A Japanese comedy anthology film released on August 11, 1990. The movie comprises three short stories, each themed around modern adult diseases: cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Directed by different filmmakers (Shôji Kôkami, Kazuki Ohmori & Takayoshi Watanabe), each segment blends humor and human drama to explore the struggles and absurdities tied to these illnesses.Read More »
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Hirotaka Tashiro’s remarkably assured first feature focuses on a long ignored problem: the plight of the foreign worker in Japan. In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home.Read More »
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Leary and Sanchez-Gijon play “romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers” who get involved in a caper.Read More »
This was a big surprise when it hit cinemas in 1995 – Claudio Fragasso could direct a decent action film, with great acting and a really tense atmosphere! This from the man who gave the world the incredible Troll 2…Read More »
Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami.Read More »
The Artwar face peers through painted celluloid and a barrage of explosions and film noise.Read More »
Synopsis from Letterboxd
This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with a liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally, there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink’s office that she has no time to listen to the doctor’s advice.Read More »
Two perverted homosexuals stop being gay and become necrophilic and coprophagic killers after one of them cuts his penis off.Read More »
