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  • Lady Caligula in Tokyo

    After leaving the home of her faithless husband a frigid housewife with a past trauma meets an old female friend. The friend is sympathetic to her situation. Later the housewife is subjected to a series of seemly random sexual adventures both frightening and arousing. Little does she know that she is slowly being trained.

  • The Security

    Ah Wei used to be a policeman but his many battle scars and bullet wounds have demoted him to the daily grind of a sercurity guard. His existence is anything but boring, however, as this Hong Kong film like all the others, thrives on shoot-outs, chases, and enough violence to keep an audience awake.

  • In Search of Famine

    A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.

  • Don’t Kill Me, Brother!

    Hong Kong crime movie from 1981

  • Notorious Eight

    A group of secret agent gambling heroes put the squeeze on some gangsters who are cheating the public now after having been involved with Japanese war criminals.

  • Kadal Meengal

    A fisherman who is in love with a woman in his village is presumed dead after he fails to return from sea on one of his trips.

  • Fire on the Mountain

    A young real estate developer returns to his hometown to make a land killing but soon takes up the cause of a crusty old-timer in his struggles with the government which wants his ranch for an Army missile base.

  • Callie & Son

    A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.

  • Female Beautician Rope Discipline

    Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei’s ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa’s beauty shop clients, begins a sexual relationship with her. The lesbian affair is also accentuated by some more S&M.

  • Revenge of the Corpse

    A story of a coffin maker who tells a story about a policeman who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Eventually released constable loose of some grave robbers, the constables ghost is out to make the lives of all those involved in his death miserable. (A Shaw Brothers production)