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Hal Yamanouchi has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
So Undercover
2012
Action · Comedy

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Dir. James Mangold · With Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tao Okamoto
The story of Romeo and Juliet is exactly the opposite: two families, the Casisa and the Vitrano, who adore each other, and their two children, Anna and Claudio, students away from home and longtime lovers, who hate each other and want nothing to do with each other. When they return home, the two find an idyllic situation: the friendship between their families is so strong that they've even joined forces in business. The Casisa, ricotta producers, and the Vitrano, producers of cannoli shells, will sell "the lovers' cannoli," for which Claudio and Anna will be the unwitting ambassadors. It's so difficult to tarnish that picture that the two not only lack the courage to admit they've broken up, but, gripped by an increasingly childish fear, they complicate matters by telling outright lies: not only do they announce their wedding, but also the imminent birth of a child. From here, a hilarious game of misunderstandings begins, which will lead them to commit the wrong elopement.
Dir. Mimmo Esposito · With Claudio Casisa, Annandrea Vitrano, Paride Benassai

as Rat Eater King
After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
Dir. Sergio Martino · With Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Dir. Paolo Genovese, Luca Miniero · With Nicolas Vaporidis, Valentina Izumi, Massimiliano Bruno

A multi-layered series that looks back to the formative years of Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior's life in secluded Japan.
Dir. Joey Ansah, Christian Howard · With Christian Howard, Mike Moh, Akira Koieyama