In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingly happy life with her husband and son, but the son, shocked to find out his real father is the brother-in-law, sets out to do something. The downfall of a mother and her child starts there…
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Lily Under the Gun
In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ruthless gangsters.
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Portrait of a Fanatic
In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang, believing his conviction for a new-born society had come true on his motherland, returned anxiously from the U.S., whither he had fled apprehension by lawmen when cracking down on rebellious activities he had actively engaged in out of cynicism and hostility – the feelings evolved from constant haunting by the memories of his childhood miserableness – to the then existing institutions in China. Alas, to his disillusion, the land he had so deeply loved, the society of which he had expected so much, should have turned out to be the hell on earth. Why? The enigma kept obsessing and puzzling him even to his dying moment.
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Farewell to the Land
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
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Felix
A tragicomic story about a widow seeking contact who attracts media attention by offering a reward to anyone who finds her cat, which in reality does not exist. In this way, she meets a pensioner who plays private detective, and this marks the beginning of a deeper friendship.
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The Peacock
Hamdy lives with his wife Nadia and her young sister Samiha. He loves his wife’s sister and decide to get rid of his wife by killing her.
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Apple in the Palm
A young archaeologist arrives in a seaside town in order to find the famous statue of Aphrodite with an apple. Failure follows one another, and Levashov is ready to admit defeat. But suddenly love and new hope come.
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Ghost Nursing
Jackie is a young woman determined to reverse her bad luck. She consults the God of Gold, who advises her to “nurse a ghost”. She is given a small figure to worship, and the worship includes dripping three drops of her own blood every three days. At first, all goes well and she falls in love. But this new happiness causes Jackie to forget to worship the figure, and the spirit doesn’t like it. With good intentions, her new boyfriend, Raymond, discovers Jackie’s strange predicament and attempts an exorcism which goes horribly wrong. The spirit takes over Raymond, who starts doing nasty things.
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The Sixth
The Civil War in Russia has just finished. The sixth chief of militia came to a small town in the south. Five Glodov’s predecessors had been killed by a gang of elusive Vakhromeyev. Now Glodov and his crew are going to have a mortal combat with the smart gangsters…
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Gate of Youth 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.