Hold'em, an American thriller film, pulls some elements from which other film adapted from a Japanese novel written in 1999?
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Hold'em (film) Hold'em is a 2014 American thriller film directed by Clay DuMaw. The film's plot combines Texas hold 'em with elements from horror and thriller films such as "Battle Royale" and "Saw".
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Battle Royale (film) Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル , Batoru Rowaiaru ) is a 2000 Japanese dystopian film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. It is the final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, the screenplay written by his son Kenta, and stars Takeshi Kitano. The film takes place in a dystopian Japan and it follows the story of Shuya Nanahara, a high-school student, and his classmates. Their class has been chosen by the government to take part in an annual game where all the students of the class must fight to the death until only one remains alive. The film aroused both domestic and international controversy and was either banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries.
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The 34th Rule The 34th Rule (ISBN  ), published January 1, 1999, is a "" novel written by Armin Shimerman and David R. George III. The story in the novel was an allegory for the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, and was inspired by George Takei's experiences during that period. It had originally been pitched as an episode to "Deep Space Nine", but was subsequently turned into a novel.
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Instinct (film) Instinct is a 1999 American psychological thriller film starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., George Dzundza, Donald Sutherland, and Maura Tierney. It was very loosely inspired by "Ishmael", a novel by Daniel Quinn. In the United States, the film had the working title "Ishmael". In 2000, the film was nominated for and won a Genesis Award in the category of feature film. This was the first film produced by Spyglass Entertainment after Caravan Pictures shut down.
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Chaos (2000 film) Chaos (カオス , Kaosu ) is a 2000 Japanese mystery-thriller film, directed by Hideo Nakata. It stars Miki Nakatani and Masato Hagiwara. It is based on Shōgo Utano's novel "Sarawaretai Onna" (さらわれたい女 , lit. "The Woman Who Wants To Be Kidnapped" ) .
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To Have and to Hold (disambiguation) To Have and to Hold is a 1900 novel by American author Mary Johnston.
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Yō Takeyama Hiroshi Takeyama (Yō Takeyama (竹山 洋 , Takeyama Yō) ) is a Japanese screenwriter. Besides his work for television, he is best known for his screenplays for "Hotaru" (2001) and "Shijushichinin no shikaku", Kon Ichikawa's 1994 version of the Forty-seven Ronin story. Both of these were nominated but did not win the Award of the Japanese Academy for 'Best Screenplay'.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella. An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel of the same name, the film stars Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood and Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue.
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Moonlight Whispers Moonlight Whispers (月光の囁き , Gekko no Sasayaki ) is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Akihiko Shiota and based on the manga "Gekko no sasayaki" by Masahiko Kikuni.
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Dog×Police Dog×Police is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Go Shichitaka, about a special division of the Japanese police force which uses trained dogs in cases of terrorism, violent crime, and rescue missions. The film is based on the novel by "Yoichi Komori".
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Love &amp; Pop Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ , "Rabu & Poppu" ) is director Hideaki Anno's first live action film, an adaptation of Ryū Murakami's novel, "Topaz II". Released in 1998, it somewhat follows the film "Tokyo Decadence", an adaptation of "Topaz I" filmed by Murakami himself. "Love & Pop" was filmed almost entirely on hand-held digital cameras, and contains some very unusual camera work, including many different mounted camera positions, such as on a model train riding on tracks. The film also flips from widescreen to 4:3 aspect, distorts (with effects such as a fisheye lens), confuses, and makes use of overlays stacked in layers to convey the character's emotions.
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Go (Kaneshiro novel) GO is a novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro and published in 2000 by Kodansha. "GO" received a Naoki Prize, an award of high praise in Japan. A film adaptation was released in 2001 that won numerous awards in Japan.
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Charisma (film) Charisma (カリスマ , "Karisuma" ) is a 1999 Japanese philosophical drama film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho.
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Japanese horror Japanese horror is Japanese horror fiction in popular culture, noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre in light of western treatments. Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror and tension building (suspense), particularly involving ghosts and poltergeists, while many contain themes of folk religion such as: possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition, and yōkai.
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Fugo Keiji Fugō Keiji (富豪刑事) is a 2005 Japanese drama broadcast by TV Asahi based on a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
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American Dragons American Dragons (also known as Double Edge) is a 1998 action crime thriller film  starring Michael Biehn, Park Joong-hoon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Don Stark and Byron Mann. It was directed by Ralph Hemecker, written by Erik Saltzgaber and Keith W. Strandberg, and produced by Brad Krevoy.
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Jaws in Japan Jaws in Japan (also titled Psycho Shark) is a 2009 Japanese horror film directed by John Hijiri and written by Yasutoshi Murakawa, starring Nonami Takizawa, Airi Nakajima, and Megumi Haruno. Despite its title, the film has no connection with the 1975 Steven Spielberg film "Jaws" in terms of its plot or its production. The film has received negative reviews.
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It's Only Talk It's Only Talk is a Japanese film, released in 2005 and is based on the prizewinning novel of the same title written by Akiko Itoyama and directed by Ryūichi Hiroki.
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Journey to the Shore Journey to the Shore (岸辺の旅 , Kishibe no Tabi ) is a 2015 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It is adapted from the novel "Kishibe no Tabi" by Japanese writer Kazumi Yumoto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where Kurosawa won the prize for Best Director. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Beat (1998 film) Beat is a Japanese movie released in its country of origin in 1998. Directed by Amon Miyamoto, the film's narrative is set in Okinawa in the 1960s, during the military occupation by the American government. The plot was inspired by "Naminoue no Maria", a novel by the Okinawan writer Eiki Matayoshi.
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Catch-22 (film) Catch-22 is a 1970 American black comedy war film adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set at a fictional World War II Mediterranean base, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry (also in the cast) worked on the film script for two years, converting Heller's complex novel to the medium of film.
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Midnight (1982 film) Midnight is a 1982 film by John A. Russo. It is based on Russo's 1980 novel of the same name, published by Pocket Books (ISBN  ) (the reprint was issued in 1982 by "Independent-International Pictures" to coincide with their film release).