Mr. Baseball (1992)
He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 1H 48M
Director : Fred Schepisi
Escritor : Gary Ross, Kevin Wade, Monte Merrick
Sinopse
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
O filme relata a história de dois irmãos, Seita e Setsuko, no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial no Japão. O pai deles é convocado a defender o país na guerra, pois faz parte da marinha japonesa, e a mãe falece em um bombardeio de aviões norte-americanos. A partir daí, o filme mostra a luta pela sobrevivência das duas crianças, em meio à pobreza e miséria que assola o país. Fome, doenças e a falta de generosidade e sensibilidade dos adultos faz deste percurso um dos filmes mais bonitos e comoventes sobre o trágico quadro gerado pela guerra.
No primeiro filme da série, baseada no mangá de Ito Junji, uma jovem traumatizada tenta recuperar suas memórias com a ajuda de uma psiquiatra. Durante as sessões de hipnose, ela repete o nome "Tomie", mas não consegue se lembrar de onde o conhece. Enquanto isso, um detetive da polícia está investigando uma série de assassinatos brutais, em que também o nome "Tomie" está envolvido.
Logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o capitão Fisby é enviado ao vilarejo Tobiki em Okinawa, interior do Japão, para ensinar democracia à população. O primeiro passo seria construir uma escola, mas os alunos, depois de explicar ao mestre suas tradições, tentam persuadi-lo a construir o que mais interessa a eles: uma casa de chá.
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
Por um tempo, as coisas têm sido pacíficas na Terra. Muito abaixo do solo, o reino de Seatopia envia o besouro gigante Megalon e o monstro Gigan para destruir os habitantes da superfície. Um robô que muda de tamanho chamado Jet Jaguar pede a ajuda de Godzilla em uma tentativa de salvar a Terra da destruição completa.
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Twin brothers, Tatsuya and Kazuya, grew up with their next door neighbor Minami like siblings. Minami's dream is that her school's baseball team will participate in the national Koshien High School Baseball Tournament. The twin brothers make a pact that they will take Minami to the tournament.
An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.
Uma prostitua é humilhada por um alto oficial do exército japonês. Ela resolve se vingar se relacionando com seu assistente, para manchar a honra do superior hierárquico.
Este é um filme dividido em duas partes.
A primeira parte foi lançada originalmente no Japão antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor. O filme foi adaptado a partir da peça de Seika Mayama. A película desenvolve a crônicas do final da vida dos 47 Ronin, que tornaram-se (baseado historicamente) uma lenda na história japonesa.
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones. Replete with film noir style, "Underworld Beauty" is one of Suzuki's best nods to the American gangster genre.
A história de Billy Beane, Director-Geral da equipa norte-americana de basebol Oakland Athletics, e da sua bem sucedida tentativa de reunir uma equipa de basebol com um orçamento diminuto, através da utilização da análise computorizada para contratar os jogadores.
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
