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Kon Ichikawa – Kagi AKA The Key AKA Odd Obsession (1959) (HD)
Winner of Cannes’ Special Jury Prize, Odd Obsession is one of acclaimed director Kon Ichikawa’s (Tokyo Olympiad, The Burmese Harp) greatest works. This captivating blend of comic satire and drama...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Sakebi AKA Retribution (2006)
Plot from IMDB: An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress. All the clues he finds relate to him, which troubles him a lot. A ghost...
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Kôhei Oguri – Nemuru otoko AKA Sleeping Man (1996)
Plot:The village of Hitosuji lies on a river which comes out of the mountains. In a farmer’s house, Takuji lies unconscious. Back from South America, he had an accident in the mountains. Several...
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Toshirô Mifune – Gojuman-nin no isan AKA The Legacy of 500,000 (1963) (HD)
During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Years after the war, he is kidnapped by Mitsura and Keigo Gunji, brothers who...
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Haruki Kadokawa – Ten to Chi to AKA Heaven and Earth (1990)
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of...
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Rithy Panh – Les tombeaux sans noms AKA Graves Without a Name (2018)
In Rithy Panh’s latest exploration of the lasting effects of the Cambodian genocide, a 13-year-old boy who loses most of his family begins a search for their graves.Cambodian-born, France-based...
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Xiaoning Feng – Hong he gu aka Red River Valley (1996)
SynopsisVery much a celebration of Chinese solidarity in the face of the return of Hong Kong to their control, this costume drama begins at the turn of the century as a virginal Chinese girl flees via...
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Kei Fujiwara – Organ (1996)
IMDB:Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the group’s surgical headquarters. Numata barely...
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Akio Jissôji – Ra varusu AKA The Waltz (1990)
SynopsisOne night, a woman is allegedly raped by a man. Even though the man denies the charges, he ends up being prosecuted. After that, his lawyer tries to investigate wether his client is guilty or...
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Akio Jissôji – Aoi numa no onna AKA Blue Lake Woman (1986)
Blue Lake Woman tells the story of Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go...
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Jee-woon Kim – Banchikwang aka The Foul King (2000)
SynopsisThe story of a banker who moonlights as a pro wrestler. In the days when head-butting wrestler Kim Il was in his glory, a young boy idolized Ultra Tiger Mask, the one and only foul-playing...
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Akio Jissôji – Ubume no natsu AKA Summer of Ubume (2005)
During the 1950’s, a Tokyo woman from a wealthy family has been pregnant for 20 months while her husband has been missing for a year, apparently after vanishing from inside a locked room. She lives...
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Ngai Choi Lam – Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li AKA The Seventh Curse (1986)
A young heroic cop in the jungle of Thailand attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the “Worm Tribe” she belongs to. As a result, the cop is damned with seven “Blood Curses”...
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Takashi Miike – Gokudô Sengokushi: Fudô aka Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother’s death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy...
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Shuqin Huang – Hua Hun aka A Soul Haunted by Painting (1995)
Based on the true story of a Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang (Gong Li), whose work was celebrated in Paris yet rejected at home. At fifteen years old, she was sold into prostitution. Her life changes...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Bicycleran AKA The Cyclist (1989)
SummaryThe wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit...
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Gwok-Ming Cheung – Dian zhi bing bing aka Cops and Robbers (1979)
Quote:Cops and Robbers depicts a city where ordinary citizens hold little trust for the police; far removed from the post-ICAC Hong Kong of today. “Can’t even look after their own guys,” a man...
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Kazuo Hara – Yuki Yukite shingun AKA The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Synopsis:The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On is a brilliant exploration of memory and war guilt, a subject often ignored in modern Japan. In this controversial documentary, Kazuo Hara follows Kenzo...
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Juichiro Yamasaki – Atarashiki tami AKA Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015)
Synopsis:Yamasaki’s highly inventive take on the jidaigeki (historical drama) concerns a group of rural farmers treated poorly by tax authorities in the 18th-century Okayama town of Sanchu. On the...
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Gwok-Ming Cheung – Bian yuen ren aka Man on the Brink (1981)
Quote:Writing, directing and photographing Man On The Brink, Cheung can’t possibly have been the first kid on the block to attempt this story that later cropped up to great effect in City On Fire. But...
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