Kaz Cai & Wang Jing & Anocha Suwichakornpong – Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2010)...
Helmed by three female filmmakers from China, Thailand and Singapore respectively, the stories of these three films, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, occurs at a specific mealtime. In Breakfast, Mei travels...
View ArticleGuru Dutt – Aar-Paar aka Across the Heart (1954)
Kalu (Guru Dutt), a taxi driver who was sentenced to prison for speeding, is released two months before his term for good behaviour. His old employer refuses to let him drive his taxi again. Wandering...
View ArticleTatsumi Kumashiro – Misuta, Misesu, Misu Ronri AKA Mister, Misses, Miss...
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1,5 Billion Yen…(guernica) 2.44GB | 2h 18mn | 716×384 | mkv...
View ArticleSadao Nakajima – Nihon ansatsu hiroku AKA Memoirs of Japanese Assassins (1969)
Quote: This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. Among them are the Sakurada Gate Incident that...
View ArticleTadashi Imai – Bushidô zankoku monogatari AKA Cruel Tales Of Bushido...
Quote:Kinnosuke Nakamura plays seven roles in consecutive generations of Iikukuras: (Jirozaemon, Sajiemon, Kyutaro, Shuzo, Shingo, Osamu, Susumu), from medieval warrior Jirozaemon to modern day...
View ArticleSun-ah Kim & Se-hee Park – Eun-sil-yee AKA The Dearest (2011)
Eunshil, a mentally handicapped teenage girl, dies in the janitor’s closet at school during winter break while giving birth to a baby. The principal’s daughter decides to look after the baby herself...
View ArticleAkira Kurosawa – Kagemusha [+Extras] (1980)
Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa’s reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As...
View ArticleTeruo Ishii – Narazu-mono (1964)
Intrigue and mystery surround a cold-hearted assassin who must keep one step ahead of the Hong Kong police as he tries to find out who framed him for the murder of a woman and set him up as the fall...
View ArticleJun Kurosawa – NEKO-MIMI (1993)
Quote:Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by certain rules, can be played time and again,...
View ArticleKunio Shimizu & Sôichirô Tahara – Arakajime ushinawareta koibitotchiyo aka...
Quote:Takeru (Renji Ishibashi), a young rebel, is travelling alone in the North of Honshu. He once used to practice pole vaulting but he gave up and became a robber. Along his trip he crosses the path...
View ArticleShing Hon Lau – Yu huo fen qin Aka House of The Lute (1980)
Quote:An adults-only entry to Hong Kong’s new-wave film movement, House of the Lute is elegant and engaging. The classy production is accompanied at all times by sounds of a lute – a dynamic...
View ArticleTôru Murakawa – Bara no hyôteki AKA Target (1980)
Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama. Almost no information online. 1.25GB | 1h 39mn | 836×356 | mkv...
View ArticleSusumu Hani – Gozenchu no jikanwari AKA The Morning Schedule (1972)
Hani’s subsequent work, Morning Schedule , combines his interest in contemporary youth with his continued interest in modern women. The story deals with two high school girls who decide to take a trip...
View ArticleAkihiko Shiota – Gaichû AKA Harmful Insect (2001)
Eiga Wiki wrote:Harmful Insect follows a girl named Sachiko after her father dies, her mother attempts suicide, and her entire class is gossiping about her possibly having an affair with her sixth...
View ArticleMakoto Shinozaki – Sharing (2014)
Two girls experience anxieties of their own in a story set in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan. One girl is a professor studying the dreams related to the...
View ArticleNaomi Kawase – Vision (2018)
Juliette Binoche finds rapture in the forests of Yoshino Jeanne (Juliette Binoche) travels to Japan to search for the rare medicinal plant ‘Vision’, which according to legend only appears once every...
View ArticleJohn Woo – Die xue shuang xiong aka The Killer (1989)
Quote:Though John Woo’s lifelong admiration of Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese, and Stanley Kubrick are also evident in this stylish actioner, the film is essentially a tribute to...
View ArticleBrillante Mendoza – Foster Child (2007)
Quote:Ostensibly a fiction film about a foster mother (Cherry Pie Picache) in the outskirts of Manila spending her last day with her latest foster child (Kier Segundo), Foster Child is actually a home...
View ArticleAi Weiwei – Lao ma ti hua AKA Disturbing the Peace (2009)
Ai Weiwei studio production “LAO MA TI HUA” is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren’s trial on August 12, 2009. Tan Zuoren was charged with “inciting subversion of state power”. Chengdu...
View ArticleEiji Okuda – Kyôko to Shûichi no baai AKA Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi (2013)
Quote:The fifth directorial effort and the first in around six years from film director and actor Okuda Eiji. This drama, set before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake, offers a delicate...
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