Drama

Synopsis:

The music business is a tough nut to crack. Just ask Hajime, a raspy voiced singer/songwriter not short of talent but somewhat anachronistic in his choice of dress. Sporting a shiny bob wig, velvet blazer and heavily ruffled shirt, he’s every bit the picture of a GS (group sounds) frontman but several decades too late for that brief trend. His busking draws curious stares and his attempts to get signed to a label are met with indifference. His semi-retreat into a career as a radio DJ seems like a good fit, especially when Miki stops by for an autograph. She’s young, cute, and clearly in awe of his musical persona. That night they have sex, and she shocks him into speechlessness by climbing on top and climaxing during the act. Within the minute he’s writing a new song, smitten, and by the next scene they’re shacking up. Things are ideal until they wake up after a night of passion and Hajime discovers Miki’s secret: After sex, she sheds a layer of skin like a snake in one large piece. Like a tissue-thin Miki suit. It’s an eye-opener.Read More »

Woman is trapped in her home with her husband’s killers.Read More »

This movie, based on the true story, begins with the murder of a housewife. When troubled teenage daughter confesses the crime, it looks like a solved case. But, the investigators are suspicious because of the lack of motive and spend years trying to determine what really happened.Read More »

Quote:
The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke’s chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction. Inspired by a true story, the director’s first theatrical feature finds him fully in command of his style, observing with clinical detachment the spiritual emptiness of consumer culture—and the horror that lurks beneath its placid surfaces. The Seventh Continent builds to an annihilating encounter with the televisual void that powerfully synthesizes Haneke’s ideas about the link between violence and our culture of manufactured emotion.Read More »

Quote:
This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder. As the retelling of the trial unfolds, the participants in the crime — the bandit (Toshiro Mifune), the rape victim (Machiko Kyo), and the murdered man (Masayuki Mori) — tell their plausible though completely incompatible versions of the story.Read More »

A dour ten minutes during which a young woman takes the job a family man. Mostly of interest as a “glimpse of views on women’s emancipation and employment at a time when they were invading the office world as stenographers and typists” (Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi).Read More »

Vural’s life is the epitome of mundanity. He performs his duties as a father to a young boy, a husband, and a caring son to his sick father, with whom he runs a photography shop across the American Consulate in Istanbul. Yet, Vural has a secret, a minor transgression of his faith: an affair with Sonay, a young woman who visits his shop for passport pictures she needs in order to apply for a visa to the US. In her emotional distress, she confronts Vural, putting a threat on his uncomplicated living. Vural is faced with a hard choice between to deal with the consequences of this relationship or go down the dark path of dealing with his complete loss of morality.Read More »

Quote:
A drug dealer finds an unlikely traveling companion in a runaway kid trying to dodge social services.Read More »

CHIAKI -the business owner’s daughter, TUYOKO -plubisher, and YUKIE are in love with the same person: YOSHIO (Uehara Ken), a handsome young man who is an employee at a fabric export company whose boss is Yukie’s father….Read More »