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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Power of Aikido / Gekitotsu! Aikidô (1975) Shigehiro Ozawa, Jirô Yabuki, Shin’ichi Chiba, Yôko Koizumi

An action movie that illustrates the struggle of Morihei Ueshiba who was born Read More »
Free Floating / Svobodnoe plavanie (2006) Boris Khlebnikov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Evgeniy Sytyy, Pyotr Zaychenko

“Free Floating” is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad Read More »
Come Fill the Cup (1951) Gordon Douglas, James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey

Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. Read More »
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy

Congresswoman Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming Read More »
Sagebrush Law (1943) Sam Nelson, Tim Holt, Cliff Edwards, Joan Barclay

Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father’s death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. Read More »
Macbeth (1983) Jack Gold, Brenda Bruce, Eileen Way, Anne Dyson

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown Read More »
Paradise Murdered / Geuk-rak-do sal-in-sa-geon (2007) Han-min Kim, Hae-il Park, Sol-mi Park, Ji-ru Sung

Off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, an island of 17 inhabitants exists. Read More »
The Winter of Three Hairs / San Mao liu lang ji (1949) Gong Yan, Ming Zhao, Mo Cheng, Longji Wang, Long Gongboan

San mao was an orphan in old Shanghai. He ate poster paste, slept in garbage truck, kept warm in ragged sacks in winter. Read More »
Kansas Pacific (1953) Ray Nazarro, Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon

With the Civil War about to begin, Southern saboteurs attack frontier railroad construction. Read More »