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The Sword of Doom
Japanese Movie - 19667.8
Film shows the story of the samurai for whose only sense of life is swordsmanship. But he's not using his skills for the right purposes. Jidageki directed by Okamoto Kihachi. ~~ Adapted from the novel "大菩薩峠"…
Little Toys
Chinese Movie - 19337.8
Sister Ye is the master craftswoman in a village of toymakers that is subject to outside attacks. A series of personal tragedies reduces her to a shell of herself, until she breaks and rallies the townsfolk to fight…
Sea and Poison
Japanese Movie - 19867.8
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel of the same name.
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
Japanese Movie - 19627.8
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl’s dreams of higher education. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the novel by Hayafune Chiyo.
Kontora
Japanese Movie - 20217.8
Guided by her grandfather's WWII-era diary, Sora searches for a mysterious trove in the wilderness of her hometown. Meanwhile, a mysterious mute and backward-walking homeless man wanders into town who may be the catalyst…
Stray Dog
Japanese Movie - 19497.7
A very hot day in Tokyo. Someone stole from a young detective his gun. What will happen next? Will it be used for a crime? After "Drunken Angel" next noir film directed by Kurosawa Akira.
Eureka
Japanese Movie - 20007.8
Eureka begins violently as a crazed businessman hijacks a bus and shoots anyone who tries to make a run for it. The bus driver survives, along with two young kids, an older brother Naoki and a younger sister Kozue. Two…
Labyrinth of Dreams
Japanese Movie - 19977.7
Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Tatsuo. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako, a conductor in another bus company, just after Tsuyako was killed in a bus accident. Tsuyako…
Late Spring
Japanese Movie - 19497.5
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about…
Kuroneko
Japanese Movie - 19687.5
Two women got killed in their hut by wandering samurai. But some power gave them lives back. Mother and daughter-in-law are seeking for revenge and kill every samurai who they meet. What will happen if in their new home…
The Peach Girl
Chinese Movie - 19317.6
The film deals with an innocent country girl, who is corrupted by a landlord's son.
Thirdworld
Thai Movie - 19987.6
A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island.
Bayaning 3rd World
Filipino Movie - 19997.6
Two filmmakers try to create a film venturing on the life of José Rizal. Before they do that, they try to investigate on the heroism of the Philippine national hero. Of particular focus is his supposed retraction of…
Street Without End
Japanese Movie - 19347.6
Naruse Mikio’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic…
A Public Square in Tokyo
Japanese Movie - 18987.3
Location: Japan, Tokyo, near the Imperial Palace, Honshu Pedestrian traffic on the square.
Three Outlaw Samurai
Japanese Movie - 19647.5
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades…
Fires on the Plain
Japanese Movie - 19597.5
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast…
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Japanese Movie - 19597.7
A French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. As She…
Onibaba
Japanese Movie - 19647.4
Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain,…
Mr. Thank You
Japanese Movie - 19367.5
Based on a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari, this lighthearted road film follows the rolling wheels of a country bus manned by a driver who says "thank you" to everyone he encounters. "Mr.…
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