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Pema Tseden –‘Tsol AKA Xunzhao zhimei gengdeng AKA The Search (2009)
Cinema-scope.com:This film uses perfectly framed long takes, from a largely distant yet intimately engaged camera, to tell the story of a film crew driving around Tibet looking for actors to play in a...
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Takehiro Nakajima – Kyôshû AKA Remembrance [+Extra] (1988)
This ATG film is a family drama set in 1953 in a small rural town in Tosa, Kochi. This was the first directorial effort by Takehiro Nakajima, a novelist whose work was adapted into Preparation for the...
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Buddhadev Dasgupta – Uttara AKA The Wrestlers (2000)
In the pastoral expanse of rural Bengal, in Purulia district, single railroad workers and best friends Balaram (Shankar Chakraborty) and Nemai (Tapas Pal) spend their days wrestling on a hill with...
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King Hu & Hsing Lee & Ching-jui Pai – Da lunhui aka The Wheel of Life (1983)...
Daw Ming Lee, The Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema:King Hu’s next film was a portmanteau film,The Wheel of Life/Da lunhui (1983), in which he once again codirected with Lee Hsing and Pai...
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Kagi aka The Key (1974)
SynopsisAn elderly college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his wife. He bribes his son in law to shag ger because it makes him jealous and he can perform better. He keeps a journal of his...
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Shunji Iwai – Suwarôteiru AKA Swallowtail Butterfly [+Extras] (1996)
The struggles of a group of immigrant outcasts living in an alternative-future, xenophobic Japanese metropolis. After a young girl’s mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives...
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Seijun Suzuki – Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai aka Our Blood Will Not Forgive...
Though Suzuki created it in the midst of his stylistic breakthrough, «Our Blood Will Not Forgive» has never received the same amount of attention as other films he made around the same time. Nikkatsu...
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Jun Ichikawa – Tôkyô Marîgôrudo AKA Tokyo Marigold (2001)
21-year-old Eriko breaks up with her boy friend after their date at the circuit. But life without a boy friend is indeed dull. Boredom occupies her even after she completely switches her job. Then she...
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Daisuke Itô – Chokon [Incomplete] (1926)
Chokon depicts the tragic lives of two brothers in the late Edo period; the title is a word borrowed from the Chinese, meaning “the grudge that one cannot forget.” Only the last reel of this feature...
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Junji Sakamoto – Zatôichi: The Last (2010)
MARK SCHILLING wrote:Junji Sakamoto’s “Zatoichi: The Last,” the latest revival, doesn’t feature Katsu, who died in 1997 after a wild, riotous life. Instead it stars the hyper SMAP singer Shingo...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Yari no gonza aka Gonza the Spearman (1986)
A lancer falls into disgrace when his social ambitions lead him to become engaged to two different women. Quote:LEAD: Don’t be put off by the title. ”Gonza the Spearman” is not an Eastern western....
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Kaburitsuki jinsei AKA A Thirsty Life (1968)
Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Komimasa Tanaka, the film tell the story of a strip-teaser, and her daughter who wishes to join her mother’s profession. 1.45GB | 1 h 34 min | 844×352 | mkv...
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Tai Katô – Edogawa Rampo no injû AKA Beast in the Shadows (1977)
Multiple murders, red herrings and sadomasochistic sex are the order of the day in this ground-breaking mystery from Edogawa Rampo, Japan’s foremost writer of suspense novels. The year is 1930 and the...
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Ishirô Honda – Gasu ningen dai ichigo AKA The Human Vapor (1960)
Synopsis:A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Pekin no suika AKA Beijing Watermelon (1989)
Contemporary Japanese Film by Mark Schilling (1999): Topicality is tricky. Sylvester Stallone’s one-man war in Afghanistan in Rambo III might have suited the Evil Empire mentality of the early 1980s,...
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Jun’ya Satô – Kuruwa sodachi AKA Red Light District Upbringing (1964)
Tamiko has been with a geisha house since she was little. Torn between staying in the only world that she knows but also loathes, and a normal life on the outside, Tomiko becomes more and more...
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Yimou Zhang – Ying xiong AKA Hero [Director’s Cut] (2002)
Quote:In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three...
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Gen Sekiguchi – Survive Style 5+ (2004)
A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkable inane idea after another; a British hitman who only...
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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Dangan ranna aka Dangan Runner (1996)
review:Yassuda is on the run. In truth, he should be in his car, with money that was to havebeen robbed from a bank, with a gun bought from Yakuza. He could have come offwell had he not forgotten the...
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Yasuzo Masumura – Kuro no chôtokkyu (1964)
Quote:Basically the plot revolves around an endebted entreprenor who sell his fields to a business-man who plan to build an car-factory. Instead of this factory, the fields will prove to be used for...
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