua series Fung Wan by artist Ma Wing-shing. Directed by Andrew Lau, it starred Ekin Cheng as Wind and Aaron Kwok as Cloud. The plot involves two children, Whispering Wind and Striding Cloud, who become powerful warriors under the evil Lord Conqueror’s tutelage. The sequel to the film, titled The Storm Warriors and directed by the Pang brothers, was released in 2009.Read More »
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kamikaze yarô AKA Kamikaze Man: Duel At Noon (1966)
1961-1970ActionAsianJapanKinji FukasakuAn elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
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Sonny Chiba and Kinji Fukasaku head to Taiwan in this international action thriller influenced by spy films and Hitchcock movies. Chiba is a playboy pilot who is mistaken for someone who he isn’t after witnessing a murder in ski centre. The other witness is a Taiwanese lady who is vacationing in Japan. Chiba agrees to fly her back home, but as soon as they land they run into gangsters who are searching for a lost WWII treasure and believe Chiba is the key to finding it.Read More » -
Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Hiroshima shito hen AKA The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima AKA Hiroshima Death Match (1973)
1971-1980CrimeJapanKinji FukasakuThrillerSynopsis:
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji, who went on to star as Rhett Butler in the Tokyo stage version of Gone with the Wind), finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka’s niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba) draws our series’ hero, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), into a new round of bloodshed, culminating with the tragic demise of the young Yamanka.Read More » -
Sadao Nakajima – Nihon ansatsu hiroku AKA Memoirs of Japanese Assassins (1969)
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This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. Among them are the Sakurada Gate Incident that occurred in 1860 (Assassination of Ii Naosuke) and the February 26th Incident of 1936, when a group of Japanese Army troops attempted a coup d’état. The vignettes are all played out in ultra-violent form by a large number of Japan’s major stars, including Wakayama Tomisaburo, Sugawara Bunta, Tsuruta Koji, Takakura Ken, Chiba Shinichi, and Kataoka Chiezo. Read More »
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