New Zealand movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Liv Tyler | Viggo Mortensen | Sean Astin | Cate Blanchett | John Rhys-Davies | Bernard Hill | Christopher Lee | Billy Boyd | Dominic Monaghan | Orlando Bloom | Hugo Weaving | Miranda Otto | David Wenham
Directors: Peter Jackson
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Sauron’s forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman’s army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron’s troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Elijah Wood | Noel Appleby | Sean Astin | Sala Baker | Sean Bean | Cate Blanchett | Orlando Bloom | Billy Boyd | Marton Csokas | Megan Edwards | Michael Elsworth | Mark Ferguson | Ian Holm | Ian McKellen | Christopher Lee | Lawrence Makoare
Directors: Peter Jackson
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An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Ian McKellen | Elijah Wood | Noel Appleby | Alexandra Astin | Sean Astin | David Aston | John Bach | Sean Bean | Cate Blanchett | Orlando Bloom | Billy Boyd | Sadwyn Brophy | Alistair Browning | Marton Csokas | Richard Edge | Jason Fitch | Bernard Hill
Directors: Peter Jackson
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

The Last Samurai (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Ken Watanabe | Tom Cruise | William Atherton | Chad Lindberg | Ray Godshall Sr. | Billy Connolly | Tony Goldwyn | Masato Harada | Masashi Odate | John Koyama | Timothy Spall | Shichinosuke Nakamura | Togo Igawa | Satoshi Nikaido | Shintaro Wada
Directors: Edward Zwick
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…