
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Read More »
Daily Archives: October 6, 2019
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) George P. Cosmatos, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

Terrorists have planted a deadly virus on a transcontinental train. Read More »
Big Bullet (1996) Benny Chan, Ching Wan Lau, Jordan Chan, Ruco Chan

After assaulting his tactical commander during a raid gone sour Read More »
Adua and Her Friends (1960) Antonio Pietrangeli, Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past. Read More »
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983) Vera Chytilová, Leos Sucharípa, Libuse Pospísilová, Vlasta Spicnerová

The strains of Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun” waft through this amusing comedy about an aging lecher’s ever-optimistic pursuit of the fair sex, for fair sex, or better. Read More »
Blame Freud (2014) Paolo Genovese, Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta

Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles Read More »
Flame and Women (1967) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa

A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination Read More »
The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) Alexander Korda, Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Bruce Winston

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He’s arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. Read More »
Lucia (1968) Humberto Solás, Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá

Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía Read More »
Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998) Takashi Miike, Takeshi Caesar, Setsuko Karasuma, Yûki Nagata

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Read More »