Efter fire år i koma vågner lejemorderen Sorte Mamba alias Bruden op på hospitalet. Nu tæller kun én ting for hende. Nemlig at få hævn over sin chef Bill og sine fire forræderiske lejemorder-kolleger, der forsøgte at slagte hende på hendes bryllupsdag. Hævntogtet bringer Bruden til Japan, hvor hun går i skarp træning, inden hun krydser klinger med sin gamle veninde O-Ren Ishii og dennes hær af håndlangere.
Brad Pitt har den altoverskyggende hovedrolle i et ensemble af snigmordere, der alle har et forbundet, men modstridende mål. Det hele foregår i en togtur uden stop gennem det moderne Japan.
Under Anden Verdenskrig nægter Desmond Doss, en troskyldig pacifist og medicinsk assistent i den amerikanske hær, at bære våben, men melder sig frivilligt til tjeneste. Trods modstand fra både kammerater og overordnede, kæmper han for at redde sårede soldater uden at affyre et eneste skud. Under slaget ved Hacksaw Ridge i Okinawa bliver hans mod og tro sat på prøve, da han alene redder mange liv på trods af intens fjendtlig ild.
Erotisk kærlighedsdrama baseret på en sand historie fra Japan i 1936, hvor en mand og en af hans tjenere begynder en lidenskabelig affære. Deres ønske bliver en seksuel besættelse så stærk, at for at intensivere deres nydelse, forsager de alt, endda selve livet.
Denne originale animerede antologi følger tre af de barskeste krigere i menneskets historie: En viking, der leder sin unge søn på et blodigt hævntogt, en ninja i det feudale Japan, der vender sig mod sin samuraibror i en brutal arvestrid, og en pilot fra Anden Verdenskrig, der går i luften for at undersøge en overjordisk trussel mod De Allieredes sag.
Når en maskine, der gør det muligt for terapeuter til at indtaste deres patienters drømme bliver stjålet, bryder helvede løs. Kun en ung kvindelig terapeut kan stoppe det: Paprika.
Nathan Algren er krigsveteran fra den amerikanske borgerkrig. Han tager til Japan for at lære kejser Meijis tropper at bruge skydevåben i kampen mod landets sidste samurai. Men Algren bliver taget til fange af samuraien og ændrer livssyn, da han møder samuraiernes ældgamle traditioner og deres æreskodeks.
I 1999 blev atomkraftværket Janjira på mystisk vis destrueret sammen med størstedelen af menneskerne, der arbejdede der, inklusiv supervisoren Joe Brodys kone, Sandra. År senere må Joe's søn, US Navy-officeren Ford, tage til Japan for at hjælpe sin fremmedgjorte far, som stadig leder desperat efter sandheden bag ulykken. Far og søn finder sammen svaret på atomkraftværket, og snart bliver rædslen vakt til live igen. Hele menneskeheden er truet, men måske er Godzilla den eneste, der kan redde os alle sammen?
Den oprørske og engang lovende Jæger pilot Jake Pentecost's far gav sit liv for at redde menneskeheden. Jake har opgivet sin træning og lever i en kriminel underverden. Men da en endnu større og langt mere ustoppelig trussel truer vores byer og bringer verden på randen af sammenbrud, får han en sidste chance af sin søster, som leder en ny generation af modige piloter, som er vokset op i krigens skygge. Deres eneste håb er at stå sammen i en global modstandsbevægelse og tage kampen op mod de kræfter, som ønsker at udslette os. Jake får følgeskab af den piloten Lambert og den 15-årige Jaeger hacker Amara, som bliver hans nye familie.
Vi befinder os i 1500-tallets Japan. Bønderne i en lille by er trætte af hele tiden at blive overfaldet og plyndret af banditter. Byens vise mænd råder dem til at rekruttere nogle samuraier - professionelle krigere - der kan beskytte dem mod overfaldene. Det varer ikke længe, før syv meget forskellige samuraier har stillet sig til disposition.
