Romance

Kinema Junpo Annual Top Ten of 1990

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Kaoru, a highschool boy, falls in love with a girl, Sonoko, a leading member of his high-school’s swimming club. Though he cannot swim at all, he joins the swimming club to win her heart.Read More »

A story of the illegal immigrant experience of people from the mainland of China who have made it to Hong Kong for a better life.Read More »

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A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.Read More »

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Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.Read More »

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Sex and Lucía, not surprisingly, boasts ample doses of both sex and Lucía, but its rather straightforward title doesn’t begin to intimate what a simultaneously confounding and enticing experience the film really is. Julio Medem’s sumptuous, smoldering, and ultimately confusing fable begins in the middle, with Lucía (the fiery Paz Vega) fleeing her home after thinking her novelist boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa) has killed himself. The film’s first half jumps back and forth between the past and present, cross-cutting between the couple’s passionate first steps together (shot graphically, but not lewdly) and Lucía’s self-imposed exile on a mysterious island off the coast of Spain that Lorenzo spoke of reverently but refused to visit with her.Read More »

The “casanova” gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, after meeting two exotic girls from America.Read More »

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Paris shortly before World War I. Wealthy and self-satisfied, Jean Hervey is returning home from work, describing life with his wife of 10 years, Gabrielle; he values her as impassive and stolid. However, that day she’s gone, leaving a letter that she’s joining a man she loves. Jean is devastated, but within minutes she’s returned, telling him that her resolve has failed. Over the next two days, he questions, demands, begs, and parries with her: why did she leave, why did she return, does she love him, did she ever love him, who is her lover, is she passionate with her lover? She’s calm as alabaster, reserved. Is she in danger? When she makes an offer, how will he respond?Read More »

Set in Viareggio an Italian famous tourist place, this movie is a gentle comedy where we admire a beautiful and remarkable debutant, Jacqueline Sassard supported by a good group of actors – Raf Vallone, Sylva Koscina and the young Raf Mattioli – directed with steady hand by Alberto Lattuada. Based on a subject by Valerio Zurlini, this well scripted movie tells the transformation of a young and spoilt rich girl who discovers the substance of sentiments while living the drama of her parents divorce and the delights of love. The love story is showed in a very delicate way and it is carried out with crescendo untill the nostalgic finale.Read More »

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Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.Read More »