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Sword Of Doom and School Of The Holy Beast
Branded To Kill
(Country: Japan; Year: 1967; Director: Seijun Suzuki; Writer: Hachiro Guryu, Takeo Kimura, Chusei Sone, Atsushi Yamatoya; Stars: Jo Shishido, Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Koji Nambara, Isao Tamagawa, Hiroshi Minami)
Japanese surrealist hitman tale from the 1967.
Female Convict Scorpion:
Jailhouse 41 (Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1972; Director: Shunya Ito; Writer: Toru Shinohara; Stars: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe,
Kayoko Shiraishi, Hiroko
Isayama, Yukie Kagawa, Hosei
Komatsu)
A wrongly convicted prisoner
goes on the run in classic
arthouse sequel.
Funeral Parade Of Roses (Bara No Sôretsu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1969; Director: Toshio Matsumoto; Writer: Toshio Matsumoto; Stars: Shotari Akiyama, Kiyoshi Awazu, Emiko Azuma, Chieko Kobayashi, Don Madrid, Osamu Ogasawaro, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Furamenko Umeji)
Sixties Japanese avante garde take on the Oedipus legend.
Jigoku (Hell, Story Of The Great Eight-Tombed Hell, The Sinners Of Hell)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1960; Director: Nobuo Nakagawa; Writer: Ishiro Miyagswa, Nobuo Nakagawa; Stars: Amachi, Yoichi Numata, Utako Mitsuya, Kanjuro Arashi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Hiroshi Izumida, Fumiko Miyata, Torahiko Nakamura, Tomohiko Ohtani, Jun Otomo, Kimie Tokudaiji, Sakutaro Yamakawa, Akiko Yamashita)
A young student's life spirals into catastrophe after he meets a mysterious young man.
Pale Flower (Kawaita hana)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1964; Director: Masahiro Shinoda; Writer: Masaru Baba, based on the novel by Shintarô Ishihara; Stars: Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara, Eijirô Tono, Seiji Miyaguchi)
An ex con is seduced by the allure of a thrill-seeking female gambler, while returning to his old gang to settle a score.
Branded To Kill and Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
School Of The Holy Beast (Seiju gakuen)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1974; Director: Norifumi Suzuki; Writer: Norifumi Suzuki, Masahiro Kakefuda; Stars: Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauichi, Yayoi Watanabe, Ryouko Ima, Harumi Tatima, Yuuko Oribe, Emi Shiro)
A celebration of sadomasochism and other painful pleasures in a naughty nunnery.
Sword Of Doom (Dai-bosatsu toge)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1966; Director: Kihachi Okamoto; Writer: Shinobu Hashinoto, based on the novel by Kaizan Nakazato; Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai , Yuzo Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Naito, Tadao Nakamaru, Ichiro Nakaya)
Dark tale of a lone, deadly samurai.
Yakuza Graveyard (Yakuza No Hakaba: Kuchinashi No Hana, Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1976; Director: Kinji Fukasaku; Writer: Kazuo Kasahara; Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Seizo Fukumoto, Takuzo Kawatani, Hideo Murota, Nagisa Oshima, Tatsuo Umemiya)
An undercover cop drifts into a gangster lifestyle.
Zatoichi The Fugitive (Zatoichi Kyojo Tabi, Masseur Ichi, The Fugitive, Crazy Journey)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1963; Director: Tokuzo Tanaka; Writer: Seiji Hoshikawa; Stars: Shintaro Katsu, Miwa Takada, Masayo Banri, Junichiro Narita, Katsuhiko Kobayashi)
A blind swordsman returns to the village of his victim to make things right.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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