1980s

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.Read More »

Nederlands Film Festival wrote:
Four difficult teenagers come into conflict with their bungling parents. The battle escalates when the mother tries to seduce her daughter’s tennis teacher and the children turn the villa into a heavily armed fortress. A classic theme, the struggle between parents and children, but in this black comedy it gets completely out of hand, in an unusual and bold way, while the parents’ authority is completely undermined and they eventually come off worst.Read More »

Set in chaotic 1920s China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen’s underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic, the movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when one warlord takes Peking. A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Here we meet the daughter of the head of the troupe, who dreams of being an actress. But even female roles are played by men in the opera. Soon, the daughter of the currently ruling warlord and a male agent of the democratic underground are involved.Read More »

A computer hacker is abducted into a digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.Read More »

A mental journey through a woman’s physical odyssey through urban landscapes and nature.Read More »

A college fraternity prank goes wrong and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, it’s graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation. Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.Read More »

A young jazz musician’s desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician’s girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist’s attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza “friend” is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.Read More »

The fallout resulting from a botched Triad gang smuggling job forces a young couple to separate – she becomes a kingpin’s unwilling moll and he travels to the Philippines to work as a contract killer. Six years later, the two are reunited in a chance encounter, but their rekindled emotions and people from their past lead them into extreme danger.Read More »

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Akio Kitano is a man who bet on a 0.1 second ecstasy. He is a lone wolf who does not belong to any team, who crawled up from loneliness to a legendary two wheeled racer. The group of beauties surrounding him – a designer, a daughter of a conglomerate, a wife of a banker, is mere tools. For Kitano it was all to run and become the fastest champ in the world!Read More »