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Mako has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Memoirs of a Geisha.
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Only the Strong
1993
Action · Drama

Double Impact
1991
Thriller · Action

Quicksilver
1986
Action · Adventure

The Last Dragon
1985
Action · Comedy

The Master
1992
Action

Over the Top
1987
Action · Drama

No Retreat, No Surrender
1986
Action · Comedy

Lionheart
1990
Action

Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Hulu · Included

Pacific Heights
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Netflix · Included

Taking Care of Business
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 52%Prime Video · Included

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Conan the Destroyer
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 72%AMC+ · Included

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Brad Pitt, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, David Thewlis

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.
Dir. John Milius · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
Dir. Norman Tokar · With Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charles Ruggles

Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
Dir. Mark DiSalle · With Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Mako

A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.
Dir. Christophe Gans · With Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Rae Dawn Chong

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Jim Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne DeSalvo

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · With Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Tia Carrere

After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City.
Dir. Kevin Munroe · With Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patrick Stewart
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Dir. Robert Clouse · With Jackie Chan, Mako, Kristine DeBell

Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill
Asthmatic teenager Barry Gabrewski is a daydreamer. Troubled by bullying, he escapes into a fantasy world where he is the sidekick to his martial arts hero, Chuck Norris, in a series of high-octane adventures taken right out of his movies. With help from his teacher's wise old uncle, Mr. Lee, Barry learns the finer points of martial arts and enters a karate championship.
Dir. Aaron Norris · With Jonathan Brandis, Chuck Norris, Beau Bridges
A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.
Dir. Paul Hunter · With Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Dir. Steve Carver · With Chuck Norris, Christopher Lee, Richard Roundtree
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, RoboCop must decide where his loyalties lie.
Dir. Fred Dekker · With Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod wanders through the world; however, he is awakened from his peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician, Kane, escapes and comes seeking the Highlander.
Dir. Andrew Morahan · With Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger