Plot: Shot with unprecedented access to the Aum sect accused of mass killing with poison gas in the Tokyo subway, this documentary offers a complex view of personal responsibility, public responses to terrorism, surveillance, and individual rights.
Plot: This sequel to "A" continues to follow the cult responsible for the lethal gas attack in March 1995 on a subway station in Tokyo. Mori goes back to film the sect members and capture everyday life under the watchful eye of the police and hostile locals.
USA: 2007
Tony Jay, Oto Brezina, Derek Gaspar, Nathan Hall, Cooney Horvath Horror / Documentary
Plot: Albert Fish tells the horrific true story of a sadomasochistic cannibal and serial killer, who lured children to their deaths in Depression-era New York City.
Japan: 2005
Fusako Urabe, Nene Otsuka, Takayuki Kato, Kikujiro Honda War / Drama
Plot: Yuko bravely volunteered as an aid worker in Iraq but was kidnapped and held hostage. After her miraculous release, she returns to Japan only to be humiliated and harassed from her coworkers, boyfriend, and even strangers on the street...
Plot: Two old friends, a gangster and a cop, are taking a road trip together to pay their last respects to a dead friend. But their already strained relationship reaches the breaking point when they find a dead body in the trunk.
Plot: This documentary follows 13-year-old Carlito as guides us on a tour of his decimated neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia's, where armed children hold out against paramilitary troops, criminal gangs, and guerrilla fighters.
AKA: Yami No Carnival Japan: 1982
Kumiko Ota, Akemi Edo, Chika, Michiro Endo Drama
Plot: Edgy indie director Masashi Yamamoto ("Junk Food") captures the punk scene of 1980s Japan in this prickly early film. A punk rocker leaves her son with her ex-husband and begins an unusual odyssey through Tokyo's underbelly.
Plot: Japanese director Kazuo Hara turns his camera on controversial writer Mitsuharu Inoue in this powerful documentary. Originally intending to spend years on the project, Hara was forced to change his plan when he discovered Inoue was dying of cancer.
AKA: Le Journal D'Un Suicide France: 1973
Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Marie-France Pisier Drama
Plot: While cruising the Mediterranean with a tour group, the guide becomes infatuated with the interpreter, and proceeds to entertain her with his tall tales. But his most intriguing yarn is beyond belief...
Indonesia: 2002
Rachel maryam Sayidina, Jajang C. Noer, Henidar Amru Drama
Plot: This electrifying drama tells the story of a woman from a small town in West Sumatra who moves to big city Jakarta. Pulled between tradition and rejuvenation, Eliana's mother and her childhood home keep popping back into her cosmopolitan life.
Plot: This absorbing documentary follows Kenzo Okuzaki--a veteran of Japan's WWII campaign in New Guinea--as he searches out those responsible for the mysterious deaths of several soldiers in his unit.
Plot: A beautifully filmed, yet very bleak, post-apocalyptic vision of the future, which finds a group of women reverting to primitive barbarity in order to survive. From Czech New Wave director Jan Schmidt.
Plot: In this intensely intimate documentary, filmmaker Kazuo Hara takes on a very difficult subject: his former lover, Takeda Miyuki, a feminist bisexual in 1970s Japan.
Plot: René Laloux's mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and widely regarded as an allegorical statement on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Plot: Maverick documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara once again criticizes the mores and customs of Japanese society in this unsentimental portrait of adults with cerebral palsy, focusing on how the CP victims are generally ignored or disregarded in Japan.
AKA: Summer Heat China: 2000
Yu Lei, Zuo Bai-Tao, Gai Yi Drama / Romance
Plot: The third film in director Ning Ying's "Beijing Trilogy", this romantic drama follows the fortunes of a recently divorced young cab driver who turns his personality around to become a ladies' man looking for the love of his life.
Plot: Based on the manga "Nagai Yume" by Junji Ito, about a man whose dreams grow longer and longer each night, eventually taking a toll on his body. Together with his doctor, he begins a series of dangerous experiments.
Malaysia: 2006
Coral Ong, Li Whei, Stephen Chan Jyh Shyan, Leing Jiun Jiun Drama / Romance
Plot: Filmmaker Tan Chui-mui won the Tiger Award at the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival for directing this Malaysian indie drama about the foibles of modern romance as told from a distinctly female perspective.
Plot: For the second anniversary of his wife's death, the ailing Nobuo (Ken Ogata) insists that his estranged first son, Ryoichi (Kagawa Teruyuki), return home. Nobuo hopes to come to terms with his family, but the reunion devolves into a bitter affair.
Plot: A hilarious, no-holds-barred documentary portrait of "America's Oldest Living Independent Filmmakers"-- Dan Sonney and David Friedman--masters of sleaze and sexploitation.
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