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Teinosuke Kinugasa – Jigokumon aka The Gate of Hell (1953)
Plot : In 1159, during an attempted coup, one of the court’s ladies in waiting disguises herself as the lord’s wife, and a loyal samurai conveys her from the city. This diversion allows the royal...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Dong dong de jiàqi AKA A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984)
Synopsis wrote: A young boy and his sister spend a summer at their grandparents’ house in the country while their mother recuperates from an illness. They while away the hours climbing trees, swimming...
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Aditya Vikram Sengupta – Asha Jaoar Majhe AKA Labour of Love (2014)
Quote: There’s very little in common between Asha Jaoar Majhe and In The Mood For Love, but somehow Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s debut feature reminded me a lot of Wong Kar Wai’s classic romance. Perhaps...
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Luc Schaedler – Watermarks: Three Letters from China (2013)
Synopsis: Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments: in the deceptively idyllic Jiuxiancun...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin AKA Creepy (2016)
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only...
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Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha (1999)
Quote: Handed a tedious script about a turf war in Shinjuku’s Kabuki-cho entertainment district (a maverick Chinese gang pulls a robbery which upsets organised crime; a care-worn cop lumbers towards a...
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Akio Jissôji – Yaneura no sanposha AKA Watcher in the Attic (1993)
The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he’s found...
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Jun Ichikawa – Tony Takitani (2004)
Alone and self-sufficient since childhood, Tony shuns emotions as illogical and immature. After finding his true vocation as a technical illustrator, he becomes fascinated with Eiko, whom he marries....
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Edward Yang – Qing mei zhu ma AKA Taipei Story (1985)
Quote: Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme...
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Xiong zaixia – Yi Ge Ren De Zi Mu aka Zen for Subtitle (2017)
Synopsis What does subtitle translation mean in my eyes? I have devoted my youth and effort of 4 years of campus life and 2 years of work life. When I have given up translating subtitle, I want to...
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Akio Jissoji – D-Zaka no satsujin jiken AKA The D-Slope Murder Case (1998)
1998 was the peak of his “Big Bang” years, in terms of the number of works released and his explosive beauty. In addition to 4 movies and a few TV dramas, he also played Hamlet with Ninagawa....
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Ishirô Honda – Gasu ningen dai ichigo AKA The Human Vapor (1960)
Plot: The police are after a mysterious bank robber who disappeared “into thin air.”...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Bakit dilaw ang gitna ng bahag-hari? AKA Why Is Yellow the...
`An entry in the Encyclopedia of Philippine Art published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, offers a clue as to the genesis of this monumental movie. Two movies are mentioned: the first, I am...
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Yuan Zhang – Mama (1991)
Synopsis: The young mother, who had been abandoned by her husband, had to support her son named Dongdong, and had a terrible epilepsy when he was six years old, causing brain damage, and the...
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Sherad Anthony Sanchez – Imburnal (2008)
Quote: The history of cinema is the history of the tyranny of narrative films. The right of first refusal to anything worth committing to film belongs to the province of narrative films. Narrative...
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Shinji Sômai – Shonben Rider AKA P.P. Rider (1983)
Quote: P. P. Rider is a Japanese film dealing with three teenagers who set out to recover a kidnapped schoolmate. This capsule description, while accurate enough, makes the film sound rather like...
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Noboru Tanaka – Tenshi no harawata: Nami aka Angel Guts: Nami (1979)
The series really hits its stride by the third film, Nami, which is both the artistic pinnacle of the Angel Guts cycle and a roaring good time for devotees of outrageous cinema. A spate of sexual...
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Hsiao-hsien Hou – Flowers of Shanghai AKA Hai shang hua (1998)
SYNOPSIS Shanghai, the 1880s, four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (the madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. The men gather around...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu AKA The Elegant Life Of...
Quote: Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Nikudan aka The Human Bullet (1968)
Quote: The summer of 1945. As a “human bullet” of the Kamikaze Unit, 21-year-old “he” is inside a drum with a torpedo. While he waits, he looks back on a short adolescence, reminiscing on the harsh...
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