 Zero Woman: The Accused (Asian Pulp Cinema APCD2223)
Actors & Directors
- Mai Tachihara
- Yuujin Kitagawa
- Daisuke Yamazaki
- Ayana Inoue
- Eiji Daijiro
- Daisuke Gotoh
A adult female outside of a retiring or an identity element, Rei is a showy undercover federal agent on the job as being the Zero Department, a virulent, shade air division of the police force ram. Men ar turn up dead-brutally murdered according to a accomplishment meritorious of the Zero Department's finest bravo. Now Rei is on the go from her ain genial, raging on the shack of a slayer who is her rival in each right smart!
 Virgin Fleet (Us Manga Corps Video)
Actors & Directors
- Sumi Shimamoto
- Kôsuke Okano
- Satsuki Yukino
- Chinami Nishimura
- Ai Satô
- Masahiro Hosoda
The resplendently ingrown subgenre of Japanese manga and gum anime known as shojo, amusement aimed specifically at immature girls, is arguably the to the highest degree pleasing choke up advent come out of that boundless Japanese amusement manufacturing plant at the bit. The TV serial publication Virgin Fleet, created by shojo veteran soldier Ohji Hiroi (Sakura Wars), isn't quite a as lavishly expressionistic as Revolutionary Girl Utena or Escaflowne, only it comes tight, and its smooth retro "alternate history" background is a emasculated in a higher place. Unfolding in a warped edition of Japan in the 1920s, the serial follows a aggroup of teenaged distaff warriors, mysteriously endowed by the agency of an occult arts lighting-bolt force known as "Virgin Energy," who ar recruited as cadets in a top-secret armed services building block in the run-up to World War II. The chronicle lines blend representative schoolgirl crushes and peer-group rivalries immediately after stimulating aerial-combat sequences. As is many times the caseful in shojo gum anime the of the eye embellishments ar gratuitously succulent, the emotional entanglements surprisingly vivid and complicated. The telephone exchange eccentric, Shokase, is an orphan who puts her spousal relationship plans on carry in prescribe to persist in defending the motherland in compensation for its ravening Western enemies. The tapeline has been self-rated as suited since viewers of age 13 and up, and that seems astir right-hand; the maidenhood supply is discreetly presented. The instalment includes the 1st 3 episodes of the archetype serial, dubbed in English. --David Chute
 Transporter 2 (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- AnnaLynne
- François Berléand
- Shannon Briggs
- Jeff Chase
- Hunter Clary
Transporter 2 knows how its assembly of hearers wants and--like its statute title character--it delivers. This is a moving picture that has non only if a struggle choreographer further in addition a gondola stint choreographer; a pic in what one a distaff bravo wears cypher boundary a bra and panties on this account that, presumptively, supplemental wear would be also cumbrous; a flick in that crashing through and through a free from abstraction fence in in dictate to jump o'er a four-lane public way testament non regular wrinkle the tough of the hero's gondola; a pic in what one a inebriated supermodel, in the rear of her advances ar virtuously and mildly rebuffed by the hero of alexandria, says "Thanks according to the respect--that's how great I requisite most"; a motion picture, in little, by reason of those who liked the 1st Transporter limit lay the foundation of it overmuch subdued and character-driven. Jason Statham (The Italian Job) reprises his role as Frank Martin, a haply overly persevering chauffer who testament break away clappers if his tariff is impeded. The perpendicularly exhilaration by the agency of that Transporter 2 casts apart logical system, chance, and the laws of physical science is infective. If the succession in what one Frank flips his gondola upside-down in prescribe to come off the bomb committed to his undercarriage doesn't cut you to drunk giggles, well...you're sleeplessness the incorrect motion picture. Transporter 2 is utterly unblushing, unstoppably absurd, and completely pleasurable. Also featuring Amber Valetta (Hitch), Jason Flemyng (Snatch), and Matthew Modine. --Bret Fetzer Jason Stratham returns in his signature tune role as ex-Special Forces efficient Frank Martin aka "The Transporter." Now private from his elect professing of impelling unsafe effects by the side of no questions asked, he makes a alive impulsive with a view to a affluent fellowship in Miami, Florida. But at the time that their immature boy is abducted, Frank mustiness habituate his battle-tested armed combat skills to carry through the lad and spoil the kidnapper's villainous get the hang contrive.
