Kazuyoshi Tamai, a High School student in Osaka is a street fighter who can do serious damage. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Rubber’s Lover (1996) Shozin Fukui, Nao, Norimizu Ameya, Yôta Kawase
Scientists use a brain-altering drug to conduct experiments, after one such project goes astray Read More »
Mother of the Dunes AKA Faraw! (1997) Abdoulaye Ascofare, Aminata Ousmane, Balla Moussa Keita, Safiatou Mahamane
The story of Zamiatou, a Songhaï woman, in North Eastern Mali. With two young sons, a pretty daughter Read More »
Deceiver (1997) Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker
Textile company heir Wayland is accused of murder of a prostitute named Elizabeth, whose body was found cut in two in the park. Read More »
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992) Craig Baldwin, Maurice Bishop, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro
In the year 1000, aliens from the planet Quetzalcoatl flee their dying planet and take refuge under the Earth’s surface. Read More »
Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1991) David Blair, Father Bessarion, William S. Burroughs
A man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television Read More »
Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer AKA Chigireta ai no satsujin (1993) Toshiharu Ikeda, Shirô Sano, Megumi Yokoyama, Kimiko Yo
A policewoman is investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. Read More »
Enchanted April (1992) Mike Newell, Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson
This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. Read More »
Spider and Rose (1994) Bill Bennett, Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, Max Cullen
Spider and Rose are on the road to Coonabarabran. It’s Spider’s last day working as an ambo, and he’s in a hurry. Read More »
The Ascent (1994) Donald Shebib, Vincent Spano, Ben Cross, Tony Lo Bianco
A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp Read More »
Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t AKA Shiko funjatta (1992) Masayuki Suo, Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka
Yet another tradition in the tradition of “ragtag misfits” in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. Read More »
Falling Sky (1998) Russ Brandt, Brian J. De Palma, Karen Allen, Brittany Murphy, Jeremy Jordan
Emily, a young girl coming of age in lower class Las Vegas, must deal with her alcoholic mother, Resse. Read More »
Luminous Moss AKA Hikarigoke (1992) Kei Kumai, Rentarô Mikuni, Hisashi Igawa, Satoko Iwasaki
The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. Read More »
Set Me Free AKA Emporte-moi (1999) Léa Pool, Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic
Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. Read More »
Darkness and Light AKA Hei an zhi guang (1999) Tso-chi Chang, Kang-i Lee, Ming-shiou Tsai, Bau-huei Shie
Kang-Yi is a teenage girl who lives in an apartment building in the port city of Keelung. Read More »