James J. Murakami is a Director of Photography and Production Design American
James J. Murakami
James J. Murakami participated to
37 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
23 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Art
, 2h12
Directed by Clint EastwoodOrigin USAGenres War,
Biography,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Bradley Cooper,
Sienna Miller,
Jake McDorman,
Max Charles,
Luke Grimes,
Kyle GallnerRoles Production Design
Rating73%
Growing up in Texas, Chris Kyle is taught by his father how to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. Years later, Chris has become a rodeo cowboy and returns home to find his girlfriend in bed with a stranger. After telling her to leave, he is mulling it over with his brother when he sees news coverage of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings and decides to enlist in the navy. There he is eventually accepted for special training, becoming a U.S. Navy SEALs sniper., 2h5
Directed by Chris Columbus,
Chuck JonesOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about sexuality,
L'usurpation d'identité,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Musical films,
Children's films,
Escroquerie,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Robin Williams,
Sally Field,
Lisa Jakub,
Matthew Lawrence,
Mara Wilson,
Pierce BrosnanRoles Assistant Art Director
Rating71%
Daniel Hillard is a voice actor living in San Francisco, California. Daniel is doing voices for a cat and bird cartoon, and has objections to the bird smoking a cigarette. He says it teaches kids that it's cool to smoke and he will not do it. The producers tell him to either follow the script or lose his job. Daniel chooses to quit, and walks out. Cameraman
, 1h45
Directed by Martin BrestOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Buddy filmsActors Eddie Murphy,
Judge Reinhold,
John Ashton,
Ronny Cox,
Steven Berkoff,
Lisa EilbacherRoles Director of Photography
Rating73%
Axel Foley is a young, reckless Detroit police detective. His latest unauthorized sting operation goes sour when two uniformed officers intervene, resulting in a high-speed chase through the city which causes widespread damage. This earns him the anger of his boss, Inspector Douglas Todd, who promises to fire Foley if another such incident happens again.Art
, 1h40
Directed by Tony ScottOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Buddy filmsActors Eddie Murphy,
Judge Reinhold,
John Ashton,
Jürgen Prochnow,
Brigitte Nielsen,
Ronny CoxRoles Art Direction
Rating65%
Beverly Hills Police Captain Andrew Bogomil, Detective Billy Rosewood, and Sergeant John Taggart are trying to figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes," a series of mostly high end store robberies distinguished by their monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind. Complicating matters is the new "political" state of the Beverly Hills Police Department, headed by incompetent and verbally abusive new police chief Harold Lutz, who is doing everything he can to stay on Mayor Ted Egan's good side. Unimpressed when Rosewood calls the FBI to help solve the case, Lutz holds Bogomil responsible as commanding officer and suspends him, despite Bogomil's efforts to convince him that Rosewood was only following a hunch. Lutz also punishes Taggart and Rosewood by placing them on traffic duty. On the way home, Bogomil is shot and injured by Karla Fry, the chief hench-woman of Maxwell Dent, who secretly is the mastermind behind the Alphabet Crimes. Finding out about the shooting by a news report, Axel Foley abandons his current undercover duties and immediately flies out to Beverly Hills to help find out who shot Bogomil. Taggart and Rosewood agree to assist Foley because of Lutz's attempts to find an excuse to get them fired., 1h52
Directed by Clint EastwoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Films about racism,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Gangster filmsActors Bee Vang,
Ahney Her,
Cory Hardrict,
Clint Eastwood,
Geraldine Hughes,
Christopher CarleyRoles Production Design
Rating80%
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a cantankerous, retired Polish American assembly line worker and Korean War veteran, who has recently been widowed after 50 years of marriage, causing him to be a lapsed Catholic. His Highland Park, Michigan neighborhood in the Detroit area, formerly populated by working class white families, is now dominated by poor Asian immigrants, and gang violence is commonplace. Adding to the isolation he feels is the emotional detachment of his family., 2h12
Directed by Tony ScottOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
ActionThemes Spy films,
Films about computing,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Political films,
Road movies,
Chase filmsActors Will Smith,
Gene Hackman,
Jon Voight,
Jack Black,
Gabriel Byrne,
Regina KingRoles Art Direction
Rating72%
In the 1990s, U.S. National Security Agency official Thomas Bryan Reynolds (Jon Voight) meets with congressman Phil Hammersley (R-NY) (Jason Robards) in a public park to discuss support for new counter-terrorism legislation the U.S. Congress is pushing that dramatically expands the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies on individuals and groups. Hammersley remains committed to blocking its passage, since he believes it would almost totally destroy the privacy of American citizens. Reynolds has his team murder Hammersley, spread heart pills over his car, place him in the car and push it in a lake to make it look like he had a heart attack. In the aftermath, they discover too late that wildlife researcher Daniel Zavits (Jason Lee) had a camera aimed in the woods at their location. Zavits inspects the footage, transfers the video to an innocuous video game disc and flees the apartment ahead of Reynolds's team., 1h36
Directed by Clint EastwoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes La fin du monde,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Dans un avion,
Disaster films,
Films about aviation accidents or incidentsActors Tom Hanks,
Aaron Eckhart,
Jerry Ferrara,
Laura Linney,
Autumn Reeser,
Holt McCallanyRoles Production Design
Rating73%
The story of American pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who heroically landed a troubled aircraft full of passengers on the Hudson River., 2h11
Directed by Clint EastwoodOrigin USAGenres WesternThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Clint Eastwood,
Gene Hackman,
Morgan Freeman,
Richard Harris,
Saul Rubinek,
Jaimz WoolvettRoles Set Designer
Rating81%
