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Mikio Naruse – Tsuruhachi Tsurujirô AKA Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
Quote: Almost a caricature of the classic backstage story of the stars who battle even though “they’re made for each…
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Radu Jude – Kontinental ’25 (2025)
In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a…
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Mako Idemitsu – Hideo, It’s Me, Mama (1983)
letterboxd: HIDEO, It’s Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu’s…
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Nicolas Winding Refn – Pusher III AKA I’m the Angel of Death (2005)
Synopsis: Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.…
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António Reis, César Guerra Leal – Painéis do Porto AKA Panels of the Porto (1963)
Commissioned by the Porto City Council, Painéis do Porto is a visual essay on the city, gathering sequences filmed between…
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Daisatsujin orochi AKA The Betrayal (1966)
SYNOPSIS: A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an…
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Masahiro Shimura – Kyofu joshikôkô: Furyo monzetsu guruupu AKA Terrifying Girls High School 3 – Delinquent Convulsion Group (1973)
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl…
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Ella Bergmann-Michel – Fliegende Händler in Frankfurt am Main AKA Travelling Hawkers in Frankfurt am Main (1932)
Quote: The film portrays unemployed people who buy cheap fruit and vegetables at the wholesale market to resell them on…
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Norifumi Suzuki – Karei-naru tsuiseki AKA The Great Chase (1975)
A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. She goes in pursuit of…
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