A successful fashion editor realizes she has romantic feelings for her childhood best friend when he invites her to his lavish London wedding.Read More »

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It was 230 years after the foundation of the temple that a woman killed a pilgrim monk in Dojoji. The accident was recorded in a literature in 11th century and revised into a couple of picture scrolls “Dojoji Engi” in 15th century. Since then, the preachers in Dojoji have repeated ‘etoki’ or picture sermon with an aid of long picturesque scrolls.
The accident became one of the most well-known folklore in Japan. Let’s see the story accordhing to the picture scrolls called “Dojoji Engi”.Read More »

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin’s monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.Read More »

Aurélie, five years old, is spending holidays with her grandmother with her sister and her young uncle. But one day their father, after fifteen years of absence, returns to the heart of the family clan, disturbing their summer peace.Read More »

Kumiko, a Tokyo office worker and a frustrated lady with her mundane life, becomes obsessed that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, Fargo, stating that a fixating a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota. She mistakes that fictional movie as a real one with a documentary. With a crudely drawn treasure map and limited preparation, she escapes her structured life in Tokyo and she travels to America to find it. She embarks on a foolhardy quest across the tundra of Minnesota in search of her mythical fortune.Read More »

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother’s death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, “Armaguedon”. A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.Read More »

Kaneto Shindô’s 1974 film “My Way” is a throwback to films of his early career and is an exposure of the Japanese government’s mistreatment of the country’s migratory workers. Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.Read More »

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Action takes place in Georgia during world war two. Zurikela, orphan boy. Meets Khatia, blind girl, who wants to return eye-sight. Zurikela decides to help her. They know, that if blind sees the sunlight, her sight can be recovered. They both face obstacles and poverty, because of war. At one point Zurikela thinks to leave Khatia and have his own life. However, conscience doesn’t allow him to do it.Read More »

“Immacolata e Concetta, l’altra gelosia” is a very good first feature by Salvatore Piscicelli about the wildly operatic events that follow the release of the two women from prison.@NYT 1981Read More »