The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Ballad of Narayama has chosen here to tell the decidedly dicey true tale of Iheiji Muraoka Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987) Gary Sherman, Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume
This movie features a character who is a descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. Read More »
Tank (1984) Marvin J. Chomsky, James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell
Sergeant Major Zak Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Read More »
The Garden of Eden AKA Eden no sono (1980) Yasuzô Masumura, Ronni Valente, Leonora Fani, Angela Goodwin
A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. Read More »
I Love You AKA Eu Te Amo (1981) Arnaldo Jabor, Sônia Braga, Paulo César Peréio, Vera Fischer
A wealthy Brazilian, Paulo (Paulo César Peréio), failed industrialist, has just been abandoned by his beautiful blonde wife Barbara Read More »
Tragedy of W AKA W no higeki (1984) Shin’ichirô Sawai, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Yoshiko Mita, Masanori Sera
Young college student Shizuka is given the opportunity to act in a stage play with professionals. Read More »
Bloodstone (1988) Dwight H. Little, Brett Stimely, Rajinikanth, Anna Nicholas
When an newlywed American couple goes to India on their honeymoon Read More »
Before Spring AKA Kaichô-on (1980) Hôjin Hashiura, Keiko Oginome, Ryô Ikebe, Karin Yamaguchi
Iyo is a teenage girl from a bourgeois family living nearby the Sea of Japan. Read More »
War Bus (1986) Ferdinando Baldi, Daniel Stephen, Romano Kristoff, Urs Althaus
A group of soldiers in Vietnam, saving some missing in action soldiers in a schoolbus. Read More »
The Dresser (1983) Peter Yates, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand, the dresser, Norman (Sir Tom Courtenay) Read More »