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City Hunter (シティーハンター)

City Hunter (シティーハンター) is Tsukasa Hojo's hardboiled action-comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1985-1991, 35 volumes, about sweeper Ryo Saeba and partner Kaori Makimura in Shinjuku; adapted into Sunrise anime and Jackie Chan, Korean, French, and Netflix live-action versions.

City Hunter (シティーハンター) (2024 film)

City Hunter (シティーハンター) is Netflix's 2024 Japanese live-action action comedy of Tsukasa Hojo's manga, directed by Yuichi Sato, starring Ryohei Suzuki as Ryo Saeba, released April 25, 2024, with a 2027 sequel announced.

City Hunter (城市猎人) (film)

City Hunter (城市獵人, Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Wong Jing and starring Jackie Chan as private detective Ryo Saeba.

City Hunter: Angel Dust

City Hunter: Angel Dust (劇場版シティーハンター 天使の涙) is a 2023 Sunrise/Answer Studio anime film, the sequel to Shinjuku Private Eyes, opening Japan's City Hunter final chapter with Ryo Saeba versus Kaibara Shin.

City Island (TV series)

City Island is a 2022 PBS Kids series of 3-minute animated shorts by Aaron Augenblick's Future Brain Media, following Watt the light bulb and Windy the kite through civics lessons in a living city of sentient objects.

City Lights

City Lights is Charlie Chaplin's 1931 silent romantic comedy, released by United Artists, in which the Tramp loves a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich man; it has synchronized music and sound effects but no dialogue, earned $5 million profit, and ranks #1 on AFI's romantic comedies list.

City Lights Pocket Poets Series

The City Lights Pocket Poets Series is an inexpensive pocket-sized poetry series published by City Lights in San Francisco since 1955, best known for Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems.

City of Angels (film)

City of Angels is a 1998 American romantic drama directed by Brad Silberling, starring Nicolas Cage as an angel who falls in love with Meg Ryan's surgeon in Los Angeles.

City of Ashes

City of Ashes is Cassandra Clare's 2008 second Mortal Instruments novel, also called Mortal Instruments Book Two, following Clary Fray against Valentine's ritual with the Mortal Sword; published by Margaret K. McElderry Books, ISBN 9781416914297.

City of Bones (Clare novel)

City of Bones (2007) is Cassandra Clare's debut young adult urban fantasy novel, first of The Mortal Instruments, following Clary Fray into New York's hidden Shadowhunter world; it grew into six books, a 2013 film, and the Shadowhunters TV series.

City of Dreams (film)

City of Dreams is a 2024 American drama, the directorial debut of Mohit Ramchandani, about Mexican boy Jesús (Ari López) trafficked into an LA sweatshop; released by Roadside Attractions, 50% Tomatometer, 91% audience score, $1.7M gross.

City of Dreams (TV series)

City of Dreams is an Indian Hindi-language political thriller web series (2019–2023) directed by Nagesh Kukunoor for Disney+ Hotstar, starring Priya Bapat, Atul Kulkarni, Eijaz Khan, and Sachin Pilgaonkar in a Mumbai political family drama.

City of Ember

City of Ember is a 2008 American family science-fiction adventure film directed by Gil Kenan, starring Saoirse Ronan and Bill Murray, adapted from Jeanne DuPrau's 2003 novel.

City of Evil

City of Evil is Avenged Sevenfold's third album, released June 6, 2005 on Warner Bros. The band's major-label debut dropped metalcore screaming for sung vocals, produced by Mudrock, peaked at No. 30 on Billboard, and went RIAA Platinum in 2009.

City of Fallen Angels

City of Fallen Angels is Cassandra Clare's 2011 fourth Mortal Instruments novel, a young adult urban fantasy following vampire Simon Lewis and Clary Fray in New York as murders of Shadowhunters threaten a new war.

City of God (2002 film)

City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, adapted from Paulo Lins's novel, about Rocket and Li'l Zé in a Rio favela; four Oscar nominations, Cannes 2002, HBO sequel series 2024.

City of God: The Fight Rages On

City of God: The Fight Rages On (Cidade de Deus: A Luta Não Para) is a 2024 HBO Original Brazilian series by O2 Filmes, directed by Aly Muritiba, continuing the 2002 film twenty years later; season 2 premieres 8 November.

City of Heavenly Fire

City of Heavenly Fire (2014) by Cassandra Clare, final book six of The Mortal Instruments, published by Margaret K. McElderry; Clary and friends battle Sebastian Morgenstern and his Endarkened army, journeying to the demon realm.

City of Hope

City of Hope is John Sayles's 1991 ensemble drama set in fictional Hudson City, New Jersey, following about three dozen characters through urban corruption and racial tension; it won the Tokyo Grand Prix but grossed about $1 million.

City of Lies

City of Lies (also LAbyrinth) is a 2018 Brad Furman crime thriller starring Johnny Depp as LAPD detective Russell Poole and Forest Whitaker as journalist Jack Jackson investigating the Notorious B.I.G. murder; delayed from 2018, released March 19, 2021.

City of Life and Death (南京!南京!)

City of Life and Death (南京!南京!) is Lu Chuan's 2009 black-and-white Chinese war drama about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, told from both Chinese and Japanese perspectives; it won the San Sebastián Golden Seashell and grossed $119.9K in the US.

City of New Orleans (song)

"City of New Orleans" is a Steve Goodman folk song about the Illinois Central train between Chicago and New Orleans; Arlo Guthrie's 1972 recording was a Top 20 hit.

City of Rock

City of Rock (缝纫机乐队) is a 2017 Chinese musical comedy directed by Da Peng, in which Hu Liang forms the band Sewing Machine to save Ji'an's Rock Park from redevelopment; released September 29, 2017.

City of Stars

City of Stars: Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning song from La La Land (2016), music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, performed by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in AABA form.

City of the Living Dead

City of the Living Dead (Paura nella città dei morti viventi), also released as The Gates of Hell, is Lucio Fulci's 1980 Italian zombie horror: a priest's suicide opens the gates of Hell in Dunwich, first of his Gates of Hell trilogy.

City of Tiny Lights

City of Tiny Lights is a 2016 British neo-noir crime thriller directed by Pete Travis, adapted by Patrick Neate from his 2005 novel, starring Riz Ahmed as west London private eye Tommy Akhtar; premiered at TIFF 2016, released in UK cinemas 7 April 2017.

City on a Hill (TV series)

City on a Hill is a Showtime crime drama (2019-2022) created by Chuck MacLean from Ben Affleck's idea, starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge as a corrupt FBI agent and Boston ADA in early 1990s Boston, canceled after three seasons.

City on Fire

City on Fire is a 2023 American crime drama series on Apple TV+, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and adapted from Garth Risk Hallberg's 2015 novel.

City on Fire (龙虎风云)

City on Fire (龙虎风云, 1987) is a Hong Kong undercover-cop crime film by Ringo Lam, starring Chow Yun-fat and Danny Lee, produced by Cinema City; it won Best Director and Best Actor at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards and inspired Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.

City pop (シティ・ポップ)

City pop (シティ・ポップ), also called City Pops, is Japanese pop of roughly 1975–1990 influenced by funk, disco, R&B, and AOR with an urban, refined aesthetic. Not a defined genre at the time, it was retroactively constructed and became globally popular via vaporwave, 'Plastic Love,' and 'Mayonaka no Door.'