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  • Masud Kimiai – Dash Akol (1971)

    1971-1980ActionDramaIranMasud Kimiai

    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 »

  • Cirio H. Santiago – Ultimatum (1994)

    1991-2000ActionCirio H. SantiagoPhilippines

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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 »

  • Hideo Gosha – Sanbiki no samurai AKA Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

    1961-1970ActionDramaHideo GoshaJapan

    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 »

  • Peter Collinson – Open Season (1974)

    1971-1980ActionDramaPeter CollinsonSpain

    Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.Read More »

  • Umetsugu Inoue – Hanzai no merodii AKA Melody of Crime(1964)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanUmetsugu Inoue

    Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses for a young boy with polio. But when Toru learns from his fiancee Itsuko that his own mother has died, things take a turn for the worse.Read More »

  • Sion Sono – Bad Film (1995)

    1991-2000ActionCrimeJapanSion Sono

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    BAD FILM is a legendary production that was shot in 1995 over the course of the year, but went unfinished due to funding difficulties. This year, over 150 hours of footage captured on the now obsolete format Hi-8 (8-millimeter high resolution video), was re-edited to create a stunning work of cinema. Its concept: “Near the end of the 20th century on Tokyo’s Chuo train line, just before Hong Kong’s return to Chinese control, masses of people go on a rampage, and love runs wild.” Its premise sees Koenji being taken over by Chinese, and running battles erupting on a tremendous scale between Japanese vigilantes and foreigners on the Chuo Line, Shinjuku, and elsewhere. Read More »

  • Enrique Gómez Vadillo – Verano salvaje AKA Savage Summer (1980)

    1971-1980ActionDramaEnrique Gómez VadilloMexico

    After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.Read More »

  • Cheh Chang – Chong xiao lou AKA House of Traps (1982)

    1981-1990ActionCheh ChangHong KongMartial Arts

    When a corrupt prince arranges for the theft of a highly valuable jade antique the emperor dispatches his best men to retrieve it. The only problem is that the prince has hidden the antique in the infamous ‘house of traps’ from which no man has ever made it out alive. Royal investigator Sun Chien and his men mount a daring raid on the prince’s birthday which results in the usual mayhem expected from a Venoms film.Read More »

  • Kazuo Mori – Aru koroshiya no kagi AKA A Killer’s Key (1967)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanKazuo Mori

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    Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori’s stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.Read More »

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