An artist is plagued by nightmares of a love triangle and murder. A psychic says the dream figure is his brother, a “troubled soul” from an ancient past life. Nearly born as his twin but miscarried, this past life rival now breaks through in nightmares in attempt to repeat history.
Category: Drama
Drama
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything…
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Walter
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled “Walter and June”, was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title “Loving Walter”.
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Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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Lyudmila
Lyudmila Nikolskaya (in real life, Makievskaya), a noblewoman by birth who graduated from the Smolny Institute, was with those who stormed the Winter Palace. A participant in the armed uprising in Yekaterinoslav, commander and commissar of an armored train, she died in a combat operation to capture the fortified headquarters of the enemy…
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Sophie’s Choice
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan’s relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan’s fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Rudin
Dmitry Nikolaevich Rudin appears at the estate of the wealthy lady Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya. A meeting with him becomes an event that attracts the most interested attention of the inhabitants and guests of the estate…
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Ginza neon-gai: Onna no zetchô
A woman is sexually assaulted while jogging and the attacker leaves behind a ID pendent in the struggle. With this as her only clue she searches the nightclubs of Ginza for a chance at revenge.
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Unexpected, Unforeseen
A young and humble girl who works as a clerk suddenly inherits the huge and expensive art collection…
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A Fairy to the World
The heavenly maiden comes to earth in the form of a mortal and with her kung fu skills stamps out some evil doers.