Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Lakki… The Boy Who Could Fly AKA Gutten som kunne fly (1992) Svend Wam, Anders Borchgrevink, Nina Gunke, Bjørn Skagestad
Abused by his gym teacher and his mother’s current boy friend Lakki can find no peace. Read More »
Up and Down AKA Parpaillon (1993) Luc Moullet, Jean Abeillé, Clément Boutterin, Brigitte Canaan
A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. Read More »
Inside Edge (1992) Warren Clarke, William Tannen, Michael Madsen, Richard Lynch, Rosie Vela
Loose cannon Sgt. Richard Montana screws up a major drug bust and is passed over for promotion for Henderson Read More »
License to Live AKA Ningen gôkaku (1998) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shun Sugata, Lily
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Read More »
My Own Breathing AKA Sumgyeol – Najeun moksori 3 (1999) Young-Joo Byun
Some Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. Read More »
Habitual Sadness AKA Najeun moksori 2 (1997) Young-Joo Byun
Habitual Sadness (1997) was initiated at the request of the women, who asked that BYEON film the last days of a group member Read More »
No One Writes to the Colonel AKA El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999) Arturo Ripstein, Fernando Lujan, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Read More »
Heaven and Earth / Ten to Chi to (1990) Haruki Kadokawa, Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. Read More »
Rush (1991) Lili Fini Zanuck, Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott
Raynor is an undercover narcotics cop. For his next assignment he chooses the more inexperienced but tough and good-looking Kristen. Read More »