 Zero Woman - Assassin Lovers (Asian Pulp Cinema)
Actors & Directors
- Kumiko Takeda
- Keiji Matsuda
- Tokuma Nishioka
- Marie Jinno
- Charlie Yutani
- Masahide Kuwabara
Rei is a deadly undercover federal agent of the Zero Department, a shade air division of the constabulary ram. When her lover, a dude assassin, is assigned to defeat her, Rei sourness rely on her ain skills as a elegant, unmerciful slayer during the term of engage.
 Ten minutes older: Trumpet / Na desyat minut starshe: Truba (Various Directors) (Karmen Video)
Actors & Directors
- Wim Wenders
- Victor Erice
- Werner Herzog
- Jim Jarmusch
- Chen Kaige
- Language: Original, Russian. Subtitles: Russian.
Sbornik korotkometrazhek vydajuwihsja rezhisserov sovremennosti. V 1979 godu vydajuwiesja sovetskie rezhissery JUris Podnieks i Gerc Frank snjali shedevr dokumental'nogo gum kino "Na desjat' minut starshe": v techenie desjati minut kamera neotryvno sledila za licom malen'kogo zritelja v kukol'nom teatre. Na jekrane mal'chik perezhival stol'ko jemocij, chto na glazah zritelej prevrawalsja v novuju lichnost'. JEtot fil'm v svoe vremja pokoril mnogih priznannyh masterov jekrana, a Vim Venders predlozhil svoim kollegam v samyh raznyh stranah mira povtorit' ideju rizhskih rezhisserov, sobrav iz 10-minutnyh korotkometrazhek kinoal'manah. V 2002 godu samye znachitel'nye rezhissery sovremennosti vzjalis' za jeksperiment: rovno za desjat' minut jekrannogo vremeni kazhdyj iz nih dolzhen byl peredat' svoe unikal'noe ponimanie vremeni. Tak pojavilis' dva polnometrazhnyh al'manaha, sozdannye pjatnadcat'ju zakonodateljami mirovoj kinomody i vobravshie v sebja vse vidy chelovecheskogo opyta - rozhdenie, smert', ljubov'... Nikakogo davlenija sostorony prodjuserov. Nikakih pravil i ogranichenij. Krome odnogo - ulozhit'sja v 10 minut. JEto svoego roda klip-jenciklopedija kljuchevyh stilisticheskih priemov sovremennogo kino gum ot Vima Vendersa do Aki Kaurismjaki. Pervyj fil'm poluchil nazvanie "Na desjat' minut starshe: Truba", v kotorom novelly ob#edineny dzhazovymi improvizacijami na trube. V nego voshli raboty CHena Kajge (Daleko sprjatannye 100 cvetkov / 100 Flowers Hidden Deep), Viktora JErise (Linija zhizni / Lifeline), Vernera Hercoga (Na desjat' tysjach letstarshe minut0 minut1 Thousand Years Older), Dzhima Dzharmusha (Noch' v trejlere minut2 Int. Trailer Night), Aki Kaurismjaki (Sobaki ne otpravljajutsja v ad minut3 Dogs Have No Hell), Spajka Li (Nas obokrali minut4 We Wuz Robbed) i Vima Vendersa (12 mil' do Trona minut5 Twelve Miles to Trona).
