
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Read More »
Daily Archives: October 6, 2019
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 »
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) Allan Arkush, Joe Dante, P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard

Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students’ love of rock ‘n’ roll Read More »