January 2013
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October 2012
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September 2012
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Pigs And Battleships
Japan, just after WWII. In the town of Yokosuka, smalltime crook Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) earns his dough by hustling sailors from the neighboring US naval base and bringing them to local brothels. His girlfriend Haruko (Jitsuko Yoshimura), also living precariously and unwilling to be married to a foreigner in order to provide for her family, wants to move with him to Kawasaki and find for him...
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August 2012
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Intimidation
Matakichi Nakaike (Kô Nishimura) has all the reasons to be exacerbated: his old friend Kyōsuke Takita (Nobuo Kaneko) outranked him in the bank where they both work. This is not all. Takita disregarded his friend’s feelings by seducing the woman he loved — their boss’ daughter — and remorselessly dumped his then fiancé — Nakaike’s sister — to marry her to his own advantage. As a...
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July 2012
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The Housemaid
South Korea. In a very conventional household, husband and wife are commenting some news item from a local newspaper: a man committed adultery with his housemaid, and consequently his life is ruined. The wife (Ju Jeung-nyeo) sees the story as an unequivocal exemplification of a moral truth, the husband (Kim Jin-Kyu) seems more inclined to consider the facts from the culprit’s perspective....
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January 2012
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Farewell to the Summer Light
A man (Tadashi Yokouchi) and a woman (Mariko Okada), both Japanese nationals, happen to be crossing paths in the course of their wanderings through the European continent. The man, Makoto Kawamura, is looking for a mysterious cathedral, which he is sure must be located somewhere in Europe. Haunted by memories of Nagasaki, where her family was annihilated, the woman, Naoko Toba, moved away from...
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