Pokémon 3 The Movie: Entei - Spell of the Unown 劇場版ポケットモンスター 結晶塔の帝王 Entei

Released Year: 2000

Directed by 湯山邦彥 Kunihiko Yuyama

Voiced by:

松本梨香 Rica Matsumoto & Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (Satoshi)

飯塚雅弓 Mayumi Iizuka & Rachael Lillis as Misty (Kasumi) 

上田祐司 Yūji Ueda & Eric Stuart as Brock (Takeshi) 

小笠原晶子 Akiko Yajima & Amy Birnbaum as Molly Hae (Mi Snowdon) 

竹中直人 Naoto Takenaka & Dan Green as Entei

Masami Toyoshima & Veronica Taylor as Delia Ketchum (Hanako)

 林原惠 Megumi Hayashibara & Rachael Lillis as Jessie (Musashi) 

三木真一郎 Shin-ichiro Miki & Eric Stuart as James (Kojirō)

犬山犬子 Inuko Inuyama & Maddie Blaustein as Meowth (Nyarth) 

 Story: 

In the beautiful town of Greenfield, a resident of the town, the research scientist Professor Spencer Hale, conducts research on the elusive Unown. He and his assistant, Skyler, discover a site of ruins, but Hale is sucked into the dimension of the Unown.

His disappearance leaves his young daughter Molly alone, her mother having disappeared previously. Molly finds a box of tablets containing Unown images and begins assembling the letters, which summons the Unown themselves. The Unown use their powers to make Molly's wishes come true, transforming her manor house into a crystal-like palace which spreads across the town and cuts her off from the world. Entei is created to represent Molly's father. Various people come to help sort out the Unown, including Professor Oak and Delia Ketchum (Ash's mother).

Meanwhile, Ash and his friends meet and befriend a trainer named Lisa. They come into Greenfield in the process and agree to join in the rescue mission to save young Molly. However, Entei kidnaps Delia, following Molly's request for a mother as well. Entei's powers hypnotize Delia into thinking she is Molly's mother. Ash, Misty, Brock and their Pokémon head out to the mansion to save Delia, communicating with Professor Oak and Skyler thanks to a PokéGear device given to them by Lisa. Team Rocket try to investigate the mansion, only to be blasted out of the air by Entei into the depths of the mansion. Molly watches Ash's Bulbasaur and Chikorita in action through a television and falls asleep, imagining herself being a Pokémon Trainer. Seeing Ash on TV, Delia snaps out of her trance, which is not noticed by Entei, who then creates a dream version of Molly as an adult and takes her to battle the three. Molly first fights Brock, but Molly's dreamed-up Pokémon are stronger than his; Molly then has a more friendly fight against Misty in an underwater battle, but the winner is not shown.

Ash manages to locate Molly and Delia, but Molly refuses to leave with him and the mansion transforms. Entei refuses to allow Ash to leave with his mother, and fights his Pokémon. Entei defeats Totodile and Cyndaquil with ease, and battles Pikachu. He then blasts Ash and Pikachu off a cliff, but they are saved by the arrival of Ash's Charizard. Charizard, with Ash on his back, battles Entei until he is knocked out of the sky. Entei nearly kills Charizard until Molly commands him to stop and begs that no more fighting happens, which manages to stop Entei. Ash and his friends convince Molly to leave with them, Entei revealing he was created by the Unown to be her father.

The Unown suddenly lose control of their powers and start to seal the group in the mansion. Ash, Pikachu, Charizard, Misty, Brock, Delia, Molly and Team Rocket escape down to the hall where the Unown are. Pikachu and Charizard attempt to break the forcefield protecting the Unown, but they are unsuccessful—until they are joined by Entei, combining their powers to destroy the shield with Molly's support. Entei sacrifices himself and the Unown return to their dimension, reversing all of their effects on the world and returning Professor Hale to the ruins where he originally vanished.

