Since Filesonic, MegaUpload, Fileserve, and (maybe soon) others are starting to delete files/not allow 3th parties to download from their site anymore, I have decided to slowly change all links into links to the actual DVD/Blueray boxes and OSTs where you can buy these for very decent prices.
Links will be to the sites Play-Asia and YESASIA, which are trusted sites for Asian items online shopping. These DVDs you can’t usually buy on Amazon and similar sites as they usually aren’t licensed outside of Asia.
I will only provide links to English-subtitled versions, as this was my intention in the first place: to provide Japanese movie & drama to an English-speaking (/understanding) audience even though it’s hard to get in Europe/America (or too expensive). I hope this will still boost your desire to watch them, as they are very often worthy of it!
Please continue to support Japanese movies & dramas!
In an old mansion a woman named Louie (Maki Sakai) starts to make chicken soup. The woman also lives with her aunt Toba-chan (Mariko Kaga). Toba-chan has raised Louie since her birth as Toba-chan’s sister died while giving birth to Louie.
Not long before Toba-chan’s 61st birth day , Toba-chan falls in love and suddenly leaves home. Louie is now all alone. Then a strange man Tony ([[Tatsuya Fuji]) appears in front of her house. The guy comes to her garden and spreads out a canvas. He then starts to draw. Louie kicks him out, but after several days he shows up again with a lunch box. What a surprise his lunch box tastes so delicious!
One day, Louie’s old classmate Nanako (Sawa Suzuki), who works for a magazine, takes Louie to dinner with popular writer Gou Inoue (Sei Hiraizumi) and others. During dinner, Louie becomes tired of the writer’s arrogant attitude, but she is surprised by the cold peach soup recommended by Kosuke (Takahiro Nishijima) who sits next to her. After dinner, Kosuke takes Louie home and mistakes Tony as Louie’s father. Tony nonchalant invites Kosuke to stay over for the night.
The next day, Louie comes home after work and is surprised to find Tony and Kosuke cooking happily together in the kitchen. As dinner starts Kosuke raves about Louie’s chicken soup. Kosuke then states that he wants to live here. Tony then replies “then live here”. Now Louie has two men living with her …
High school student Ayumi kills herself and leaves behind a cryptic message that says “will be killed by boyfriend.” Ayumi’s classmates Satomi (Umika Kawashima) and Yuka (Aki Asakura) investigates her suicide and quickly links her death to a cellphone dating simulation game called “Keitai Kareshi.” The game distributed by popular mobile gaming site “Ice Cream” allows players to pick avatars and exchange messages with other players. A love gauge determines how well the player is faring.
Satomi then downloads cellphone boyfriend Riku, which her co-worker Eri downloads onto her cellphone. Soon after, Eri dies from electrocution – not long after the love gauge on her cellphone hit zero. Yuka also downloaded cellphone boyfriend Masaya, which Eri sends to her manager Ishikawa. The next day, Ishikawa dies from a mysterious accident. The mystery deepens as Satomi discovers the image of Naoto (Hideo Ishiguro), a senior student whom Satomi secretly admired, on her friend Hisami’s cellphone ….
An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transforming those who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring the surviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two—the southern half of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, lives behind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infected wasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living dead should remain protected as family members or exterminated like a plague. The economy withers away, and all hope seems lost for the people and the nation of Japan.
Hope arrives in the form of Kika (Yumiko Hara), a beautiful high school girl armed with a chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kika leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka (Eihi Shiina) and put an end to the plague of the living dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half of Japan, refuses to lay down and die.
Cast:
Yumiko Hara – Kika
Eihi Shiina – Rikka
Yurei Yanagi – Taku
Kazuki Namioka
Kentaro Kishi
Mizuki Kusumi – Nanashi
Minoru Torihada
Gadarukanaru Taka
Takumi Saito
Tomomi Miyashita
Cay Izumi – Zombie mom
Maki Mizui
Yuya Ishikawa
Asami – Wall guard
Yukihide Benny – Man on the wall
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously.
Despite having sworn never to play baseball again, Jubeh is presented with an ultimatum by governor Mifune: join the reformatory team, The Gauntlets, in the national tournament for juvenile inmates, or witness the death of his innocent cellmate Four Eyes (Mari Hoshino). With the knowledge that the death of his brother is somehow connected to the team, Jubeh agrees, and Gauntlet training begins. Their first opponents: the sexy but deadly “psycho butcher girls” of the St. Black Dahlia High School, a team of literal man-killers. And so the splatterific baseball tournament begins, but Jubeh soon learns that he is not only fighting to win the game, but also to save his own life!
