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Author Archives: rarefilm
Taking the Castle (1965) Shirotori

When two samurai warriors take on a job to take over the castle fort of an invading clan Read More »
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Read More »
Graveyard of Honor (1975) Jingi no hakaba

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent Read More »
The Messiah (2007) Nader Talebzadeh

The story of Jesus Christ told from an Islamic perspective. Read More »
Tracks (1976) Henry Jaglom, Dennis Hopper

A soldier (Dennis Hopper) returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. Read More »
Wild and Woolly (1917) John Emerson

The civilized inhabitants of a formerly wild western town scramble to recreate the town’s rough Read More »
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (2025)

In a small, quiet Greek village, nestled high in the mountains above an ancient volcano, a group of elderly villagers Read More »
Lázaro at Night (2024) Lázaro de noche

Three actors in a love triangle grapple with the blurred lines between their roles and real desires Read More »
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi (1963)

In June of the first year of the Genji era, the Shinsengumi launched a raid on the Ikedaya Inn, where anti-shogunate activists had gathered. Read More »