
In Australia, four teenagers in the Sydney Opera House are horrified to hear the news that nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Japanese Girls at the Harbor AKA Minato no nihonmusume (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa

A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan Read More »
Passion AKA Szenvedély (1998) György Fehér, Ildikó Bánsági, Djoko Rosic, János Derzsi

In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband. Read More »
Tora-san’s Forget Me Not AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wasurenagusa (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Ruriko Asaoka

Tora visits his family after a year. After a misunderstanding he gets upset and leaves to end up in the countryside. Read More »
Versus (2000) Ryûhei Kitamura, Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka

Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met Read More »
April Story AKA Shigatsu monogatari (1998) Shunji Iwai, Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Read More »
Diabolical Pact AKA Pacto diabólico (1969) Jaime Salvador, John Carradine, Regina Torné, Miguel Ángel Álvarez

A crazed doctor performs gruesome experiments in his search for a youth serum. Read More »
A Better Tomorrow AKA Ying hung boon sik (1986) John Woo, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Yun-Fat Chow

This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful counterfeiter Read More »
Permanent Vacation (1980) Jim Jarmusch, Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie

In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy (‘Chris Parker’)whose Father is not around Read More »
Make a Million (1935) Lewis D. Collins, Charles Starrett, Pauline Brooks, George E. Stone

A college economics professor’s “radical” ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice Read More »