Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura
Actors: Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita, Tamao Nakamura
King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like…
The House of the Bories
Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a…
All My Life
A couple’s wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.
The Earth of 3 Colors
It’s Hard But It’s Fair
Tensions quickly escalate between sisters Charlene and Gwen while Charlene’s son Quincy befriends the neighborhood hustler and becomes immersed in the city’s gritty lifestyle and street dance called Jookin.
Unfair Exchange
A love story about a book author whose publishing deal is in trouble and does the unthinkable to save his career even if it may cause him to lose his…