1991-2000

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This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, and he discovered how amazing R&B or Rhytym & Blues is, however, the music is considered to be “BLACK” music. So, most radio stations won’t play it. However, Freed believed that it’s the next wave, so he fights to have it played on the air. Eventually, he went into the big time – New York, and he decided to dub this music “ROCK & ROLL”. Despite his success, he still had a lot of opposition and made deals with the wrong people, which would lead to his downfall.Read More »

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A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.Read More »

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Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro’s wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. Read More »

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

In an unknown area of the central Apennines, during the Holy Week of the year 926, a half-dozen stories intertwine, for which acts as thread the route of the Executioner Folco and his assistant. They all converge to Malfole, to the abbey of the Visitation.Read More »

Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn’t made a film in 24 years (he can’t get past the censors). He’s working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife’s death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece’s husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that’s left?Read More »

A strange pilgrim with an army of wolves arrives to a small village in the middle of the night with the curse of the wolf over the baby of a family. Years late Marie grows as a doomed witch with supernatural powers. Very intereting movie in the vein of the Sabbath movies. Witchcraft, superstitions and old European folklore.Read More »

Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.Read More »

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The animated companion to Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell seeks to delve even deeper into the nature of identity than its predecessor, distinguishing itself with a more political story and its backdrop as the advent of the information age. An animated art film is a nigh-singular achievement. It’s a cross-section of two genres you almost never get, and a great one to boot.Read More »

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Akio, who works at a gas station, earned his large motorcycle license and finally got his hands on the GSX1100S KATANA he’d always wanted. Devoting more affection to his bike than to his girlfriend Risa, he silently continues to test-run the engine.
One day, Akio meets Mioko, a tough-talking junior at Risa’s high school. She had a crush on Akio’s friend Takashi, but at the same time, she had caught the eye of Kikuchida, a member of a delinquent gang.Read More »