Charlotte er i Tokyo med sin mand John, der er fotograf og travlt optaget af arbejde. Charlotte tilbringer derfor det meste af tiden alene på hotellet og hér møder hun skuespilleren Bob Harris der er i Tokyo for at indspille en whiskyreklame. Han har fået en særdeles lukrativ kontrakt, men han er udmattet og træt af det hele – ikke mindst konen, der ringer til ham flere gange dagligt fra Los Angeles for at høre hans mening om indretningen af deres hus.
En amerikansk og en russisk rumkapsel forsvinder under missioner i rummet, og straks beskylder de to nationer hinanden for at stå bag, hvilket får en tredje verdenskrig til at virke nært forestående. Men den britiske efterretningstjeneste opdager en nedfalden UFO-lignende genstand i Japan og sender deres bedste hemmelige agent James Bond afsted for at undersøge sagen. Han afslører hurtigt, at det er terrororganisationen SPECTRE med Ernst Blofeld i spidsen, der står bag rumkapslernes forsvinden. Nu sætter James Bond alt ind på at redde Jorden, inden atomkrigen bryder ud.
Efter at hundeinfluenza bryder ud i den japanske by Megasaki, bestemmer byens borgmester, at alle hunde skal sendes til en øde skraldeø og leve der, afskåret fra omverdenen. Dette inkluderer borgmesterens nevø Ataris hund. Fast besluttet for at genfinde sit kæledyr drager Atari til skraldeøen, hvor en flok hunde indvilger i at hjælpe ham med søgningen.
Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
The adventures of Sazae Fuguta and her family and friends in their Tokyo suburb.
The son of a world famous mystery writer, Jimmy Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.
In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
A Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo, Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki) and owarai duo Cocorico co-hosting.
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. It was adapted into an anime television series which aired on Fuji TV from December 1972 to September 1974. A second manga series was released alongside the TV show, this one drawn by Gosaku Ota, which started and ended almost at the same time of the TV show. Mazinger Z has spawned several sequels and spinoff series, among them UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinkaiser. It was a very popular cartoon in Mexico during the 1980s, where it was dubbed into Spanish directly from the Japanese version, keeping the Japanese character names and broadcasting all 92 episodes, unlike the version aired in the U.S.
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to create a time of peace, and a thriving country free from oppression. The new age of Meiji has come, but peace has not yet been achieved. Swords are banned but people are still murdered in the streets. Orphans of war veterans are left with nowhere to go, while the government seems content to just line their pockets with money.
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest—the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the city streets. Mikado Ryuugamine has always longed for the excitement of the city life, and an invitation from a childhood friend convinces him to move to Tokyo. Witnessing the Black Rider on his first day in the city, his wishes already seem to have been granted. But as supernatural events begin to occur, ordinary citizens like himself, along with Ikebukuro's most colorful inhabitants, are mixed up in the commotion breaking out in their city.
A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.
Girls from all over the world gather at IS Academy to learn how to become IS pilots. However, since Ichika can somehow pilot the IS even though he is male, he was forced to attend IS Academy as the only male in this school.
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
Middle schooler Valt Aoi, with his Beyblade Valkyrie (Valtryek), faces off against friends, classmates, and rivals to become the world's number one Blader.
A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their leader witnesses her extraordinary psychic abilities. Unfortunately, what she predicts is a future of bloodshed, violence, and civil war. Inspired by the 12th-century epic tale Heike Monogatari.
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.
Satsuki Amamiya was feeling down due to the graduation of the high school Photography Club’s president. However, her best friend and fellow member An Kiriyama encourages Satsuki to dedicate herself to the newly merged Cinephoto Club. Join Satsuki and An as they set out to track down a missing camera, meet new faces, and capture stunning photos and videos along the way.
Rejoin Goku and his friends in a series of cosmic battles! Toei has redubbed, recut, and cleaned up the animation of the original 1989 animated series. The show's story arc has been refined to better follow the comic book series on which it is based. The show also features a new opening and ending. In the series, martial artist Goku, and his various friends, battle increasingly powerful enemies to defend the world against evil. Can Earth's defender defeat demons, aliens, and other villains?
