When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Shussho Iwai / The Wolves (1971) Hideo Gosha, Rumi Aiki, Hideyo Amamoto, Noboru Andô
Seiji Iwahashi is released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of a rival. Read More »
A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan (1972) Jamaa Fanaka, Katina Gordon Fanaka, Carmen Gordon
Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions Read More »
The Creature Called Man / Jaga wa hashitta (1970) Kiyoshi Nishimura, Yûzô Kayama, Jirô Tamiya, Mariko Kaga
A police inspector and Olympic sharpshooter (Kayama) Read More »
Malibu Beach (1978) Robert J. Rosenthal
A lifeguard becomes the centre of the universe for two beachgoers who compete for her attention. Read More »
The Big Snatch (1971) Byron Mabe, Dan Martin, Harry Chest, Momo, Peggy Church
Guy in a pickup truck kidnaps 5 women off the street, intending to make them his sex slaves. Read More »
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) George Roy Hill, Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche
Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time”, which means he is moving between Read More »
Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty (1972) Buichi Saitô, Daisuke Awaji, Junko Fuji, Akira Hirasawa
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss Read More »
Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins, Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano
“Punishment Park” is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews’s news coverage Read More »
The Courage of the People / El coraje del pueblo (1971) Jorge Sanjinés, Domitila de Chungara, Eusebio Gironda, Federico Vallejo
A documentary reenactment of the government-ordered massacre of striking tin miners Read More »