Iori, a 16-year-old boy, is forced to commit “seppuku” (ritual suicide) to follow his late sovereign Read More »
Tag Archives: 1960s
Three Daughters / Teen Kanya (1961) Satyajit Ray, Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Aparna Sen
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore Read More »
A Cold Blooded Affair / Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert (1966) Helmuth Ashley, George Nader, Yvonne Monlaur, Horst Tappert
Even Jerry Cotton, the scourge of the underworld, needs a vacation every now and then. Read More »
Stolen Pleasure (1962) Tadare – Yasuzô Masumura
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. Read More »
Who’s Minding the Mint? (1967) Howard Morris, Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle
Harry Lucas works at the US mint. One night he accidentally destroys $50,000. Read More »
Naked Among Wolves / Nackt unter Wölfen (1963) Frank Beyer, Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik
As rumors reach them that the Allied armies are advancing on their concentration camp at Buchenwald Read More »
Der Tod im roten Jaguar / Death in a Red Jaguar (1968) Harald Reinl, George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Herbert Stass
Part Seven in Jerry Cotton Series. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order. Read More »
To Skin a Spy / Avec la peau des autres (1966) Jacques Deray, Lino Ventura, Jean Bouise, Marilù Tolo
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna Read More »
Bonnot’s Gang / La bande à Bonnot (1968) Philippe Fourastié, Jacques Brel, Bruno Cremer, Annie Girardot
A group of French anarchists are moved to violence when their leader Raymond (Jacques Brel) is captured. Read More »
Supreme Sword (1969) Yun Ling, Tat-Wah Tso, Connie Chan, Kam-Tong Lam
The film is laced with quite a few good extended action scenes and more violent that usual. Read More »