1971-1980

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Friends of different generations, practicing different professions, spend together their summer holidays at the seaside every year. It is sunny; they look carefree and happy. They know each other very well, they are used to each other. To such an extent, that bore becomes inevitable. It is boredom that incites them to play a dangerous game. The end is dramatic: a young boy gets killed. It is the moment to draw the bottom line. The question is: Isn’t the death of the spirit worse than of the body?Read More »

The story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball.
Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.

Winner: Silver Prize – Moscow International Film Festival’1977Read More »

Customs of the mountain people has always been strict and respectful to themselves. Doing something wrong will be considered as being disrespect to the spirits. Marrying someone from a different tribe is also wrong. Giving birth to twins, she and her husband together with the kids will have to leave the tribe.

“We are all human being, not animal” but the mountain people are treated like animals. But no one could take it for long…Read More »

Vittorio Cottafavi’s 1971 adaptation of the Sophocles play (he had adapted it earlier in 1958). Fans of Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub should be most impressed.Read More »

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.Read More »

A truck driver in Yamagata prefecture finds himself stuck on the road due to a police speeding checkpoint. The trucker decides to use the road shoulder instead. Wen stopped they explain to the police that they have an emergency and are in a rush. Then a police cruiser with two policewomen again catches them. Apparently, this time it is for the crime of having been in a woman’s public bath.Read More »

“Truck Yaro films usually repeat the same patterns again and again in almost every instalment. It may sound boring but it actually works out great and it’s a series trademark. You always know what to expect from the plot. Bunta is gonna fall in love and see stars but in the end he never gets the girl, Kinya is gonna forget his kids’ names, Bunta visits the bath house and bring gifts for the girls, later he has a comic fight sequence at a restaurant, usually against a rivaly truck driver… But Totsugeki Ichiban-boshi is a weird bird. The opening alone is, well, very weird. There’s also no rivalry driver, no probles with the kids’ names (they don’t even appear in the film, except in a photo) and no bath house scene… wait, did I say no topless bath house girls? Yeah, I did. But that sector gets taken care of when it later turns out that Kinya’s new lady friend Mary is a stripper by profession.Read More »

Five San Quentin prisoners find self identity in spite of their surroundings.Read More »

Toi, a drug trafficker, is being chased by the police, as he meets on the run Phol and Nong. The three become a team of robbers, who robs and kills whenever and wherever they wish. Someone names them “The Earth Angels” team. They go down south, recruit a couple more guys and rob a bank. One night while the team happily celebrates their band’s job, the police force raids their place and kills them all one by one. They are not really “Angel” after all.Read More »