Cast:
Tak Sakaguchi – Jubei Yakyu
Mari Hoshino – Four Eyes
Miho Ninagawa
Takamasa Suga
Jyonmyon Pe
Miho Harita
Mickey Curtis
Koichi Yamadera
Ryosei Tayama
Title: 絶対彼氏。 Title (romaji): Zettai Kareshi Also known as: Absolute Boyfriend Tagline: Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot / The Completely Perfect Boyfriend Robot Genre: Romance, comedy Broadcast network: Fuji TV Theme song: Okaeri by ayaka Episodes: 11 Viewership ratings: 13.2 (Kanto) Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-15 to 2008-Jun-24 Air time: Tuesday 21:00
Synopsis
Robot maker, Kronos Heaven, finally develops “Night Tenjo”, the perfect male humanoid programmed to be devoted and completely loyal to his lover. The company chooses temp worker Izawa Riko to take part in a 5-day free trial. At first, Riko only sees Night as a household appliance. But when she finds out how deep Night’s devotion to herself is, Riko finds herself falling in love with him. Joining the love triangle is Asamoto Soshi, a distinguished young executive at her company who has feelings for her. –Fuji TV
Cast
Hayami Mokomichi as Tenjo Night
Mizushima Hiro as Asamoto Soshi
Aibu Saki as Izawa Riiko
Sasai Eisuke as Shirasagi Yuki
Ueno Natsuhi as Ito Mika
Yukari Hayasaka (Keiko Kitagawa) is a high school student who has become tired of her life of constant schooling. She then comes across a group of student fashion designers in need of a model for their “Paradise Kiss” clothing label. Yukari knows nothing about the fashion world and is taken back by the group’s eccentric ways, but she soon comes to admire their free thinking ways and ability to pursue their dreams with a one track mind …
“Keitai Kanojo” is based on the popular mobile phone novel of the same name. It is the sequel to “Keitai Kareshi,” which was turned into a movie last year starring 9nine’s Umika Kawashima (16).
In “Keitai Kanojo,” Suzuki plays a high school student investigating the mystery behind a mobile phone dating simulation game.
Taketomi plays a girl who appears within the game, somehow killing the male players one by one.
Yukari Hayasaka (Keiko Kitagawa) is a high school student who has become tired of her life of constant schooling. She then comes across a group of student fashion designers in need of a model for their “Paradise Kiss” clothing label. Yukari knows nothing about the fashion world and is taken back by the group’s eccentric ways, but she soon comes to admire their free thinking ways and ability to pursue their dreams with a one track mind …
In the year 2194, mysterious beings, known as the Gamilons, suddenly appear from outer space. The Gamilons drops meteor bombs upon Earth and kill most of the inhabitants.
Five years later, in 2199, the Earth is still contaminated by radiation from the meteor bombs. Those that remain live underground.
Susumu Kodai (Takuya Kimura) is a former army pilot now retired. One day, while exploring the surface, he comes across a communication capsule from planet Iscandar, which resides 148,000 light years away from Earth. Susumu Kodai is able to ascertain that on Iscandar they have a substance to remove the radioactive material plaguing the surface of Earth.
In order to retrieve the substance from Iscandar, the Defense Force of Earth builds Space Battleship Yamato. Susume Kodai comes out of retirement and leads the crew that will man Space Battleship Yamato. With only one year left before the radiation drives Earth to complete extinction, Susume Kodai and his crew begins their great battle …
Notes:
1. Actress Erika Sawajiri was originally picked to play the character of Yuki Mori, but was later replaced by actress Meisa Kuroki.
2. Filming began October 12, 2009 with a budget slated for 22 million $USD.
Cast:
* Takuya Kimura – Susumu Kodai, Mamoru’s younger brother, and Space Battleship Yamato’s Tactical Unit Leader
* Meisa Kuroki – Yuki Mori, Space Battleship Yamato’s Tactical Unit’s Black Tiger Team
* Toshihiro Yashiba – Yasuo Nanbu, Space Battleship Yamato’s Tactical Unit
* Naoto Ogata – Daisuke Shima, Space Battleship Yamato’s Chief Navigator
* Shin’ichi Tsutsumi – Mamoru Kodai, Susumu’s older brother, Captain of the Space Destroyer Yukikaze
* Reiko Takashima – Dr. Sado, Space Battleship Yamato’s Ship Doctor
* Isao Hashizume – Heikurō Tōdō, Earth Defense Force Commander-In-Chief
* Toshiyuki Nishida – Hikozaemon Tokugawa, Space Battleship Yamato’s Chief Engineer
* Hiroyuki Ikeuchi – Hajime Saitō, Commander of Space Battleship Yamato’s Space Commandos
* Maiko – Aihara, Space Battleship Yamato’s Communications Unit
* Toshiro Yanagiba – Shirō Sanada, Space Battleship Yamato’s Chief Science/Technology Officer
* Kazuki Namioka – Saburō Katō, Space Battleship Yamato’s Tactical Unit’s Black Tiger Team Leader
* Tsutomu Yamazaki – Jūzō Okita, Space Battleship Yamato’s Captain
Every drama & movie is Japanese audio and ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
You can always leave a comment if you want a movie or drama to be added.
I will try & add new Jdrama & Jmovies regularly!
UPDATE please read here: http://hanazone.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/update-on-hanazone/
