An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Steel Trap (2007) Luis Cámara, Georgia Mackenzie, Mark Wilson, Pascal Langdale
A who-is-it setting in the claustrophobic corridors of an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests Read More »
A Gamblers Life: The Massacring Fudo (1969) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Jûshirô Konoe, Machiko Hasegawa
A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler – the gambler’s wife and daughter are sick Read More »
The Penalty (1920) Wallace Worsley, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were perhaps needlessly amputated after an accident Read More »
Somewhere Beyond Love (1974) Luigi Comencini, Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. Read More »
Salomè (1972) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti
Salomè (Donyale Luna), the whorish daughter of Herod (Carmelo Bene), is lusted after by her depraved stepfather, King Tetrac. Read More »
Hair (1979) Milos Forman, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. Read More »
The Last Wagon (1943) Mario Mattoli, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Anita Durante
The roman coachman Totò doesn’t want his coach being replaced by cars and doesn’t want his daughter Nannarella to go out with the taxi driver Roberto. Read More »
Terrifying Girls High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973) Norifumi Suzuki, Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Seiko Saburi
Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic Read More »
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989) Juraj Jakubisko, Bolek Polívka, Ivan Drozdy, Judita Durdiaková
Two men fight to make a life for themselves — and eventually for the damaged woman they come to love. Read More »
I Was an American Spy (1951) Lesley Selander, Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy
Begins in documentary style when U. S. Army General Mark Clark authenticates Claire Phillips’ adventures and achievements Read More »
The Good and the Bad (1976) Claude Lelouch, Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey
The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks. Read More »
Basement (2010) Asham Kamboj, Danny Dyer, Jimi Mistry, Kierston Wareing
Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die? Read More »
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) Roy Rowland, Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh makes an impressive debut alongside Van Johnson in this historical romance in which a farmer’s daughter Read More »
Swamp Water (1941) Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. Read More »