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Sang-soo Im – Hanyo AKA The Housemaid (2010)
Award-winning actress Jeon Do Yeon stars as poor divorcee Eun Yi, who gladly signs on to work as a nanny and housemaid for a wealthy, upper-crust family. In her naive eyes, the rich and handsome Hoon...
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Jinglei Xu – Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin aka A Letter from an Unknown...
This is an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s story “Letter from an unknown woman” to China settling in a time period before the cultural revolution (1930-1948). Plot: Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man...
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Seijun Suzuki – Sandanju no otoko AKA The Man With A Shotgun (1961)
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town’s mill....
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Sadao Yamanaka – Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo AKA Tange Sazen and...
Tange Sazen is the story of a one eyed one armed swordsman his nagging wife and an orpan who upsets their routine while clutching a ceramic pot worth one million ryo. We know the value of that pot,...
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Sadao Yamanaka – Ninjô kami fûsen aka Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
A poor, masterless Samurai who depends on the paper balloons his wife makes to feed his family becomes tempted by a criminal opportunity. Widely regarded as Yamanaka’s greatest achievement, Humanity...
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Ki-young Kim – Hanyo AKA The Housemaid (1960)
Review In 2003, Jean-Michel Frodon, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma, wrote that the discovery of The Housemaid by the West, over forty years after the film’s debut, was a “marvelous feeling–...
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Stanley Kwan – Yuen Ling-yuk AKA Centre Stage (1992)
IMDB: Chinese History Still Mysterious To Westerners, 19 March 2005 9/10 Author: shinewu from United States *** This review may contain spoilers *** I don’t mean to say anything other than the title...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Yuke yuke nidome no shojo aka Go go second time virgin (1969)
ゆけゆけ二度目の処女 Quote: A girl (Mimi Kozakura) is forcibly carried to a rooftop and gang-raped, as a boy of similar age (Michio Akiyama) stands to the side watching the events unfold. The boy remains on the...
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Mikio Naruse – Aki tachinu aka Autumn Has Already Started (1960)
Shigeko, a recently widowed mother from Nagano,brings Hideo,her sixth-grade son,to live with his uncle in Tokiyo.Shigeko soon gets a job at the Mishima hotel.The shy Hideo doesn´t respond wellto his...
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Sijie Dai – Niu-Peng AKA China, my sorrow (1989)
Dai Sijie’s first feature film. Filmed in the south of France with a mostly non-professional cast. As Dai’s famous film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, the story of Niu-peng is about the...
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Katsu Kanai –Ôkoku aka The Kingdom (1973)
KatsuKanai wrote: My first film, The Deserted Archipelago, emerged out of the intersections between my own experiences and fantasies and Japan’s postwar history, and, as such, I might call it the...
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Darezhan Omirbayev – Student (2012)
The film is based on “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Action takes place in modern Kazakhstan. The film’s protagonist is The Student whose major at the university is philosophy. He rents a...
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Samira Makhmalbaf – Takhté siah AKA Blackboards (2000)
Review (DVDVerdict.com) The irony at the center of Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf’s (The Apple) movie, Blackboards, is that basic education may have the power to radically improve the lives of...
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Masaru Konuma – Wife To Be Sacrificed (1974)
VOL666 wrote: WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED is another in a long line of sleazy Nikkatsu roman-porn features – and this is another of the better ones. Somewhat reminiscent of the (also excellent) 1969 film...
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Toshiharu Ikeda – Sei kari udo aka Sex Hunter (1980)
Synopsis: A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend,...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Mizu no nai puuru AKA A Pool Without Water (1982)
Quote: A married man has been driven to the edge by a boring job, a talkative wife, unbearable children and their cramped living quarters. He gets some chloroform and a gas mask, gains illegal entry...
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Yoichi Higashi – Sâdo aka Third (1978)
Yoichi Higashi breakthrough film Sâdo is based on script by Shuji Terayama and produced by Art Theatre Guild (ATG). The film follows the relationship of one man to the world around him, variously his...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Namari no bohyo AKA. Lead Tombstone (1965)
LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a...
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Kôichi Saitô – Tsugaru jongarabushi AKA Tsugaru Folksong (1973)
Quote: BAM/PFA (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) wrote: In this film of the furusato genre, Isako Nakazato returns to the Tsugaru fishing village where she grew up, bringing with her...
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Chan-wook Park – Saminjo AKA Threesome (1997)
Description from KMDB: Han is a suicidal saxophonist, Mun is violent simpleton with an I.Q. of 80 and Maria is single mother with dreams of becoming a nun. Han has tried numerous times to kill himself...
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