He is back after 30 years since his breakthrough as the king of the monsters from 1954. During the 60s and 70s Gojira has changed from bad guy to good guy, in this 30 anniversary film the team of this production decided to bring Gojira back to his bad guy role, and this time not only Tokyo fear him but also the Sovietunion
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Gunhed 1989
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A messy directed film (well one cannot expect more from a movie made by Alan Smithee) but still a guilty pleasure. With mix of terminator doomsday timeline and transformers action robot and humans mercenaries from alien movie style, this 1989 sci fi action movie will give the audience a lot of guilty pleasure
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Hachiko 1987
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Based on real event. Hachiko is a warm hearted story of a dog who refused to accept the death of his master. It even got a remake from Hollywood with Richard Gere. But this 1987 movie is the one faithful to the original event
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A taxing Woman 1987
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A funny comedy drama thriller about Ryoko, a taxing woman who investigating a swindler. Well played by Nobuko Myamoto who put in an interesting character and help through with a smile on your face in this 80s Classic
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Violent Cop 1989
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The big breakthrough to now the most beloved character in Japanese history, Takeshi Kitano. With Violent Cop from 1989 he took not Japan but the whole world by storm, he became the Japanese version of Dirty Harry
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Legend of the Eight Samurais 1983
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A strong classic samurai fantasy about a escaped princess who be rescued by a thief and their quest to find eight guardian samurais to protect her and to destroy an evil sorcerer queen. A dark tune but exiting adventure with a beautiful end credit song of John Obannion
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Samurai Reincarnation 1981
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The legendary ninja actor Sonny Chiba takes the role of the legendary hero Yubei, as he fights against a betrayed Christian samurai who sold his soul to satan. Samurai Reincarnation from 1981 gives the audience a tragedy story to wild ninja action and mystery of the unknown
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I are you, you am me 1982
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A funny comedy about two 9th grade students, a boy Kuszou and a girl Kasumi, one day they replace their souls into the other bodies, he become she and she become he. The movie gave inspiration for the Guy Pearce movie from 1996 dating the enemy
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Kagemusha 1980
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We can't have a 80s list without Akira Kurosawa movie Kagemusha. The story of a thief who replace the role of a king who passed away who happen to look like him, the movie is taking story from a Shakespeare novel with samurais
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Ran 1985
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This top ten begins with the classic 80s movie from Kurosawa San, Ran, a 1985 Shakespeare samurai movie about a king who gave the thrown to the wrong son, who has casted his own father away from his own home, now the father remember his ill deeds from the past, a striking story with philosophy of tragedy
