James Shigeta

The story of a Yakuza warrior who introduces the code of honor and discipline into the L.A. criminal world. (Sony Pictures Classics)

New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building. (imdb)

A dramatization of the battle that turned out to be the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. (imdb)

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia... (imdb)

Classic, hard-to-find Sam Fuller pic is intriguing noir about two detective partners, one caucasian and one Japanese, who try to solve a complicated murder case. Unfortunately, trouble arises when along the way, both of them fall in love with the key witness! (imdb)

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

A pilot runs a charter service while romancing local women. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)

A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father's disapproval. (imdb)

An eager-beaver San Francisco assistant D.A. takes samurai lessons. When he sees the law abused, and reruns of "The Green Hornet", he dons Japanese warrior garb and wields a wicked sword to stop a tycoon who has a supersonic device that causes earthquakes. (John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again)

A cowboy's love for a Chinese slave girl triggers controversy in a Western town. (TCM.com)

A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two open up a bar together, but some local gangsters make things tough for them after they refuse to take part in brutal "cage" matches where fighters battle to the point of serious injury and/or death. (imdb)

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government. (imdb)

U.S. Navy photographic team uses Tokyo geisha house as its home. (imdb)

Enter the cage, and you may never come out again... alive. Inside this enclosure, men fight to the death. Now, the syndicate that runs these bloody battles has snatched the amazingly strong, physically powerful Billy Thomas. They tell Billy that they've killed his best friend, Scott, and force him to fight opponent after opponent. Scott, however, actually lives... and he's determined to rescue Billy from these evil manipulators. Even if it means he must step into the cage and fight his pal. (rottentomatoes.com)

When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer (James Lew) starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer (Lorenzo Lamas) to fight back.

A man sits back on Christmas and mourns his son who died 20 years before in World War II. He sits and listens to "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" and becomes more and more sullen. He is visited by three ghosts who center the experience they supply on not just Christmas, but War. (imdb)

Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. (imdb)

Rich married sleuths show up for a literary weekend and overhear a plot for murder. (imdb)

After his wife was killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder. (imdb)

Imperial Japanese army conquered Philippines. Americans start dangerous operation of pulling prisoners from Manilla. (freemoviescinema.com)

This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that he is letting them choose a successor. The two vice presidents who are the front runners for the job are Alex Vandervoort and Roscoe Heyward. Now Alex is not exactly running around looking for support, Roscoe can only see the benefits the presidency can give him. (imdb)

Drama set in the 1950s, based on a true story, about a young girl, Sung Neng Yee, who is brought as part of a wealthy Chinese family. She is eager to become part of Mao Tze Tung's "new society", but soon becomes disenchanted by the economic misery the changes bring to her family. Before long, the authorities become aware of Neng Yee's feelings and she is taken to a labour camp, overseen by the sadistic Colonel Cheng. (imdb)

Two P.O.W. survivors of Bataan seeing a Japanese plane crash, somehow get their hands on a Japanese code machine. They then escape in search of their army.

The misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing would threaten Japanese/American relations.