Jigokuhen IMDb: 7.3/10 (383) Year: 1969 Country: Japan Genre: Drama Review: A rebellious Korean artist tests the limits of his sadistic patron, an omnipotent feudal Japanese lord. Yoshihide demands a commission to paint screens of the Hell which he sees the egotistical lord's peasants suffer. Such a public display will challenge the uncaring upper class' obsession with their own personal beauty. With Chinese and Buddhist influences at a peak in 11th century Japan, the daimyo Horikawa wanted a mural of Buddhist paradise. As Yoshihide's ghastly artworks appear to come to life, the painter and his patron's mutual racism also take their toll. - IMDb |
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Tsumiki no hako IMDb: 6.5/10 (38) Year: 1968 Country: Japan Genre: Drama Review: Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of self-sacrifice in some of the characters such as Hisayo and Sugiura contrast too sharply with the animal brutality of Sasabayashi and Namie, and the result is more caricature than realism. The harsh selfishness of Ichiro¯ and the abrupt techniques used to present his interior thoughts (double exposure of a naked Yuri as he undresses her with his eyes) prevent him in the end from winning audience sympathy. Part of a late sixties trend toward adolescent sexuality subject matter. - IMDb |
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Taifû to zakuro Year: 1967 Country: Japan Genre: Comedy / Romance Review: Eiko is a high-spirited young woman who falls for her handsome tennis coach, Kazuo. He plans to propose after going mountain-climbing with friends, but is killed by an avalanche. Can Eiko find love again? - IMDb |
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Shinsetsu (TV series) Year: 1966 Country: Japan Genre: Drama |
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12 Ans 7 Mois 11 Jours (TV) IMDb: 5.4/10 (8) Year: 2024 Country: France Genre: Drama |
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Zhenskiy zashchitnik (mini) Year: 2024 Country: Russia Genre: Drama / Romance Review: Anna, at 35, has never been married and doesn't want to - she's seen a lot at work and doesn't really believe in all this love. She works as a divorce lawyer, fundamentally defends only women, and every day she watches how vilely their ex-husbands behave. However, she soon has to question her beliefs. Anna is approached by a girl who claims that her husband is beating her, but his lawyer Artyom claims that the client is lying. On top of everything else, Anna realized that she fell in love... with Artyom, and it seems that this is mutual. - IMDb |
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Odnim dnyom Year: 2023 Country: Russia Genre: Drama / Romance Review: Semyon returns from Moscow to his hometown Buy, which he has not been to since his time in the army: he went to serve and did not return, although his girlfriend Lena was waiting for him in the city. His father's serious illness forces Semyon to return home and relive the events of those distant years. Semyon is looking for a way out of his midlife crisis, wants to escape from the matrix of his "plastic" life in the capital - and a meeting with young Maya, Lena's daughter, gives him hope for a new life. - IMDb |
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Moy dikiy drug Year: 2024 Country: Russia Genre: Adventure / Family Review: Seventh-grader Sasha Menshikov is finishing the school year at a new school and lives with his aunt Nina in a small picturesque town. Sasha's mother, a famous scientist, brought him here from Moscow for the duration of her next expedition. Things didn't work out with Sasha's classmates; after school, he often walks alone in nature. One day in the forest, Sasha finds a little fox caught in a trap. Having learned that poachers are hunting for the fox cub, the boy hides him in a dugout deep in the forest and begins to nurse him. This begins a touching and adventurous story about friendship, responsibility and justice. - IMDb |
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Manyunya. Priklyucheniya v Moskve Year: 2024 Country: Russia Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Family / History Review: The year is 1981. Manyunya has long dreamed of attending a concert of her favorite band "Zemlyane", but she could not imagine what incredible events and unexpected acquaintances await her and friends on Red Square, in the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard and in the parks of the capital. - IMDb |
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La vie devant (TV series) IMDb: 7.1/10 (15) Year: 2022 Country: Switzerland Genre: Drama Review: For one family, each day peacefully follows the last... At least until one of them suffers a stroke, Valeria. Watched by little Lucas, intrigued by these adults constantly asking strange questions, the group will have to ask themselves even more and learn to grow up together. - IMDb |