An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made “the ultimate Jirocho movie” about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area. Read More »
Steel Trap (2007) Luis Cámara, Georgia Mackenzie, Mark Wilson, Pascal Langdale
A who-is-it setting in the claustrophobic corridors of an abandoned and locked-off office building that has several guests Read More »
A Gamblers Life: The Massacring Fudo (1969) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Jûshirô Konoe, Machiko Hasegawa
A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler – the gambler’s wife and daughter are sick Read More »
The Penalty (1920) Wallace Worsley, Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were perhaps needlessly amputated after an accident Read More »
Somewhere Beyond Love (1974) Luigi Comencini, Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. Read More »
Salomè (1972) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti
Salomè (Donyale Luna), the whorish daughter of Herod (Carmelo Bene), is lusted after by her depraved stepfather, King Tetrac. Read More »
Hair (1979) Milos Forman, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. Read More »
Terrifying Girls High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973) Norifumi Suzuki, Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Seiko Saburi
Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic Read More »
The Good and the Bad (1976) Claude Lelouch, Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey
The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks. Read More »
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) Roy Rowland, Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh makes an impressive debut alongside Van Johnson in this historical romance in which a farmer’s daughter Read More »