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- James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.
- The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.
- Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.
- Travel around the world with author Dan Buettner to discover five unique communities where people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives.
- Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
- An Okinawan prophecy appears to foretell Earth's destruction at the hands of Godzilla, only for the true Godzilla to reveal his doppelganger as a mechanical alien weapon.
- A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
- The adventurous story of a fugitive ninja.
- When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.
- Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda are both children of the 1980s having been born in 1989. They met in 2002 and got to know love and lust at that young age through each other. As it so often happens at that age they went their separate ways only to reunite at the age of twenty one. Fate repeated itself. They are thirty-one years old and meeting again. What will be different this time, or will fate reign over them as it did the previous times?
- Aoi has dropped out from high school and gives birth to a baby son with Masaya. They are born and live in Okinawa.
- BBC investigative documentary series noted for its new perspectives on historical events.
- While this Japanese reality dating show borrows heavily from American and British staples such as Love Island, Paradise Hotel, and Bachelor in Paradise, the would-be lovers also possess "dark secrets" that may be revealed at any time. Will the revelations dissuade their romantic interests? All of the contestants are Japanese, and the ten men and eight women range from 21 to 40. With a few exceptions (the 40-year-old systems engineer stands out for more than one reason), most of the contestants are students and gig workers, including a comedian, a bikini model, a singer, and an "underground idol." With the Pacific Ocean providing a beautiful backdrop to the Okinawa resort housing the show, the contestants attend cocktail parties, frolic on group outings, and shyly hold hands on one-on-one dates. The hosts are situated in a remote booth where they observe the action through multiple monitors and gleefully mock the singles' behavior, attire, and amusing attempts at pick-up lines. When the alarm sounds, one of the hosts selects an envelope and delivers it to the named contestant. In a segment called "Real Face Time," that contestant must then read aloud a long, humiliating explanation of his or her dark secret. Is it an undesirable profession? Financial problems? Questionable judgment at a frat party? And how will the others react? Watch the first season of REA(L)OVE on Netflix (English subtitles are available) to discover the contestants' sordid pasts and whether they are still deserving of love.
- The story of Desmond Doss, a US Army medic who was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
- A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
- 8-year old Yotaro gains a 3-year old step-sister, Kaoru, when his mother marries a jazz musician who plays in a club in Naha, Okinawa where they live. Before long Kaoru's father deserts them, and not long afterward Yota's mother becomes terminally ill. Her dying wish is for him to watch out for Kaoru at his grandmother's place on a small island off the coast of Okinawa. He fulfills her wish and becomes very protective of his younger sister who calls him "nee-nee." Thirteen years later Kaoru returns to Naha and comes to live with him as she starts high school. Yota works hard making deliveries of vegetables from an open-air market by day, and in a restaurant (he is a licensed chef) by night to save money to fulfill his dream of having his own restaurant. He also assumes the role of pushing for Kaoru's entrance to a university. This allows less time for his beautiful girlfriend Keiko, the daughter of a doctor and a medical student at Ryukyu University. It seems that Yota's dreams start to come together when Mr. Kameoka sells him a place for a restaurant. Yota works hard constructing the place, but just as he is to open, the real owner appears. Being swindled, Yota is left with a large outstanding loan. Keiko's father's plans do not include a working class son-in-law as he explains when he offers to pay Yota's debt. Although he refuses, Yota concludes he is not best for Keiko's future. Years later he continues to overwork even after the debt is paid and Kaoru starts university study. With her feelings of love for Yota growing deeper, they mutually decide to live apart.
- Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate.
- From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
- Taeko is a stressed career woman who leaves her life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what she expected as everyone on the island is strange.
- How the food industry sugar-coated science, sweetened the food supply, and seduced a planet, one spoonful at a time.
- Shimajiro and his friends discover an injured whale and Gaogao helps it out, they later go underwater to find the whale mother and the fish in the ocean and encounters a giant crab.
- A team of jewel thieves are caught between a yakuza gang and a mass of zombies when they enter an abandoned factory once used as a site for secret experiments by the U.S. military.
- Whether you're pinching pennies or rolling in dough, there are so many different ways to travel. Join the Vagabrothers as they cross the globe, answer trivia questions and experience popular travel destinations, each on vastly different budgets.
- The ultimate search of a Human Weapon, each episode of Human Weapon charts an expedition through foreign continents, famous cities, exotic villages, back alleys and lush landscapes.
- This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.
- Shimajiro the tiger boy goes on adventures with animal friends as they explore the world and learn new words in this 2D animated cartoon, there are live action scenes where Shimajiro mascots and his friend mascots meet people on the show.
- Available for the first time since it mysteriously disappeared in 1972 after only one week in theaters, this raucous film is a riveting slice of the Vietnam anti-war movement.
- A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death.
- Baby boomer Mark Wexler travels the world searching for the secrets of long life.
- In this uncomfortably intimate film, documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara visits his ex-girlfriend Miyuki and records her new relationships.