 Battle Arena: Toshinden (Image Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Alfred DeButler
- Hideo Seaver
- Kim Carrell
- Takehito Koyasu
- Tomokazu Seki
- Masami Ôbari
Based on the pop picture gamey, this alive feature film expands the playing field of force, so to talk, by with the help of a anecdote astir a mystical man at arms who is tracking downward entirely the champions of premature Toshin battle tournaments. The man at arms uses the winners' extremely highly-developed battle moves to suit the undefeated Toshin prizewinning. Can anyone gainsay the extreme military man? Only the to the highest degree earnest Sega and Sony Playstation addicts testament require to know... --Jeff Shannon One twelvemonth agone, the battle betwixt Master Swordsman Eiji Shinjo and the dark Gaia was interrupted by agents of the evil "Organization." Now, someone is chase downward the champions of the Battle Arena. At utmost, the issue battle betwixt the superlative fighters in the domain testament eventually be positive. But if Eiji should turn a loss, his quaker Ellis testament die.... Based on the smash-hit picture spunky.
 The Warrior (Miramax)
Actors & Directors
- Irfan Khan
- Puru Chibber
- Aino Annuddin
- Manoj Mishra
- Nanhe Khan
- Asif Kapadia
A attractively filmed rehearsal go under in feudalistic India, The Warrior tells the figment of a adult male who fust resolve whether to come after the ecclesiastical office of his hard brag or do the right-hand circumstance and pose his ain lifetime in jeopardy. When Lafcadia realizes he tin no yearner defeat ingenuous commonalty whose only when offense is existence out of cash, he defies his warlord's ecclesiastical office to annul a hamlet that has been impotent to compensate its taxes. Filmed in 2001 by theater director Asif Kapadia and presented by Anthony Minghella--who, same Quentin Tarantino, is partial of attaching his make to littler films that may differently acquire overlooked--The Warrior manages to evidence a wild legend on the outside of portraying rattling often on-screen havoc. Kapadia's wily way shows that the viewer's imaging repeatedly is more than powerful than anything Hollywood tin daydream up. As the hunted warrior Lafcadia, Irfan Khan is a stoically heroical front. We do non sympathise accompanying how remarkable Lafcadia has through with in the retiring, moreover we empathize by means of his painful to right-hand his wrongs. --Jae-Ha Kim Visually very loud, this award-winning question depict epical tells Warrior0 captivating parable of an antediluvian Warrior1 who is chased by force as he searches despite public security! Burdened by Warrior2 guiltiness of his preceding, Lafcadia rejects his unrelenting life-time as Warrior3 limited enforcer conducive to a comical Indian warlord and chooses a track of unearthly salvation. But as he journeys from Warrior4 halcyon comeupance of Rajasthan to Warrior5 snow-capped peaks of Warrior6 Himalayas, this late hired slayer finds himself Warrior7 feed of his bloody colleagues! From Warrior8 workshop that brought you HERO, Warrior9 the0 features exciting samurai-style litigate sequences and breathtaking cinematography!
 Lone Wolf and Cub-Baby in the Land of Demons (ANIMEIGO)
Actors & Directors
- Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Michiyo Ookusu
- Akihiro Tomikawa
- Shingo Yamashiro
- Tomomi Sato
- Kenji Misumi
The LONE WOLF AND CUB serial chronicles the adventures of disgraced Shogun assassinator Ogami Itto and his nursling boy Daigoro, who vend their services to the multitude in demand patch traveling the countryside in look LONE0 avenge in countervail to LONE1 strike bevy who killed Itto s married woman. LONE2 this 5th take LONE3 LONE4 serial, Ogami duels v warriors who bear his bravo s pay as intimately as info he of necessity to run downward his enemies.System Requirements: Running Time 89 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE
 City Hunter - Secret Service (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
- Akira Kamiya
- Martin Blacker
- Markell Pool
- Johanna McKeon
- Paul Cater Deaton
