Young Nam Ko – Sonagi AKA The Shower (1979)
Quote:Seokee meets Yeonee at the entrance to the village. She has transferred from a shool in Seoul as a result of her father’s business failure, and has been sent to live with her great-grandfather...
View ArticleKaneto Shindô – Fukurô aka The Owl (2003)
Quote:It is often said that comedy is the most untranslatable element from culture to culture. This is perhaps even more the case with surreal mixed genre films like this. In Shindo Kaneto’s film (his...
View ArticleGovindan Aravindan – Chidambaram (1985)
Chidambaram (Malayalam) is a 1985 Malayalam film written, directed and produced by G. Aravindan. It is the film adaptation of a short story by C. V. Sreeraman.The film explores various aspects of...
View ArticleTakashi Shimizu – Tomie: Re-birth (2001)
“An art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.” 692MB | 1:41:00 | 720×480 | avi...
View ArticlePil-Sung Yim – Hansel & Gretel (2007)
A reckless youngster Eun-soo drives to his mother’s and has a car accident. When Eun-soo wakes up, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale-like house in the middle of the forest. There,...
View ArticleYigong Wu & Yonggang Wu – Cheng nan jiu shi AKA My memories of old Beijing...
My Memories of Old Beijing is a Chinese movie based on the novel of the same name written by Lin Haiyin which was published in 1960. The movie showed the customs and sceneries of the old Beijing in a...
View ArticleNobuhiro Yamashita – Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Story: A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. Quote:What distinguishes Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda from the crowd is a refreshing modesty. Rather...
View ArticleJohn Woo – Laat sau sen taan aka Hard-Boiled (1992)
Quote:It is almost impossible to review Hard Boiled and at the same time avoid the bottomless anus-bowl of cliches that surround it. I’m sure it’s been described as “a high octane thrill ride”, and...
View ArticleShinji Aoyama – Sad Vacation (2007)
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in...
View ArticleNobuhiko Obayashi – Noyuki Yamayuki Umibe Yuki AKA To the Fields, to the...
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully,...
View ArticleShinji Aoyama – Roji e: Nakagami Kenji no nokoshita firumu aka To the Alley –...
Kenji Nakagami one of the most notable Japanese writers of the post-war died in 1992. Is work reveals a strong connection to is homeland, Kishu: a mountainous region which connects to the pacific...
View ArticleKhavn – Squatterpunk (2007)
Filmless Films presentsSQUATTERPUNKThis is not a film by Khavn. An ode to joy amidst poverty, SQUATTERPUNK is the pre-SpanishPhilippine part of Khavn’s “Black Silence Trilogy.” Set in the slumsof...
View ArticleLu Zhang – Hyazgar AKA Desert Dream (2007)
Quotes from IMDB: This film should absolutely be on the “avoid” list of that group of audience fed on Hollywood fodder of car chase, explosions, and the like. But to those who are used to seeking out...
View ArticleHideo Gosha – Goyokin (1969)
Synopsis: “Former samurai Magobei is forced to return to his sword-dueling ways when the gang he once ran with puts an innocent woman in danger. Coming to this woman’s defense, Magobei is tortured and...
View ArticleKihachi Okamoto – Samurai aka Samurai Assassin (1965)
IMDb user comment:The year is 1860 and Japanese society is very unstable. A time when the 300-year rule of the Shogunate was drawing to a close, an event which would simultaneously bring Imperialism...
View ArticleXiaolu Guo – Jintian De Yu Zenme Yang ? AKA How Is Your Fish Today ? (2006)
A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the northern border. Sitting at his desk in...
View ArticleQuang Hai Ngo – Chuyen cua Pao AKA Pao’s Story (2006)
Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left...
View ArticleIshirô Honda – Bijo to Ekitainingen aka The H-Man (1958)
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police –...
View ArticleIshirô Honda – Uchu daisenso aka Battle in Outer Space (1959)
Quote:With his name firmly ensconced in film history as the creator of the Godzilla and Rodan films, director Inoshiro Honda continues to shape and mold a dramatic sci-fi story in Battle in Outer...
View ArticleShimako Sato – Eko Eko Azaraku aka Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Quote:Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who’s behind the supernatural attack, Misa also...
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