Category: Movies
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The World in Three Dimensions
A recognized mathematician proves to the plant management that the new pipe rolling mill needs to be stopped and improved. The conflict ruins his daughter’s personal life when she is abandoned by her fiancé, the head of a pipe-rolling shop, a careerist and a coward. Yielding to the persuasion of a friend, the hero decides…
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Eagle vs. Silver Fox
The evil Silver Fox is back and he must search for a secret message that was put on a young man who was supposedly killed with his father by Silver Fox’s bandits. Years later, the young man returns to avenge his father’s death by facing off against the high-kicking Silver Fox.
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Investigation
The recidivist Vorobyov planned the robbery of the jewelry department of a department store, while he himself went to serve time in a penal colony to provide himself with an alibi. The accomplices hid a suitcase with gold jewelry worth more than 300,000 rubles (at that time). However, later it was not there, and the…
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An Ocean to Cross
Set in Japan’s Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks’ youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
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Disciples of Hippocrates
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he’s really cut out to be a doctor.
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Toward the Terra
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
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A Wily Match
A martial arts expert trains the son of a wealthy man while dealing with various enemies.
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The Piggy Bank
A musical screen comedy based on the French play La Cagnotte (The Piggy Bank in English) by Eugène Marin Labiche. A group of provincial Bourgeois decide to spend savings they accumulated for a year of playing cards together on a memorable deed. After humorous strategizing and alliance forming, Leonida, the unmarried sister and Blanche, the…
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The Degraded
This film was Sokurov’s first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the transitional period from power to subordinance.
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Child of the Sun
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is…
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Khwab
Pratap Kumar Srivastav travels from Shyam Nagar to Bombay, and gets hired by his father’s friend, Ram Prasad. He rents a room in a Chawl in Borivali’s ‘Asha Manzil’ where his friend, Gopal Mathur, and his attractive sister, Maya, also live. Pratap’s main aim is to succeed in life, earn lots of money, and buy…
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Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi
Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon .
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Tanshin funin: Niizuma no himitsu
A lonely wife has a love affair with the newly widowed neighbor while her husband is away on business.
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Another Side
This is Yamakawa’s first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for “another side” of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
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The Leg Fighters
When Pan, a South China martial artist is defeated and killed by Tan, a North China challenger in a legfighter duel, Pan’s younger brother Pak vows to crush Tan with his own unique style of ferocious footwork.
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The Errand
A soldier at an elite military institution is sent on a strange and increasingly nightmarish errand in this full-on fever-dream thriller from long-time Pete Walker collaborator David McGillivray (House of Whipcord).