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Crew: Featured Music
Actors: Ai Kobayashi, Kouichi Yamadera, Yuji Kishi, Miyuki Sawashiro, Naoko Kouda
Synopsis: Veteran action filmmaker John Woo produces this sequel to the 2004 film Appleseed. Partners both at home and on the battlefield, Deunan, a young but skillful warrior, and Briareos, an experienced cyborg soldier, protect the utopian city of Olympus, where the last of humanity dwells in peace Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Miki Nakatani
Synopsis: Francois Girard's adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's novel Silk stars Michael Pitt as a young Frenchman who travels to Japan at the request of a wealthy silkworm magnate who asks him to smuggle back some new worms. The mission succeeds, and this allows the man to live in great comfort with his Read More
Actors: Issey Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Takahumi Shinohara, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Synopsis: A man who has lived a life of emotional isolation discovers the dark side of falling in love in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Jun Ichikawa. Tony Takitani (Issey Ogata) is the son of a Japanese musician with a passion for jazz who spent most of World War II in Shanghai, and was later sentenced Read More
Actors: Ai Kobayashi, Jurota Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka
Synopsis: Masamune Shirow's celebrated manga of the fusion of humans and technology in a world devastated by war has been given a new and visually impressive adaptation in this anime drama. In the year 2131 A.D., Deunen Knute (voice of Ai Kobayashi) is a female warrior for hire who, after encountering her Read More
Synopsis: Jacques Derrida is a French author and philosopher who is regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of deconstructionism, a school of thought which argues (among many other things) that "truth" is not an absolute, and must be viewed within the context of the mindset of the person expressing Read More
Actors: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney, Edouard Montoute
Synopsis: Brian De Palma blends the emotional netherworld of film noir with a stylish portrayal of life among the wealthy and powerful in Paris in this glossy thriller. Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) is a beautiful but mysterious woman who has aligned herself with a small ring of jewel thieves, led by a Read More
Actors: Dave Hickey, Marcia Tucker, David Alan Grier
Synopsis: The makers of Art City, Vol. 3: A Ruling Passion features interviews with modern artists talking about their inspirations and the motifs present throughout their bodies of work. The filmmakers sit down with artists as diverse as Ed Ruscha, Louise Bourgeois, and Michael Ray Charles. ~ Perry Read More
Synopsis: In 1998 documentary filmmaker Seiichi Motohashi directed Nadja's Village, a chilling tale about a young woman living in an area of Belarus that was rendered uninhabitable in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. This time around, Motohashi returns to the same region to follow the lives of a Read More
Actors: Beat Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Synopsis: After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver screen with this revisionist samurai epic. From his first major film, Cruel Story of Youth to his most notorious work Ai no Korrida, Oshima has coupled the political and the Read More
Actors: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Yoshitaka Amano, Annabella Sciorra
Synopsis: Abel Ferrara directed this erotic thriller adapted by Ferrara and Christ Zois from a short story by science fiction author William Gibson (in his Burning Chrome collection). Global corporations rule the world, and corporate raider Fox (Christopher Walken) and his deputy X (Willem Dafoe) could Read More
Crew: Songwriter
Actors: Ken Takakura, Nenji Kobayashi, Shinobu Otake, Ryoko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Synopsis: Japanese '60s icon Ken Takakura stars in this beautifully photographed film about an aging railroad conductor. Sato Otomatsu (Takakura) devoted his life to making the trains run promptly in the formerly prosperous mining town of Horomai. When his colleague informs him that the unprofitable line is Read More
Actors: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough
Synopsis: This British biographical drama probes the life of painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992), critically acclaimed as the outstanding British painter of the latter half of the 20th Century. This unsympathetic portrait of Bacon (Derek Jacobi) begins when George Dyer (Daniel Craig), a small-time criminal Read More
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw
Synopsis: Brian DePalma directed this taut thriller, set in Atlantic City, where a corrupt cop investigates a political assassination. Outside an Atlantic City arena-hotel-casino, a TV news reporter stands in a pre-hurricane storm to report on the heavyweight boxing match about to begin inside. A transition Read More
Synopsis: The makers of Art City, Vol. 1: Making It in Manhattan have interviewed a number of artists and art experts in order to illuminate what makes for a successful career in one of the most influential cities for artists in the entire world. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Alex Wiesendanger, Ying Ruocheng
Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci attempts to mix Buddhist spirituality with childhood fantasy in Little Buddha. When Dean Conrad (Chris Isaak), a Seattle architect, comes home from work one day, he finds two robed Buddhist monks sitting in his living room talking with his wife Lisa (Bridget Fonda). Guided by a Read More
Synopsis: Just after the turn of the 21st century in L.A., Harry (Belushi) works for a television station that uses a revolutionary technology, virtual reality projected for at-home viewers with 3-D holographic programs. A sinister group known as the Fathers, headed by Senator Kreutzer (Loggia), has a Read More
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd
Synopsis: Peter Kosminksy directed this faithful adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic. Ralph Fiennes has the role of Heathcliff, a wanderer adopted by the father of Cathy (Juliette Binoche), "a wild slip of a girl." Heathcliffe is looked down upon by his stepbrothers and becomes a servant. He is further Read More
Actors: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bose, Féodor Atkine, Pedro Diaz del Corral
Synopsis: Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almódovar, Tacones Lejanos is a murder mystery centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo (Marisa Paredes) and her daughter Rebecca (Victoria Abril), a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life Read More
Synopsis: Enjoy the sounds of composer/instrumentalist Sakamoto with titles such as "Calling From Tokyo," "Asadoya Yunta," "A Pile of Time," "We Love You," "You Do Me (live version)," "Tong Poo," "Okinawa Song," "We Love You" and "You Do Me" (studio version). ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall
Synopsis: From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love Read More
Actors: Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern
Synopsis: In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) Read More
Actors: Dudley Moore
Synopsis: Milo is a kitten, Otis is a dog. When Milo gets into a small box with the intention of taking a trip down a river, Otis follows. En route, the stars encounter bad weather, life-threatening situations, and even potential mates. Original made for Japanese TV under the title Koneko Monogatari, The Read More
Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though Read More
Synopsis: One of the most acclaimed films in Japanese anime, The Winds of Honneamise tells the story of a group of would-be astronauts on a planet that is not Earth -- but not unlike Earth. While an eager young pilot named Shilo dreams of making his nation's space program a success, his leaders are not sure Read More
Actors: Marc Hayashi, Maryann Urbano, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Peter Wang, Joan Copeland
Synopsis: Focusing on idiosyncratic characters and culture-clash comedy, rather than on the high-tech action its title might suggest, writer-director Peter Wang's The Laserman dramatizes the personal and professional struggles faced by a young Chinese-American scientist. When a bungled experiment leads to Read More
Synopsis: Five years in the making, this entertaining animal story is about a feisty tomcat named Chatran who wanders away from the safety of his farm in Hokkaido and encounters a series of adventures in the outside world. Director Masanori Hata is a zoologist who runs a private animal farm on Hokkaido. His Read More
Actors: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jack Thompson
Synopsis: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie Read More
Actors: Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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