Graveyard of Honor 1975  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya, Yumi Takigawa, Eiji Go, Noboru Ando, Hajime Hana, Mikio Narita, Kunie Tanaka, Shingo Yamashiro, Reiko Ike, Hideo Murota, Meika Seri
Set in post-World War II Japan, this is the story of violent loser and gangster Rikio (Tetsuya Watari) who delves into drugs, murder, and prostitution. Another real-life, innovative film from Director Fukasaku that provides a strong indictment of the yakuza (criminal) lifestyle.
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Message from Space 1978  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan, Etsuko Shihomi, Tetsuro Tamba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mikio Narita, Makoto Sato, Noboru Mitani
The Gavanas take over the planet Jillucia in this film featuring many of the ideas previously introduced in "Star Wars."
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Virus 1980  PG, 155 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Sonny Chiba, Chuck Connors, Stephanie Faulkner, Glenn Ford, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy, Henry Silva, Bo Svenson, Robert Vaughn, Masao Kusakari, Julie Khaner, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi, Kensaku Morita, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Doctor Yamauchi (Sonny Chiba) wanders the frozen Earth after its near destruction from a deadly virus. In the aftermath, there are only 858 men and eight women left in the world. They are members of international Antarctic research teams of scientists, and the reason they are still alive is that the cold is killing off the germs. The second disaster is nuclear, and now the question is, "Will there be any survivors?"
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Yakuza Papers 1973 N/R, 450 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase, Nobuo Kaneko, Kunie Tanaka, Akira Kobayashi, Tamio Kawaji, Asao Koike, Sonny Chiba, Toshio Kurosawa, Tomisaburo Wakayama
In the aftermath of World War II, Yakuza gangs fought for supremacy of underground activities, such as drugs and gambling. Director Kinji Fukasaku chronicled the Yakuza wars over a period of decades in this five-episode series of films released in 1973 and 1974. Each film had a different subtitle: 1–"Battles Without Honor and Humanity;" 2–"Deadly Fight in Hiroshima;" 3–"Proxy War;" 4–"Police Tactics;" and 5–"Final Episode."
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| 1. Graveyard of Honor (1975)
2. Message from Space (1978)
3. Virus (1980)
4. Yakuza Papers (1973)
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