The Invincible Armour
Hwang Jang Lee is a corrupt Ming guard who frames John Liu for murder. A wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teen who is an expert in the infamous…
Japan: A Story of Love and Hate
Naoki once had it all – the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan’s economy was at it’s height. Then the…
Dirty Deeds
According to a high school’s lore, the “Dirty Deeds” are a daunting list of dares almost no student has ever completed. To win the student body’s respect and get noticed…
Azumi
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine…
The Boys in Blue
Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a…
Ran
Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
The Road to Sampo
Passing through a jail and a construction site, a young laborer meets a middle-aged man returning to Sampo after ten years’ absence. Together, they track down a young woman who…
Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has…
Evolution of a Criminal
In 1997, 17-year old Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank and went to prison for it; then he went to NYU film school and made this movie about his life….
Elegy
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life — which he indicates is a state of “emancipated manhood” — thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens…
Night Has Settled
In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke…
The Wanderers
Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use…