Drama

Times are tough in the Japan of 1918. A shopkeeper and his wife, having just opened up a new store, require protection from Boss Onimasa, if their business is to survive. Unfortunately, they have no money to offer him. On the other hand, they have plenty of children. When Onimasa arrives, however, he is less impressed with the boy they offer him than he is with their daughter, Matsue. He takes them both, but only Matsue is strong enough to withstand estrangement from her family and the rigors of yakuza life. It is through Matsue’s eyes, then, that we witness the fall of Onimasa’s yakuza clan, and the tumultuous forces that shaped Japan from 1918 until the World War II…Read More »

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20th Century-Fox put a lot of eggs in this 1953 film—Cinemascope, 3-D and stereophonic sound on prints for the few theatres equipped for that sound system in 1953, and the result was possibly the best 3-D film made during the craze. The basically-simple plot, in theory but more than that in execution, concerns a spoiled and alcoholic millionaire, Robert Ryan, who breaks his leg falling off of a horse, and is left to die in the desert by his cheating wife, Rhonda Fleming (born for Technicolor and 3-D), and her lover, William Lundigan.Read More »

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This sensitive, expressionist film, the suprise hit of the 1982 Cannes and Taormina Film Festivals, examines Budapest’s troubled adolescents of the early 1960’s with humor and passion.Read More »

A young woman, unsatisfied with her relationship with her rich fiance, arrives in Paris to think things over with her friend.Read More »

Synopsis: A woman who has lost her memory struggles to reconstruct her past while cooking simple yet delicious food for workers at a working-class seaside tavern.Read More »

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 »

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Peppermint Frappé opens to the image of a pair of hands meticulously cropping images from a fashion magazine for a personal scrapbook. The hands belong to an unassuming and conservative physician named Julian (José Luis López Vázquez) who runs a radiology clinic from his personal residence, assisted by a shy, mild mannered nurse named Ana (Geraldine Chaplin). One afternoon, Julian pays a visit to his childhood friend, Pablo (Alfredo Mayo), a charismatic and sophisticated adventurer who has recently returned from Africa with the unexpected news that he has married a beautiful and carefree young woman named Elena (Geraldine Chaplin). Read More »

End of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony “German Southwest Africa” to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.Read More »

Lola, a true-crime podcaster, returns home for Christmas only to face a vengeful ghost reenacting the murders of a historical killer. With her community at risk, she must confront the town’s buried secrets to stop the slaughter.Read More »