Footsteps” is a medium-length film of 34 minutes directed by Giulio Questi in 1964. A real jewel of Italian underground cinema, unknown to most and brought into the open in 2009 on the occasion of the 66th Venice International Film Festival.Read More »
Inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and a sharp departure from the Nikkatsu Action norm, Glass Johnny stars Shishido as a bike track tout whose mission in life is to make a winner out of a struggling rider (Hirata) and become rich as a result. Before he can achieve this, he becomes the unwilling savior of a pure-hearted, simple-minded prostitute (Ashikawa) on the run from her pimp.Read More »
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Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Due to his obligation to Kokin, he is involved with a gang war and is arrested.Read More »
Though a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.Read More »
In the fictitious country of Eldorado, taken by the internal struggle for political power, the idealist and journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. He is torn between the elite’s madness and the blind submission of the masses.Read More »
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After her husband kills himself, future prospects for the demure and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji look incredibly bleak. Fortunately, her dead husband’s largest creditor, Mr. Kito, is there to offer a shoulder to cry on as he offers to settle all her debts. But, sure enough, Kito’s charity comes with certain strings attached; namely that Mitsuko becomes his personal sex slave. Things become even more complicated when Kito’s son Kazuhiko falls for the helpless widow, throwing into jeopardy his own marriage plans.Read More »
An aviator of a commercial line disappears in the Brazilian jungle. Two friends organize an expedition to find him. As if there were not enough dangers in the Amazon, three members of the expedition have another goal: to steal a golden goddess.Read More »
Liolà is a single father of three children, a free spirit wandering from city to city without wanting to commit to anyone.
An Alessandro Blasetti 1964 movie with Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pierre Brasseur and Anouk Aimée, from a Luigi Pirandello story.Read More »
In an hour’s chat with two French interviewers, Sternberg laments the failure of critics and the public to truly understand his work.Read More »