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Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1998)

Friday, November 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Hikaru Midorikawa | Akiko Yajima | Toshihiko Seki | Shigeru Nakahara | Ai Orikasa | Ryûzô Ishino | Rei Sakuma
Directors: Yasunao Aoki
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The year is AC 196. A year has past since the Gundam pilots fought for peace between the colonies and Earth. Now a new threat has arisen and threatens to take over the Earth. The result: Relena is kidnapped by Trieze’s daughter and the Gundam pilots must fight for peace…one last time. The Endless Waltz has begun.

Escaflowne (2000)

Friday, November 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Maaya Sakamoto | Tomokazu Seki | Jôji Nakata | Mayumi Iizuka | Minami Takayama | Kôji Tsujitani | Shinichirô Miki | Ikue Ootani | Trevor Devall | Brian Dobson | Michael Dobson | Paul Dobson | Brian Drummond | Andrew Francis | Nobuyuki Hiyama
Directors: Kazuki Akane
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High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sport
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Tom Selleck | Ken Takakura | Aya Takanashi | Dennis Haysbert | Toshi Shioya | Kosuke Toyohara | Toshizo Fujiwara | Mak Takano | Kenji Morinaga | Joh Nishimura | Norihide Goto | Kensuke Toita | Naoki Fuji | Takanobu Hozumi | Leon Lee
Directors: Fred Schepisi
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A Major Leaguer down on his percentages gets traded to the Chuunichi Dragons , and has trouble adjusting to Japanese customs. He resists what he considers ridiculous and arbitrary rules of the club and belittles the etiquette expected of him as a representative of his team. When he starts seeing the interactions of his coach with the owners of the team, and falls in love with his trainer’s daughter, he begins to rethink his attitude.

The Jackal (1997)

Friday, August 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

Trapped Ashes (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | Japan | USA
Actors: Jayce Bartok | Henry Gibson | Scott Lowell | Dick Miller | John Saxon | Richard Ian Cox | Scott Heindl | Rob deLeeuw | Mina E. Mina | Winston Rekert | Ken Russell | John R. Taylor | Yoshinori Hiruma | Ryo Ishibashi | Yôzaburô Itô
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Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

Silk (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Michael Pitt | Tony Vogel | Toni Bertorelli | Kenneth Welsh | Alfred Molina | Michael Golding | Carlo Cecchi | Marc Fiorini | Leslie Csuth | Toru Tezuka | Hiroya Morita | Akinori Ando | Jun Kunimura | Kanata Hongô | Kôji Yakusho
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Christian Slater | Randy Quaid | Edward Asner | Michael A. Goorjian | Dann Florek | Ricky Harris | Mark Rolston | Peter Murnik | Wayne Duvall | Richard Dysart | Ray Baker | Jay Patterson | Michael Monks | Mackenzie Bryce
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he’s the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff’s leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie’s Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam…

The Super (1991)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Joe Pesci | Vincent Gardenia | Rubén Blades | Kenny Blank | Paul Benjamin | Bhubeshi Bodibe | Abdoulaye NGom | Anthony Heald | Daniel Baltzman | Jack Hallett | Steven Rodriquez | Daryl Robinson | Rynel Johnson | Paul Bates | Daniel Margotta
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Louie is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete. Louie’s father is the real boss, and he has no intention of paying for the repairs. This leaves Louie to live in the squaller his tenants endure all year round.

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Kevin Conroy | Gary Dourdan | David McCallum | Corey Burton | Will Friedle | Brian George | Jason Marsden | Scott Menville | Jim Meskimen | George Newbern | Corey Padnos | Rob Paulsen | Kevin Michael Richardson
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Anime-inspired direct-to-DVD anthology film. Comprised of six short stories, from diverse creators, including Academy Award-nominated Josh Olsen (A History of Violence), Batman Begins writer David S. Goyer, and comics scribe Brian Azzarello. It’s planned for a release window of two to four weeks prior to the release of The Dark Knight, and would bridge the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

Vexille (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Shosuke Tanihara | Tetsuya Kakihara | Toshiyuki Morikawa | Takahiro Sakurai | Akio Ôtsuka
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Japan, 2077: A female agent named Vexille is dispatched to Tokyo to investigate whether Japanese are developing robotic technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind.

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