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Tag Archives: 1980s
Black Rain (1989) Ridley Scott, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. Read More »
Blind Trust / Pouvoir intime (1986) Yves Simoneau, Marie Tifo, Pierre Curzi, Jacques Godin

A government ministry’s fast-rising head of security asks a shadowy fixer, Meursault Read More »
By Hook or by Crook / Xian yu fan sheng (1980) Karl Maka, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Dean Shek, Ka-Sang Cheng

The portly but agile Hung nimbly evades the Hong Kong police as a benevolent burglar Read More »
Slow Attack / Endstation Freiheit (1980) Reinhard Hauff, Burkhard Driest, Rolf Zacher, Katja Rupé

Nik, a released prisoner who started writing in prison, wants to leave his past behind Read More »
Martial Arts of Shaolin / Nan bei Shao Lin (1986) Chia-Liang Liu, Jet Li, Jianqiang Hu, Qiuyan Huang

Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler Read More »
The Taming of the Shrew (1980) Jonathan Miller, Simon Chandler, Anthony Pedley, John Franklyn-Robbins

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca Read More »
Timon of Athens (1981) Jonathan Miller, John Fortune, John Bird, Tony Jay

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors Read More »
A Proper Scandal / Uno scandalo perbene (1984) Pasquale Festa Campanile, Ben Gazzara, Giuliana de Sio, Vittorio Caprioli

The real story takes of Bruneri/Canella case (Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological Read More »
Jungle Heat (1985) Jobic Wong, Sam J. Jones, Christopher Doyle, Bobby Ming

Towards the end of the Vietnam war, the US is running low on drivers for their supplies Read More »