Movies In 2001
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Jin Young Song Yun Ah a very open-minded and energetic woman worked for the Seoul Hotel. Her ex-boyfriend Tae Joon Kim Seung Woo resigned and had left for Vegas three years earlier due to an unfortunate incident w/ a guest. The owner of the hotel had always believed in Tae Joon even more so than his own son Young Jae Park Jung Chul. When he died of a heart attack his wife realized that...
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Volcano High School is marking its 108th. Every student is a martial arts expert so it is not surprising to see tea leaves moving in the shape of dragons or hallway windows shattering into bits with no one touching them. At Volcano High the legend of the Secret Manuscript - the one who inherits these writings will rule the world - has been continuously passed down. From the outside Volcano...
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Kohei Kuryu is a former juvenile delinquent who drops out of junior high and goes on to earn a high school equivalency diploma. After passing the law board exams Kuryu becomes a prosecutor. Not your typical prosecutor which is quickly seen through the clothes that he wears Kuryu possesses quick instincts and a kind of cleverness that only someone raised on the streets could have.Maiko Amamiya...
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Stars: Don Johnson, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Jeff Perry, Peggy Sandow
A smart alecky San Francisco cop and his get rich quick scheme of a partner keep tabs on crime and take down the bad guys in the Bay...
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Both the manga and the anime feature a hotly contested war. Battles are shown through the lives of people on the front but the diplomatic particulars of the war are not revealed to the audience. A reason is never given as to why the war broke out in the first place.Although who the Japanese are fighting is never explicitly explained in one episode an enemy plane is shot down near the city and...
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In the year 2050 A.D approximately 1/10th of Japan is now under water due to the global warming effect. The city of Tokyo was no exception.The economy of Japan is crippled from this disaster and the government is willing for anything to help revive the country. As a result the Japanese government forms JESAS a military foundation that has evil intentions of controlling Japans future. JESAS...
Director: Huang Jianzhong Yuan Bin
Stars: Li Yapeng Xu Qing
Ling Hu Chong a member of the Hua Shan sword practicing body is in for trouble after his classmates suspect him of being the robber of their worshipped sword canon scripture. Trying to ward off further trouble he seeks his comfort in flight coincidentally makes friends with Ying Ying and later helps her solve the problems within the sorcery school that she comes...
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Veteran cop Frank Chan Ray Lui Leung-wai who also co-produced discovers that old protege Joe Wong Daniel Wu Yan-zu is now working undercover in a triad gang. The HK police department lost contact with him when he went to Malaysia with his boss Spanner Blackie Ko Shou-liang ostensibly to see some races. Ordered to locate Joe Frank assembles an unorthodox team consisting of the depressed...
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Hirosue Ryoko stars as Chiyo 20 a department store clerk whose first encounter with Ryunosuke Takenouchi Yutaka 30 a carefree bachelor friend of her sisters leads to a pregnancy. Although of different worlds they fell in love but Chiyos father doesnt want these youngsters to get married. After eight months of struggles and growing up they finally accepted each other as...
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At Daimon High School kids settle their disputes by dueling with each other in the schools official K-Fight battle arena. Ryoko Mitsurugi samurai girl and undefeated K-Fight champion is called upon by a mysterious Priestess to protect the Earth from an invasion coming from the alternate universe of Solvania. She must face battles that will test her skills her friendships and her heart in...
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Harry is definitely not your average American teenager. Instead he is the epitome of an alienated youth - friendless at school extremely weird and nervous to the point of paranoia. But a chance occurrence causes Harry to start to demonstrate what appear to be psychic powers - yet he neither believes in them nor consciously controls them.But there are other ominous forces at work who do...
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Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains. He decides to hand his business down to his impulsive younger daughter Hee-jung who studied hotel management in Switzerland. His older daughter Su-jung is a concert pianist. Hee-jung learns the business by starting at the bottom in the P.R. Department. She has a deep emotional scar from an incident where her first boyfriend was killed...
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Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 DVD release which included three short historical films directed by Takashi Miike depicting the lives people who lived in Kumamoto each of which is set sometime in the past. The first story revolves around a young woman who summons a magical being to defeat an invading army a typical example of how sexual rolemodels tie in to national pride: the girl becomes the...
