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Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.Read More »

Children and parents. In New York City, Stephen and Danny live well: they’re smooth, cool, in love, and good at what they do. Stephen’s Midwestern parents pay them a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Jenny and Matt tell their parents they are engaged: Matt’s parents, Midwestern paramilitary fanatics, take it as a sign to gather their group to invade New York. Jenny’s father is the local Mob boss who employs Stephen and Danny as enforcers. He’s unhappy that Jenny is marrying someone who is neither Sicilian nor Catholic. Stephen’s parents know he’s gay, they just don’t know what his job is. Here come the parents; will the children survive? All roads lead to the engagement party.Read More »

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Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the “Memphis Belle”. The “Memphis Belle” took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they encounterd heavy AA fire and interceptors.Read More »

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Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved… Fate smiles upon her when she auditions for “Miracle Island”.Read More »

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Yakuza in Yokohama. Shinkokai executive Kenji Shimada met Asako seven years ago when the group was just starting out. Kenji was a thug in the Kohoku group, but the group suddenly disbanded. Ninomiya, an executive, moved to the Kanto Rengo, and fellow executive Kusuhara took Kenji and Hideo with him to the Shinkokai. One day, Kenji forcefully raped Asako, a hostess at a pink salon, but fell in love with her angel-like kindness. Kenji and Hideo start playing catch bar “Kuroneko”, but Asako gets caught by the detective. Asako, who returned to “Kuroneko”, was defrauded of 200,000 yen by Yoko, her fellow pinsaro, and she was beaten by Kenji. Read More »

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After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.Read More »

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This is a BR rip of Gregg Araki’s latest film, his follow up to the great Mysterious Skin (2004), which was probably the best (and best reviewed) film of Araki’s career, after an uneven run of making strange, campy, low-budget films such as The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997). Now Araki does something completely different, creating the indie answer to mainstream “pot comedies” such as Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and the Cheech and Chong films. Read More »

It tells about young painter Tchartkoff who bought a weird portrait represented an old man. The portrait appeared to be unfinished, but the power of the handling was striking. The eyes were the most remarkable picture of all: it seemed as though the full power of the artist’s brush had been lavished upon them. At home Tchartkoff moistened a sponge with water, passed it over the picture several times, washed off nearly all the accumulated and incrusted dust and dirt, hung it on the wall before him, wondering yet more at the remarkable workmanship. The whole face had gained new life, and the eyes gazed at him so that he shuddered; and, springing back, he exclaimed in a voice of surprise: “It looks with human eyes!” This was no copy from Nature; it was life, the strange life which might have lighted up the face of a dead man, risen from the grave… And there was only the beginning of horror that was coming to young painter.Read More »

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If you have ever wanted to know what it feels like to be a hormonal 14-year-old boy with homosexual leanings, this puts you there. Loosely composed of tender narrative episodes and hallucinatory waking dreamscapes, it follows Logan, an androgynous California loner whose head is perpetually in the clouds. Much of the time our heads are in the clouds with him, following his fevered masturbatory fantasies, his obsession with mountain lions and his tentative friendship with an older boy named Rodeo. An element of jeopardy creeps in when Logan tries to engage Rodeo on a sexual level by calling him for phone sex in the guise of a woman.Read More »