A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Blood Red (1989) Peter Masterson, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper
The history of a Sicilian family who emigrated to America years ago and now lives Read More »
The Yakuza Wives 2 AKA Gokudo no onna-tachi 2 (1987) Tooru Dobashi, Yukiyo Toake, Rino Katase, Hiroaki Murakami
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s Read More »
A Chinese Ghost Story AKA Sien lui yau wan (1987) Siu-Tung Ching, Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Read More »
The House of God (1984) Donald Wrye, Tim Matheson, Charles Haid, Michael Sacks
Follow a group of interns in a large teaching hospital. Read More »
Onimasa AKA Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai (1982) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masako Natsume, Akiko Nakamura
A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa Read More »
The Right Stuff (1983) Philip Kaufman, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
Tom Wolfe’s book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel Read More »
Outrage! (1986) Walter Grauman, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Burgess Meredith
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape Read More »
Giallo alla regola (1988) Stefano Roncoroni, Remo Girone, Daniela Poggi, Paolo Malco
Fugitive criminal is hiding a suitcase full of dollars under the machine. Read More »
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) T. Minh-ha Trinh
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits Read More »
Iced (1989) Jeff Kwitny, Debra De Liso, Doug Stevenson, Ron Kologie
Years ago, their dear friend was killed when he fell from a cliff while skiing for a love of a woman. Read More »
Il medium (1980) Silvio Amadio, Guido Mannari, Sherry Buchanan, Martine Brochard
A man has psychic premonitions of bad things happening to both a young boy Read More »
Devil in the Flesh AKA Diavolo in corpo (1986) Marco Bellocchio, Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi
An Italian high school student named Andrea becomes infatuated with Giulia Read More »
Spider’s Web AKA Das Spinnennetz (1989) Bernhard Wicki, Ulrich Mühe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Ulrich Mühe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. Read More »
Prime Suspect (1982) Noel Black, Mike Farrell, Teri Garr, Veronica Cartwright
Respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. Read More »