Dead or Alive 2: The Birds 2000  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, ShinyaTsukamoto, Kenichi Endo, Edison Chen, Ren Osugi, Masato, Tomorowo Taguchi, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Teah
In the second installment of Takashi Miike's trilogy, two hit men (Sho Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi) cross paths while performing their jobs. They had been childhood friends growing up in an orphanage and now decide to go in business for themselves–this time ridding the world of the bad guys while giving their rewards to children in need.
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka 2002  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Violent Fire
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Riki Takeuchi, Ryosuke Miki, Kenichi Endo, Mika Katsumura, Sonny Chiba, Yuya Uchida, Tetsuro Tamba, Miho Nomoto, Rikiya Yasuoka
When his leader and father figure is killed by a rival gang, Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi) takes off with his sidekick (Kenich Endo) to avenge the killing.
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Happiness of the Katakuris 2001  R, 113 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Tetsuro Tamba, Naoto Takenaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Moeko Ezawa, Tamaki Miyazaki, Takashi Matsuzaki, Kenichi Endo, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Yoshiki Arizono, Chihiro Asakawa, Yumeki Kanazawa
This dark musical comedy concerns the dysfunctional Katakuri family as they renovate and then open a lodge in a remote part of Japan. It is expected that tourism will boom when the projected highway is built. But the problems start with the first guest, a sickly man, who commits suicide. Not wanting bad publicity, they bury the body in the backyard. The next guest, likewise, dies–of a heart attack, and so it goes with guest after guest, and the ground fills with bodies. Still no highway, but the nearby volcano adds to their problems.
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Nobody Knows 2004 PG-13, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You, Kenichi Endo, Susumu Terajima, Kazumi Kushida, Yukiko Okamoto
After their mother abandons them in their Tokyo apartment, four children are forced to fend for themselves. This story is loosely based on actual events known as "The Affair of the Four Abandoned Children of Nishi-Sugamo."
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| 1. Dead or Alive 2: The Birds (2000)
2. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
aka: Violent Fire
3. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
4. Nobody Knows (2004)
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