
Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan’s Cold War period. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Spiritual Love (1987) David Lai, Taylor Wong, Yun-Fat Chow, Cherie Chung, Deannie Ip, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller

A small-time triad member, played by Chow Yun-Fat, discovers a letter from an antique desk written by a young girl, played by Cherie Chung, who died from an illness years before. Read More »
Money (1983) Robert Bresson, Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Crime, Drama

A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop Read More »
Talking to Strangers (1988) Rob Tregenza, Ken Gruz, Marvin Hunter, Dennis Jordan, Experimental, Drama

It consists of only nine ten minute segments. Each shot/sequence was filmed only once in 35mm film with direct sound. Read More »
Fire Festival (1985) Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki, Drama

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. Read More »
Exquisite Corpses (1989) Temístocles López, Carolyn Beauchamp, John Bethune, Brian Catton, Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Attractive young cowboy, new to the city meets a gay casting agent. Read More »
Oh, Moon! (1988) Reha Erdem, Yesim Tozan, Gülsen Tuncer, Nurinisa Yildirim, Drama

Yekta, 11 years old, is born and still lives in a mysterious, castle-like house, at the shore of the Bosphorus, together with her lame seagull, her spinster aunt Read More »
Swing Shift (1984) Jonathan Demme, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Drama, Romance, War

Jack and Kay Walsh are typical of couples of the 1940s, in which he’s the breadwinner and she the housewife determined upon him to perform the guy’s duties around the home. Read More »
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986) Pierre Clémenti, Achmi Gachem, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Drama, Thriller

Necrocity, a town of every terrors and also a place where even the government appear to fortify this particular state of mayhem Read More »
The Mark of the Beast (1980) Pieter Verhoeff, Gerard Thoolen, Marja Kok, Peter Faber, Drama

In 1928 at the northern portion of the Netherlands, a person has an affair with the wife of a few of the buddies (who’s in prison at the time). Read More »