High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
Daily Archives: September 28, 2021
The Cobra Strikes (1948) Charles Reisner, Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser, Leslie Brooks
Hard-boiled reporter Mike Kent investigates the murder of a prominent scientist Read More »
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze Read More »
Run, Psycho, Run AKA Più tardi Claire, più tardi… (1968) Brunello Rondi, Gary Merrill, Elga Andersen, Georges Rivière
A man and his wife are vacationing on the Tuscan coast in 1912. When the wife is murdered Read More »
Husbands and Lovers AKA La villa del venerdì (1991) Mauro Bolognini, Julian Sands, Joanna Pacula, Tchéky Karyo
Young cinematographer Stefano and his wife Alina, who cannot have children, sincerely love each other Read More »
Hercules and the Captive Women AKA Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961) Vittorio Cottafavi, Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni
The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) Read More »
All About Ah-Long AKA Ah Long dik goo si (1989) Johnnie To, Chow Yun-Fat, Sylvia Chang, Kun-Hsuan Huang
A father’s ex-girlfriend resurfaces after a 10-year absence wanting to take her son away from him. Read More »
The War Is Over AKA La guerre est finie (1966) Alain Resnais, Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold
Diego is one of the chiefs of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris Read More »
Mona Lisa (1986) Neil Jordan, Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine
After getting out of prison, George (Bob Hoskins) looks for a job, but his time Read More »
Ghosted (2009) Monika Treut, Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting Ting Hu
A mysterious love story between Hamburg and Taipeh. The unsolved murder of her young Taiwanese lover Read More »