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AKA: Ikimono No Kiroku; I Live In Fear; What the Birds Knew Japan: 1955
Kamatari Fujiwara, Kazuo Kato, Toshiro Mifune, Ken Mitsuda Drama
Plot: Greedy relatives and mistresses plot over shares of a wealthy businessman's estate after they level insanity charges against him because of his overwhelming fear of nuclear war.
Plot: Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to leave behind a life of crime, but their past comes back to haunt them when the authorities seek them out as murder witnesses.
Plot: A painter and a popular singer meet at a resort hotel, and scandal-mongering journalists blow it up into a secret romance. The two decide to fight the press in court, and an impoverished old lawyer takes it upon himself to help.
Plot: "Sisters of the Gion" follows the parallel paths of the independent, unsentimental Omocha (Isuzu Yamada) and her sister, the more tradition-minded Umekichi (Yoko Umemura), both geishas in the working-class district of Gion.
Plot: Maurice Chevalier's randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert's freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when a sexually repressed princess sets her sights on him.
Plot: Despite its relatively low budget, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of the director's most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war.
Plot: For his final film, Mizoguchi brought a lifetime of experience to bear on the heartbreaking tale of a brothel full of women whose dreams are constantly being shattered by the socioeconomic realities surrounding them.
Plot: At the beginning of Seijun Suzuki's twisty whodunit, a prison truck is attacked and a convict inside is murdered. The penitentiary warden on duty, Daijiro, is accused of negligence and suspended, only to take it upon himself to track down the killers.
AKA: Thirst; Torst Sweden: 1949
Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth, Hasse Ekman Drama / Art
Plot: During a train journey from Switzerland to Sweden, through war-torn Germany, a married couple are intent on tearing each other apart. Their bitterness is not only the result of his love affairs, but also of her inability to conceive.
AKA: Till Gladje Sweden: 1949
Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin Drama / Art
Plot: An orchestra violinist's dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage. "To Joy" is a heartbreaking tale of one man's inability to overcome the demons standing in the way of his happiness.
Plot: Low wage–earning dad Okajima is depending on his bonus, and so are his wife and children, yet payday doesn't exactly go as planned. Exquisite and economical, Ozu's film alternates between brilliantly mounted comic sequences and heartrending reality.
AKA: Tokyo Boshoku Japan: 1957
Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishu Ryu, Isuzu Yamada Drama
Plot: A woman runs away from her abusive husband and returns with her child to her parents' home. Her younger sister--pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend--undergoes an abortion before both of them discover a family secret that has devastating result.
AKA: Frenzy; Hets Sweden: 1944
Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin Drama
Plot: School boy Jan-Erik discovers that his girlfriend Bertha is seeing someone else--prompting a confrontation with his school master which leads to the boy making strong indictments against the master and the master becoming increasingly vindictive.
Plot: An energetic evocation of the Tour de France. Louis Malle's French-set documentary reveals the director's eternal fascination with, and respect for, the everyday lives of everyday people.
AKA: Qui ętes-Vous, Polly Maggoo?; Qui Etes-Vous, Polly Maggoo?; Who Are You, Polly Magoo? France: 1966
Dorothy MacGowan, Sami Frey Comedy
Plot: Elegant, scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of an American supermodel in Paris who becomes everyone's pinup plaything.
Plot: Russian character actress Maya Bulgakova gives a marvelous performance as a once heroic Russian fighter pilot now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal.
Japan: 1948
Kinuyo Tanaka, Sanae Takasugi, Tomie Tsunoda Drama
Plot: Two sisters--Fusako, a war widow, and Natsuko, having an affair with a narcotics smuggler--and their younger friend descend into prostitution and moral chaos amid the postwar devastation surrounding them.
Plot: Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the great films in motion picture history", "Wooden Crosses", France's answer to "All Quiet on the Western Front", still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I.
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