
Produced by the Japanese Shochiku Company, this Taiwanese drama follows the lives of two generations of Taipei residents. Read More »
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Instant Swamp (2009) Satoshi Miki, Kumiko Asô, Morio Kazama, Ryô Kase

After being forced to resign from her publishing company job when her magazine goes out of circulation Read More »
Blind Woman’s Curse (1970) Teruo Ishii, Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satô

Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents’ leader Read More »
Karate Warriors (1976) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Shin’ichi Chiba, Isao Natsuyagi, Akiko Koyama

Chico arrives in a city where there are two waring gangs. Read More »
Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (1993) Shunji Iwai, Yuta Yamazaki, Megumi Okina, Takayuki Sorita

On the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town Read More »
The Man in White (2003) Takashi Miike, Masaya Sato, Shôko Aida, Naomi Akimoto

A member of a Yakuza gang exacts revenge on the people responsible for the death of his boss. Read More »
Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) Kaneto Shindô, Jûkichi Uno, Nobuko Otowa, Harold Conway

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Read More »
Night and Fog in Japan (1960) Nagisa Ôshima, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense Read More »
A Page of Madness (1926) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa

A husband picks up a job as a janitor at an insane asylum scheming all the time to be close to Read More »
Pulgasari (1985) Sang-ok Shin, Chang Son Hui, Ham Gi Sop, Jong-uk Ri

In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. Read More »