Shoko Ikeda Movies
- 2010
This full length anime film based on the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise takes place ten days before Christmas, when a party in the club room leads to a shift in reality. Kyon wakes up the next day to a universe in which Haruhi doesn't exist. Nobody knows who she is, and only Kyon remembers her. Soon, he finds that he has his work cut out for him, trying to discover how the center of the entire universe can simply disappear. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi
A high school student who has recently lost her mother risks it all to connect with the sister she never knew in this harrowing drama from actor-turned-director Masato Tsujioka (Bullet Ballet, A Snake of June). When Saki's mother died, the grieving high school student soon fell in with a serpentine high school pimp and his fearsome band of followers. Now Saki's former group of friends can't even recognize the once-happy girl anymore, but little do they realize that there is an explanation for their classmate's disturbing transformation. As a young child Saki was separated from her sister, and now the only way to locate her sibling is to plunge herself headlong into the sordid underworld of sex and violence. But as the damaging effects of exposing herself to this dangerous lifestyle slowly begin to take their toll on Saki, she senses that she is closer than ever before to finally unlocking the greatest mystery of her secret-shrouded past. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Jackie Chan returns to his adventuring Indiana Jones-esque Asian Hawk character with this rollicking action-adventure yarn. In this go-around, Jackie (aka the Asian Hawk) is looking for 240 tons of gold stolen by the Nazis and buried beneath the Sahara. Along the way, he teams up with a stuck-up archeologist named Ada (Carol Cheng), a Japanese tourist named Momoko (Shoko Ikeda), and Elsa (Eva Cobo De Garcia), the granddaughter of the Nazi captain who originally hid the booty. Opposing them is various groups of blackguards and mercenaries along with Adolf (Aldo Sanbrell) -- the last surviving soldier from the original company -- who is hell-bent on getting the gold himself. Soon, two of Jackie's companions find themselves sold into slavery while Jackie battles the baddies in a massive WWII-era wind tunnel. This film ran 100 percent over Chan's already lavish -- by Hong Kong standards -- budget, making it one of the most expensive films that industry has ever produced. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jackie Chan, Carol Cheng, (more)
