Based on a novel by Mishima Yukio, The School of Flesh (1965) tells the story of a beautiful designer descended from nobility (Kishida Kyōko), who breaks away from an unhappy marriage after the war to greedily pursue a wild and pure love. Kinoshita Ryō directs this sophisticated tale of romantic intrigue in high style.Read More »
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.Read More »
Thomas, a taxi driver torn between the mundane reality of his life and his literary aspirations, spirals into an erotic obsession following the tragic suicide of a client.Read More »
A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband’s best friend, a private detective, to investigate.Read More »
Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.Read More »
Early days of the Japanese television broadcasting, through the eyes of an ingenue who is trained as a contract actress.Read More »
Synopsis:
An adaptation of the renowned Portuguese Letters, originally written in French and attributed to Soror Mariana Alcoforado. As letters may have been written by Soror, in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Beja, to her lover Noel Bouton, Count of Chamilly.Read More »
In order to avoid being consigned to a retirement home, former salesman Joseph Kotcher leaves his son’s family home to embark on a road trip where he strikes up a friendship with a pregnant teenager.Read More »
Unlike the typical Bob Hope and Lucille Ball vehicles, The Facts of Life is essentially a domestic drama with comic undertones. Hope is married to Ruth Hussey, while Ball is the wife of Don DeFore. All four are old friends, who for many years have taken each other for granted. A series of unforeseen circumstances requires Hope and Ball to spend a great deal of time together without their spouses, and as a result they fall in love. Though the affair is never consummated, Hope and Ball are prepared to run off together, but in the end they decide that adultery at their age just isn’t worth the trouble. Long unavailable for viewing due to legal tangles, The Facts of Life has gained legendary status as one of the few Bob Hope films of the 1960s to concentrate on character development rather than silly one-liners.Read More »