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Kar-Wai Wong – Hua yang de nian hua (2000)
HUA YANG DE NIAN HUA, a fascinating 2m 28s montage of images Wong kar-wai pulled from a number of vintage Chinese features, most of which were considered lost until some nitrate prints were discovered...
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Jun Li – Nong nu AKA Serfs (1963)
From the BFI website:Drama about the exploitation of a Tibetan serf and his liberation by the People’s Liberation Army. Orphaned Jampa is brought up by his grandmother until she dies when he is...
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Kushi no hi AKA Love in a Small Room (1975)
Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an...
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Takashi Miike – Bijitâ Q AKA Visitor Q (2001)
Synopsis;A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures. A father, who is a failed former television...
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Akira Kurosawa – Nora inu AKA Stray Dog (1949)
Quote:Stray Dog is an intense criminal story that examines the psychology of the characters as in compares the similarities between criminals and detectives. These similarities are balanced on a thin...
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Various – Lian hua jiao xiang qu AKA Symphony of Lianhua (1937)
“The Lianhua Film Company became the leading progressive studio of the 1930s. Symphony of Lianhua 1937 is a rarely seen showcase of short films by eight directors, many of whom later worked in Hong...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Nerawareta gakuen AKA School in the Crosshairs (1981)
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student… Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi...
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Jong-chan Yun – Sorum (2001)
Yong-hyun moves into a creepy apartment which seems somehow familiar to him. His apartment was formerly occupied by a writer who burned to death in his room, but that doesn’t seem to bother the...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hitomi no naka no houmonsha AKA Blackjack AKA The Visitor...
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidently. She is taken to hospital but it advised that she will never regain the sight in...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari AKA Casting...
Reiko is a journalist who travels to Nagaoka to report on the victims of the Tohoku earthquake. She will also run into her ex-boyfriend Kenichi, who hopes to convince her to star in a play based on...
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Kazuo Kuroki – Matsuri no junbi AKA Preparation for the Festival (1975)
Tateo is a young man living in a small rural village. He is a credit bank clerk, but his work is tedious. He tends to be interested in sex, but he does not quite fit in with the sexually loose milieu....
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Eric Khoo – My Magic (2008)
SynopsisFrancis (Bosco Francis) is a man at the end of his tether. He has a 10-year-old son he loves desperately, but sorrow, guilt and constant inebriation have made him an ineffectual father. The...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai AKA Sada (1998)
Based upon the case of Sada Abe, who on May 17, 1936 killed and emasculated her lover. These events took place during a period of war, economic depression, public unease and growing militarism, a time...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Kindaichi Kosuke no boken AKA The Adventures of Kosuke...
Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most well known being The Inugami Family. 1.65GB | 1 h 54 min |...
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Shin’ya Tsukamoto – Tokage AKA Lizard (2003)
Tokage was commissioned by television network NHK for a series in which the works of famous Japanese authors would be narrated on film, as captured by noteworthy directors. Tsukamoto was asked to...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – 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,...
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Kôhei Yoshidome – Shin ningen shikkaku AKA New – No Longer Human (1978)
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of...
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Toshihiro Tenma – Kyôso tanjô AKA Many Happy Returns (1993)
Quote:A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose members...
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Kazuo Ikehiro – Nakayama shichiri AKA In A Ring Of Mountains (1962)
Quote:This movie is probably as close to a chick flick as Raizo ever made! But there’s still good action and a very inventive sword fight at the end. Raizo fans cannot resist him any way. Info is...
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Pema Tseden – Khyi rgan AKA Lao Gou AKA Old Dog (2011)
Summary from Icarus Films:A family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price. The Tibetan nomad mastiff is an exotic prize dog in China,...
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