The group ventures outside, where Professor Oak, Skyler, Lisa and others meet them. Team Rocket hides in the mansion upon seeing all of the police outside and declare that they will always have another opportunity to catch Pokémon. In the end credits, Charizard and Lisa depart from Ash's company; Molly is seen with her own Teddiursa and reunites with her father—and later, with her long-lost mother.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment: 

Many years ago, when i play the pokemon game, unown is the one which is the most difficult to collect the whole set of 28 of them, which is the "A-Z" with "?" & "!". I remember I even has all the eevee evolution version (5 at the max that time) but my unown is only 14 types.

Well, back to the movie. This movie is not as good as the first two movie for me, but Entei & Unown's appearance helps to pull up the spirit of this movie. You may see a lot of new pokemon appeared, which are the 2nd gen and Ash didn't use squirtlle at all in this movie :( But anyway, I'm still excited to watch the rest of the movie... 

Battle Royale バトル・ロワイアル 大逃殺

 Released Year: 2000

Directed by 深作欣二 Kinji Fukasaku

Casted by:

藤原龍也 Tatsuya Fujiwara as 七原秋也 Shuya Nanahara

前田亞季 Aki Maeda as 中川典子 Noriko Nakagawa

北野武 Takeshi Kitano as 北野老師 Kitano

山本太郎 Taro Yamamoto as 川田章吾 Shogo Kawada

安藤政信 Masanobu Ando as 桐山和雄 Kazuo Kiriyama

柴咲幸 Kou Shibasaki as 相馬光子 Mitsuko Souma

塚本高史 Takashi Tsukamoto as 三村信史 Shinji Mimura

高岡蒼甫 Sosuke Takaoka as 杉村弘樹 Hiroki Sugimura

栗山千明 Chiaki Kuriyama as 千草貴子 Takako Chigusa

 Story: 

Japanese middle school student Shuya Nanahara copes with life after his father's suicide. Meanwhile, schoolmate Noriko Nakagawa is the only student attending class 3-B. Their teacher, Kitano, resigns after being impulsively attacked by a student.

One year later, class 3-B takes a field trip, but they are gassed, fitted with electronic collars, and sent to a "briefing room" on a remote island. Kitano explains that the class has been chosen to participate in the annual Battle Royale as a result of the BR Act, which was passed after 800,000 students walked out of school. A cheerful orientation video instructs the class they have three days to kill each other until only one remains. The explosive collars will kill any uncooperative students or those within daily "danger zones". Kitano kills two students for misbehavior during the video, including Shuya's best friend, Nobu. Each student is provided a bag of food and water, map of the island, compass, and a weapon ranging in efficiency from firearms to a paper fan.

The program's first six hours see twelve deaths, two by suicide. Mitsuko Souma and mute transfer student Kazuo Kiriyama soon become the most dangerous players, while another transfer student, Shogo Kawada, seems somewhat more merciful. Shinji Mimura plots to hack into the military's computer system. Amid shifting loyalties and violent confrontations, Shuya promises to keep Noriko safe, because his friend secretly loved her. Shuya carries Noriko to a clinic after she collapses, where they encounter Kawada, who reveals that he won a previous Battle Royale at the cost of his girlfriend, whose death he seeks to avenge. When Kiriyama attacks, Shuya entrusts Kawada to protect Noriko and runs off as a distraction. Although saved by another student, he is wounded.

Shuya awakens in the island's lighthouse, bandaged by female class representative Yukie Utsumi, who has a crush on him. Five other girls from her clique have also been hiding out in the building, including Yuko Sakaki, who attempts to poison Shuya only for another girl to accidentally eat the food. Yuko is the only survivor of the resulting shootout; despondent, she apologises to Shuya and commits suicide. Shuya returns to Noriko and Kawada, and they set out to find Mimura. Of the seven students remaining, all except Kiriyama are attempting or willing to subvert the game. Mimura and two others infiltrate the military's computer system, but Kiriyama finds and kills them. When Kawada, Noriko and Shuya arrive at the hackers' burning base, Kawada confronts and kills Kiriyama, who had been blinded by an explosion rigged by Mimura as he was killed.

