Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Género : Drama, Acción, Crimen
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 33M
Director : Kinji Fukasaku
Escritor : Fumio Kōnami, Hirô Matsuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Sinopsis
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Daniel y el señor Miyagi viajan a Okinawa, a la pequeña aldea en la que el anciano nació y de la que tuvo que marcharse por un asunto de honor. Su padre está gravemente enfermo y quiere verlo, pero también le espera su antiguo amor de juventud. La llegada del señor MIyagi reabre unas heridas que el tiempo y la distancia parecían haber borrado.
El joven Hasumi vive 2 mundos, por un lado ha montado una web en la que adora junto a otros fans a la cantante pop Lily Chou-Chou, y por otro lado sufre abusos de un grupo de chicos y chicas de su instituto, para quienes la prostitución, la delincuencia y las violaciones ya no son cosas de adultos...
Narra la historia de Desmond Doss, un joven médico militar que participó en la sangrienta batalla de Okinawa, en el Pacífico durante la II Guerra Mundial, y se convirtió en el primer objetor de conciencia en la historia estadounidense en recibir la Medalla de Honor del Congreso. Doss quería servir a su país, pero desde pequeño se había hecho una promesa a sí mismo: no coger jamás ningún arma.
Esta película cuenta una historia sobre un hombre que brutalmente asesina a una pareja casada y deja la palabra "Ikari" ("Anger") escrita con su sangre. El asesino se somete a cirugía plástica y huye. En tres lugares diferentes en Japón, aparece un extraño. La gente sospecha que el extraño podría ser el asesino.
The movie for Non Non Biyori series.
Summer vacation is drawing to an end. When Suguru wins a free trip to Okinawa, all of the five students of Asahigaoka branch school are excited to end their vacation with a bang. Along with Hikage, Konomi, and their teacher and the candy store owner, everyone goes to Okinawa for a fun three-day trip. There, Natsumi makes friends with Aoi, the girl who helps out at the hotel they stay in.
Dos miembros de un equipo de baseball junior se ven mezclados con la yakuza local. Después de que su entrenador sea herido por ellos, los dos chicos se van a Okinawa para hacerse con un arma y vengarse. Allí, los dos jóvenes se hacen amigos de un psicótico yakuza retirado llamado Uehara (Kitano), que tiene una deuda pendiente con la yakuza, por lo que no duda en acompañar a los dos chicos a Tokio y enfrentarse con la mafia japonesa. (FILMAFFINITY)
Hawai, verano de 1942. Los aviones surcando constantemente el cielo contrastan con la placidez de las playas y ponen de manifiesto una trágica realidad: la guerra. Los japoneses dominan las islas hasta Guadalcanal. El mayor Dan Kirby es nombrado comandante del escuadrón de combate VMF-247, noticia que no es muy bien recibida por los soldados, que esperaban el ascenso de Carl Griffin, su capitán. Los caracteres de Kirby y Griffin chocan al principio, aunque el capitán irá descubriendo poco a poco el valor y la entereza de Kirby, sobre todo cuando deban emprender la gran batalla del Pacífico.
Adaptación de una obra de Broadway. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, al capitán Fisby se le encomienda la misión de enseñar los beneficios de la democracia y el comercio en la ciudad de Okinawa.
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Jimmy Tong is an expert blackmailer and thief who specialises in white-collar crimes. With his side-kick, Jimmy steals a personal diary belonging to a Yakuza leader Ken Sato intending to use its details as a platform for blackmailing and to extort money. Sato agreed to the uneasy deal and made preparations to pay Jimmy his exorbitant demands only for Sato's girlfriend Jenny to betray him and make off with the money to Okinawa.
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In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.
In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the fighting is still going strong on a small island in the Pacific. Okinawa was the site of the last battle of the last great war of the 20th century, with a casualty rate in the tens of thousands. Through it all, military cameramen risked their lives to film the conflict, from brutal land combat to fierce kamikaze attacks at sea. See the footage they captured and experience this intense battle the way the soldiers saw it -- in color.
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.
Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?