Romance

The story of a young girl’s first love is told from the heroine’s point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.Read More »

Based on a novel by actress Mieko Harada, screenwriter Hiroshi Saito won the “Best Screenplay” award at the Yokohama Film Festival for this film.
Sex isn’t something one plans. It just happens. Yoko is a 23 year old pink collared worker. After college she is kept close with Yokoyama and Ishida, two male college friends who both harbor feelings for her. Yokoyama is straight as an arrow, yet impulsive when it comes to love. Ishida is more the outspoken type. When Yokoyama proposes to her, Yoko wonders if the old marriage myth is true. Is settling down with an ‘ordinary’ guy the key to a happy marriage?Read More »

Bae Il-do, grown up in a country unappreciated, ran away from home and works as a tailor. His wife also went through a lot growing up under the step mother’s harsh treatment then working as house keeper and hostess at a bar. She met Il-do accidentally, lived together and ended up having a child with him. Gong-rye gets between them having an affair with Il-do while working sewing machine at a factory. Their secret meetings take place on the night train on the pay day and their secret did not last. His wife gets jealous and it is time for Il-do and Gong-rye to part.Read More »

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I don’t have much patience with colleagues who dismiss Charlie Chaplin by saying that Buster Keaton was better (whatever that means). To the best of my knowledge, with the arguable exception of Dickens, no one else in the history of art has shown us in greater detail what it means to be poor, and certainly no one else in the history of movies has played to a more diverse audience or evolved more ambitiously from one feature to the next. The opening sequence in Chaplin’s second Depression masterpiece (1936), of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century, and as Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have brilliantly observed, the famous shot of his being run through machinery equates him with a strip of film. Still, there’s more hope here than in Chaplin’s preceding City Lights, perhaps because this time the Tramp has Paulette Goddard, another plucky urchin, to keep him company.Read More »

Marina travels to Vigo to meet the family of her biological father, who died of AIDS, like her mother, when she was very young. Through meetings with her uncles, aunts and grandparents, the young woman tries to reconstruct an account of her parents, but they are all too ashamed of the couple’s drug conflicts, something Marina reminds them of with her presence. It will be the adolescent love story she lives with her cousin that allows her to reimagine her parents and connect with them. In this way, she invents a story, thanks to her mother’s diary, which frees her from the stigma her family feels for them and fulfills the desire to understand the past… Film about family memory that closes the trilogy of its director composed by ‘Verano 1993’ and ‘Alcarràs’.Read More »

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Leonor works in a brothel called El Paraiso, in a Caribbean environment. Juan, a man in love with Leonor, has escaped from prison. Both Leonor and John want a new life, but they are hampered by the shadow of their past.Read More »

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Acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas follows up on the international success of Fin Août, Début Septembre and Irma Vep with this sweeping adaptation of the sprawling three-volume tome by Jacques Chardonne. Set in three chapters spanning from the beginning of the 1900s to after WWI, the first section takes place in the fictional village of Barbazac, located in the Cognac region. Protestant pastor Jean Barnery (Charles Berling) learns of his wife Nathalie’s (Isabelle Huppert) infidelity from the village grapevine and sends his daughter away. At the same time, 20-year-old Pauline (Emmanuelle Beart) returns to the village after the death of her father. Pauline and Jean are almost immediately attracted to each other when they first meet at a ball. Soon Jean installs Nathalie and their daughter in an apartment, files for divorce, and resigns as minister. Read More »

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A sumptuous period melodrama; a story of aristocratic star-crossed love by one of Mizoguchi’s favorite authors, Matsutaro Kawaguchi (Ugetsu).Read More »

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The night Mari, a high school biology teacher, had a fight with her boyfriend Tamotsu, she took her dog for a walk along the Toyohira River to calm down. There, she meets a strangely dressed man who claims to be a samurai of the Tsugaru clan. Although Mari is surprised, she takes him home. His name is Koyata, and he was chased away by the Ainu during the Shakushain Rebellion that occurred in Hokkaido in the 10th year of the Kanbun era.He desperately wanted to return to his hometown, so on a full moon night in mid-autumn, he asked an old woman to cast a spell that would allow him to return for just one year. , tells Mari and her grandmother Sadako that she arrived in this era by mistake.Read More »