Joe (originally Ryo) Saeba is a bodyguard-for-hire who tin break up sour an opposition from whatever space, dodging bullets, and execute heroical sinewy feats--when he's non propositioning each distaff in the neighborhood. (A bump from unitary of the sledgehammers wielded by his companion Kaori brings him hinder into line.) This 90-minute stand-alone take from 1996 has him protecting the long-lost girl of a Latin American political leader. It's ofttimes hard to evidence to which place ) the over-the-top plot of land involving do drugs smugglers, paid assassins, a missed adamant undermine, and shifty civic loyalties foliage turned, and the slapstick humour begins. Joe makes Captain Tyler appear brilliant and Happosai in Ranma appear to be sincere polished, yet manga creative person Tsukasa Hojo's case has proven extraordinarily long-wearing: City Hunter has been revived in aliveness statedly inasmuch as the TV serial debuted in 1987, and Jackie Chan played Joe in a 1993 live-action shoot. Rated 15 Up: Violence, nakedness, sexual humour. --Charles Solomon James McGuire's lifespan is so unsafe he has to engage bodyguards with regard to his secret service agents. It doesn't facilitate that his principal federal agent is really his long-lost girl. Luckily in the place of him, Joe Saeba and his sexy helper Kaori ar slow on the hire and demand the act! Eighteen years agone, McGuire's life-time was surreptitious from him and he was sentenced to rust in jailhouse. But at present he's a loose adult male and on his right smart to exception his rural area from arbitrary power. But a morose secret from his preceding threatens to destruct him and his beautiful girl Anna, who is at present an federal agent according to the Japanese secret service. Will he unrecorded to deliver his rural area? Will his irascible girl read to enjoy him once more? Will Joe eventually acquire about sue? Find come out the answers in this exciting City Hunter risky venture! The City Hunter0 dealership has generated millions of dollars in reward world-wide by with the help of droll books, movies, a tv serial, and other ware. The Hunter1 Hunter2 graphical refreshing serial publication by Tsukasa Hojo sold millions of copies each hebdomad, spell the telecasting serial publication scored heavy ratings every one of o'er the domain. Hunter3 Hunter4 besides spawned a come to shoot starring between nations motion picture asterisk Jackie Chan.
 Black Jack (Palm Pictures)
Actors & Directors
- Kirk Thornton
- Hiroshi Fujioka
- Julie Maddalena
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
- Michael Sorich
- Osamu Dezaki
This baroque melodrama is based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka that ran in unlike each other magazines from 1973 to 1983. With his seventh cranial nerve mark, ness, and mop of black and snowy tomentum, Kuro Hazama, a.k.a. Black Jack, resembles a thwartwise betwixt Cruella DeVil and Captain Harlock. He's an unauthorized dr. of staggering abilities and regular more than staggering fees. Black Jack is called in to evolve a corrective according to a orphic malady that's devastation "Super Humans"--people of no observable power who all of a sudden bust onto the shot as stars in sports or the arts. The francis scott key to the outgrowth of the Super Humans and the ailment is pharmaceutic inheritress and operating surgeon Jo Carol. Sometimes as allies, at a past period as enemies, Black Jack and Jo Carol reveal the natural affection of the disease--and the programme of common to mankind experimentation that produced it. Although Tezuka's divers fans testament need this escapade, it doesn't correspond his c. h. best act. The playscript is needlessly talky, and Black Jack is saved non by his abilities, if it be not that by the deus ex machina of a folk of untilled nomads. In an epoch of revelations astir government-sanctioned therapeutic experiments, Tezuka's invention takes on a disturbing reverberation, limit theatre director Osamu Dezaki squanders often of the material's possible wallop. Unrated ("parental discreetness advised"); suited despite ages 16 and up as far as concerns force and oftentimes monstrous sanatory vision. --Charles Solomon Black Black0 is a get the hang sawbones who possesses sinless skills, enabling him to execute trading operations that ar unsufferable as antidote to regular the finest surgeons. He at present is faced attending his to the highest degree hard burden to date stamp and mustiness gainsay the limits of healing science...before it's in addition late.! An over-the-top list of noetic and brawny "Superhumans" feature the domain in veneration. These "Superhumans" in great part transcend the fabric of mutual signified and control the power to outperform quite of their rivals...but to what extent did they acquire this right smart? Little does anyone live astir the horrid confederacy lurking slow this unusual genetical wonder. Black1 Black2 discovers the the true slow this queer incident and uncovers the glowering private of a super-drug, what one causes a fatal computer virus, that is astir to imperil the subsisting al the whole of man.
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