jarf's - Rented List

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Eighty years in the future, time is running out of mankind. The only hope rests with a brave time traveller who must return to the past to change history... and alter Earth's destiny. 2084. After decades of intense fighting, an alien invasion force is close to destroying what's left of the world.

In a last-ditch effort to save the human race, a guerrilla fighter named Miri leaps into a waiting Time Shifter. With the Alien Wars set to begin in 72 hours, she tricks Miyamoto, a skilled martial arts expert and gunman, into joining her cause. Together the two launch an all-out assault on the local crime lord who's captured a spaceship - and imprisoned its extraterrestrial pilot. Now the returner and her partner must free the captive alien before warships begin to attack the planet in this sci-fi thriller packed with dazzling special effects and blazing martial arts action.

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A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their horrifying actions.

Following the only link - a mysterious stranger who had brief contact with each perpetrator and their victim - detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) places his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the wave of inexplicable terror.

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Get ready for the most extreme, fast-paced Hong Kong action film ever! 'Gen-X-Cops 2' tells the story of IMC, an American weapons company, that has devised a lethal attack robot, RS 1, designed to replace soldiers on the battlefield and save millions of lives.

American FBI agent, Ian, and a team of young Hong Kong cops are assigned to protect RS 1 at an international exhibition of high-tech law enforcement devices. A renegade computer programmer then tries to 'seal' RS 1 and use it for his own evil means. As armageddon and total destruction loom, three Hong Kong cops and an FBI agant are all that stand between the world and the most lethal weapon ever devised!

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When a shipment of lethal explosives goes missing, a veteran Hong Kong policeman forms a team of offbeat young cops to track it down. These generation X law enforcers find themselves up against a similarly youthful gang boss, and the shadowy Japanese mastermind behind him.

At the turn of a new century, Hong Kong provides the stunning backdrop for the explosive showdown between the law and the lawless.

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Michelle reprises her role as Inspector Wah from the awesome "Police Story 3" and is assigned to Hong Kong to work with the Task Force set up to counter a cross border crime-wave. Michelle soon proves her worth when she dramatically foils an armed robbery.

However, her former partner, Cheng (Michael Wong) shows up in Hong Kong unexpectedly after becoming disillusioned with his prospects as a Chinese Police Officer and, seduced by the promise of easy money, has turned his talents to crime. Cheng is planning a major Heist: to empty the vaults of one of Hong Kong's largest Banks. Events very quickly get out of hand and the action scenes are dynamic...

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Gunfire breaks out in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, leaving two North Korean soldiers dead while a wounded South Korean soldier (Lee Byung-hun) flees to safety.

With the tenuous peace between the two warring nations on a knife-edge, a neutral team of investigators, headed by Swiss Army Major Sophie Jean (Lee Young-ae), is dispatched to question both sides to determine what really happened under cover of darkness out in no-man's land.

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China, the early 1930's: martial arts master Wen Biao discovers that his brother has been using their security company for illegal activities. A confrontation between the brothers leaves Wen Biao missing and presumed dead.

Meanwhile the easy going lives of two young men are permanently changed when they grow bored of their quiet life and head for the big city in search of adventure, excitement and inspiration. A chance encounter with a beautiful martial artist sparks love at first sight. The two heroes follow her hoping to learn more about her, only to be chased away by her eccentric martial art master who happens to be Master Wen Biao.

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Deep in the shadows of the attic of an ordinary family home in the Tokyo suburbs, something malevolent is stirring.

When social worker Rika (Megumi Okina) is sent to check on a traumatised old lady whose family have moved in at the site of the notorious Saeki family murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that is transmitted via its victims further and further from its original source.

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The 'Ju-On' curse returns in two terrifying interconnected supplementary stories produced to mark the tenth anniversary of the straight-to-video genesis of Takashi Shimizu's celebrated J-horror franchise.

Ju-On: White Ghost

A son brutally and methodically murders all five of his family members after failing the bar exam. He then hangs himself. At the moment of his death, he made a cassette tape recording in which he can be heard saying "I'll go, I'll go soon...". On the same tape can be heard the eerie sound of a young girl's voice. It is the voice of Mirai (Chinami Iwamoto), one of the victims of the mass family slaughter incident. Suddenly one day the dead Mirai appears in front of her friend Akane (Akina Minami), wearing the yellow cap and red backpack of a primary school student. The terror is just about to begin...
Ju-On: Black Ghost
Nurse Yuko (Ai Kago) is left in charge of a young girl called Fukie (Hana Matsumoto), and begins to experience strange things. Medical examinations reveal that there is a "cyst" in Fukie's body. The cyst is actually an unborn one that is full of hatred for mankind and curses everyone around her. Yuko's neighbour is taken by a girl in black, and Fukie's father commits a murder and goes insane. Fukie's mother has to rely on the special psychic powers of Fukie's younger sister to help drive out the evil spirit. However, the exorcism eventually fails, and the worst grudge yet begins.

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On the banks of the Han River, a crowd gathers to watch an unidentified object hanging onto a bridge. In an instant, the object reveals itself as a terrifying creature, turning the riverbank into a gruesome sea of blood.

Amid the chaos, a little girl, Hyun-sea is snatched up by the creature right before her father, Gang-du's eyes. After receiving a mobile phone call from his daughter confirming that she has miraculously survived, the once-ordinary citizen Gang-du and his family decide to wage war against the creature, despite both Korean authorities' and U.S. army's every efforts to stop them. Combining state of the art visual effects from the team behind Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Sin City with the dark and offbeat humour synonymous with Korean cinema, The Host is one of the most original monster movies to emerge for decades.

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Representing the third J-Horror release, this terrifying ghost story from the director of the critically acclaimed Grudge is yet another high calibre instalment.

In a film that merges stories from past and present, a young actress gets a role in a new film that is based on a series of horrific murders committed in the 1970s. During pre-production she appears to experience the murders as though they are happening around her, resulting in the discovery of an 8mm camera that she consequently has developed, with terrifying consequences. A supernatural whodunnit that's handled with real style. One of the year's most atmospheric and involving mysteries that has put Japanese horror firmly back on the map.

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To dispel doubts about her husband's fidelity a woman stages her own kidnapping. To ensure the kidnapping's plausibility, she forces the hired henchman to tie her up.

When the kidnapping evolves into a perverse, erotic role-playing game between the consensual abductor and abductee, the two discover a mutual interest in masochism and bondage. Things are not as simple as they seem. Has the extorted husband been unfaithful? Is the wife who she claims to be? Is the henchman a pawn, manipulated by all to cover up a far more heinous crime?

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When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality programme decide to shoot in the house of the original 'Ju-On: The Grudge' hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.

The show's guest host, the famous "Horror Queen" Kyoko Harase (Noriko Sakai) is involved in a car accident that results in her miscarrying and puts her fiance in a coma. It soon becomes apparent as the production team departs from the shoot, that the curse is not only transferred from victim to victim, but can be passed down through generations.

When ten strangers agree to an interview for the same lucrative job offer they find themselves locked in an underground complex with their own unique weapon and given the ultimatum 'kill or be killed'.