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Tag Archives: 1980s
Ninja in the Dragon’s Den / Long zhi ren zhe (1982) Corey Yuen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Conan Lee, Jang-Lee Hwang

Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together Read More »
Testimony (1988) Tony Palmer, Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin. Read More »
Afternoon Breezes / Kazetachi no gogo (1980) Hitoshi Yazaki, Setsuko Aya, Naomi Ito, Hiroshi Sugita

Two young girls, Mitsu and Natsuko, share the same apartment. Read More »
In the Shadow of the Wind / Les fous de Bassan (1987) Yves Simoneau, Steve Banner, Charlotte Valandrey, Laure Marsac

Stevens Brown, now an old man, recalls the events that unfurled 50 years before Read More »
Blood Red (1989) Peter Masterson, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper

The history of a Sicilian family who emigrated to America years ago and now lives Read More »
The Yakuza Wives 2 / Gokudo no onna-tachi 2 (1987) Tooru Dobashi, Yukiyo Toake, Rino Katase, Hiroaki Murakami

Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s Read More »
A Chinese Ghost Story / Sien lui yau wan (1987) Siu-Tung Ching, Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Read More »
The House of God (1984) Donald Wrye, Tim Matheson, Charles Haid, Michael Sacks

Follow a group of interns in a large teaching hospital. Read More »
The Right Stuff (1983) Philip Kaufman, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris

Tom Wolfe’s book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel Read More »