A murderous demon lurks inside an antique piano in a picturesque coastal town.
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi’s hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest’s robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family’s surprise. Thinking he’s found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest’s divorced daughter.
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Four Crossings of Chishui
The Red Army and Nationalist forces battle over the Chishui River in 1935.
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The True Story of the Element
Pink film by Kan Mukai, based on the Sanwa Bank fraud case of 1981.
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Market Place
The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.
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The Boys from Fengkuei
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
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Koe-chto iz Gubernskoy Zhizni
A television film based on vaudeville and early short stories by Anton Chekhov, “The Proposal”, “The Wedding”, “The Anniversary”, etc. The scene is a provincial ball.
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The Professor and the Belly Dancer
Hashem works as a teacher in the city of Tanta. When some of his students visit the Abbas band that roams the carnivals, he warns them against it. But when he sees the dancer Lula who works in the band, he falls for her and joins them.
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Oh, How Generous You Are, Lord
Mustafa Says Garage meets Ibrahim Al-Qazzaz, a taxi driver who lost his wife in a collision and whose only daughter, Fatima, lost her sight, which drives him to become addicted to drinking alcohol to forget what he went through. He later marries Jamalat, who tries to court Mustafa, who rejects all her attempts with him.