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Theme Week Wrap-Up Week 7 Wrap-Up: SABU First Week Hello dear visitors! Top Pick of the Week Mr. Long (2017) Me and Krasnaya gave a perfect score to Mr. Long (2017), and were also very pleased with Jam (2018). We highly recommend watching these two movies first if you are interested in knowing this director's work. As we around here enjoyed SABU's movies so much, we are extending this past week's theme and we will watch 5 more movies directed by him. Ranked Board Below we have this week's movies ordered from best to worst. #1 of the Week Mr. Long (2017) Our Score: 100/100 An absolute masterpiece and meteorite of a crime-drama. Mind-blowing cinematography, a perfect score, and a quiet yet deeply moving performance by Chang Chen. ...

Plot Summary: A Taiwanese hitman stranded and injured in a rural Japanese ghost town is nursed back to health by a young boy, finding unexpected redemption as a street-food cook before his past catches up to him. Director: Sabu Producers: Masayuki Tanishima, Yi-Ching Chen, Stephan Holl Screenplay: Sabu Starring: Chang Chen as Long Shohei Uno as Kenji Yi-Ti Yao as Lily Run-yin Bai as Jun Masashi Toshirou as Heishi Music: Akira Senju Cinematography: Otsuka Koichi Editing: Sabu HOT DEAL 🎬 Get The Movie Now ↗ *Live prices & availability verified on Amazon ⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ A Silent Hitman, a Ghost Town and a Beautiful Fate Another movie and another wow! SABU is striking in its versatility. Mr. Long for me is a masterpiece. Th...

Plot Summary: Three men in the same city, an enka singer kidnapped by an obsessive fan, a man seeking good deeds to save his comatose girlfriend, and a vengeful ex-convict, unwittingly collide in a web of fate. Director: Sabu Producers: Hiroyuki Igarashi, Kenjiro Naito Screenplay: Sabu Starring: Sho Aoyagi as Hiroshi Shintaro Akiyama as Takeru Yuta Ozawa as Tetsuo Machiko Ono as Masako Music: Akira Senju Cinematography: Daisuke Soma Editing: Sabu HOT DEAL 🎬 Get The Movie Now ↗ *Live prices & availability verified on Amazon ⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ Three Characters, One Fate: Jam's Interlocking Coincidences Hey there! We're almost finishing our SABU week and I want to tell you that I wouldn't mind doing a SABU marathon afte...

Plot Summary: A botched bank robbery triggers an absurd, non-stop foot chase through Tokyo involving a bumbling salaryman, a drug-addicted shopkeeper, and a suicidal yakuza officer. Director: Sabu Producer: Masashi Yagi Screenplay: Sabu Starring: Tomorowo Taguchi as Yasuda Diamond Yukai as Aizawa Shinichi Tsutsumi as Ryuji Takeda Ren Osugi as Yakuza Boss Akaji Maro as Head Yakuza Music: Akihiko Matsumoto Cinematography: Kazuto Sato Editing: Sabu HOT DEAL 🎬 Get The Movie Now ↗ *Live prices & availability verified on Amazon ⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ SABU's Debut: Running, Chasing and Japanese Absurdity KRASNAYA: The 1996 Dangan Runner is SABU's debut entry. The film lasts only 82 minutes, but in places it seemed to me that it was...

Plot Summary: A 27-year-old bachelor takes in his late grandfather's 6-year-old illegitimate daughter after the rest of the family shuns her, embracing the challenges of sudden parenthood. Director: Sabu Producers: Hiroyuki Igarashi, Toshiaki Nakazawa Screenplay: Tamio Hayashi, Sabu Starring: Kenichi Matsuyama as Daikichi Kawachi Mana Ashida as Rin Kaga Karina as Yukari Nitani Ruiki Sato as Koki Nitani Chiemi Toi as Kazumi Kawachi Music: Shogo Kaida Cinematography: Otsuka Koichi Editing: Sabu HOT DEAL 🎬 Get The Movie Now ↗ *Live prices & availability verified on Amazon ⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ A Fluffy Story About Unexpected Parenthood FREDDY: (Turns on the sensitive piano music) Here we have the second movie of the week directed b...

Plot Summary: A righteous high school senior defends a severely bullied underclassman from her tormentors, forming a deep bond that uncovers dark secrets in her home life. Director: Sabu Producers: Shinjiro Tsuda, Hiroaki Miki Screenplay: Sabu Starring: Taishi Nakagawa as Kiyosumi Hamada Anna Ishii as Hari Kuramoto Kai Inowaki as Shohei Iguchi Kaya Kiyohara as Anzu Ozaki Takumi Kitamura as Arashi Music: Kōji Endō Cinematography: Daisuke Soma Editing: Sabu HOT DEAL 🎬 Get The Movie Now ↗ *Live prices & availability verified on Amazon ⚠️ SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ A Strong and Emotional Start to SABU Week Well, well, well, here we go, starting our SABU week with his latest film. (Not gonna repeat that hip title because it's too lo...

Weekly Theme Announcement Welcome to Our 7th Week: SABU Week Wattup everybody? Today, for my great pleasure, we got SABU for our themed week (14 - 18 June). We recently watched a movie made by him— Postman Blues —in our " 90's Japanese Crime Movies " week. I immediately had to put his name on our raffle after finishing it. SABU (born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka. Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku . He earned his first starring role in 1991's World Apartment Horror , a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner . There isn't much information about SABU online and his movies were reall...