Can You Name It?

I don't know if this game has ever been played on these boards before, but I don't see it here. So I thought I'd try it.

I'll name a synopsis of a movie without revealing it's title. I won't give the names of any actors, just the synopsis, but the actors will be named if you ask for a clue.

The person who guesses correctly can ask the next one, Okay? Here we go, I'll start with a hard one:

1985

******* ****** stars as a young man who embarks on a personal crusade against injustice. His older brother, ****** *****, a fireman, has been denied his pension after being injured while saving a child from a burning building while he was off-duty.

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r66-The member who always asks WHY?

Turk 182 (1985), starring Tim Hutton, Bob Urich, Kim Catrall and Robert Culp.


______ plays a religious midwestern father who discovers his missing daughter who went to L.A. has done a porno. After the private detective, played by ______, runs into dead ends, the father travles to California himself and eventually poses as a pornographic film producer to infultrate the seamy world.

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hey, great idea for a game!

hardcore (1979), featuring george c. scott as the father in question...."oh my god, that's my daughter."

------ ------ directs ----- --------, about a brilliant journalist on the trail of a pullitzer who has himself commited to an insane asylum to solve the murder of a patient...will he be able to solve the crime, get the girl, catch a pullitzer, and stay sane in the process?!

Shock Corridor (1963) by Samuel Fuller.

In this film Mandy Patinkin and James Spader are paying a debt by building a wall.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

The Music of Chance (1993) by Philip Haas

In this film a young viking ponders on what else life has to offer.

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instrumental rock band that I am in.

The Music of Chance (1993)


From 1979:

****** *****, *** ******, and *** ********* star as three retirees who gather daily on a park bench and need to add some spice to their empty existences. So they decide to rob a bank.

Am I being ignored or something ?

I think you both replied to my question at about the same time. But you're correct, yes, and I don't know the title of your movie, no.

Therefore to be fair the person below names both of the films.

FILM 1: = Erik the Viking. Yes Holden You have got it.

FILM 2:

FILM 0NE: Erik the Viking (1989) perhaps? If not, maybe give a bit more detail.

FILM TWO: Going in Style (1979), starring George Burns, Art Carney & Lee Strasberg.





1975 flick where ______ stars as a WWII veteran who returns to Japan to help an old Army buddy get his kidnapped daughter back. He enlists the help of a Japanese man who forbid him to marry his sister after the war.

Holden, that was a tough one. Thanks. Now I'm Going to watch it, hope I can find it. DVD?


The Yakuza Robert Mithcum, Brian Kieth.


From 1978:

**** ********, is an unfortunate fellow who is informed that he is dying of a rare disease. He can't believe it, so he decides to kill himself. In the process, he meets a maniac played by *** *******, who is more than willing to lend him a hand.

The Yakuza is one of my favorite movies nobody knows about, a neglected should-be classic of the '70s.

And no, it's not currently available on DVD. My LaserDisc is nice and letterboxed though.



Your latest is The End (1978), a decent though should-be-better dark comedy starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Sally Field.



Along similar lines...

From 1990 - a cop near retirement, played by ______, learns he is dying of a terminal disease. When he discovers the death benefits for his estranged family are exponentially greater if he dies in the line of duty, he becomes care-free and tries to buy-it in the field. Unwittingly this recklessness is translated as fearlessness, and it turns him into a daredevil supercop.

Short Time (1990) with Dabney Coleman

1937

A man played by ________ , lives in the slums which is overlooked by the towers of the rich. He falls in love with the prettiest girl from the rich side of town. Meanwhile, another of the guys, played by ________ , from the slums comes back as a gangster to see his Mother who isn't happy about his homecoming.

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Dead End - with Humphrey Bogart

From 1979:

A man with "the gift" brings a cynical writer and quiet scientist to go into The Zone, a mysterious alien place in no man's land.

(By the way, I knew I had seen the one that was "Yakuza". I just couldn't remember the name. It's a great movie! Isn't "Black Rain" kind of a remake of that one?)

Is that Stalker? I'll wait to see if I'm correct before taking a turn.

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You're correct, my friend. Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Hit it!

Not my plot, but I'll confirm it for you, Firegod: it's Tarkovsky's Stalker alright.


And no, Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989) is not a re-make of The Yakuza (1975). They both have to do with Americans against Yakuza in modern day Japan, but other than that basic overview, no. However, actor Ken Takakura, who plays the Japanese cop assigned to watch Douglas and Garcia in Black Rain, also played Tanaka Ken, the ex-Yakuza who helps Bob Mitchum in The Yakuza.

Pollack's film is sooooo much better than Scott's. Ridley's movie looks terrific of course, and Andy Garcia had a great supporting role, but otherwise a pretty average cop thriller of the day.

Yeah, I agree, "Yakuza" is better. It was so long since I saw any of the two films, but I remember thinking when I saw "Black Rain" that "Hey, this one has a lot of similarities with 'Yakuza'", but maybe I'm just confused. Is there some off-cutting of fingers in both of them or am I completely out of it?

Probably it's not a remake, but perhaps Scott had an eye on "Yakuza" when he made "Black Rain".

Anyway, back to the topic! Firegod, I believe you're up!

Yes, fingers are cut off in both films. Though in The Yakuza the act is important, involves the main characters, and has some emotional relevance and resonance to the narrative's conclusion. In Black Rain, it's just the "bad guy" doing it.

Also see Burt Reynolds' Sharky's Machine (1981) for another movie where digits are removed with a knife - though that one has no Yakuza at all and is set in Atlanta, GA.

or...you guys could both go check out my all time favorite "yakuza" movie, juzo itami's 'minbo: anti extortion woman', comes complete with digit removal...and i always thought black rain kind of sucked...shohei imamura's film of the same title (kuroi ame=black rain) and released in the same year is just about fifty billion times better, though totally unrelated.