Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Gênero : Drama, Ação, Crime
Runtime : 1H 33M
Director : Kinji Fukasaku
Escritor : Fumio Kōnami, Hirô Matsuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Sinopse
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Ao descobrir que seu pai está à beira da morte, o professor Miyagi volta para Okinawa, no Japão, junto com seu aprendiz, Daniel LaRusso. Na terra natal, o mestre de caratê é surpreendido com a notícia de que Yukie, seu grande e antigo amor, está solteira.
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Desmond T. Doss, foi o médico do Exército Americano da Segunda Guerra Mundial, que serviu durante a Batalha de Okinawa, se recusando a matar pessoas, tornando-se o primeiro homem da história americana a receber a Medalha de Honra sem disparar um tiro.
Um ano se passa após um brutal assassinato de várias pessoas em uma casa sem que os assassinos sejam encontrados. As consequências deste caso não resolvido, no entanto, impactam e conectam as vidas de diversas outras pessoas diferentes em três cidades japonesas distintas, entrelaçando suas histórias em um ambiente de medo, insegurança e raiva.
As férias de verão estão chegando ao fim. Suguru ganha uma viagem gratuita para Okinawa, e todos os cinco alunos da escola secundária Asahigaoka estão animados para terminar suas férias se divertindo. Junto com Hikage, Konomi sua professora e a dona da loja de doces, todos vão para Okinawa ter uma divertida viagem de três dias. Chegando lá, Natsumi faz amizade com Aoi, a garota que ajuda no hotel que elas ficam.
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
O Major Daniel Kirby (John Wayne) passa a comandar um esquadrão aéreo pouco antes do início da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Encontra pilotos em sua maioria indisciplinados e preguiçosos e ainda tem de enfrentar a resistência do Capitão Carl Griffin (Robert Ryan), melhor aviador do time, sempre pensando primeiro na integridade física dos colegas e despreparado para arcar com os complexos conflitos que um combate gera. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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.
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
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.
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was returned to Japan in 1972.
Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the impact that these have on local populations, and the military-industrial complex that lies behind it.
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.
Quando a sua pistola é roubada, o detetive Murakami é humilhado, especialmente quando a sua arma é mais tarde implicada em um crime. Trabalhando com o seu superior, o detetive-chefe Sato, Murakami trabalha febrilmente para rastrear e localizar a sua pistola, em última instância entrando em confronto com uma gangue de jovens okinawanos.
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?