Aki Maeda’s Typical Vibe
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Aki Maeda has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2000s.
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Shooter
2007
Drama · Action

Dreamcatcher
2003
Drama · Horror

The Devil's Backbone
2001
Fantasy · Drama

Ginger Snaps
2000
Fantasy · Horror

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
2004
Drama · Horror

Amores Perros
2000
Drama · Thriller

Kantara
2022
Action · Drama

The Kingdom
2007
Thriller · Action

Only three days before the school festival, a newly formed high school band rushes to put together a set for their big show — including a hit single by '80s by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts.
Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita · With Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yuu Kashii

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.
Dir. Hiroyuki Morita · With Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
Dir. Shusuke Kaneko · With Ai Maeda, Shinobu Nakayama, Aki Maeda

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.
Dir. Kinji Fukasaku · With Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
Dir. Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku · With Shugo Oshinari, Ai Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara
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