Yukihiko Tsutsumi and Ryuhei Kitamura each finished their contributions to the short film anthology Jam Films (2002) in record time. As a result the producer Shinya Kawai gave the two directors a proposal; to each create a feature length movie with two principal actors battling in one setting and filmed entirely in one week. In Ryuhei Kitamura's Aragami: two samurai end up on death's doorstep after they are wounded in battle. Only one of them (Takao Osawa) survives the night to wake up and discover his wounds are healed and he has gained a special ability. After meeting his savior Aragami (Masaya Kato) the samurai is forced to pay his debt by engaging in battle with his powerful host. Yet only a worthy adversary has the power to defeat the demon known as Aragami....
Versatility, thy name is Van Damme! So Arnold cries in End of Days? Hah! In this relentless revenge actioner, Jean-Claude not only cries, but has a drunk scene, suffers suicidal despair, does a little slapstick, and still manages to flash his ubiquitous butt. Which, of course, is what his legion of fans want to see him kick plenty of (other people's butts, that is; not his own). Van Damme may no longer generate any box-office heat (like 1998's Legionnaire, this bypassed cinemas to go straight to video), but he at least gives his fans what they want. Originally titled Coyote Moon, Desert Heat recalls that guilty pleasure Road House, as Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) comes to the rescue of a gallery of colourful characters terrorised by slobbering, drug-dealing bikers and rednecks in a dilapidated desert town. And this time, it's personal. As one denizen ominously observes, "There's trouble on the hoof and it's coming this way" for the three ill-fated bullies who beat up and shot Eddie and left him for dead. Despite its desert setting, Heat is an oasis for great character actors who pick up Van Damme's considerable slack. They include Danny Trejo (Con Air) as Eddie's Native American friend Johnny Sixtoes, Pat Morita (The Karate Kid), Larry Drake (Darkman), Vincent Schiavelli (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost), Bill Erwin (Candy Stripe Nurses), and luscious Jaime Preslly as Dottie the waitress. The director is credited as Danny Mulroon, a pseudonym for John Avildsen, the Academy Award-winning director of Rocky. His career, too, seems to be on the ropes, but he keeps punching with some welcome eccentric touches. At one point Johnny gives the recuperating Eddie a foot massage (didn't he see Pulp Fiction?). And the script offers such goodies as a lovelorn bus driver (Tom's brother, Jim Hanks) inviting Dottie to see Yojimbo, and one biker's plea for mercy from a local tough: "Jessie, we were in high school together. I signed your yearbook". --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.com
Two rival martial art schools are at war with each other. A student called Qian must preserve the honour of the Yixing School when the Master disappears....
A street punk who is involved in a fatal car jacking later befriends the family and having confessed to his been involved in the death wrestles with his conscience as to whether to turn himself into the police...
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre: Greed and the lure of gold affects the lives of three men prospecting in the dangerous Sierra Madre mountains... To Have And Have Not: A jaded American charter boat captain risks his life to help a group of French freedom fighters and an attractive young woman with whom he falls in love. They Drive By Night: Two brothers struggle as truck drivers when one comes to harm the other is accused of his friend's murder...
Eddie Chapman was one of the most bizarre characters to emerge from World War II and his extraordinary exploits form the subject of Triple Cross the star packed 1960s movie from acclaimed James Bond director Terence Young. Suave witty daring handsome and utterly amoral British safe-cracker Eddie Chapman (Plummer) is quite prepared to work for whichever side offers him the greatest thrills; and the most money...
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