
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
A Tale of Happiness / Ureshi hazukashi monogatari (1988) Yôichi Higashi, Maiko Kawakami, Minori Terada, Chikako Hon’ami

Bored with their marriage, a middle-aged husband and wife each take on a lover half their age. Read More »
Second Serve (1986) Anthony Page, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam, William Russ

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged Read More »
Kate’s Secret (1986) Arthur Allan Seidelman, Meredith Baxter, Ben Masters, Georgann Johnson

A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic. Read More »
The Second Love (1983) Sekando rabu

Kazumi handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Read More »
The Deserters / C.K. Dezerterzy (1986) Janusz Majewski, Marek Kondrat, Zoltán Bezerédy, Wiktor Zborowski

In 1918, a group of soldiers of various nationalities conspires to desert the imperial Austro-Hungarian army. Read More »
The Sex O’Clock News (1985) Romano Vanderbes, Doug Ballard, Lydia Mahan, Wayne Knight

A series of sexually-oriented newscasting skits chronicle the daily programming at television station KSEX. Read More »
I’m Dandy / Migimagari No Dandy (1989) Hiroyuki Nasu, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Miyuki Imori, Mariko Kaga

Ichijo, a middle-aged salary man, hassles to get his career back on track. Read More »
The Winter of Our Discontent (1983) Waris Hussein, Donald Sutherland, Teri Garr, Tuesday Weld

This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life. Read More »
Muslim .357 (1986) Fernando Poe Jr., Eddie Garcia, Vivian Foz

Lt. Jamal (FPJ) is a Muslim undercover police officer, who is sent to Manila to help curb the runaway crime rate. Read More »