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The story follows Kintaro former leader of a widely feared and respected biker gang who decides that its time to straighten out and become a salaryman since his wife died and he has to take care of his young...
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Stars: Norm MacDonald, Laurie Metcalf, Ian Gomez, Max Wright
Norm Henderson is an ex-hockey player who was banned from hockey for life for gambling and tax evasion. Now he must do 5 years of community service as a social worker or go to prison. His...
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Stars: Jason Douglas
During Japans Taisho Era 1912-1926 a scientist named Ayanokoji developed the Steel Angel-an artificial humanoid with superhuman physical abilities. While the Imperial Army wanted to...
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he Young Kindaichi is back and better than ever! In this first of many cases Kindaichi finds himself onboard a cruise ship in which the captain mysteriously disappears the day after a big party. A search of the ship finds nothing except for little drops of blood on the light switch in the captains room. Might it be a clue perhaps? You bet! When what looks to be a case of serious foul play...
Director: Kim Sang-jin
Stars: Lee Sung-jae Cha Seung-won Kim Hye-soo
Kick the Moon is about two high school students from a small-city high-school. One is a fighter who is involved in a legendary street-fight with a rival school the other is a geeky wimp who loves to study and is one of the only students to not participate in the fight. Years later the punk has grown to be a teacher in the high-school he attended and the nerd has become a mafia underboss and has...
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Haruko and Daisuke are a remarried couple. Haruko used to be a hoodlum. Daisuke was an elite businessman but recently he was laid off. They live with two boys three girls and a grandmother—a family of eight! Their kids are all at susceptible ages and they are going through all kinds of hardship. The consistent themes in the drama are friendship love and family. The heroine stands up...
Director: Jon Favreau
Stars: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Joe Goossen, Famke Janssen
Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime...
Director: Sterling Van Wagenen, Curtis Briggs
Stars: Charles Bughner, Robert N. Dixon, Roque L. Hillard, Benjamin Hoppe
Ever since they were discovered in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls have proved to be one of the most important finds ever informing man-kind of their origins and since they contain a...
Director: Lee Jang Soo
Stars: Yoon Sung Hee
Young-jun president of Young-Eum Music fights the conspiracy of Sungchoon president of rival company Victory Records. But he ultimately dies while fighting. Sungchoon and his people cover up Young-juns death as an accident. Young-juns wife Myungja gives birth to their son Sung-jae but due to Young-juns sudden death she falls into grief. Sungchoon has also been raising his children...
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A romantic comedy about women in their 30s For everyone who still remembers Suteki na Kataomoi Tokyo Love Story 101st Proposal prepare yourselves for even more of those same touching moments again. Breaking the tradition of the main character for a Monday night drama being a woman in her 20s Esumi Makiko stars as Kyoko Asaoka a 32-year-old heart surgeon working at a hospital in...
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Based on real life stories from the directors life and those known to him. It is set in the South Korean countryside around a U.S. military base and particularly involves the villages that are affected by its presence. This includes an unstable near psychotic American soldier who survives on a diet of LSD and rage Eun-ok a girl with one defective eye Jihum a lonesome boy and Chang-guk who...
Director: Wong Jing
Stars: Andy Lau Gigi Leung Alex Fong Suki Kwan Mark Cheng
A low level gangster in Hong Kong gains new respect after saving a bosss life in a gang fight. Despite his wifes death in this attack he appears to be moving up in the Triad family until he discovers the other bosses are not looking out for him when he is double crossed and the gangster he previously hospitalized in the gang fight comes back for...
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Stars: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Taylor Negron, Jesse Head
Teenagers Riley and Chloe are subject to the trials and tribulations of school family friends and...
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Stars: Hiro Yuuki, Mayumi Iizuka, Ken'ichi Ogata, Fumiko Orikasa
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Director: David Kartch
Stars: Greg Haberny, Kathleen Garrett, Jacob Pitts, Mark Blum
All manner of family secrets are out when the lawnmower man is invited inside one fateful...
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Tokio Shinya Tsukamoto is a young salaryman who is uncomfortably confronted with his own ineptness when he finds his wife Kumiko drowned in the bathtub one night. He picks up the phone to call an ambulance but puts it down again before dialling the number. Instead he distractedly makes himself coffee before deciding to drain the bath and bring Kumiko to the living room couch. With her dead...