Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo Read More »
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) Roy William Neill, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact Read More »
Spring on Leper’s Island AKA Kojima no haru (1940) Shirô Toyoda, Shizue Natsukawa, Ichirô Sugai, Haruko Sugimura
Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »
Three Bites of the Apple (1967) Alvin Ganzer, David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes
A woman (Sylva Koscina) offers to help a British tour guide (David McCallum) avoid paying taxes on his Italian casino winnings. Read More »
The human promise AKA Ningen no yakusoku (1986) Yoshishige Yoshida, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Orie Satô
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. Read More »
Akitsu Springs AKA Akitsu onsen (1962) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura
The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. Read More »
Persons in Hiding (1939) Louis King, Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish
Dorothy Bronson, the ‘girl behind the crime’ according to J. Edgar Hoover Read More »
The Road to Hell AKA Camino del infierno (1951) Miguel Morayta, Pedro Armendáriz, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage Read More »
What Time Is It? AKA Che ora è? (1989) Ettore Scola, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud
A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other Read More »
Perfect Days (2023) Wim Wenders, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. Read More »
Dawn of the Felines AKA Mesuneko-tachi (2017) Kazuya Shiraishi, Juri Ihata, Satsuki Maue, Michié
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Read More »
Castle of the Banned Lovers AKA Beatrice Cenci (1956) Riccardo Freda, Micheline Presle, Gino Cervi, Fausto Tozzi
The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco Read More »
The Gist AKA Saaransh (1984) Mahesh Bhatt, Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Soni Razdan
B.V Pradhan a retired school teacher lives with his wife Parvati in Shivaji Park Read More »
Frontier (2001) David Zellner, Wiley Wiggins, Nathan Zellner
After their feature debut PLASTIC UTOPIA was deemed too strange Read More »
Hold Back the Night (1956) Allan Dwan, John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves
A bottle of Scotch carried by WW2 veteran Captain Sam MacKenzie of the U.S. Marine Corps Read More »