
In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
What a Woman! (1956) Alessandro Blasetti, Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Drama

It is a breezy, inconsequential, but likeable comedy about a photographer, Corrado, played by Mastroianni, who snaps a picture of a Rome beauty, Antonietta, played by Loren. Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama

An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
Phantom of the Toilet (1995) Joji Matsuoka, Takayuki Inoue, Ai Maeda, Yuka Kono, Horror

After school children start to go missing and turn up dead, the students of the local elementary school come up with their own explanation. Read More »
Bremen Freedom (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling, Drama

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Read More »
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Documentary

The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. Read More »
She Did What He Wanted (1971) William Rotsler, Sandy Dempsey, Damian Zisk, Bambi Allen, Adult, Fantasy

Eddie hypnotizes Nora to indulge his sexual fantasies. Read More »
No Strings Attached (1997) Josef Rusnak, Vincent Spano, Cheryl Pollak, David Packer, Mystery, Thriller, Drama

Marc Demetrius, writer of investigative articles for a magazine, becomes sexually involved with Nicole who threatens his long term relationship with Sara Robbins. Read More »
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) Leni Riefenstahl, Sheigo Arai, Jack Beresford, Ralf Berzsenyi, Documentary, Sport

After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics Read More »
Regeneration (1915) Raoul Walsh, Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance

At 10 years old, Owens becomes a ragged orphan when his sainted mother dies. Read More »