1991-2000

  • Ho Yim – Taiyang you er AKA The Sun Has Ears (1995)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaHo YimHong Kong

    Quote:
    The story of a northern Chinese peasant wife in the 1920s whose personal life is played out against a background of sweeping political change.Read More »

  • Jean-Michel Roux – Les mille merveilles de l’univers AKA The Thousand Wonders of the Universe (1997)

    1991-2000CampFranceJean-Michel RouxSci-Fi

    Professor Larsen, the director of the International Center for Astro Monitoring is listening to radio transmissions from deep space when he receives a disturbing string of code, that to him heralds the coming of alien invaders. When thousands of people suddenly disappear from the red-light district known as Sepulveda, his worst fears are confirmed. To prove that aliens are behind the mayhem, he is sent there to investigate. Larsen is assisted by his lab helper Oscar, his bodyguard Stavro and by Eva, the beautiful daughter of a politically powerful hermaphrodite named Purpur. Their investigation leads them into a bizarre and seamy futuristic world of eroticism, political intrigue and danger.Read More »

  • Péter Gárdos – A skorpió megeszi az ikreket reggelire AKA Scorpio Eats Gemini for Breakfast (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyHungaryPéter GárdosRomance

    Quote:
    This is a story of a man who wants to grasp and hold his beloved one by him and a woman who insists on that her love can’t be grasped; ‘she’ only can deliver hers. It has written Comedy, Romance etc… but, this movie doesn’t include anything funny, I believe.After I see the movie, I thought that love springs through a one’s heart and it has its own spirit. It doesn’t have to have any company. The matter is if it coincides its mate; that’s it. A must see masterpiece for lovers.Read More »

  • Lukas Nola – Nebo sateliti aka Celestial Body (2000)

    1991-2000CroatiaDramaLukas NolaWar

    a gripping war drama

    IMDB summary:
    When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people’s sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.Read More »

  • Tony Au – Nan Jing de ji du AKA The Christ of Nanjing (1995)

    Drama1991-2000AsianHong KongTony Au

    Tony Au directed this Hong Kong-Japanese co-production lovingly adapted for the screen by Joyce Chan. Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua.Read More »

  • Ho Yim – Wo ai chu fang AKA Kitchen (1997)

    1991-2000DramaHo YimHong KongRomance

    Adapted from the hugely popular novel by Japanese writer, Banana Yoshimoto, the location has been moved to Hong Kong. Orphaned at an early age, Aggie is brought up by her grandmother. When she dies of old age, she retreats into a world of her own, sleeping on her grandmother’s kitchen floor and not uttering a word. Louie and his club hostess mother Yim Wa take her in and she takes up residence in the kitchen. Under their care Aggie gradually returns to normal and understands life from a different view due the death of a relation. The trio form an unconventional but warm relationship, but the sudden loss of Yim Wa shatters Louie’s world and makes Aggie experience the same kind of pain Aggie feels. The couple form a fragile relationship based upon this understanding.Read More »

  • Matt Mitler – Cracking Up (1994)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaMatt MitlerUSA

    Danny Gold is a Lenny Bruce-style performance artist whose brilliance is only exceeded by his urge to self-destruct. Cad, shark, comic, addict, Danny Gold rockets and ricochets through Manhattan’s seedy Lower East Side, leaving in his wake a mass of mutilated relationships and burnt bridges. Comedy…it’s no laughing matter.Read More »

  • Takashi Ishii – Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2 AKA Black Angel Vol. 2 (1999)

    1991-2000CrimeDramaJapanTakashi Ishii
    Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2 (1999)

    Synopsis
    Assigned to kill a Japanese crime boss, Mayo miscalculates and kills an innocent man instead, and his widow pledges to avenge his death.Read More »

  • Takashi Ishii – Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1 AKA Black Angel Vol. 1 (1998)

    1991-2000CrimeDramaJapanTakashi Ishii
    Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1 (1998)

    Synopsis
    Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying of her parents and is only saved from sharing their fate by an underground hitwoman who goes by the nom-de-guerre of “Black Angel.” Years after escaping to America, Ikko returns to Tokyo as a young woman. She adopts the name “Black Angel” and is out for revenge.Read More »

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