Akira Onodera Movies

1995  
NR  
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Prehistoric and Intergalactic megamonsters beware! Japan's jet-propelled, flying giant turtle returns, after a 14-year absence in this deliberately retro Japanese sci-fi fantasy, to defeat his giant nemesis Gyaos and to keep the world safe for children everywhere. The trouble begins when a plutonium transport is botched; somehow this disturbs an atoll, causes the disappearance of a professor and an entire village, and reawakens three Gyaos, gigantic flying lizard things with enormous wing-spans who fly about Japan making a lot of noise and causing infinite destruction. The clever scientists observing the birds decide that there is only one structure in Japan big enough to cage the pesky supercreatures: the Fukuoka Dome baseball stadium which has a roof that can open and close. All of the ensuing hullabaloo manages to awaken Gamera, the monster turtle, from his long slumber. He promptly destroys the stadium and releases two of the Gyaos. Disaster ensues as he and the scientists endeavor to stop the avian invaders from destroying the entire world. The film's exciting, climactic battle between Gamera and Gyaos takes place in the smoldering ruins of Tokyo. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Tsuyoshi IharaAkira Onodera, (more)
1990  
 
The success of the Japanese runs of Victor/Victoria, La Cage aux Folles and similar movies has clearly inspired this movie. Despite its derivative subject matter, it is groundbreaking for a Japanese film in its matter-of-fact acceptance of various aspects of Japan's gay subculture. In the story, Daisuke Yamazaki (Tsurutaro Kataoka) has been working for a loan company. When he loses this job, an old acquaintance from bygone days helps him get a job doing the bookkeeping for a gay drag club. Because he needs to earn some extra cash to pay for an operation for his son, he is persuaded to dress up with the guys and appear in the club's show. He has to go to some lengths to avoid being recognized by a member of the audience, and is troubled to discover that he is strongly attracted to another club employee. Since he's never seen (him? her?) out of drag, the person he is drawn to may or may not be a woman. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Tsurutaro KataokaAkira Onodera, (more)

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