On the morning of the final day, Kawada, aware of the collars' internal microphones, takes Shuya and Noriko aside and fakes their deaths. Suspicious, Kitano ends the game and dismisses the troops, intent on personally killing the supposed victor. Kitano realizes that Kawada had hacked into the game's system months beforehand, and has now disabled Shuya and Noriko's tracking devices. The three survivors confront Kitano in the headquarters, and he unveils a disturbing homemade painting of the massacred class that depicts Noriko as sole survivor. He reveals that he was unable to bear the hatred between him and his students, having been rejected by his daughter. He confesses that he always thought of Noriko as a daughter and asks her to kill him, but Shuya shoots Kitano after he threatens Noriko with a gun. As he falls, Kitano shoots, revealing that it is a water gun. As he dies, Kitano angrily takes a call from his daughter and rebukes her.

Shuya, Noriko and Kawada leave the island on a boat, but Kawada dies from injuries sustained in his gunfight with Kiriyama – "glad" that in the end, he "found true friends." Shuya and Noriko are declared fugitive murderers, and are last seen on the run in the direction of Tokyo's Shibuya train station. Noriko gives Shuya a Seto Dragon Claw balisong before they run off together.

 L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

This is my all time favorite Japanese movie ever :) Love the whole storyline, the friendship, the love, the trust, the dis-trust, the betray, the hope, the regret... everything is perfectly shown how's the Jap culture is so much different when they come to this kind of situation. Some of u might figure out that hunger game is actually copying this, but the Jap version is way way better~ trust me...

Tokyo Raiders 東京攻略

Released Year: 2000

Directed by  馬楚成 Jingle Ma

Casted by:

梁朝偉 Tony Leung as 林貴仁 Ren

鄭伊健 Ekin Cheng 畢大勇 Yong

陳慧琳 Kelly Chen as Macy

張柏芝 Cecilia Cheung as 沙織 Saori

仲村亨 Toru Nakamura as 高橋裕二 Takashi

阿部寬 Hiroshi Abe as 伊藤武 Ito

 Story:

Macy is waiting for her fiancee Takashi to attend their wedding in LA, but he did not appear. Macy went back to Hong Kong and met with Yong, who is a body guard of her father (to pretend as interior designer), and together they depart to Tokyo to look for Takashi.

At Tokyo, interpol officer Ren is looking for Takashi as well. He pretends as a private inspector to get near Macy for more information. 3 of them was hunted by the gangster Ito. On a boat fight, Takashi beat down Ito, but he was also arrested by police with the help of Ren and Yong. In the end, Yong escort Macy back to Hong Kong.

 L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:  

The storyline is kinda predictable, nothing special seriously. The most exciting part will be the fighting action part, it was carried out mostly by Ekin & Tony throughout the movie. For me, Kelly Chen is really an extra of this movie, i believe any actress can take her part if it weren't of her fame...

Freeze Me フリーズ・ミー,

Released Year: 2000
Directed by 石井隆 Takashi Ishii

Casted by:
井上晴美 Harumi Inoue as Chihiro
鹤见辰吾 Tsurumi Shingo as Rapist 1
北村一辉 Kitamura Kazuki as Rapist 2
竹中直人 Takenaka Naoto as Rapist 3
松网俊介 Matsuoka Shunsuke as Nagomi
Story:

Chihiro was gang raped by 3 rapist during her study time, she then moved to Tokyo to forget about her pass. Now, Chihiro is in a relationship with Nagomi who is her colleague.

Chihiro was shocked one day when she saw one of the rapist came to visit her. The rapist intends to stay at her home and wait for another 2 guys to arrive. He threatened Chihiro by having sex with him or else will post out her raped photos to all the neighbour. Feeling stress, Chihiro decided to kill the rapist when he was in shower. She then freeze him up in the refrigerator.

The second rapist arrive but he acted to appologize while trying to rape Chihiro. He accidentally found the corpse in the fridge and freak off, but Chihiro has standby and killed him. Subsequently the third rapist arrived and rape Chihiro again. He then stay in Chihiro house and wait for his friend. Chihiro managed to killed him and freeze him in the fridge as well.

Nagomi came to visit Chihiro and they have sex. But Nagomi then discovered the 3 corpses and was shocked. Out of idea, Chihiro killed Nagomi with a vase. She feel sad and jump off from her building and commit suicide.

L² Scored: 4.5/10

L² Comment:

This is a rape-revenge film which i find its so so. It would be better if all the actors show their full frontal instead~ lol