Toshiya Fujita – Imouto aka Younger Sister (1974)
Synopsis (from mnauce@ADC):A Seishun Kayo Eiga (youth film featuring songs), about the “interesting” relationship btw abrother and his younger sister. Actually one entry of a trilogy Toshiya Fujita...
View ArticlePatrick Tam – Fu zi aka After This Our Exile [Director’s Cut] (2006)
Quote:This film tells the tale of a young boy whose mother abandons the family after years of abuse at the father’s hands. The boy, loyal and unwilling to see his father in a negative light, turns to...
View ArticleIsao Yukisada – Kita no zeronen aka Year one in the north (2005)
Quote: In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now...
View ArticleKaz Cai & Wang Jing & Anocha Suwichakornpong – Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2010)...
Helmed by three female filmmakers from China, Thailand and Singapore respectively, the stories of these three films, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, occurs at a specific mealtime. In Breakfast, Mei travels...
View ArticleYi’nan Diao – Ye che AKA Night Train (2007)
Wu Hongyan is a young woman working as a prison guard during executions of female convicts. She feels lonely after her husband died, and she takes a night train to another city to visit a dating...
View ArticleShinji Imaoka – Enjo-kôsai monogatari: shitagaru onna-tachi aka Frog Song (2005)
Quote:Frog Song is a truly innovative example of Pink cinema; a new and exciting movement within Japanese underground filmmaking that mixes erotic content with art film aesthetics to create an...
View ArticleYôichi Sai – Tomo yo shizukani nemure AKA Let Him Rest in Peace (1985) (HD)
Tsuyoshi Shindo came to the town of Tamari to prove the innocence of his friend, Sakaguchi. Sakaguchi was accused of attacking the president of Shimoyama Kensetsu, a local construction company, with a...
View ArticleNaoto Yamakawa – Pan’ya shuugeki AKA Attack on a Bakery (1985)
Two pals suffer from an insatiable hunger and decide to rob a local communist bakery run, occupied by a Wagner loving shop keep and a lone indecisive woman contemplating her next meal. Based on a...
View ArticleGan Bi – Nanfang AKA South (2010)
Quote: Original Title in Chinese: 南方 When studying in campus, Gan Bi (Kaili Blues and Long Day’s Journey Into Night) finished his first work Nanfang (South) in 2010. This work got a golden prize of...
View ArticleYoshishige Yoshida – Amai yoru no hate AKA Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)
Plot: An ambitious department store worker endeavors to improve his station in lifeby manipulating women to get what he wants – money that is. 1.65GB | 1 h 24 min | 960×400 | mkv...
View ArticleZhangke Jia – Lai Fang AKA Visit (2020)
SynopsisThe idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace,...
View ArticleToshio Matsumoto – Dogura magura AKA Dogra Magra (1988)
A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to...
View ArticleYûzô Kawashima – Waga machi AKA My Town (1956)
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl,...
View ArticleKhodzha Kuli Narliyev – Nevestka AKA Daughter in Law (1972)
Quote:A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a...
View ArticleKajirô Yamamoto & Akira Kurosawa – Uma aka Horse (1941)
The story of the film is simple: A young girl in the countryside raises a young horse and develops a deep relationship to the animal. But the war is becoming part of life, so in the end she has to...
View ArticleYen-ping Chu – Yi shi er niao AKA One Stone and Two Birds (2005)
During the reign of Emperor Jia Jing of the Ming Dynasty, the evil court official Yan Song relies on the emperor favoritism towards him, becoming overbearing and domineering. An honest official Zhang...
View ArticleKihachi Okamoto – Dai-bosatsu tôge AKA The Sword of Doom (1966)
Quote:Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely. 2.53GB | 2 h 0 min | 1024×438 | mkv...
View ArticleKôkichi Tsukiyama – Shibukawa Bangorô (1922)
A film on the life of Bangorō Shibukawa, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Tadao Satō’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three...
View ArticleYôichi Sai – Tomo yo shizukani nemure AKA Let Him Rest in Peace (1985)
Tsuyoshi Shindo came to the town of Tamari to prove the innocence of his friend, Sakaguchi. Sakaguchi was accused of attacking the president of Shimoyama Kensetsu, a local construction company, with a...
View ArticleMike De Leon – Kisapmata AKA In Just the Wink of an Eye (1981)
Plot: Retired policeman holds a woman and daughter in a claustrophobic grip with his dictatorial behaviour. His son-in-law resists and the result is a confrontation. A gruesome monster in his...
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