A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Three Treasures (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father Read More »
Thomas (2008) Miika Soini, Lasse Pöysti, Mauri Heikkilä, Visa Koiso-Kanttila
Thomas, a former doctor, a widower, lives alone in a basement apartment in Helsinki. Read More »
Coming Apart (1969) Milton Moses Ginsberg, Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Robert Blankshine
Joe is a psychiatrist who puts a hidden camera behind his couch, facing a wall sized mirror in order to document a number of women who come and go. Read More »
The Christ of Nanjing (1995) Tony Au, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Yasuko Tomita, Shinobu Chihara
Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China and has been sick ever since his return home. Read More »
Naked (2002) Doris Dörrie, Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara
Emilia and Felix have separated some time ago, at Charlotte and Dylan (crumbling) the facade of the marital living together already Read More »
Vice Raid (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Coogan, Brad Dexter
The bosses of the prostitution racket have one of their prostitutes go to New York City Read More »
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) Howard W. Koch, Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren
Near a small Utah town, visiting lawyer David Hewson finds the slashed body of party girl Marcia Morgan, his fellow tenant at Parry Lodge. Read More »
James Batman (1966) Artemio Marquez, Dolphy, Shirley Moreno, Boy Alano
An evil syndicate is set to conquer the world, and the mission is to stop them from fulfilling their viscious plans. Read More »
Exchange Students (1982) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Read More »
Sand (1949) Louis King, Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun
Jeff Keane’s expensive showhorse escapes from a train and runs wild in the Colorado wilderness. Read More »
Naked Childhood (1968) Maurice Pialat, Michel Terrazon, Linda Gutenberg, Raoul Billerey
A ten-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. Read More »
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) Frank Launder, Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Read More »
Jackpot (2011) Magnus Martens, Kyrre Hellum, Mads Ousdal, Henrik Mestad
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Read More »
To Our Loves (1983) Maurice Pialat, Sandrine Bonnaire, Christophe Odent
Suzanne is sixteen and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Read More »