The Shonan Martial Arts High School Chronicles Trailer (1997)
"A masterpiece of youth cinema, brought to you by Yosuke Kubozuka"01 January 199778 mins
Yosuke Kubozuka, a star of the Japanese film industry who has appeared in numerous hit films such as *Ping Pong* and *The Mad Cherry Blossoms*. This is the first DVD release of a long-lost film in which he starred whilst still using the stage name ‘Yosuke’. It features the quarrelsome Kenta, the surf-loving Jun, and Kaori, who watches over them. The film vividly depicts their journey through youth.
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal.
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black.
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
