Though ethnically and culturally identical to the average Japanese, the burakumin have been an underclass in Japanese society Read More »
Daily Archives: February 17, 2021
Jia ru wo shi zhen de AKA If I Were for Real (1981) Tung Wang, Kuan-Chen Hu, Alan Tam, Lin Hsiang
It is an adaptation of the 1979 play of the same name by Sha Yexin, Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde, set in mainland China. Read More »
I Am Guilty AKA Falscher Bekenner (2005) Christoph Hochhäusler, Constantin von Jascheroff, Manfred Zapatka, Victoria Trauttmansdorff
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. Read More »
Dino (1957) Thomas Carr, Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner
A rebellious young man, just released from reform school, returns home only to come into conflict with his father. Read More »
Desire (1936) Frank Borzage, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain Read More »
Pornography and the Holocaust AKA Stalags (2008) Ari Libsker
Documentary film about pornographic Stalag fiction books popular in Israel until the time of the Adolf Eichmann trial. Read More »
Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957) Howard W. Koch, Judy Tyler, Bobby Troup, Margo Woode
To prove his theory that rock and roll is on its way out, a sociologist tries to convince a “bop” singer Read More »