US Army medic Desmond T. Doss, er medlem av Syvendedags Adventistkirken, et kristent, protestantisk kirkesamfunn, som av samvittighetsgrunner nekter å bære våpen. Likevel ble han tildelt Medal of Honor av president Harry S. Truman for egenhendig å ha reddet livet til over 75 av sine kamerater under konstant fiendeild ved slaget om Okinawa under den andre verdenskrig.
Fem leiemordere går om bord på et japansk lyntog på vei til Kyoto og oppdager at de tilsynelatende separate oppdragene deres har en mystisk forbindelse.
En leiemorder er blitt skutt ved alteret av sin hensynsløse arbeidsgiver, Bill og andre medlemmer av deres mordergjeng - men "Bruden" lever videre for å utføre sin hevn. Og når hun bestemmer seg for å utføre hevnen, lager hun en dødsliste og jakter ned de som ødela henne, og sparer Bill til sist.
Tom Cruise spiller borgerkrigshelten kaptein Nathan Algren, som kommer til Japan for å slåss mot samuraiene og ender opp med å kjempe for deres sak. Ken Watanabe spiller Kat Katsumoto, en samuraileder som står ovenfor en utdøende livsstil, og hvis skjebne flettes sammen med den amerikanske kapteinens. Edward Zwick regisserer denne dramatiske og følelsesladde episke fortellingen om det moderne Japans fødsel.
Mr. Miyagi og Daniel ta en tur til Okinawa for å besøke Mr. Miyagi sin døende far. Etter ankomst finner Mr. Miyagi at han fortsatt har følelser for en gammel kjærlighet. Dette vekker problemer med en gammel rival som han opprinnelig forlot Okinawa for å unngå. I mellomtiden, møter Daniel en ny kjærlighet og får også noen fiender.
Basert på den opprinnelige 1941-filmen fra Japan, og fra det gamle Japans mest omfattende historie, blir det spektakulære 3D fantasy-eventyret 47 Ronin født. Keanu Reeves har hovedrollen som Kai, en utstøtt som blir med Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), lederen av 47 utstøtte samuraier. Sammen søker de hevn over den forræderiske overherren som drepte sin master og forviste deres slag. For å gjenopprette ære til deres hjemland, begynner krigerne på et oppdrag som utfordrer dem i en rekke forsøk som ville ha ødelagt vanlige krigere.
Da amerikanske og russiske romskip blir kapret i jordens bane, må agent 007 (Sean Connery) kaste seg rundt for å forhindre atomkrig mellom supermaktene. Hans farlige oppdrag tar ham til Japan, hvor han slåss mot den onde organisasjonen SPECTRE og deres djevelske leder Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence)!
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
Follow the thrilling adventures of master thief Lupin the Third, quite possibly the world's greatest thief. Along with Daisuke Jigen, Goemon Ishikawa and his on-off love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.
Ohma Tokita enters a hidden world where corporate disputes are settled in brutal gladiator bouts. Forget the money, he just wants to fight — and win.
The adventures of Sazae Fuguta and her family and friends in their Tokyo suburb.
The son of a world famous mystery writer, Jimmy Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.
Middle schooler Valt Aoi, with his Beyblade Valkyrie (Valtryek), faces off against friends, classmates, and rivals to become the world's number one Blader.
Rejoin Goku and his friends in a series of cosmic battles! Toei has redubbed, recut, and cleaned up the animation of the original 1989 animated series. The show's story arc has been refined to better follow the comic book series on which it is based. The show also features a new opening and ending. In the series, martial artist Goku, and his various friends, battle increasingly powerful enemies to defend the world against evil. Can Earth's defender defeat demons, aliens, and other villains?
After a selfless act costs him his life, teen delinquent Yusuke Urameshi is chosen as a Spirit Detective to investigate cases involving rogue yokai.
Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
Based on the four-panel comic strip that follows the lives of a group of high school students and teachers, this anime features a compilation of comedic vignettes during a typical day in class over the course of three years.
In the early 2050s, unknown life forms called “Oracle cells” begin their uncontrolled consumption of all life on Earth. Their ravenous appetite and remarkable adaptability earn them first dread, then awe, and finally the name “aragami”. In the face of an enemy completely immune to conventional weapons, urban civilization collapses, and each day humanity is driven further and further toward extinction. One single ray of hope remains for humanity. Following the development of “God Arcs”—living weapons which incorporate Oracle cells—their wielders are organized into an elite force.
Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, geisha, bonsai, and so much more. Local experts discuss their passions at fascinating length, and American Japanophile Matt Alt experiences the food, practices, and cultures in each episode in depth. Viewers will finish each half hour episode with a new understanding of an area of Japanese life through demonstrative videos and explanations, all delivered respectfully and true to the Japanese way of life.
A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.
Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.
A warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels to 1997 to protect an AI scientist being hunted by an unfeeling — and indestructible — cyborg.
NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen (ＮＨＫ紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kouhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special held on December 31 every year, and produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on NHK General TV, BS4K, BS8K and NHK radio (nationally) and internationally on NHK World Premium and some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program. The program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The 'red' team or 'akagumi' (紅組) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the 'white' team or 'shirogumi' (白組) is all male (or groups with male vocals).
Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.
