Professor Toru Tanaka
Biography: Was an American professional wrestler, professional boxer, college football player, soldier, actor, and martial artist who, in fighting rings, was also known as Professor Toru Tanaka, or simply Professor Tanaka. He also taught martial arts in Dallas,Texas. His skills were taught to young men with potential for football greatness. He was located directly across from Southern Methodist University. His students included many All American football players including David Randle. Randle’s training began on his 5th birthday. Randle went on to become one of the most awarded high school football players in Texas history. After high school he played at SMU for one season in 1981. He then transferred to UCLA, where he was part of 2 Rose Bowl victories in 1983 and 1984. Randle always honored Professor Tanaka with the most important influence in the football techniques he used his entire life. (Wikipedia)
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 06, 1930
Deathday: August 22, 2000
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The Running Man
1987-11-13
The Running Man
Overview: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-13
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3 Ninjas
1992-08-07
3 Ninjas
Overview: Each year, three brothers Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas visits their Japanese grandfather, Mori Shintaro whom the boys affectionately refer to as Grandpa, for the summer. Mori is a highly skilled in the fields of Martial arts and Ninjutsu, and for years he has trained the boys in his techniques. After an organized crime ring proves to be too much for the FBI, it's time for the 3 brother NINJAS! To use their martial arts skills, they team up to battle the crime ring and outwit some very persistent kidnappers!
Genres: Family Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Revenge of the Ninja
1983-09-07
Revenge of the Ninja
Overview: After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds out that his friend has betrayed him, Cho must prepare for the greatest battle he has ever been involved in.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-07
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Hard Justice
1995-07-15
Hard Justice
Overview: When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun smuggling to name a few.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-15
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Catch the Heat
1987-10-01
Catch the Heat
Overview: Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Secret Agent 00 Soul
1990-02-01
Secret Agent 00 Soul
Overview: James Brown III, also known as Secret Agent 00 Soul, is an elite international operative who finally tells off the government and fulfills his longtime dream of opening a detective agency in his hold neighborhood. His once plush workspace is no a ramshackle hole-in-the-wall above a chicken and ribs joint, and instead of being surrounded by glamourous female agents, the is being shaken down by his son Junior, a 400-pound ne'er-do-well who wouldn't know hard work if it hit him in the face. Nonetheless, 00 Soul is able to transform an unlikely bunch of misfits into the wackiest group of oddball detectives ever to hit the 'hood.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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The Best of the WWF: volume 7
1986-06-06
The Best of the WWF: volume 7
Overview: The Best of WWE brought to you on home video!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Best of the WWF Volume 2
1985-01-01
Best of the WWF Volume 2
Overview: Gorilla Monsoon hosts this second volume of some of the best WWF has to offer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Life And Times of Paul Boesch
1994-04-01
The Life And Times of Paul Boesch
Overview: Documentary on legendary Houston Wrestling Promoter Paul Boesch produced and aired in 1994 on Houston Channel 39 KHTV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Chattanooga Choo Choo
1984-05-18
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Overview: The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he is to inherit $1 million in this comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-18
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The Perfect Weapon
1991-03-15
The Perfect Weapon
Overview: Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-15
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Modesty Blaise
1982-01-01
Modesty Blaise
Overview: Pilot for a never-made TV series based upon the popular comic strip character. Adventurer Modesty Blaise and knife thrower Willie Garvin - retired ex-criminals living in California with driver Weng - first save and then protect a young computer expert from a criminal organization, led by the evil Debbie La Forge. .
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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An Eye for an Eye
1981-08-14
An Eye for an Eye
Overview: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-14
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Darkman
1990-08-24
Darkman
Overview: Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Shanghai Surprise
1986-08-29
Shanghai Surprise
Overview: Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-29
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Martial Law
1990-10-01
Martial Law
Overview: An undercover cop teams up with a martial-arts expert to stop a gang of drug smugglers and car thieves.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Black Rain
1989-09-22
Black Rain
Overview: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Deadly Game
1991-07-10
Deadly Game
Overview: A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osirus and his hunters track them down and kill them.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
1985-03-01
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Overview: Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Bad Guys
1986-03-14
Bad Guys
Overview: Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Hyper Space
1989-04-01
Hyper Space
Overview: In the 21st Century, the "Corporation" sends a spaceship to dispose of earth's severe nuclear waste to a distant region in the cosmos. The astronauts awaken from their "cryo-sleep" to truly cry over finding themselves marooned... their fuel is not sufficient to bring them back home. The shuttle craft on board that can accommodate no more than two passengers presents the only hope, and soon a "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" type of distrust and betrayal sets in, until one by one, only one sole survivor remains.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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Off the Wall
1983-07-01
Off the Wall
Overview: Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she did to them, resolves to break them out of the prison
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Dead Heat
1988-05-06
Dead Heat
Overview: Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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Volunteers
1985-08-16
Volunteers
Overview: After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Last Action Hero
1993-06-18
Last Action Hero
Overview: After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985-07-26
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Overview: The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-26
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Tag Team Champions
1986-03-01
Tag Team Champions
Overview: A tribute to the WWF's dynamic duos precision, timing, and teamwork that make them champions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Alligator 2: The Mutation
1991-07-05
Alligator 2: The Mutation
Overview: A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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WWE at Madison Square Garden: June 30, 1973
1973-07-30
WWE at Madison Square Garden: June 30, 1973
Overview: Pedro Morales defends the WWWF Championship against George "The Animal" Steele.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-30
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