Shout! Factory (Firm)
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English
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No one knows the game of baseball better than twelve-year-old Billy Heywood. When he inherits the Minnesota Twins from his grandfather, he names himself manager in the hopes of turning the beleaguered team's season around. While his players aren't too keen about taking orders from a kid, Billy promises them if they can't get out of the last place, he'll fire himself. With the help of pitching coach Mac and team captain Lou Collins, Billy learns what...
Series
Shout select volume 141
Language
日本語
Description
Yakuza wolf: I perform murder: In this riveting Western, a vengeful man is after the Japanese yakuza for killing his boss and selling his sister into slavery.
Yakuza wolf 2: Extend my condolences: In this fantastic sequel, chiba is sent to prison after being betrayed by a yakuza underboss. Once out, he looks to get his revenge.
Bodyguard Kiba: Based on a manga by Ikki Kajiwara, Bodyguard Kiba follows a martial arts fighter (Sonny Chiba) who takes...
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English
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
4) The ticket
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Shout select volume 20
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English
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After James, a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements -- a nicer home, a higher-paying job, tailored suits, luxury car -- leave little room for the people who were part of his old, simpler life: his plain wife and close friend Bob. As his relationships buckle under the strain of his snowballing ambition, it becomes uncertain if James can ever return...
5) Going my way
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English
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"Father O'Malley [is] a young priest new to an established but financially troubled parish. When his philosophies conflict with those of the curmudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the unflappable Father O'Malley perseveres, eventually winning over his gruff superior and the parish with his fresh, inspirational approach"--Container.
6) Dudes
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Shout select volume 29
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English
Description
Two punks, or "dudes," from the big city are traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug. They try to embrace the western way when they are forced to take revenge against a gang of lowly rednecks for killing their friend. Along the way, they get help from a young woman who runs a wrecking service.
Series
Shout select volume 143
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Killer Meteors: A powerful nobleman believes his own wife has poisoned him. To find the exclusive antidote in time and kill his evil wife, he hires his advisory, a rogue warrior known for his mastery of deadly explosive projectiles.
Shaolin Wooden Men: An orphan traumatized into silence by the death of his father finds himself living at the Shaolin monastery...and befriending a prisoner who teaches him a secret and deadly form of kung fu.
To...
Series
Shout select volume 7
Language
English
Description
During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions...
9) Trespass
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Shout select volume 24
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English
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When two firefighters looking through the rubble of a fire discover a map leading to stolen gold, they set out to find the treasure in an abandoned apartment building occupied by a vicious gang.
10) Suburbia
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English
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Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with 'The Rejected' (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. With the T.R.s, the boys find a new family. But their new family will be tested when they become the target of 'Citizens Against Crime', a group of unhappy suburbanites.
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Shout select volume 36
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English
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Documents the experiences of the band as they return to Paris for a concert several months after a terrorist attack during a previous performance.
12) Hype!
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English
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"Drop into the Pacific Northwest in the early '90s and watch a vibrant underground music scene explode into a global 'grunge' media frenzy. Hype! follows the music from local band playing for their friends, to Sub Pop's brilliant exploitation of 'the Seattle Sound, ' to Nirvana's 'Smells like teen spirit' hitting #1 on the charts. Questions of money, authenticity, and fame arise as 'grunge fashion' hits the runways and a mass migration of wanna-be...
13) The tiger hunter
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Shout select volume 38
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English
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It is the story of Sami Malik, a young Indian who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his father, a legendary tiger hunter back home. When Sami's job falls through, he takes a low-end job and joins with a gang of oddball friends in hopes of convincing his childhood sweetheart that he's far more successful than he truly is, or perhaps ever could be.
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English
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The Street Fighter: Meet the meanest and most lethal karate master ever to rule the streets. He's Sonny Chiba, one of the greatest martial arts actors to ignite the screen. Terry Tsurugi, a mercenary who has been hired by both the yakuza and the mafia to kidnap a wealthy heiress, but when he isn't paid, a violent clash will ensure.
Return of the street fighter: Chiba is back, this time Tsurugi is hired by the mob to kill two informants, but when...
15) Midnight run
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English
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Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time, and alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after The Duke to testify. The Mob...
16) The deer hunter
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Shout select volume 105
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English
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Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.
18) Downfall
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Language
Deutsch
Description
It's the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Fuhrer's bunker and witnesses how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours.
Series
Shout select volume 17
Language
English
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Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront...
Series
Shout select volume 110
Language
English
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"Presiding over the renowned Battle Creek Sanitarium is the visionary cornflake inventor and health-craze huckster Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Seeking to improve their health -- and their marriage -- are Eleanor, Kellogg's spellbound devotee, and Will, her reluctant but devoted husband. What doesn't kill them in this spa/hospital/grand hotel will only make them stronger as they make their way through an obstacle course of sexual temptations, mechanical...