The film is set in 1880 in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, where Little Bill Daggett, the local sheriff and former gunfighter, does not allow guns or criminals in his town. Two cowboys, Quick Mike and "Davey-Boy" Bunting, disfigure prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald after she laughs at the small size of Quick Mike's penis. Instead of punishing the cowboys, Little Bill allows them to pay compensation to the brothel owner, Skinny Dubois. The rest of the prostitutes, led by Strawberry Alice, are infuriated by this leniency and offer a $1,000 reward to whoever can kill the cowboys., 1h56
Directed by Tony ScottOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Politique,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Underwater action films,
Submarine films,
Political films,
Arme nucléaire,
Disaster films,
Films about seafaring accidents or incidents,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Denzel Washington,
Gene Hackman,
Viggo Mortensen,
Matt Craven,
George Dzundza,
James GandolfiniRoles Art Direction
Rating72%
In post-Soviet Russia, civil war erupts as a result of armed conflict in Chechnya. Military units, loyal to Russian ultra-nationalist Vladimir Radchenko, have taken control of a nuclear missile installation and are threatening nuclear war if either the American or Russian governments attempt to confront him., 2h21
Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ActionThemes Politique,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Marlon Brando,
Robert Duvall,
Martin Sheen,
Frederic Forrest,
Albert Hall,
Sam BottomsRoles Assistant Art Director
Rating83%
In 1970, during the Vietnam War, Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) has gone insane and now commands his own Montagnard troops inside neutral Cambodia as a demi-god. U.S. Army Captain and special operations veteran Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) is tasked with terminating the Colonel's command with extreme prejudice., 1h54
Directed by John BadhamOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films about computing,
Jeu,
Politique,
Sécurité informatique,
Films about video games,
Political films,
Arme nucléaireActors Matthew Broderick,
Dabney Coleman,
John Wood,
Ally Sheedy,
Barry Corbin,
Michael MadsenRoles Art Direction
Rating70%
During a surprise drill of a nuclear attack, many United States Air Force Strategic Missile Wing missileers prove unwilling to turn a required key to launch a missile strike. Such refusals convince John McKittrick (Dabney Coleman) and other systems engineers at NORAD that missile launch control centers must be automated, without human intervention. Control is given to a NORAD supercomputer, WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), programmed to continuously run military simulations and learn over time., 2h14
Directed by Clint EastwoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about racism,
Sports films,
Rugby,
Political films,
Rugby à XVActors Morgan Freeman,
Matt Damon,
Scott Eastwood,
Adjoa Andoh,
Leleti Khumalo,
Julian Lewis JonesRoles Production Design
Rating72%
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after having spent 27 years in jail. Four years later, Mandela is elected the first black President of South Africa. His presidency faces enormous challenges in the post-Apartheid era, including rampant poverty and crime, and Mandela is particularly concerned about racial divisions between black and white South Africans, which could lead to violence. The ill will which both groups hold towards each other is seen even in his own security detail where relations between the established white officers, who had guarded Mandela's predecessors, and the black ANC additions to the security detail, are frosty and marked by mutual distrust., 2h21
Directed by Clint EastwoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about capital punishment,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Angelina Jolie,
Jeffrey Donovan,
John Malkovich,
Jason Butler Harner,
Riki Lindhome,
Colm FeoreRoles Production Design
Rating76%
In Los Angeles in 1928, single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) returns home to discover her nine-year-old son, Walter (Gattlin Griffith), is missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb (Malkovich) publicizes Christine's plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for its incompetence, corruption and the extrajudicial punishment meted out by its "Gun Squad" led by Chief James E. Davis (Feore). Several months after Walter's disappearance, the LAPD tells Christine that he has been found alive. Believing the positive publicity will negate recent criticism of the department, the LAPD organizes a public reunion. Although "Walter" (Devon Conti) claims he is Christine's son, she says he is not. Captain J. J. Jones (Donovan), the head of the LAPD's Juvenile Division, insists the boy is Walter and pressures Christine into taking him home "on a trial basis"., 2h9
Directed by David FincherOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
ActionThemes L'action se déroule en une journée,
JeuActors Michael Douglas,
Sean Penn,
Deborah Kara Unger,
James Rebhorn,
Peter Donat,
Armin Mueller-StahlRoles Supervising Art Director
Rating76%
Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a wealthy investment banker, but his success has come at a cost. He is estranged from both his ex-wife (Anna Katarina) and his only sibling, younger brother Conrad (Sean Penn). He remains haunted from having seen his father (Charles Martinet) commit suicide on the latter's 48th birthday. For Nicholas' own 48th birthday, Conrad presents Nicholas with an unusual gift—a voucher for a "game" offered by a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Conrad promises Nicholas that it will change his life., 2h5
Directed by Philip KaufmanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Films about suicide,
Yakuza films,
Children's films,
Gangster filmsActors Sean Connery,
Wesley Snipes,
Harvey Keitel,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
Kevin Anderson,
Mako IwamatsuRoles Assistant Art Director
Rating62%
During a party at the United States offices of a Japanese corporation in Los Angeles, a professional escort named Cheryl Lynn Austin (Tatjana Patitz) is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Police Detectives Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor (Sean Connery), a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs, are sent to act as liaison between the Japanese executives and the investigating officer, Smith's former partner Tom Graham (Harvey Keitel).