Pietro Marcello directs this genre-defying Italian docudrama that follows mustachioed ex-con Enzo Read More »
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964) Kazuo Ikehiro, Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Ai, Akira Amemiya
A fugitive christian “saint” (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing AKA Nemuri Kyoshiro 3: Engetsugiri (1964) Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Raizô Ichikawa, Kyooko Azuma, Ryônosuke Azuma
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun’s monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action Read More »
A Blast AKA I Ekrixi (2014) Syllas Tzoumerkas, Angeliki Papoulia, Vassilis Doganis, Maria Filini
Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 1: Rust (2003) Bing Wang
Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions Read More »
Billy Budd (1962) Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas
H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars Read More »
Japanese Girls at the Harbor AKA Minato no nihonmusume (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan Read More »
Passion AKA Szenvedély (1998) György Fehér, Ildikó Bánsági, Djoko Rosic, János Derzsi
In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband. Read More »
Tora-san’s Forget Me Not AKA Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wasurenagusa (1973) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Ruriko Asaoka
Tora visits his family after a year. After a misunderstanding he gets upset and leaves to end up in the countryside. Read More »
Versus (2000) Ryûhei Kitamura, Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met Read More »