Movies with Sab Shimono

The Shadow

Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure

Starring: Peter Boyle, Alec Baldwin, Tim Curry, Ian McKellen, James Hong, Andre Gregory, Sab Shimono

Directors: Russell Mulcahy

Country: USA

Year: 1994

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.

 

Paradise Road

Genres: Drama, History, War

Starring: Glenn Close, Julianna Margulies, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Jennifer Ehle, Sab Shimono, Clyde Kusatsu

Directors: Bruce Beresford

Country: USA, Australia

Year: 1997

The group of women from different countries and social levels are prisoners in a Japanese concentration camp, where one of them, Adrienne, who is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, organizes a vocal band in spite of their guards resistance.

 

Gung Ho: Working Class Man

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Jihmi Kennedy, Clint Howard, John Turturro, Rick Overton, Michael Keaton, Sab Shimono, Rance Howard

Directors: Ron Howard

Country: USA

Year: 1986

Hunt Stevenson works for a large car manufacturer that has just been bought out by a Japanese firm. Suddenly finding himself having to justify his own job, he's forced to choose between redundancy or the seemingly inhuman Japanese work ethic that the new owners have brought with them.

 

Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword

Genres: Comedy, Family, Mystery

Starring: Brian Cox, George Takei, Frank Welker, Kelly Hu, Kevin Michael Richardson, Grey DeLisle, Sab Shimono

Directors: Christopher Berkeley

Country: USA

Year: 2009

The gang of Mystery Inc. take a trip to Japan and find themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate, an ancient blade fabled to possess extraordinary supernatural powers..

 

Suture

Genres: Thriller

Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Michael Harris, David Graf, John Ingle, Sanford Gibbons

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Brothers Vincent (rich) and Clay (poor) meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look. But unknown to Clay, who thinks his life is taking a turn for the better, Vince is actually plotting to kill him with a car bomb and pass the corpse off as his own, planning to start a new life elsewhere with his father's inheritance. But Clay survives the blast and has his face, memory and identity restored in hospital... but are they the right ones?

 

The Challenge (1982)

Genres: Action, Drama

Starring: Sab Shimono, Scott Glenn, Clyde Kusatsu, Toshiro Mifune, Calvin Jung, Shogo Shimada, Donna Kei Benz

Directors: John Frankenheimer

Country: USA, Japan

Year: 1982

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.

 

3 Ninjas Kick Back

Genres: Action, Comedy, Family

Starring: Kellye Nakahara, Victor Wong, Sab Shimono, Scott Caudill, Dustin Nguyen, Don Stark, J. Evan Bonifant

Directors: Charles T. Kanganis

Country: USA, Japan

Year: 1994

During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the match. When they arrive in Japan, they must use all their powers to defend him against his ancient enemy, who has returned to exact revenge.

 

The Sensei

Genres: Drama

Starring: Michael Yama, Keith David, Sab Shimono, Louis Mandylor, Tzi Ma, Germaine De Leon, Emily Kuroda

Directors: Diana Lee Inosanto

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Inspiring and equally powerful, The Sensei is a film about tolerance, acceptance and the courage to stand against hate. Lonely gay teenager, McClain, struggles to fit in with his classmates in a small, conservative Colorado town. After he's severely beaten at school, Karen O'Neil (Diana Lee Inosanto, Actress & Stuntwoman, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), a martial arts Sensei, secretly trains him to defend himself. When the town discovers their secret, a series of catastrophic events unfolds.

 

Presumed Innocent

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Harrison Ford, Joe Grifasi, John Spencer, Tom Mardirosian, Sab Shimono, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia

Directors: Alan J. Pakula

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Rich with ambiguity, this smooth adaptation of Scott Turow's bestselling mystery novel stars Harrison Ford as Rusty Sabich, the prosecuting attorney assigned to a case involving the murder of a beautiful, seductive lawyer (Greta Scacchi) with whom he'd been having a secret affair. After the investigation gets off to a slow start, damning evidence points to Rusty as the prime suspect. His career is destroyed when his superior and secondary suspect Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy) sets him up for the fall. Bonnie Bedelia plays Rusty's wife Barbara, who is not above suspicion herself. While Ford's performance rides a fine line between presumed inn...

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure

Starring: Mak Takano, Paige Turco, Elias Koteas, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono, David Fraser, John Aylward

Directors: Stuart Gillard

Country: USA, Hong Kong

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Everybody's favorite giant turtles travel through time and space to feudal Japan to rescue their plucky sidekick April, when a golden sword accidentally causes her to switch places with a rebellious samurai.

 

Old Dogs

Genres: Comedy, Family

Starring: Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Amy Sedaris, Rita Wilson, Seth Green, John Travolta, Matt Dillon

Directors: Walt Becker

Country: USA

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them being placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.

 

The Big Hit

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Elliott Gould, Mark Wahlberg, Lainie Kazan, Robin Dunne, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks

Directors: Kirk Wong

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Melvin Smiley, a successful young hitman, is living a normal all-day life for his jewish fianc

 

Blind Date

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Bruce Willis, Phil Hartman, Kim Basinger, Sab Shimono, William Daniels, George Coe, Graham Stark

Directors: Blake Edwards

Country: USA

Year: 1987

Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia's ex-boyfriend David?