Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact 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 »
The Road to Hell / Camino del infierno (1951) Miguel Morayta, Pedro Armendáriz, Leticia Palma, Ramón Gay
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage Read More »
What Time Is It? / Che ora è? (1989) Ettore Scola, Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud
A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other Read More »
Perfect Days (2023) Wim Wenders, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. Read More »
Dawn of the Felines / Mesuneko-tachi (2017) Kazuya Shiraishi, Juri Ihata, Satsuki Maue, Michié
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Read More »
Castle of the Banned Lovers / Beatrice Cenci (1956) Riccardo Freda, Micheline Presle, Gino Cervi, Fausto Tozzi
The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco Read More »
The Gist / Saaransh (1984) Mahesh Bhatt, Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Soni Razdan
B.V Pradhan a retired school teacher lives with his wife Parvati in Shivaji Park Read More »
Frontier (2001) David Zellner
After their feature debut PLASTIC UTOPIA was deemed too strange Read More »
I Love a Bandleader (1945) Del Lord, Phil Harris, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Leslie Brooks
Harris and his assistant Eddie “Rochester” Anderson are painters doing a job at a nightclub. Read More »
Under the Open Sky / Subarashiki sekai (2020) Miwa Nishikawa, Koji Yakusho, Seiji Rokkaku, Yukiya Kitamura
A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years Read More »
Scandalous Liaisons / Rose rosse per una squillo (1993) Albert Barney, Pino Buricchi, Bruno Gaburro, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Tracy Kelly, Gérard Manzetti
An intricate story of crimes, blackmail and torrid passions. Read More »