Seiji Iwahashi is released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of a rival. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Travelling Actors / Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
The Geisha Boy (1958) Frank Tashlin, Jerry Lewis, Marie McDonald, Sessue Hayakawa
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific. Read More »
Bye bye, Barbara (1969) Michel Deville, Ewa Swann, Philippe Avron, Bruno Cremer
A journalist meets a pretty, young woman in Biarritz and they fall in love with each other. Read More »
The Dancing Girl of Izu / Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko (1933) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Ohinata, Tokuji Kobayashi
In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »
Yellow Crow / Kiiroi karasu (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. Read More »
Le secret de Mayerling / The Secret of Mayerling (1949) Jean Delannoy, Jean Marais, Dominique Blanchar, Jean Debucourt
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg Read More »
Once More / Ima hitotabi no (1947) Heinosuke Gosho, Mieko Takamine, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Haruo Tanaka
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman Read More »
The Canadians (1961) Burt Kennedy, Robert Ryan, John Dehner, Torin Thatcher
When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. Read More »
Saya: Perspective in Love / Saya no iru tousizu (1986) Akiyoshi Kimata, Ikue Masudo, Tatsuo Nadaka, Masami Tsuchiya
The flamboyant editor of an underground porn magazine asks his star photographer Read More »