Korea: 1967
Kang Mi-Ae (Gang Mi-Ae), Park No-Shik (Park Noh-Sik) Ghost / Thriller
Plot: A woman named Wol-Ha dies accidentally as the result of her mother-in-law's spiteful antics. But she never gave up a fight that easily in life, and she won't give up that easily in death either!
Plot: The second film in Miike's "Triad Society Trilogy". Yuuji is a Japanese mobster holed up in Taipei working as a hitman for a triad boss. His complicated life gets even more complicated when his ex-wife just dumps his young son on his doorstep...
Plot: The second film in Miike's "Triad Society Trilogy". Yuuji is a Japanese mobster holed up in Taipei working as a hitman for a triad boss. His complicated life gets even more complicated when his ex-wife just dumps his young son on his doorstep...
Hong Kong: 1959
Butterfly Wu (Butterfly Woo), Wang Yin (Wang Jan) Drama
Plot: A moving tale about a childless woman who cares for an emotionally battered girl. The drama made a star of the lovely Li Hsiang-Chun and demonstrates the director's mastery of emotional nuance in a genre quite different from his other 1959 masterpieces.
AKA: The Record of a Tenement Gentleman Japan: 1947
Chouko Iida, Hohi Aoki, Eitaro Ozawa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa Drama
Plot: After being abandoned by his father, a young boy is very reluctantly taken in by a crotchety woman named Tane. After first trying to get rid of him, she eventually warms to his presence as the two bond.
AKA: Tell Your Children; Dope Addict; Doped Youth; Love Madness; The Burning Question USA: 1938
Joseph Forte, Pat Royale, Harry Harvey Jr., Lillian Miles Drama / Crime
Plot: High school principal Dr. Carroll informs parents at a PTA meeting that marijuana is a "ghastly menace". The tale unfolds--students are enticed into smoking marijuana, which ends up in deaths, courtroom scenes, and sentences to mental institutions.
AKA: Vozvrashcheniye Russia: 2003
Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko Drama
Plot: Brothers Vanya and Andrey are shocked when their father returns after a 12-year absence. As the three set out for a fishing vacation, the boys find themselves tested, scolded, scrutinized, and ignored by their father. How will this harrowing journey end?
The English dubbing is a bit over-the-top on this one, but don't let it distract you from the variety of clever fight sequences peppered throughout the film.
The English dubbing is a bit over-the-top on this one, but don't let it distract you from the variety of clever fight sequences peppered throughout the film.
Plot: The struggle of Cambodia's rice-paddy farmers is revealed in this powerful story of loss and survival. When her husband dies, Om must take care of her seven daughters, fighting everything from cobras to floods to disease to grow a successful rice crop.
Plot: Things begin to crumble for restauranteur Jen when her best friend, Kim Chui, becomes "the toast of the town" with his invention of a new dish deeply challenging her own Chicken Rice. Their conflict comes to a head in a cooking contest.
AKA: Muhomatsu, The Rickshaw Man Japan: 1958
Toshiro Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa Drama / Comedy
Plot: After Toshio's husband dies, a rickshaw man named Matsu helps to take care of her and her son. Toshio feels grateful for what he has done, but to preserve chastity towards her husband, she refuses his love.
Plot: Upon learning that his estranged son has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a Japanese man travels to rural China to try and fulfil his son's dream of filming one of China's greatest living stage performers.
Plot: Upon learning that his estranged son has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a Japanese man travels to rural China to try and fulfil his son's dream of filming one of China's greatest living stage performers.
Plot: Upon learning that his estranged son has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, a Japanese man travels to rural China to try and fulfil his son's dream of filming one of China's greatest living stage performers.
Plot: Approximately one year after a one-night-stand with a fellow classmate, Chul Soo finds a baby left for him on his doorstep. When he learns that the mother has left the country to study abroad, he must find it in himself to raise the child alone.
Plot: When the son of a dysfunctional family is stricken with agonizing neck pain after taking an ill advised dunk in the polluted Tansui River, the family is driven on a quest to alleviate his pain.
Plot: An ingeniously structured film, "The River" flows between a dozen diverse, well-etched characters in a small Finnish town, including a clandestine gay couple, a factory worker and his adulterous wife, and a suicidal young mother.
Hong Kong: 1969
Jenny Hu Yan-Ni, Chin Han, Chung Wa, Yau Ching, Alice Au Yin-Ching Chinese Opera / Drama
Plot: After a man from Fang Pi-yu's (Jenny Hu) past returns to haunt her, a struggle ensues to free her from his clutches, fatally injuring her husband. Her bitter father-in-law kicks her out of his house sans baby son.
Germany: 1949
Paul Esser, Irene Korb, Karl-Heinz Deickert, Brigitte Krause Drama / Historical
Plot: Ranked as one of Germany’s most important films ever, the follows a German father who helps a friend print Nazi resistance leaflets, only to have his son, a Hitler Youth member, betray him. After the war father and son meet again...
This series is riotously funny, yet has moments of incredible depth, and is particularly noteworthy in that its quality never deteriorated during its entire run. One of our all-time faves.
This series is riotously funny, yet has moments of incredible depth, and is particularly noteworthy in that its quality never deteriorated during its entire run. One of our all-time faves.
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