This tale begins as Shinkai runs into his childhood friend, Takagano (Ichiro Nakatani) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1970s
Gokuaku bozu hitokiri kazoe uta / The Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder (1970) Takashi Harada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Koike, Bunta Sugawara
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai Read More »
Operation: Daybreak (1975) Lewis Gilbert, Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland
In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Read More »
Smic Smac Smoc (1971) Claude Lelouch, Catherine Allégret, Amidou, Jean Collomb
Charles, Jean and Amidou are workmen at the La Ciotat shipyards Read More »
The American Friend (1977) Wim Wenders, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
Tom Ripley has a sweet deal with an art forger. The forger creates the paintings; Tom sells them. Read More »
Three Days of the Condor (1975) Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
A mild mannered CIA researcher, paid to read books, returns from lunch to find all of his co-workers assassinated. Read More »
Runnin’ After Love (1978) Carlos Hugo Christensen
Beto, a young gigolo playboy, convinces his friends to break into a house Read More »
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973) Richard Schickel, Alfred Hitchcock, Cliff Robertson
A look at Alfred Hitchcock’s films. The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here Read More »
Blume in Love (1973) Paul Mazursky, George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when Read More »
Hoodlum Soldier: Rebel in the Army / Shin heitai yakuza: Kasen (1972) Yasuzô Masumura, Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Michiyo Ohkusu
On the Chinese front, Kisaburo, a young soldier, falls in love with a Chinese spy. Read More »