An elderly samurai who spent his life as a heya-zumi (essentially a freeloader off his family) Read More »
Violence at Noon / Hakuchû no tôrima (1966) Nagisa Ôshima, Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satô
Hakuchû no tôrima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. Read More »
The Stairway to the Distant Past / Harukana jidai no kaidan o (1995) Kaizô Hayashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. Read More »
Radio On (1979) Christopher Petit, David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff
In 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother’s death Read More »
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) Michael Haneke, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man. Read More »
Lonelyheart / Sabishinbô (1985) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Yasuko Tomita, Toshinori Omi, Yumiko Fujita
Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Read More »
I Am Keiko / Keiko desu kedo (1997) Sion Sono, Keiko Suzuki
Keiko Suzuki is a lonely waitress in Tokyo. Her father passes away of cancer Read More »
Flowers from Another World / Flores de otro mundo (1999) Icíar Bollaín, José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejía
In the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Read More »
Down to the Bone (2004) Debra Granik, Vera Farmiga, Hugh Dillon, Clint Jordan
Winter in hard-scrabble upstate New York. Irene is working class, a mother of two boys Read More »
Blood Calls to Blood / Sangue chiama sangue (1968) Luigi Capuano, Fernando Sancho, Stephen Forsyth, Germán Cobos
In a frontier town between the USA and Mexico, Sancho and his gang assault a monastery Read More »