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Dharmasena Pathiraja – Soldadu Unnahe AKA Old Soldier (1981)
Though veteran director Dharmasena Pathiraja was noted for his leftist leanings, he said that the Marxists were “out of touch with the realties of the people, their material conditions, power, and...
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Daisatsujin orochi aka The Betrayal (1966)
Synopsis: An absolutely fabulous film, featuring an extended fight scene (~10minutes!) that is the best since SWORD OF DOOM! Far and away Raizo Ichikawa’s best fighting ever!!! He plays an honorable...
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Kaige Chen – Sacrifice (2010)
Storyline Sacrifice (Orphan of Zhao Family): To save the only child of the Zhao Family, whose whole clan is massacred at the hands of a nefarious minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son, and later...
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Hiroshi Inagaki – Muhomatsu no issho AKA The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
This simple human-interest/love story belies the cinematic triumph of its creation. Although shown in 1981 at Japan House in New York, the film dates from 1943 and so was obviously first released in...
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Heinosuke Gosho – Entotsu no mieru basho AKA Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)
Quote: Winner of the International Peace Prize at the 1953 Berlin Film Festival and considered “one of the really important postwar Japanese films, Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the...
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Isao 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...
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Fruit Chan – Jiao zi AKA Dumplings [+Extra] (2004)
Plot: In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe prepared with a mysterious ingredient that she brings directly from China. The...
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Shinya Tsukamoto – Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009) (HD)
– from Variety- “POWERED BY A Tetsuo Group presentation of a Kaijyu Theater, Asmik Ace Entertainment production. (International sales: the Coproduction Office, Paris.) Produced by Shinichi Kawahara,...
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Shinya Tsukamoto – Haze (2005)
A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn’t remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury...
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Kaneto Shindô – Bokuto kidan AKA The Strange Story of Oyuki (1992)
Noted filmmaker Kaneto Shindo directs this erotic drama adapted from the autobiographical book by renowned writer Nagai Kafu. Kafu, a noted rake and whoremonger, became one of Japan’s more celebrated...
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Zenzo Matsuyama – Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku aka Happiness of Us Alone...
The directorial debut of longtime screenwriter and frequent Masaki Kobayashi collaborator Zenzo Matsuyama, Happiness of Us Alone is a tour de force of humanist cinema that stands as a landmark of the...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Kanzashi aka Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
Synopsis Based on an Ibuse Masuji short story, this delightful escapist drama is set at a hot spring resort providing sanctuary to people of vastly different backgrounds and personalities bounded by...
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Shinji Sômai – Yuki no dansho – jonetsu AKA Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985)
Quote: The story deals with a young girl getting adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and then being “freed” by a young man working for this family´s company. 10 years later she gets...
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Tomu Uchida – Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri AKA Hero of...
Overview: On the surface, this may seem to be an early example of the Japanese exploitation films that would become very popular about five years later. In fact, this film occasionally feels like...
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Tomu Uchida – Koiya koi nasuna koi AKA The Mad Fox (1962)
At once reserved and utterly unhinged, Tomu Uchida’s The Mad Fox has garnered praise for its fervent theatricality and haywire visuals. But the very structure of the thing possesses a lopsided...
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Ki-duk Kim – Soom AKA Breath (2007)
Quote:After finding her husband’s infidelity, YEON absent-mindedly heads for the prison where condemned criminal JIN is confined. Although she doesn’t know him, repeated news of his suicide attempts...
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Ki-duk Kim – Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom AKA Spring, Summer, Fall,...
Synopsis:From the award-winning Korean writer/director/editor Kim K-Duk comes this critifcally acclaimed and exquisitely beautiful story of a young Buddhist monk’s evolution from innocence to Love,...
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Ki-duk Kim – Suchwiin bulmyeong AKA Address Unknown (2001)
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism…Address Unknown (2001) is Kim Ki-Duk’s most political film so far which traces the...
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Man Kei Chin – Shou xing xin ren lei aka Naked Poison (2000)
Synopsis:A lurid thriller that mixes the erotic with the fantastic, NAKED POISON is the story of Ah Man, a loner who has only one human friend, his coworker Ling, and who spends most of his time with...
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Hsing Lee – Qiu Jue AKA Execution in Autumn (1972)
PlotPei Gang (played by Ou Wei) was earlier sentenced by the magistrate to death for committing 3 cruel murders,even though he claimed that the killings were acts of self defense. We learnt that Pei...
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