A carnival comes to a small town. Eighteen year old Donna meets Frankie and Patch, two carnival hustlers. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Night Games (1980) Roger Vadim, Cindy Pickett, Barry Primus, Joanna Cassidy
A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. Read More »
Four Sisters AKA Shimaizaka (1985) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Misako Konno, Atsuko Asano, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Four half-sisters share an unusually close bond during tumultuous times of post-war Japan. Read More »
Tokyo Trial AKA Tôkyô saiban (1983) Masaki Kobayashi, Kei Satô
”THE TOKYO TRIAL” is a 4 1/2-hour account of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that is visually satisfying but historically empty. Read More »
Bu su (1987) Jun Ichikawa, Yasuko Tomita, Michiyo Yasuda, Kazue Itô
Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt’s house, basically a geisha house. Read More »
Demented (1980) Arthur Jeffreys, Sallee Young, Harry Reems, Deborah Alter
A woman is gang-raped in a horse’s stable, and even though the rapists are caught and imprisoned Read More »
Play it, Boogie-Woogie AKA Slow na boogie ni shitekure (1981) Toshiya Fujita, Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A young cat burglar begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and her on-again-off-again bonehead biker boyfriend. Read More »
Emanuelle’s Daughter AKA I mavri Emmanouella (1980) Ilias Mylonakos, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Livia Russo
After years of abuse at the hands of her husband, a woman, Emmanouella, is pushed to the breaking point. Read More »
The Runner AKA Davandeh (1984) Amir Naderi, Madjid Niroumand, Abbas Nazeri, Musa Torkizadeh
Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. Read More »
The Living Koheiji (1982) Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. Read More »