https://mrqe.com Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:31:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/suna-no-utsuwa-m100006886/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/suna-no-utsuwa-m100006886/ Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/chinmoku-m100027992/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/chinmoku-m100027992/ Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/ansatsu-m100035780/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/ansatsu-m100035780/ Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when “four black ships” anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda’s film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/jitsuroku-ando-noboru-kyododen-rekka-m100002170/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/jitsuroku-ando-noboru-kyododen-rekka-m100002170/ After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man’s killers.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/kinyu-fushoku-retto-jubaku-m100044298/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kinyu-fushoku-retto-jubaku-m100044298/ When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank’s top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Miho Wada) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/lik-wong-m100008213/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/lik-wong-m100008213/ Hard man Ricky is incarcerated in a futuristic prison where ultra-violence is his only means of survival in the corrupt, sadistic system. He must battle his way quite literally ‘through’ the feared ‘gang of four’, and undergo multiple tortures before facing the governor in one of the goriest climaxes ever seen.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/jusannin-no-shikaku-m100101580/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/jusannin-no-shikaku-m100101580/ A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun’s younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/shogun-iemitsu-no-ranshin-gekitotsu-m100030878/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/shogun-iemitsu-no-ranshin-gekitotsu-m100030878/ Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to an initiation rite in Yedo. Takechiyo lives far away under the surveillance of Hotta Masamori, head of the Skura clan, where he was also raised. Hotta does suspect some kind of treachery, but he can not ignore the direct command of the Shogun. Therefore, he starts on his travel with Takechiyo and seven accompanying samurais. A large army under the command of Iba Shoemon, a vassal of the Shogun, attacks their night camp in the vicinity of a copper mine. Hotta dies in this first battle, but Takechiyo and the samurai manage to escape. They are chased by the army, and several skirmishes between the small force and the larger army follow.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/marusa-no-onna-2-m100015099/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/marusa-no-onna-2-m100015099/ Ryko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/zerosen-moyu-m100029408/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/zerosen-moyu-m100029408/ Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter – the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don’t qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.

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