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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Kubo and the Two Strings
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Travis Knight actor: Art Parkinson / Charlize Theron
other title: Kubo e la spada magica / Kubo - Den Modige Samurai
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
Black Cobra (2012) IMDb TMDB
When the Cobra Strikes
director: Scott Donovan / Lilly Melgar actor: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Jeff Wolfe
other title: Black Cobra - Schwarze Diamanten / When the Cobra Strikes
One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon double-crossed and becomes caught up in a contraband forcing him to overcome an opponent far more lethal and deadlier than he has ever met.
Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Showdown in Little Tokyo
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Dolph Lundgren / Brandon Lee
other title: Resa dei conti a Little Tokyo / Fúria no Bairro Japonês
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.
Reindeer Games (2000) IMDb WikiData
Reindeer Games
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Ben Affleck / Charlize Theron
other title: Trappola criminale / Dobbeltspil
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
White Tiger (1996) TMDB IMDb WikiData
White Tiger
director: Richard Martin actor: Gary Daniels / Kelly Benson
other title: Operazione Tigre / Tigre blanco
When D.E.A. agent Mike Ryan undertakes the huge task of avenging the brutal murder of the partner John Grogan, he find he must fight both sides; the murderer and his double crossing police buddies. Now with the unexpected help of the lovely Jade, he must confront the new generation Chinese underworld want-to-be kingpin and fight like and out-of-place "White Tiger"
Dec. 6, 2025 watched
Definitely a cut above other 90s low-budget action, in every way (plot, acting, cinematography etc). Well, except for Gary's accent.

RIP Cary-Hiroyuki
1990s Action Canada CaryHiroyukiTagawa Crime
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Bob Hoskins / Christopher Lloyd
other title: Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit / Hvem Snørede Roger Rabbit?
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
The Yank (1960) IMDb
The Yank
actor: James Drury
Matthew Dorn (James Drury) wandered through the wrecked Southern states, trying to use his medical skills as a means of penance for the carnage he committed as a Union officer during the Civil War.
Dec. 4, 2025 watched Pilot for a spinoff of The Rebel, starring James Drury as civil war veteran doctor in the post-war south.

Watched in the WestWed watch party on Mastodon
JamesDrury Pilot WatchParty WestWed Western
The Asphyx (1972) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Asphyx
director: Peter Newbrook actor: Robert Powell / Robert Stephens
other title: Asphyx / Experiments
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
American Yakuza (1993) IMDb WikiData
American Yakuza
director: Frank A. Cappello actor: Viggo Mortensen / Ryo Ishibashi
When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia lead by Dino Campanela and Nick rescues and saves the life of Shuji Sawamoto, who is the representative of Yakuza interests in America. Shuji hires Nick to work for Yakuza and becomes his godfather in the family after his oath to join Yakuza. However, Nick is a lonely FBI undercover agent assigned to penetrate the criminal organization. When the FBI discovers that Campanela is organizing a massive attack to destroy the Yakuza, Nick's boss Littman calls off the operation to leave the dirty work to the Italian Mafia. But the connection of Nick with Shuji and his goddaughter Yuko forces him to help his Japanese family.
Nov. 30, 2025 watched
Saw it originally in the cinema in the UK in 1994, thought then it was a superior low-budget action flick with a superior star, then unknown Viggo Mortensen. A lot of action but also character, too. I even got the cinema to give me the promotional cardboard cutout once its run was over.

I'll try not to wait another three decades before seeing it again!
1990s Action AnzuLawson Crime FrankACappello
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
功夫
8.6 (28 ratings) director: Stephen Chow actor: Stephen Chow / Yuen Qiu
other title: Kung Fusion / Kung Fu Zão
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
G Storm (2021) WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb
G 風暴
director: David Lam Tak-Luk actor: Louis Koo / Julian Cheung Chi-Lam
other title: G 風暴
Follows an investigator as he prevents a terrorist attack during a symposium held by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. He later finds it has links to human trafficking in Thailand.
The Mad Bomber (1973) IMDb WikiData
The Mad Bomber
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Vince Edwards / Chuck Connors
other title: Mad Bomber - L'uomo sputato dall'inferno / Aus der Hölle gespuckt
Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.
Addams Family Values (1993) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Addams Family Values
7.8 (8 ratings) director: Barry Sonnenfeld actor: Anjelica Huston / Raúl Juliá
other title: La famiglia Addams 2 / Det bli'r i familien Addams
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
The Addams Family (1991) Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb
The Addams Family
8.1 (14 ratings) director: Barry Sonnenfeld actor: Raúl Juliá / Anjelica Huston
other title: La famiglia Addams / Familien Addams
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
The Super Inframan (1975) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
中國超人
director: Hua Shan actor: Danny Lee Sau-Yin / Wang Hsieh
other title: Inframan l'altra dimensione / Invasion aus dem Inneren der Erde
The surface of the Earth is under attack, thousands of people are killed in this unprovoked attacked. The cause, Princess Dragonmon and her army of monsters have decided to invade. Princess Dragonmon is an alien whose race has been hiding under us for centuries waiting to attack at the time is right. A doctor has been preparing for something like this and turns his assistant Rayma into the cyborg hero known as Inframan. Now only Inframan stands between the Earth and Princess Dragonmon but when a close friend is captured and brainwashed, can she be stopped with this inside man feeding her info?
Ikiru (1952) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Melon Log WikiData
生きる
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Takashi Shimura / Haruo Tanaka
other title: Vivere / At leve
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Street Asylum (1990) WikiData IMDb
Street Asylum
director: Gregory Dark actor: Wings Hauser / Alex Cord
other title: Ryder
In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (well played with customary wired intensity by the always great Wings Hauser) has an electronic device put into his back that turns him into an out-of-control psychotic killer and put on the Strike S.Q.U.A.D. (an acronym for Scum Quelling Assault Urban Devision), which is a unit of crazed cops assigned by Captain Bill Quinton (a typically gruff Alex Cord) to rid the City of Angels of criminals by using any means necessary. The only problem is that Arliss discovers what's going down and decides to put a stop to all this madness.
The X from Outer Space (1967) TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
director: Kazui Nihonmatsu actor: Shunya Wazaki / Itoko Harada
other title: Odissea sulla Terra / Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
Nov. 24, 2025 watched
Space gorditas, space spores, space bossa nova: this movie's got it all!

Watched in #MonsterMiru #WatchParty on Mastodon after #Monsterdon
1960s Japan Kaiju MonsterMiru SciFi