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Detective Komura — nicknamed “The Cobra,” feared by criminals for his ruthless, relentless methods — is assigned to investigate the murder of a fashion model.Read More »

Shot in the midst of the Daiei debacle, a yakuza film that turns its lack of resources into a strength, multiplying scenes of fog with poetic opacity.Read More »

This Willy Bogner picture is the definitive ski film. A visually exciting sports/music adventure story. Music by Grammy Award winner Harold Faltermaier is combined with a cinematographic view of Aspen, Vail and the Swiss Alps and a spectacular array of daredevil skiing.Read More »

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An evil master of black magic releases some gruesome Japanese ghosts in a quiet Chinese village, provoking a great deal of bloody havoc. But he is opposed by a master of white magic and after the good and evil ghost-ninjas have duked it out, the two masters confront each other in a final showdown.Read More »

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.Read More »

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing a yakuza boss, must find a way out of trouble.Read More »

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family’s money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan’s hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.

Based on a novel by Sadegh HedayatRead More »

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Dina Bonnevie plays a Filipina working with a US-based chemical company that sends a team to the Philippines to check a branch there. Eddie Garcia plays the Chief of Police assigned to protect the chemical company’s visiting group that falls victim to a terrorist gang headed by Vernon Wells. Eddie is only too eager to save the chemical-company group because Dina happens to be his girlfriend who, against his wishes went to the USA seeking greener pastures.Read More »

This first feature by the legendary Hideo Gosha is among the most beloved chanbara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. A wandering, seen-it-all ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai (Isamu Nagato and Mikijiro Hira), hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate. With remarkable storytelling economy and thrilling action scenes, this is an expertly mounted tale of revenge and loyalty.Read More »