
Seni, a club owner, is under pressure by a rival, Wan, to pay an outstanding loan. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Thanks Boss! / Merci patron! (2016) François Ruffin, Bernard Arnault, Marie-Hélène Bourlard

A family fired by a company owned by LVMH (Group owned by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault) Read More »
Magino Village: A Tale / 1000-nen kizami no hidokei (1987) Shinsuke Ogawa, Tatsumi Hijikata, Junko Miyashita, Takahiro Tamura

The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years Read More »
Backstage (2005) Emmanuelle Bercot, Emmanuelle Seigner, Isild Le Besco, Noémie Lvovsky

An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross Read More »
A Duel Tale / Hatashiai (2015) Shigemichi Sugita, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Nanami Sakuraba

An elderly samurai who spent his life as a heya-zumi (essentially a freeloader off his family) Read More »
Violence at Noon / Hakuchû no tôrima (1966) Nagisa Ôshima, Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satô

Hakuchû no tôrima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. Read More »
The Stairway to the Distant Past / Harukana jidai no kaidan o (1995) Kaizô Hayashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi

Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. Read More »
Radio On (1979) Christopher Petit, David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff

In 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother’s death Read More »
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) Michael Haneke, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl

71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man. Read More »
Lonelyheart / Sabishinbô (1985) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Yasuko Tomita, Toshinori Omi, Yumiko Fujita

Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Read More »