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Four (4) U.S. Special Operations veterans travel to Okinawa to rebuild the same coral reefs their forefathers destroyed eighty years ago. Through this gesture and an honest, often difficult, examination of the events that transpired during the horrific 82-day battle, they attempt to pay homage to those who fought, died and were forced to endure one of World War II's bloodiest campaigns.
The first film produced by Daiei.
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that stretches through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even be traced back to the Edo era.
Set against the backdrop of a cruel Rana’s regime, a headstrong village-girl-turned-palace-maid risks everything for a forbidden love, ultimately choosing a tragic death alongside her lover over a life of captive torment.
The ancient Aztec world inadvertantly welcomes its doom in the form of the Conquistadors.
Last days of the great catalan president Lluis Companys.
The ancient Indian temples of Khajuraho are known worldwide for their erotic depictions and fantastical statues. The famous Indian treatise on love, the Kama Sutra, was significantly inspired by these forms. This film captures the charm of this place and tells a uniquely exotic and wonderfully romantic love story, set around the site of the heavenly temple of Khajuraho, between the tradition-conscious Mukta and Naveen, who lives in Europe. Despite the obstacles, will Mukta ultimately return Naveen's love and love him wholeheartedly...?
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their connections to the movie business are discussed, and many important actors and directors of the genres are interviewed. Former real yakuza boss turned actor Noboru Ando, Takashi Miike, Sonny Chiba and many more get a chance to speak.
Using only rare archival and newsreel footage, this film tells the story of Palestine from the nineteenth century through current times.
Tragic pages in the history of the formation of the independent Lithuanian state in 1918-20.
The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), Olympic swimmer, water polo player and the only true Tarzan, an archetypal character and myth of cinema, that of the original Hollywood blockbusters (1932-48).
Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.
1920: Madame Blanche discovers, reading the newspaper, that one of her tenants has been arrested. The woman, with the maid Tedla, goes to the police station to try and get her money. The inquiry starts from here: Monsieur is accused of homicide. The police will find ten paintings portraying ten women: the maid begin to tell the story of those ten women that she knew. But, one by one disappeared. A sequence of women stories. Along series of homicides. And just one killer.
During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's clothes, becomes a troop boy and later even a cornet - only the sutler knows her secret. Little by little, Christine realizes that the man she loves has been brutalized by the war and is no longer capable of true feelings. When she gives herself to him instead of a peasant maid, she is horrified by his brutality. She shoots him in a duel. She is sentenced to death as a cornet, but acquitted as a woman.
A handsome man and a beautiful woman who seek to restore the Toyotomi clan by taking in the orphaned Princess Tsuru.
A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.
Subarna Sen, an Oxford University professor, travels to India after the death of his maternal uncle. He learns that his uncle's palace has a hidden treasure and decides to find it.
Every year, on the eve of the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, a man returns to the house he shared with his lover who still waits to say goodbye all over again.