Roots is a television miniseries in the USA based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel, entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family; the series first aired, on ABC-TV, in 1977. Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It won also a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which still holds a record as the third-highest-rated US television program. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte. (wikipedia)Read More »

Story:
Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness with him. When confronted by both, however, she decides to choose neither. She has been dependent for too long, she decides, and wishes to live her own life.Read More »

Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo Sasahara, an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord’s mistress, who has recently displeased the ruler. Reluctantly, father and son take in the woman, and, to the family’s surprise, the young couple fall in love. But the lord soon reverses his decision and demands the mistress’s return. Against all expectations, Isaburo and his son refuse, risking the destruction of their entire family. Director Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion is the gripping story of a peaceful man who finally decides to take a stand against injustice.Read More »

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A woman, lost at night on a country road, is murdered. The next day, six women gather at a wilderness park for a camping weekend in honor of Susan’s birthday: Chloe, Susan’s first girlfriend; Dawn, her most recent one; Linda, Susan’s former lover now back with Steve, who has followed Linda and spies from a distance; and, Monica who used to be with Susan but is now with Andrea, who’s tagged along. They all know who cheated on whom in the Susan saga, plus they flirt or complain in turn. A fugitive may be on the loose in the park, with a private eye in pursuit. A crossbow, a blowtorch, a knife, and an animal trap figure in subsequent murders. Who’s the killer, and who survives?Read More »

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The heroes of the story, which takes place in the present, are young people about to graduate. After prom, the fourth-graders escape to a private party, then return to school together for a farewell spree, during which a fire breaks out in the classroom. Due to the style of school investigation, students whose human and personal rights have been repeatedly violated leave the school building without permission during class. They are organized with a huge ambition to change the world together. While graduation only affects them emotionally, the baccalaureate exam turns them into individuals who recognize their individual interests.Read More »

Synopsis
So-young a 65-year-old woman is one of so called ‘Bacchus lady’ who’s selling her body to old men at the old park in the center of Seoul. She is suffering the heartbreaking of her half black American son sent for adoption when she was young. When So-young goes to see a doctor due to venereal disease, she meets a Kopino boy (Half Korean-Half Filipino) at the hospital who is alone, and lost his mother. So-young brings him to her place. And she tries to find young boy’s mother while keeps her prostitution job at the same time. One day she hears about her customer SONG’s stroke and visits him.Read More »

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A family chronicle of the lives of five persons of different generations during one week of summer holidays. Through a mosaic of sweet or humorous moments, the movie shrewdly analyzes the similarities and the differences between these three generations of characters.Read More »

Synopsis:
A journalist from Munich brings revelations in a boulevard magazine about the trafficking in drugs in that city.

Ein Journalist will in einem Boulevardblatt die Hintergründe des Kokainhandels in München aufdecken. Die Drogenmafia ermordet seine Freundin und seine Eltern. Auch der Reporter bezahlt seinen Alleingang mit dem Leben.Read More »

PLOT: When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.Read More »