Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »
Twelfth Night (1970) John Sichel, Alec Guinness, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, Drama
In this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – a fanciful farce of classic proportions with a wealth of slapstick Read More »
Pokerface (1972) Diego Spataro, Joe D’Amato, Stelvio Rosi, Gordon Mitchell, Luciano Conti, Western
After several unsuccessful fraud attempts, Con man Jonathan Duke and his partner Sebastian Carter teams up with Ringo and his gang to rob the Mexican general Eldorado. Read More »
The Golden Mass (1975) Beni Montresor, Lucia Bosé, Maurice Ronet, Eva Axén, Drama, Erotic
David and Helene are a bored, rich, bourgeois couple stuck in a stale sexless marriage, who lives in a lush Art Nouveau chateau on the outskirts of Paris, France. Read More »
The Man from Acapulco (1973) Philippe de Broca, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. Read More »
Fun With Dick and Jane (1977) Ted Kotcheff, Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon, Comedy
Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. Read More »
Helter Skelter (1976) Tom Gries, George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and ‘control’ committed numerous murders. Read More »
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Brian De Palma, Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Rock opera version of The Phantom of the Opera which also serves as a dark satire of the music business. Read More »
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight (1979) Kevin Billington, John Stride, Claire Bloom, Ronald Pickup, Drama, History
Henry VIII is a proud and wilful monarch who defies Rome’s ban on divorce to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Read More »