Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting Read More »
Flower Drum Song (1961) Henry Koster, Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong
Chinese stowaway Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong (Jack Soo) Read More »
The Exiles (1961) Kent Mackenzie, Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds
Native Americans in Los Angeles. For 12 hours one Friday night, from late afternoon until dawn, we follow a handful of urban Indians. Read More »
The Haunting Passion (1983) John Korty, Jane Seymour, Gerald McRaney, Millie Perkins
Dan was a successful football player, but when his contract expired recently, it wasn’t renewed due to his age. Read More »
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 4 (1967) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Sumiko Fuji
Fourth film in the “Shôwa Zankyôden” series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era. Read More »
Death of a Salesman (1951) Laslo Benedek
Based on Arthur Miller’s famous play. Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point Read More »
Hey, Lets Twist! (1961) Greg Garrison, Joey Dee, The Starliters, Jo Ann Campbell
The rise, fall and rise again of the Peppermint Lounge nightclub is chronicled. Read More »
Thick Skinned AKA Peaux de vaches (1989) Patricia Mazuy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Spiesser
A decade after a man has been killed in an accident in an isolated part of the French countryside, a family tries to come to terms with what happened. Read More »
Lola (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Ten years after the war, West Germany’s market economy is booming. Read More »
Love and Crime AKA Meiji · Taishô · Shôwa: Ryôki onna hanzai-shi (1969) Teruo Ishii, Sada Abe, Yukie Kagawa, Yoshi Katô
Discover 4 famous japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe Read More »