
Susanne is the hostess who gives comfort to the visitors to her hotel. All of the vices in the country are heavily taxed, including drinking and making love. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Kenjû zankoku monogatari / Cruel Gun Story (1964) Takumi Furukawa, Jô Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Action, Crime, Thriller

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »
Sex and the Single Alien (1993) Peter Daskaloff, Eric Kohner, Melanie Rose, Frank Fowler, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Harry Smith is your typical sexually-unfulfilled husband whose wife Olivia is more interested in UFOs than in him. Read More »
Noisy Requiem / Tsuitô no zawameki (1988) Yoshihiko Matsui, Toshihiko Hino, Simon Kumai, Yukiko Murata, Drama

In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Read More »
Macbeth (1971) Roman Polanski, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Drama, War, History

Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Read More »
Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938) Marcel Carné, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »
Man Called Invincible (1973) Giuliano Carnimeo, George Hilton, Cris Huerta, Ida Galli, Comedy, Western

A gunman and his sheriff companion are hired to deliver a million dollars in gold by traveling through gang-infested lands, while in disguise. Read More »
El Norte / The North (1983) Gregory Nava, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. Read More »
Ageman / Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Comedy, Drama

The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. Read More »
Regarde les hommes tomber / See How They Fall (1994) Jacques Audiard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Yanne, Mathieu Kassovitz

Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Read More »