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Min Tanaka has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends.
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
Animation · Romance
Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Munetaka Aoki
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Dir. Keishi Otomo · With Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei, Munetaka Aoki
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Dir. Wim Wenders · With Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Dir. Yoji Yamada · With Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking into a suspicious new religion called Deer Mount.
Dir. Jang Jae-hyun · With Lee Jung-jae, Park Jeong-min, Lee Jae-in
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
Dir. Michael Arias · With Kazunari Ninomiya, Yūsuke Iseya, Yu Aoi
Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.
Dir. Ayumu Watanabe · With Mana Ashida, Hiiro Ishibashi, Seishu Uragami
Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a hero.
Dir. Yoshiyuki Momose, Akihiko Yamashita, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Takuya Okada · With Min Tanaka, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Joe Odagiri
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
Dir. Martin Zandvliet · With Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Dir. Carl Rinsch · With Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki
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