Sunday, August 17, 2008

Basilisk

Summary

The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years.

But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?

Law of Ueki Plus

Summary

Law of Ueki Plus takes place 2 years after the end of the Law of Ueki, everyone has gone there own way and life has become peaceful again until one day Ueki saves a dog only to stumble upon a plot to steal the memories from all the people of earth. Ueki as the only person who did not have his memories taken, must go into a new world and retrieve the stolen memories where new allies, foes and powers await.

Death Note

Summary

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal... or his life?

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Vampire Knight



Yuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, wherein she was attacked by a vampire... And then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adapted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who’s hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions. Is Kaname's infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her. Because in this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems. And the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.

Monday, April 28, 2008

A Geisha - Movie

In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko. The story follows the difficult life of Eiko as she and her mentor battle the social pressures of postwar Japan. For the geisha community, the period after World War II was a time of conflict between pre-war traditionalism with a new atmosphere of individual liberty and women’s rights. The film is as much about the social revolution taking place in 1953 occupied Japan as it is about the emotional relationship between the two women.


Cast
Michiyo Kogure - Miyoharu
Ayako Wakao - Eiko
Seizaburô Kawazu - Kusuda
Saburo Date - manishi
Sumao Ishihara - Kokichi
Midori Komatsu - Oume
Kanji Koshiba - Kanzaki
Kikue Môri - Domestic arts teacher
Chieko Naniwa - Okimi
Eitarô Shindô - Sawamoto
Ichirô Sugai - Saeki
Haruo Tanaka - Ogawa
Emiko Yanagi - Kaname

Bambino

A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. Matsumoto Jun plays the overenthusiastic protagonist from Fukuoka who comes to Tokyo with the desire to become a chef. The drama will display cooking skills and the Italian language.

Matsumoto Jun as Ban Shogo
Karina as Hibino Asuka
Sato Ryuta as Katori Nozomi
Uchida Yuki as Shishido Miyuki
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Kuwabara Atsushi
Kitamura Kazuki as Yonamine Tsukasa
Ichimura Masachika as Shishido Tekkan
Hoshan (ほっしゃん。) as Oda Toshio
Mukai Osamu (向井理) as Senoo Masashi
Komatsu Ayaka as Minakawa Kozue
Yamamoto Kei as Endo Susumu
Fukiishi Kazue as Takahashi Eri
Sasaki Takao (佐々木崇雄) as Nagai Hirokazu
Sato Yusuke as Takanashi Hiroshi
Asou Kousuke (麻生幸佑) as Shibata Kenichiro