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It seems too good to be true when young unemployed Yu Jiayin is introduced to a tutoring job by an old classmate. She and the father of the girl she tutors fall in love. He already has a wife, although she is ill and lives in the countryside away from him and their daughter. Jiayin’s father shows up, wanting money and making trouble.Read More »
Also known as The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes, this political melodrama was produced by Kun Lun Studios, a private studio founded in 1946 employing many leftist and progressive filmmakers. Kun Lun was also responsible for the 1947 film, The Spring River Flows East. The screenplay is by Yang Hansheng, who also wrote San Mao Liulang ji (The Winter of Three Hairs), yet another Kun Lun production.Read More »
The first BBC television adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, Constance Cox’s adaptation of Oliver Twist (1962) is now available for the first time to own on DVD. Starring Bruce Prochnik and BAFTA nominees Max Adrian and Peter Vaughan. Constance Cox s uncompromising 1962 adaptation of Dickens tale of a gang of orphan boys turned to crime changed the face of British Sunday teatime viewing. Her unvarnished depiction of despair and depravity in the back alleys of 19th-century London, and the cruel divide between rich and poor, shattered expectations of cosy family drama.Read More »
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Harry, who lives with Anna and their seven children, works as a barber in a seedy asylum. The patients love him, but his boss is of another opinion. When, not surprisingly, Harry gets the sack and Anna decides to move their family halfway across the globe, he grows a bit weary… In the course of a few summer weeks, a string of strange characters cross Harry’s path: Walter, a mercenary who desperately needs a war in Europe; Jesper, a pornographer who is unfortunately allergic to naked bodies; a seductive plastic surgeon; and finally Sonja…Read More »
Inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and a sharp departure from the Nikkatsu Action norm, Glass Johnny stars Shishido as a bike track tout whose mission in life is to make a winner out of a struggling rider (Hirata) and become rich as a result. Before he can achieve this, he becomes the unwilling savior of a pure-hearted, simple-minded prostitute (Ashikawa) on the run from her pimp.Read More »
Cheriyachan, a landlord, feels threatened by industrialisation and leftist activities. But when he witnesses police atrocities on poor peasants, a feeling of guilt engulfs him and he feels responsible for the guilt of his entire class. He is last seen up a coconut tree trying to keep away from the police. The film is about a peasant’s movement against the feudal system.Read More »
Haz a Szikiak Alatt (The House Under the Rocks) is considered by many to be Hungarian director Karoly Makk’s masterpiece. Janos Gorbe plays a soldier, sick of heart and mind, who returns to his home after a long and debilitating war. He finds that his wife is dead, and his son is now under the care of his sister-in-law, played by Irene Psota. An embittered hunchback, Psota tends to Gorbe’s wounds and keeps him isolated from the rest of the village, hoping in this way that he will eventually fall in love with her. He doesn’t, and tragedy is the result. One of the hits of the 1958 Venice Film Festival, Haz a Skikiak Alatt was equally well received at the San Francisco Film Festival (between its European and American showings, the film’s running time had been judiciously trimmed by several minutes).Read More »
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The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent. With life insurance money flowing in she not only can afford to pay rent, but also loan some cash to her brother who unbeknownst to his mother has taken on a loan from the bank with the house as collateral. The loan was needed as his wife’s aunt’s factory needs an infusion of funds.Read More »
imdb:After graduation from Hampden University, Bill “Lightning” Graham, a football star, and Ann Carver, who just passed her bar exam, marry. Instead of pursuing a career in law, Ann takes on the role of housewife, while Bill is employed as a draftsman. When Ann is asked to take on a high-profile legal case, she accepts and wins. She becomes an overnight success and a media darling. Meanwhile, Bill’s career is stagnant and Ann is supporting him financially, causing the couple to spend less time together. Bill decides to take a job at “Club Mirador” to make more money.Read More »