Tells the story of an African-American Jerry Ellworth who is a Los Angeles jazz musician with a white girlfriend. Read More »
Daily Archives: May 12, 2019
Oh, Bomb! (1964) Kihachi Okamoto, Yûnosuke Itô, Fubuki Koshiji, Ichirô Nakatani
Filmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. Read More »
A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) Yasujirô Ozu, Yûkichi Iwata, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Den Ohinata
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch. Read More »
The Life of the Party (1930) Roy Del Ruth, Winnie Lightner, Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting
Broadway song-pluggers Flo and Dot, besieged with admirers, are fired; disgusted with men, they decide to become gold-diggers. Read More »
Crimes of the Heart (1986) Bruce Beresford, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. Read More »
The Underneath (1995) Steven Soderbergh, Peter Gallagher, Elisabeth Shue, Alison Elliott
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother’s marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling indiscretions Read More »
India: Matri Bhumi (1959) Roberto Rossellini
Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini’s performs a ritual trip with India covering culture Read More »
Shadow of the Wraith (2001) Toshiharu Ikeda, Kozue Ayuse, Hyôe Enoki, Makiko Fujii
A two part horror film. The first segment deals with a teenage girl who leaves her body to torment the lovers of classmate Ryoji – whom she loves. Read More »
Great Jailbreak (1975) Teruo Ishii, Ken Takakura, Nana Kinomi, Bunta Sugawara
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri Prison. Read More »
Crime Doctor (1943) Michael Gordon, Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel
Amnesia victim, Robert Ordway, becomes the country’s leading criminal psychologist. Read More »
Kanikôsen (2009) SABU, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kengo Kôra
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Read More »
Where Is Freedom? (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Totò, Vera Molnar, Nyta Dover
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. Read More »
Cyber Wars (2004) Jian Hong Kuo, Genevieve O’Reilly, Luoyong Wang, Kay Siu Lim
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone’s identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. Read More »
Satanik (1968) Piero Vivarelli, Magda Konopka, Julio Peña, Umberto Raho
A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a youth formula. Read More »