In enfant terrible Takeshi Kitano’s explosive second feature film, Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi) is an unassuming gas station attendant…
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In his explosive directorial debut Japanese renaissance man-cum-comedian-extraordinaire Takeshi “Beat” Kitano plays vicious rogue homicide Detective Azuma who…
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Glauber Rocha’s sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about the blind followers of dead-end ideologies. Somewhere in the…
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In Kaurismäki’s drolly existential crime drama, a coal miner named Taisto (Turo Pajala) attempts to leave behind a…
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There’s no body in the family plot.
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In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and…
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Yes or yes?
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300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has…
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No peace for the wicked
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In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts…
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