Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Pianist (1991) Claude Gagnon, Gail Travers, Macha Grenon, Eiji Okuda
Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist Read More »
Year Without a Summer (2010) Chui Mui Tan, Namron, Azman Hassan, Mislina Mustaffa
Azam comes back to his village, and looks for his childhood friend Ali. Read More »
The White Desert (1922) Ernst Wendt, Karl Balta, Maria Bauer, Dita Borissowa
About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Read More »
Les intrigantes / The Plotters (1954) Henri Decoin, Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Pellegrin
A stage director (Raymond Rouleau) becomes the prime suspect in the death of his assistant Read More »
Four Seasons: Utopiano (1980) Shôichirô Sasaki, Sachiyo Nakao
A visual poem that traces the sonic memories of piano tuner Eiko. Read More »
The Gambler (1958) Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Philipe, Liselotte Pulver, Françoise Rosay
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden Read More »
Express Train (1967) Masaharu Segawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kô Nishimura, Shôichi Ozawa
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor Read More »
Schlußakkord / Final Accord (1936) Douglas Sirk, Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Mária Tasnádi Fekete
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. Read More »
Perfect Understanding (1933) Cyril Gardner, Gloria Swanson, Laurence Olivier, John Halliday
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. Read More »