Crime

Plot: When the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department is confronted by a series of mysterious kidnappings of the teenage children of some various wealthy and powerful businessmen, they call upon the services of a vary unique crime fighting taskforce. While officially referred to simply as “PG” (The Private Government), they call themselves the “Playgirl”. Lead by former L.A.P.D. policewoman Sagara Haruka, the team is comprised of a bevy of sexy and beautiful undercover agents, each specializing in various skills. Kaoru is the statuesque and leggy beauty who is a master of disguise; Yumiko is the tough as nails, CSI technician and computer whiz; Natsumi is the lethal yet stunning and hip ko-gal and Aya is the motorcycle riding young rookie.Read More »

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After being run down by a car, a man asks a passer-by for a last kiss before dying. The other man, full of pity for him, obliges his wish. Soon it becomes the talk of the town, and perverted society starts implying that the two men were lovers, affecting his life and his marriage.Read More »

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.Read More »

Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.Read More »

Suspense and romance meet in this film. A nightclub is the scene of a murder. The club’s hostess and her American boyfriend find the killer.Read More »

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Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.Read More »

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Yakuza in Yokohama. Shinkokai executive Kenji Shimada met Asako seven years ago when the group was just starting out. Kenji was a thug in the Kohoku group, but the group suddenly disbanded. Ninomiya, an executive, moved to the Kanto Rengo, and fellow executive Kusuhara took Kenji and Hideo with him to the Shinkokai. One day, Kenji forcefully raped Asako, a hostess at a pink salon, but fell in love with her angel-like kindness. Kenji and Hideo start playing catch bar “Kuroneko”, but Asako gets caught by the detective. Asako, who returned to “Kuroneko”, was defrauded of 200,000 yen by Yoko, her fellow pinsaro, and she was beaten by Kenji. Read More »

Synopsis:
White-collar crime from the perspective of the public prosecutor’s office. The unemployed civil engineer Kaiser (Martin Lüttge) becomes the managing director of the construction company “Zielbau GmbH”. Bankruptcy is foreseeable because the only client, Siegmann (Alexander Radszun), has negotiated a construction price that is far too low. After the bankruptcy, the subcontractors cannot be paid, apparently planned by Siegmann, and Siegmann owns the apartment block. Prosecutor König (Hark Bohm) wants to prove that Siegmann is guilty of fraud. But evidence must not be obtained by illegal means.Read More »

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An adaptation of Fiodor’s Dostoievsky novel Crime and Punishment set in the XX Century Mexico. Ramón Bernal is a poor student in Mexico City that has abandoned his career when he receives a letter informing him that his sister will marry a rich man. Thinking she will marry for money instead of love and feeling guilty about this he murders an old usurer to steal her money. With feelings of guilt he gets severely ill while his friend and family don’t suspect he got anything to do with the murder, but as the murder investigation moves along inspector Porfirio Marín suspects about the student. Ramón also meets Sonia, a prostitute, and fells in love with her, the girl will teach her about regret and atonement.Read More »