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Mrinal Sen – Akaler Sandhane AKA In Search of Famine (1980)
IMDB:A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. Awards:National Award 1981 – Golden Lotus (Best Film)Berlin Film Festival 1981 – Silver...
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Kar-Wai Wong – Dung che sai duk AKA Ashes of Time Redux (1994)
Two years after forming his own production company, Jet Tone, Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai released ASHES OF TIME, a martial-arts epic based on THE EAGLE-SHOOTING HEROES, a series of novels by...
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Madhur Bhandarkar – Page 3 (2005)
Page 3′ takes a behind-the-scenes look at A-list celebrity lifestyles through the eyes of a female entertainment journalist. It explores the power-play between the rich and famous and the media. It is...
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Shozin Fukui – Den Sen aka Infection (2004)
Shozin Fukui, whose directorial style is often compared to that of Shinya Tsukamoto, put out two extremely strange DV-shot cyberpunk horror films in the 90s, 964 Pinocchio in 1991 and Rubber’s Lover...
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Heinosuke Gosho – Ima hitotabi no AKA Once More (1947)
SynopsisBefore the war, Nogami, a doctor who devotes himself to the caring of the poor, meets Akiko during a theatrical representation. She’s a sheltered girl from a wealthy bourgeois family who finds...
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Toshiya Fujita – Revolver (1988)
SYNOPSIS:When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the...
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Nobuhiro Suwa – M/Other (1999)
Quote:The romantic pretensions of Hollywood to the contrary, love is a very messy business. After all, the other person is a completely separate being, whose independent thoughts, feelings, and...
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Hajime Satô – Kaidan semushi otoko AKA The Ghost of the Hunchback (1965)
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters.An unbelieving trio(a doctor,his assistant and his niece)fail to heed the caretaker’s warnings...
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Tôichirô Narushima – Seigen-ki AKA Time Within Memory (1973) (HD)
Quote:[Toichiro Narushima’s] Time Within Memory (1973) was one of Takemitsu’s favorites films, but remains out of print. Film Critic Fritz Göttler considers this film to have been an ‘ideal...
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Duyu Dan – Pan si dong (1927)
FILM SYNOPSIS/BRIEF REVIEW:One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking for food alone, Tang Xuanzang was kept prisoner by seven spider monsters...
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Takeshi Kitano – Kizzu ritân AKA Kids Return (1996)
Two buddies visit the schoolyard of the high school they used to attend, and remember their young and dumb days. They used to be the bullies in the school, until they find their own ways of life; one...
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Yôjirô Takita – Okuribito AKA Departures (2008) (HD)
With the breakup of his Tokyo orchestra, a young cellist returns with his adoring wife to his hometown. Searching for work, he responds to a cryptic ad for work in “Departures”, only to find out that...
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Mansaku Itami – Akanishi Kakita aka Capricious Young Man (1936)
SynopsisA samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him. After collecting enough information to prove a conspiracy, the samurai...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni AKA For My Daughter’s 7th...
The film is Yasuzo Masumura’s last feature film, based on Mio Saito’s novel which wons him a Seishi Yokomizo Award, shot by Setsuo Kobayashi, principle cinematographers of such Kon Ichikawa &...
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Kazuo Kuroki – Suri aka Pickpocket (2000)
Quote:Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not...
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Kon Ichikawa – Kagi AKA Odd Obsession (1959)
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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Kon Ichikawa – Hi no tori AKA Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978)
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly...
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Kon Ichikawa – Taketori monogatari AKA Princess from the Moon (1987)
The old Japanese folktale of the Bamboo Cutter is here reinterpreted to make Kaguya an alien visitor. Sticking fairly closely to the original 9th century tale of a bamboo cutter finding a mysterious...
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Ki-duk Kim – Bin-Jip AKA 3-iron (2004)
SynopsisA transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents’ lives for a few days. 1.49GB | 1h 27mn | 854×462 | mkv...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni AKA For My Daughter’s 7th...
The film is Yasuzo Masumura’s last feature film, based on Mio Saito’s novel which wons him a Seishi Yokomizo Award, shot by Setsuo Kobayashi, principle cinematographers of such Kon Ichikawa &...
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