Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through Read More »
Drama
My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud / En compagnie d’Antonin Artaud (1993) Gérard Mordillat, Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel
May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Read More »
Hugo and Josephine / Hugo och Josefin (1967) Kjell Grede, Fredrik Becklén, Marie Öhman, Beppe Wolgers
Josefin is a six year old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. Read More »
Pau and His Brother / Pau i el seu germà (2001) Marc Recha, David Selvas, Nathalie Boutefeu, Marieta Orozco
After his brother commits suicide, a man informs his mother and friends about the death. Read More »
The Prickly-mouthed Geisha / Beran me-e geisha (1959) Eiichi Koishi, Hibari Misora, Shinjirô Ebara, Takashi Shimura
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Read More »
By Player / Sanmon yakusha (2000) Kaneto Shindô, Naoto Takenaka, Keiko Oginome, Hideko Yoshida
Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo Read More »
Spring on Leper’s Island / Kojima no haru (1940) Shirô Toyoda, Shizue Natsukawa, Ichirô Sugai, Haruko Sugimura
Based on actual events, taken from a woman doctor’s story of life in a remote leper colony. Read More »
The human promise / Ningen no yakusoku (1986) Yoshishige Yoshida, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Orie Satô
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. Read More »
Akitsu Springs / Akitsu onsen (1962) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura
The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. Read More »
Persons in Hiding (1939) Louis King, Lynne Overman, Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish
Dorothy Bronson, the ‘girl behind the crime’ according to J. Edgar Hoover Read More »