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Yoshihiko Hakamada
Guadalcanal Taka
Nao Oikawa
Shirō Shimomoto
Kazuyoshi Ozawa
There is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
A cramped environment with all kinds of restrictions shapes Hong Kong into a square city. Perhaps life is impoverished, oppressive, and the actuality is being difficult to change. Yet, Bong hasn't lost his imagination of birds soaring high in the sky, and has still retained his longing for wonderful things.
Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached with a mineral resource deal. However, it is a trap set by a politician who wants Sakurai to play as a substitute. Falling right into the trap, Sakurai is forced to participate in an underground mahjong match held at a certain country's embassy...
Sakurai Shoichi meets Nishi, a man who lost all his money in gambling. Attracted by Nishi's personality, Shoichi invites him along on a gambling trip to the Tokaido. Nishi wants to raise money for his son's college entrance fee, so he wants him to play mahjong and win. However, at an inn in Hakone where Nishi is friendly, Shoichi is tricked by the yakuza
The Kuronuma Group, a huge mahjong organization that controls the political and financial circles of Japan from behind the scenes, has been growing rapidly by taking in underground professionals one after another with the overwhelming strength of the second generation leader, Nishimura Hiromitsu. In the midst of all this, a young pinch-player, Matsuoka, who respects Sakurai Shoichi, faces off against a low-level member, which leads to a confrontation between Sakurai and Nishimura...
A young professional mahjong player, Sakurai Shoichi (Shimizu Kentaro), who graduated from university, was employed at a real estate company. While on a business trip with the company president (Hamada Akira) to a secluded hot spring town, he learns that an elderly couple who are the president's benefactors are in trouble. The old man was a former gambler who ran the town with honor and compassion, but his business was taken away by an emerging gangster (Hiura Tsutomu). When Sakurai Shoichi finds out that the emerging gangster is making a shady profit from mahjong, he offers to play as a substitute for the player without payment.
Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...
Hank Zhu, a leading property agency manager, has three subordinates, namely Fish Ball, Robert, and Chester. Lara Tong who was most feared by her colleagues, got promoted to Chief Executive Officer, and to lead Hank's team. One day, Lara goes to the office rooftop alone and prepares to jump because she is depressed due to a breakup. However, there she meets Hank who is also depressed and suddenly lightning strikes them both. Miraculously, the two wake up in the hospital and find their bodies switched. Lara is trapped in Hank's body, while Hank is trapped in Lara's body. How does their story continue?
Shoichi Sakurai meets his girlfriend's father, the legendary drug dealer Mo. This leads to the two of them repeatedly competing against each other, but Mo eventually passes away. Sakurai, who regrets having taken his life, receives news of the Japan Championship and decides to retire after this match. Thus, he faces his final match, but...
Adapted from a manga of the same name.
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
Can exercise sharpen the brightest minds? In this ground-breaking experiment, four world-class gamers, competing in eSports, Chess, Mahjong and Memory Games, put this to the test.
"Strip Mahjong" series in which many sexy actresses co-star. An audition will be held to choose the second generation of Yuriko known as a legendary idol. Those who dream of the top of the idol, or those who are blinded by the prize money play a matchless mahjong game.
Mizuki, a female doctor working at a certain hospital, is immersed in the treatment of Aimi, a high school girl infected with SDX (Viral and Sexually Sensitive Disease). During the treatment, Mizuki realizes that SDX is artificially made. However, at that moment, Dr. Nakamatsu appears and begins a desperate game of survival.
Year 201X. Japan has achieved economic revitalization due to the legalization of betting authorized by the government due to the enforcement of the betting regulations. A gambling vocational school (commonly known as Tobasen) was established to train specialists so that they can compete with other countries even in gambling. Only the gambling arm can climb. Meanwhile, Mizuho and four female students are gathered in the classroom. They were some of the most problematic children in Tobasen. Then, the teacher tells me the startling test contents. If he wins, he will graduate as a gambling specialist. However, if he lost, he was stripped of all his clothes, and he was a mahjong undressing, breaking the rules that death sanctions were waiting.
The strongest professional mahjong syndicate in Kansai, backed by Western Japan's largest illegal organization, sets out to conquer Tokyo! Assigned this special mission, the “Dragon of Minami” uses his speed honed in buu mahjong and his teamwork with his wife, Ritsuko, to defeat one Kanto-based professional after another. Meanwhile, Shoichi Sakurai, visiting the grave of a mahjong player he killed in retaliation for an underground match, encounters former opponent Hiromitsu Nishimura. The Tokyo faction, now in total disarray, had even approached the retired Nishimura to act as their rep player. But, having sworn off mahjong as a promise to Sakurai, Nishimura agonizes. Win the match, die. Lose the match, die. Sensing Nishimura's predicament, Sakurai enters the high-stakes arena alone. The curtain rises on the East-West Mahjong Showdown, the greatest match in Japan!
Undercover cop Leung Foon is having trouble taking down the illegal trading operation headed by crime boss Ferrari. So to accomplish his mission, he asks for help from the renowned Master Wong, an expert in gambling tricks.
Born with a silver spoon, an arrogant mahjong player loses all his luck. Now, he has to re-learn the game and will soon discover the joy and principles of life over the mahjong table. The final match will be his one shot to turn his life around.
The second full-fledged mahjong drama presented with the full cooperation of the Japan Professional Mahjong Federation! The strongest rival appears. The most formidable rival appears. What will Ando Mitsuru do? Will the subspace killing method be defeated?
Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younger is unable to accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he mindlessly sleepwalks through his days and the challenge of raising his teenager daughter. His life is in a slow downward spiral when it is suddenly awakened and invigorated by the most unlikely person – Produce, a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep school.
Terry Bogard's father was murdered by a man named Geese Howard for the purpose of retrieving an ancient manual on martial arts. When Terry grows up he is driven by hatred to avenge his father's death, but must overcome this hatred if he is to complete his training on how to defeat Geese Howard.
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
Terry is fighting abroad when a boy named Tony, who wants to be Terry's student, follows him despite his mother and Terry's wishes. When Terry Bogard is defeated by a foe more powerful than he's ever seen before, Terry falls into depression and turns to the bottle. While his friends go after this new foe, Tony must restore Terry's faith... and once he realizes that only he can defeat this ruthless fiend.
Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.
After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while.
A postman learns that he doesn't have much time left to live due to a terminal illness. A devil then appears in front of him and offers to extend his life if he picks something in the world that will disappear. The man thinks about his relationships with ex-friends, ex-lovers, relatives and colleagues who will be sincerely sad when he dies.
A former U.S. Navy Seal is forced to become the international criminal he once fought against when a powerful and violent drug cartel kidnaps his wife and daughter.
The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.
