The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. Read More »
Uzumasa Limelight (2014) Ken Ochiai, Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Gôda
The film centers an aged movie extra who specializes to be killed in samurai movies without ever being lit by the limelight. Read More »
Senso (1954) Luchino Visconti, Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti
Venezia, spring of 1866, in the last days of the Austrian occupation. Read More »
Yakuza Ladies 3 (1989) Yasuo Furuhata, Yoshiko Mita, Rino Katase, Ken’ichi Hagiwara
Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Read More »
Bad Behaviour (1993) Les Blair, Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Philip Jackson
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie’s grapples with work Read More »
Almost a Man (1966) Vittorio De Seta, Jacques Perrin, Lea Padovani, Gianni Garko
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal Read More »
009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013) Koichi Sakamoto, Mayuko Iwasa, Minehiro Kinomoto, Nao Nagasawa
In 20xx, the world is divided into two powers: the Western Block and the Eastern Block. Read More »
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) Harold Young, Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard
A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier. Read More »
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey (1984) Gordon Parks
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. Read More »
Murder in Coweta County (1983) Gary Nelson, Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, Earl Hindman
In 1948, in rural Georgia, Coweta County is watched over by its legendary, indomitable Sheriff Lamar Potts (Johnny Cash). Read More »
Glory Sky (1963) Takis Kanellopoulos, Aimilia Pitta, Faidon Georgitsis, Takis Emmanuel
Small chronicle of the defeat of the Greeks in the Greco-Italian War of 1940-1941 Read More »
House of Horrors (1946) Jean Yarbrough, Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin
Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. Read More »
Catalina Caper (1967) Lee Sholem, Tommy Kirk, Del Moore, Peter Duryea
A beach movie. A scroll is stolen from an art gallery and taken to Catalina Island Read More »
Call Me Mister (1951) Lloyd Bacon, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas
G.I. Sergeant Shep Dooley, former stage star awaiting discharge in postwar Tokyo Read More »
Jump (1965) Tadeusz Konwicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Jerzy Block, Marta Lipinska
A man hops off a train by the small town where he claims he was before. Read More »