Aces: Iron Eagle III 1992  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
aka: Iron Eagle III: Aces
Iron Eagle 3: Aces
Director: John Glen
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Rachel McLish, Paul Freeman, Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove, Sonny Chiba, Fred Dalton Thompson, Mitch Ryan, J.E. Freeman, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Rob Estes, Tom Bower, Phill Lewis, Juan Fernandez, Inez Perez
In this, the third of the series, our hero, Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gossett Jr.), is back. This time around, Chappy gets a group of World War II veterans together to fight a drug cartel in South America. They even use World War II planes but with updated weapons.
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The Bushido Blade 1980  R, 104 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Bloody Bushido Blade
Director: Tom Kotani
Cast: Richard Boone, Sonny Chiba, Frank Converse, James Earl Jones, Mako, Toshiro Mifune, Mike Starr, Tetsuro Tamba, Timothy Patrick Murphy, William Ross, Laura Gemser, Mike Starr
It is the 1850s, and the Shogun (Toshiro Mifune) wants to give visiting Matthew Perry (Richard Boone) a prized sword to seal U.S.-Japanese relations. However, the sword is stolen, and Perry and his men search for it. Lots of kung fu action.
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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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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003  R, 108 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Michael Parks, Sonny Chiba, Chiaki Kuriyama, Julie Dreyfus, Chia Hui Liu, Jun Kunimura
On her wedding day, assassin Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) is shot in the head and her groom is killed by fellow members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad: DiVAS. Four years later, Black Mamba awakens from her coma and vows revenge. Blood and gore ensue.
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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. Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)
aka: Iron Eagle III: Aces
aka: Iron Eagle 3: Aces
2. The Bushido Blade (1980)
aka: The Bloody Bushido Blade
3. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
aka: Violent Fire
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
5. Message from Space (1978)
6. Virus (1980)
7. Yakuza Papers (1973)
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