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Shizuku Tsukishima (Youko Honna/ Brittany Snow) and her best friend Yuuko (Maiko Yoshiyama/ Ashley Tisdale) are working on an alternate version of
the classic John Denver song that they can sing for their upcoming graduation ceremony to mark the end of junior high school. Shizuku is a bookworm
who spends all her vacation reading and haunting libraries - yet she's mystified and intrigued by the fact that almost all the books she's been
borrowing recently have been borrowed before by someone called Seiji Amasawa. They must have very similar tastes...
This is supposed to be the 'final martial arts epic' from popular kung fu star Jet Li. Whether than means he's retired from the movies remains to
be seen, of course, as he's not especially noted for his thespian abilities, and so hasn't got many talents to fall back on. But he's certainly a
world-class fighter (just checkout the sheer ferocity of his performance in violent gangster melodrama Unleashed), although this stately
adventure, inspired by a true story, offers more than just rudimentary chop-schlock material collated by genre specialist Ronny Yu...
Sean Connery wasn't in Moonraker - the James Bond escapade with the fleet
of space shuttles. That was Roger Moore. And Connery's track-record in genre movies is uneven at best.
Zardoz (1974) was a very strange movie indeed with its giant flying head,
and topless nipple-count fashion-sense. He was a solid presence as Allan Quatermain in
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), and in the first and best
Highlander (1986). But, then again, Outland is barely SF at all...