
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails Read More »
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I Stand Alone (1998) Gaspar Noé, Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain

The Butcher (known from Noe’s short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Read More »
Utamaro’s World (1977) Akio Jissôji, Shin Kishida

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. Read More »
No Blood Relation (1932) Mikio Naruse, Yoshiko Okada, Shin’yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim – with the help of her gangster brother – the daughter she abandoned years before. Read More »
Panic in Bangkok (1964) André Hunebelle, Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Pier Angeli

A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats. Read More »
Tlayucan (1962) Luis Alcoriza, Julio Aldama, Norma Angélica, Andrés Soler

A man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbors might lynch him. Read More »
Writhing Tongue (1980) Yoshitarô Nomura, Tsunehiko Watase

A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. Read More »
Young Tom Edison (1940) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft

Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. Read More »
Lost in New York (1989) Jean Rollin, Adeline Abitbol, Funny Abitbol, Catherine Herengt

In Lost in New York, two young girls discover a small wooden idol which possesses the magical powers of the African Moon Goddess. Read More »
Journey of Hope (1990) Xavier Koller, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Nur Sürer, Emin Sivas

In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. Read More »