1950s

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Kurama Tengu is a hero to the common people, saving them from the malicious attacks of Kinnoroshi and Shinsengumi.Read More »

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Margaret Mead narrates an elaborate ritual performance. The ritual is reenacting a local mythological story, which is briefly described before the film. The basic story is that a king denies to marry a witch’s daughter, thereby unleashing the witch’s wrath. She and her disciples spread plague across the land. The king sends an emissary, who the witch transforms into a dragon. This becomes a cosmic battle between life (dragon) and death (witch).Read More »

Postwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma, also known as “The Ditch”. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house. In order to rip Tsuru off, Pin lies that he’s a student who can’t afford his school fees. Tsuru willingly whores herself to support Pin. Eventually the neighbours start to exploit Tsuru as well.Read More »

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O Cangaceiro refers to a family of bandits, the terror of the Brazilian countryside. During one of their raids, the Cangaceiros kidnap comely schoolteacher Olivia (Maria Prado). Falling in love with the girl, Teodoro (Alberto Ruschel), one of the bandits, helps her escape. The rest of the film is a prolonged chase, with Olivia and Teodoro desperately attempting to evade the clutches of wrathful bandit chieftain Ferreisa (Milton Ribiero). Though dramatically uneven, O Cangaceiros is consistently well-photographed (by H. E. Fowley) and directed (by Lima Barreto); the traditional musical score is another plus. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviRead More »

A wife decides to take desperate measures to try and hold her decade-old marriage together, including foresaking her accepted obligations.Read More »

Suspense and romance meet in this film. A nightclub is the scene of a murder. The club’s hostess and her American boyfriend find the killer.Read More »

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An adaptation of Fiodor’s Dostoievsky novel Crime and Punishment set in the XX Century Mexico. Ramón Bernal is a poor student in Mexico City that has abandoned his career when he receives a letter informing him that his sister will marry a rich man. Thinking she will marry for money instead of love and feeling guilty about this he murders an old usurer to steal her money. With feelings of guilt he gets severely ill while his friend and family don’t suspect he got anything to do with the murder, but as the murder investigation moves along inspector Porfirio Marín suspects about the student. Ramón also meets Sonia, a prostitute, and fells in love with her, the girl will teach her about regret and atonement.Read More »

When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.Read More »

PLOT: Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend’s villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings as well. Most cover mythological themes, of course. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermithe and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche.Read More »