- The film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the film's centre there are some young people, the grand-daughter of Nabbie and a young Japanese who just came to visit the little island. As the film evolves with the more or less ordinary events of the little island's inhabitant's more or less ordinary life, the story behind Nabbie's life gets more and more obvious. It's a surprise to most everyone involved in one or the other way.
- Shimajiro and friends tour the dig bug robot which breaks down in the middle of the desert. Shimajiro meets a girl named Coco who was separated from her mother in a sandstorm, and they look for her together.
- The song "Dance the Night Away" by TWICE is an upbeat and joyful summer song about enjoying life and having fun. The lyrics describe a night under the stars, with waves crashing in the background, and the desire to dance and party until morning comes. The chorus calls for everyone to join in and dance together, creating a sense of community and togetherness. The lyrics suggest that in enjoying this special moment, people should let go of any worries or concerns and fully embrace the happiness and joy that comes with dancing under the night sky. Overall, the song promotes the idea of living in the present and savoring every moment.
- Kale Brock visits communities with improved life expectancies, low rates of disease and an extremely high quality of life well into the later years, for a deep dive into longevity culture and what it really takes to get well and stay well.
- A minor island of Okinawa in Southern Japan has limited technology and no high school. When teenagers reach the age of 15, they have to decide to stay on the island or leave for higher education.
- As her name suggests, Sunshine (Ranie Yang), is a delightful girl, who lives with her self-sacrificing, adoring grandmother. Regrettably, her very irresponsible con-artist parents have left her under the weight of extreme debt. When the debtors come calling, Sunshine must accept work as a maid for a rich family. Before reporting for work, Sunshine has a rather embarrassing chance encounter with the CEO of a cosmetics company, Di Ya Xin (Wu Chun). Immediately, their indifference for one another is apparent and they hope to never see each other again. As fate would have it, however, Sunshine ends up working as Di Ya Xin's maid.
- This movie takes place in Heroland invented by Ururu where heroes and heroines can meet, Heroland is in trouble and they go to Gaogao-San in the Dokodemo Sidecar to save it from the robot threatening the land.
- When a woman is hired to clean another's house the last thing one expects is for the maid to be invited to a live performance by her employer, but that is how these two begin their relationship. There is an extra and unclaimed ticket and the women attend the performance. Now they both are aspiring opera singers so a rivalry ensues and along comes a game of one-upmanship. Which of the two enemies will see her dreams fulfilled and come out on top?
- Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her long-lost brother and finding he is the tourist guide with whom she has had an affair.
- A fantasy love story that drifts between this world and heaven. Chasuke (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is in charge of making tea in heaven. He has feelings for a human woman named Yuri (Ito Ohno) whom he has seen from a writer who is scripting her life from heaven. He knows that Yuri is condemned to die in a car accident. To save the woman, Chasuke goes down to this world.
- The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a trip to get pregnant.
- A combined military task force travels to an ancient Japanese Island, searching for the missing members of a construction team, currently in the process of building a new military base. Once there, they find a foreboding, fiery landscape that hides a terrifying threat, capable of destroying them...and all who venture near.
- Sea at dawn, still with little light. An unpopular beach. A young woman walks unsteadily along the edge of the surf and finally heads out to sea.
- Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to live unconventional lives in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From shiny pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, Queer Japan pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between. Dazzling, iconoclastic drag queen Vivienne Sato peels back the layers of language and identity. Maverick manga artist Gengoroh Tagame tours the world with his unapologetically erotic gay comics. Councilwoman Aya Kamikawa recounts her rocky path to becoming the first transgender elected official in Japan. At legendary kink-positive hentai party Department H, non-binary performance artist Saeborg uses rubber to create a second skin. Culled from 100+ interviews conducted over 3 years in locations across Japan, Queer Japan features dozens of individuals sharing their experiences in their own words.
- The Master's Edition is a martial arts film/artistic documentary that reflects the inner world of Japanese master Shinjo Kiyohide, a modern day Samurai and living Karate legend. This unique glimpse into the world of the Master is like a treasure in a chest into which we are rarely granted the privilege of looking inside. This film depicts ancient practical knowledge in a wide range of impressive and innovative demonstrations, a profound, forgotten philosophy and living and learning guidelines that will help the viewer, regardless of his or her background, to understand the "Aji", that secret ingredient, that personal touch, that rare quality, that unknown element that transforms an ordinary person into an outstanding individual, a true master.
- EWF Live at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa, Japan 1990
- A blind conchologist who lives ion the island of Okinawa, Japan cures a rare disease afflicting Izumi who has washed up on the shore. having cured a rare disease through coincidence he is nonetheless besieged by numerous others who are looking to him for the treatment of their own ails.
- A seventeen years old, Anri, comes to Prince Edward Island for three weeks. Your typical shy Japanese girl, Anri gave herself a secret mission: she wants to find an old Canadian war veteran, with only a single clue, or just about: he supposedly lives near a lighthouse. Riding her bicycle every day, she gradually uncovers some small clues concerning the mysterious soldier: he was the first love of her recently deceased grandmother, and the man who gave her the book "Anne of Green Gables".
- Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a cameraman. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a cameraman assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...