Charles Dexter Ward’s wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries.Read More »

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For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.Read More »

Asami (Rina Uchiyama) is about to gradute from college. One rainy day, she offers her umbrella to Mayama (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who was her mother’s lover, and Asami’s real father, though he doesn’t know it. As they keep meeting each other, Asami realizes how much her dead mother means to him. At the same time, Mayama’s current lover decides to leave him, sensing there’s no room for her in his heart.Read More »

A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she’s planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having “accidents,” and if he’s not careful, he might be next.Read More »

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A young single mother of Dai minority named Ye Nan returns from Shanghai to her scenic home village at Sino-Burmese border. She tries to assimilate back into her clan and make amends for the tense relationship between her and her daughter, Nan Hang. During one of their quarrels, the rebellious teenage girl rants questions about why one must relocate to cities to compete for the best colleges and jobs rather than stay in their countryside ancestral homes and farm for a living. Reflecting on a series of setbacks, Ye Nan gradually gives in to learning about Nan Hang’s life instead of disciplining her. Read More »

Do the opposite of “Movement.” Start with black rather than white and remove rather than add. Vary the shapes, initially vertical, then horizontal and diagonal. The editing is increasingly rapid. The blue dissolves into black. The repetitive and aggressive music mixes with the screams, evolves and tends towards an increasingly less restrained enjoyment.Read More »

A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in yards, where everything is for the first time – from secretly bought cigarettes and cans of G&T to first love and almost real tragedies.Read More »

Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young woman in the group. Love that bubble machine!Read More »

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Here’s Omori second movie directed for the ATG Studio. It is, as most people would know, the transposition to the screen of Murakami Haruki’s very first and eponymous novel. The novel itself is hard to describe in another way than a “conceptual” novel, as it is obviously no “watakushi shōsetsu (I novel)”. It is quite a unique movie, with an arty-experimental flavor. Some of you might recognize Kuroki Kazuo playing a little role as a psychologist.Read More »