https://shotonwhat.com/region/japan The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:51:06 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/zen-fist-2024 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:51:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/zen-fist-2024
Director: Taiyo Kanto
Cinematographer: Taiyo Kanto
After a nuclear war, societal norms collapse. Ken, a peacekeeper, battles lawlessness, haunted by his sister's death. Facing tyrannical rule, he embodies Zen, seeking to reform himself and his foes through training and resolve. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/inception-2010 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:35:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/inception-2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-endgame-2019 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:40:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avengers-endgame-2019
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cinematographer: Trent Opaloch
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:48:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/you-only-live-twice-1967
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/godzilla-minus-one-2023 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:17:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/godzilla-minus-one-2023
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Cinematographer: Kôzô Shibasaki
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:42:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956
Director: Michael Anderson, John Farrow
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/perfect-days-2023 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:09:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/perfect-days-2023
Director: Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Franz Lustig
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-creator-2023 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:36:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-creator-2023
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser, Oren Soffer
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pokemon-1997 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:48:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pokemon-1997
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama, Norihiko Sutô, Masamitsu Hidaka, Joop Pieëte, Lotte Horlings, Fred Butter, Beatrijs Sluyter, Tetsuo Yajima, Daiki Tomiyasu, Maki Kodaira, Yûji Asada, Hirokazu Hanai, Kazuomi Koga, Ken Koyama, Yoshitaka Makino, Shigeru Ueda, Tomomasa Yamazaki, Toshiaki Suzuki, Armen Mazlumian, Toshiaki Suzuki, Michael Haigney, Darren Dunstan, Jun'ya Koshiba
Cinematographer: Hisao Shirai, Motoaki Ikegami, Yuki Orikasa
Ash Ketchum, his yellow pet Pikachu, and his human friends explore a world of powerful creatures. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shoplifters-2018 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:08:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shoplifters-2018
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cinematographer: Ryûto Kondô
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ace-attorney-2012 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:48:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ace-attorney-2012
Director: Takashi Miike
Cinematographer: Masakazu Oka
This movie is based on the second and fourth cases in the popular video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. The plot follows Phoenix Wright, a novice lawyer, who faces off against expert ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-forest-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:29:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-forest-2016
Director: Jason Zada
Cinematographer: Mattias Troelstrup
A woman goes into Japan's Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:24:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shonen-h-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:22:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shonen-h-2013
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Narrated and viewed from the perspective of a child in the family, Shoonen H portrays the daily trials and societal difficulties of a Christian family from just prior to the commencement of... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/wara-no-tate-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:22:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wara-no-tate-2013
Director: Takashi Miike
Cinematographer: Nobuyasu Kita
A team of cops must protect an accused killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bhaag-milkha-bhaag-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:05:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bhaag-milkha-bhaag-2013
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Cinematographer: Binod Pradhan
The truth behind the ascension of Milkha Singh who was scarred because of the India-Pakistan partition. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/soshite-chichi-ni-naru-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:54:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/soshite-chichi-ni-naru-2013
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cinematographer: Mikiya Takimoto
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/baraka-1992 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:19:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/baraka-1992
Director: Ron Fricke
Cinematographer: Ron Fricke
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/black-rain-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:00:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/black-rain-1989
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jan de Bont
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s-mcnamara-2003 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:43:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s-mcnamara-2003
Director: Errol Morris
Cinematographer: Robert Chappell, Peter Donahue
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-samurai-2003 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:24:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-samurai-2003
Director: Edward Zwick
Cinematographer: John Toll
An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/autoreiji-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:06:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/autoreiji-2010
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/samsara-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:45:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/samsara-2001
Director: Pan Nalin
Cinematographer: Rali Raltschev
A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/memoirs-of-a-geisha-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:13:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/memoirs-of-a-geisha-2005
Director: Rob Marshall
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gunjo-ai-ga-shizunda-umi-no-iro-2009 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:13:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gunjo-ai-ga-shizunda-umi-no-iro-2009
Director: Yosuke Nakagawa
Cinematographer: Hiro'o Yanagida
A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:06:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Cinematographer: Olli Barbé, Michel Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stéphane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michel Terrasse, Thierry Thomas
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/flags-of-our-fathers-2006 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:27:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/flags-of-our-fathers-2006
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sonatine-1993 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:16:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sonatine-1993
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima
Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/battle-royale-2000 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:47:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/battle-royale-2000
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagijima
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-cove-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:59:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-cove-2009
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Cinematographer: Brook Aitken
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lost-in-translation-2003 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:55:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lost-in-translation-2003
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cinematographer: Lance Acord
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-twilight-samurai-2002 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:29:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-twilight-samurai-2002
Director: Yôji Yamada
Cinematographer: Mutsuo Naganuma
As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing 2 young daughters, an aged mother, clan loyalties, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/3-ninjas-kick-back-1994 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:46:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/3-ninjas-kick-back-1994
Director: Charles T. Kanganis
Cinematographer: Christopher Faloona
During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the match. When they arrive in Japan, they ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/letters-from-iwo-jima-2006 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:41:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/letters-from-iwo-jima-2006
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/maadadayo-1993 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:43:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/maadadayo-1993
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cinematographer: Takao Saitô, Shôji Ueda
Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/babel-2006 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:19:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/babel-2006
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/departures-2008 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:37:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/departures-2008
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Cinematographer: Takeshi Hamada
A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. ]]>