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  • Death Note (Live-Action) (The Best Japanese Movie)

    Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto<sup><font>?</font></sup>) is a series of Japanese films, adapted from the Death Note manga series, released in 2006. The films primarily center around a university student who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. The two films were directed by Shūsuke Kaneko, produced by Nippon Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan. A spin-off film is currently in pre-production.

    Light Yagami is a brilliant, but despairing of social, university student who resents the crime and corruption in the world. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", lying on the ground. The Death Note's instructions claim that, if a human's name is written within it, that person shall die. Light is initially skeptical of the Death Note's authenticity, believing it is just a prank. However, after experimenting with it and killing two criminals, Light is forced to admit that the Death Note is real. After meeting with the previous owner of the Death Note, a Shinigami named Ryuk, Light seeks to become "the God of the new world" by passing his judgment on criminals.

    Soon, the number of inexplicable deaths of reported criminals catches the attention of the International Police Organization and a mysterious detective known only as "L". L quickly learns that the serial killer, dubbed by the public as "Kira" (derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "Killer"Wink, is located in Japan. L also concludes that Kira can kill people without laying a finger on them. Light realizes that L will be his greatest nemesis, and a race to prove mental superiority between the two begins.



  • Sky of Love (The Best Japanese Movie)

    AKA
    恋空
    Koizora

    Summary
    Uploaded to a cell-phone website, this tale of an average girl’s three stormy years of high school, a saga of love, rape, pregnancy, miscarriage, parting, and reunion, is in fact a true story. Striking a chord with many women, its popularity spread like wildfire by word of mouth, and published in book form was an instant best-seller, with 1.3 million copies snapped up in only three weeks. The work is a true phenomenon of the emerging cell-phone society.
    (source: Moviexclusive.com)

    Cast
    Yui Aragaki - Mika
    Haruma Miura - Hiro
    Yuko Asano - Mika's mother
    Yosuke Asari - Nozomu
    Keisuke Koide - Yu
    Asami Usuda - Saki
    Yumi Asou
    Karina
    Erina Matsui
    Ryuji Yamamoto

    credits to crunchyroll



  • Lovely Complex (The Best Romance-comedy Manga)

    Live-action feature film adaptation of the best-selling manga "Lovely Complex"! Lovely Complex is a love story between a boy and a girl. The girl, Risa Koizumi, is 172 cm tall—much taller than the average Japanese girl. The boy, Atsushi Otani, is 160 cm—way below the height of the average Japanese boy. Because of this, they are called the "All Hanshin Kyojin" after a popular comedy duo that has a similar height difference. Risa Koizumi has bad luck with boys because she is tall. There is a girl that Atsushi likes as well but because he is short, he is unlucky in love too. But as they get to know each other better, Risa's feelings for Atsushi begin to blossom, and her love life gets complicated from there. One notable fact about Lovely Complex is that instead of speaking standard Japanese, almost all characters speak in Kansai-ben (the story takes place in Osaka). While having one or two characters speaking Kansai-ben is common in many anime shows, having all characters doing so is unusual.

    * Emma Fujisawa as Risa Koizumi
    * Teppei Koike as Atsushi Ohtani                                     
    * Hiro Mizushima as Ryoji Suzuki
    * Nami Tamaki as Nobuko Ishihara
    * Risa Kudou as Chiharu Tanaka
    * Shosuke Tanihara as Kuniumi Maitake
    * Susumu Terajima as Umibozu
    * Yusuke Yamazaki as Heikichi Nakao

     



  • Howl's Moving Castle (The Best Miyazaki Movie)

    “Howl’s Moving Castle follows the story of young Sophie Hatter, a bookworm, the eldest of three daughters, a girl doomed to an uninteresting life as a hat maker. Sophie resigns herself to her boring fate, but fate has other plans for her. Cursed by the Witch of the Waste with the body of a 90-year-old woman, she finds her way to the moving castle inhabited by the wizard Howl, said by all to eat the souls of young girls.”

    - Hayao Miyazaki Web.



  • Hana Yori Dango Final (The Best Japanese Movie)
    Main Cast
    Mao Inoue
    Jun Matsumoto
    Shun Oguri
    Shota Matsuda
    Tsuyoshi Abe
    Aki Nishihara
    Nicholas Dombrovskis
    Yasuharu Ishii
    Year Released: 2008
    Director : Yasuharu Ishii
    Duration: 130 mins

    Synopsis: Domyoji (Jun Matsumoto) holds a big press conference to announce his wedding to Makino (Mao Inoue). The press is playing her up like a Cinderella of the day. Even Domyoji's mother who tried to break them up doggedly is now happy for them, and offers Makino a family hearloom, a tiara worth 10 billion yen called "Smile of Venus". The tiara is believed to bring its owner everlasting love and happiness. However, a man in black steals the tiara! The trail to recover the tiara starts from Tokyo to Las Vegas, Hong Kong, a deserted island and more.






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