#1229 Shaolin Girl

English Title: Shoalin Girl
Japanese Title: 少林少女/Shaolin Shojo
Year: 2008
Country: Japan
Running Time: 107 min
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Rating: 6.9

This a sequel to the 2001 Stephen Chow Chinese comedy Shaolin Soccer. For this movie he was working as the producer.

If you compare with Shaolin Soccer this was nothing!
A little bit waste of time!!
The fighting scene was really loose!
The 'dark side' ending was really sucks!

It was more a drama than a comedy!
Tin Kai Man & Lam Chi Chung saved the movie with a little bit of comedy
And when Kou Shibaski joined the lacrosse team!
But further it was nothing!!
Boring . . I fell in sleep in the last part of the movie!

So disappointed movie but with a great cast!
Kou Shibaski, my favo Japanese actress, couldn't save the movie with her high great acting! Although was nice to see her in a movie again after Dororo [what was also nothing]
Kitty Zhang, I know her from All About Women! I must say what a different!
I was irritating to her voice in All About Women! And just can't compare with this movie! Her Japanese is so cute LOL. Also I always though she was 'old' [because she looks old in the movie All About Women] but she's just so young! That means this role suit her really well!



Summary:
After harsh training in a Shaolin martial arts school, Rin returns home. She wishes to spread the art of Kung Fu, but her old master now works for a Chinese restaurant and her grandfather's dojo closes down. One day, she learns lacrosse from her friend, Min min, and she tries to integrate her martial arts into it. Meanwhile, a villain reaches out to Rin to take away her powers.

Cast:
Kou Shibasaki - Rin Sakurazawa
Yosuke Eguchi - Kenji Iwai
Toru Nakamura Yuichiro Ohba
Kitty Zhang - Min Min
Tin Kai Man - Tin
Lam Chi Chung - Ram
Takashi Okamura - Ryuji Tamura

Mami Yamasaki - Mami Shimizu
Kana Harada - Kana Kitano
Asami Ito - Asami Tabuse
Yuko Chino - Yûko Kaji
Miho Chiyoya - Miho Takuma
Aina Nishiaki - Aina Ogata
Miyuu Sawai - Miyû Kanagawa
Nana Yanagisawa - Nana Matsumoto
Asuka Ishii - Asuka Shii
Kimi Oie - Kimi Nakano
Asami Katsura - Asami Nagano
Naoko Watanabe - Naoko Yuasa
Ayasa Hanagata - Ayasa Nikai

Trailer:


[credits: asianmediawiki.com, imdb.com]

#1182 One Missed Call 2

English Title: One Missed Call 2
Japanese Title: 着信アリ2/Chakushin Ari 2
Chinese Title: 鬼来电2
Year: 2005
Country: Japan
Running Time: 116 min
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto
Genre: Horror
Rating: 7.2

I hardly can't remember part 1 but I still know it was much better than this one!
This one wasn't scary enough! Most horror freaks me out! It does but not so much LOL
This one was also a little confused! Well the ending really confused me!
I'm not really understood the ending WT....
If someone watched this could you explain it to me?

Also weird that they talking Japanese in Taiwan?
Even the cops? LOL

AND When u see someone crying while watching a horror movie?
OMG I just dropped tears when that boy sacrifice his life for her! TOUCHING

BUT still Kou Shibasaki still the best!



Summary:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's mobile phone, he receives a message telling him that he would die in an accident in the kitchen. This immediately comes true. Later, Naoto is visited by the snoopy journalist Takako Nozoe, who is researching the death call, and she plays the deadly ring tone for him. He recalls that not only Mr. Wang, but also Madoka have received similar calls. Meanwhile Kyoko is talking to Madoka and she sees a ghost in her phone. She rushes to Madoka's apartment and finds her dead in the bathtub, with Naoto and Takako arriving immediately after. Their investigation shows that Mimiko's grandfather Wei Zhang is in Taiwan and Takako asks her former husband Yuting to search him. Meanwhile, Kyoko receives a phone call and the autopsies of Mr. Wang and Madoka indicate the presence of coal dust in their lungs and no candies in their mouths. Takako, Naoto and Kyoko travel to Taiwan expecting to solve the mystery and save Kyoko from her fate

Cast:
Mimura - Kyoko Okudera
Yu Yoshizawa - Naoto Sakurai
Asaka Seto - Takako Nozoe
Renji Ishibashi - Detective Motomiya
Peter Ho - Chen Yu Ting
Chi Sun - Madoka Uchiyama
Nana Koizumi - Li Li
Karen Oshima - Mimiko Mizunuma
- Wang Mei Fung

Cameo: Kou Shibasaki - Yumi Nakamura

Trailer:


[credits: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org]

#1104 Dororo

English Title: Dororo
Japanese Title: どろろ
Year: 2007
Country: Japan
Running Time: 132 min
Director: Akihiko Shiota
Genre: Action/Fantasy

This movie is adapted from a manga.
Searching reviews about this movie and they were quite good, but in my opinion it was a boring movie with a simple storyline.
Special effect are OK not really spectacular!
Some fantasy scene that really are NOT
Talking mouse? Talking dead head? WTF
Ugly demons! REALLY NOT

Only the leaders save the movie!
Kou Shibasaki, one of my favo Japanese female star, from BR & Satoshi Tsumabuki from one of my favo Japanese movie Dragonhead!!
Kou was very funny and Satoshi was really cool!
I like the chemistry between them! Only missing the love LOL ^^



Summary:
In the year 3048, the wounded Lord Kagemitsu Daigo proposes a deal to rule the whole world to 48 demons in their sealed temple. In return, the demons ask the body of his unborn son. When the mutilated baby is born, his mother puts him in a basket in the river flow to save his life. The baby survives and becomes the demon slayer Hyakkimaru that slash demons to retrieve his body parts. During his journey, he meets the female thief Dororo, who was raised as a boy after the death of her parents by the evil Lord Daigo, in a small town and she befriends Hyakkimaru and joins him in his quest seeking revenge against the Daigo's clan

Cast:
Satoshi Tsumabuki - Hyakkimaru
Kou Shibasaki - Dororo
Kiichi Nakai - Daigo Kagemitsu
Eita - Tahōmaru
Yoshio Harada - Jukai
Katsuo Nakamura - Biwa

Raiting: 6.4
Trailer: