A truck driver in Yamagata prefecture finds himself stuck on the road due to a police speeding checkpoint. The trucker decides to use the road shoulder instead. Wen stopped they explain to the police that they have an emergency and are in a rush. Then a police cruiser with two policewomen again catches them. Apparently, this time it is for the crime of having been in a woman’s public bath.Read More »
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Norifumi Suzuki – Torakku yarô: Otoko ippiki momojirô AKA Trucker Yaro VI : I am a Man of Honour (1977)
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Norifumi Suzuki – Torakku yarô: Totsugeki ichiban hoshi AKA Trucker Yaro VII: Another Odyssey of Momojiro (1978)
1971-1980ActionComedyJapanNorifumi Suzuki“Truck Yaro films usually repeat the same patterns again and again in almost every instalment. It may sound boring but it actually works out great and it’s a series trademark. You always know what to expect from the plot. Bunta is gonna fall in love and see stars but in the end he never gets the girl, Kinya is gonna forget his kids’ names, Bunta visits the bath house and bring gifts for the girls, later he has a comic fight sequence at a restaurant, usually against a rivaly truck driver… But Totsugeki Ichiban-boshi is a weird bird. The opening alone is, well, very weird. There’s also no rivalry driver, no probles with the kids’ names (they don’t even appear in the film, except in a photo) and no bath house scene… wait, did I say no topless bath house girls? Yeah, I did. But that sector gets taken care of when it later turns out that Kinya’s new lady friend Mary is a stripper by profession.Read More »
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Chatrichalerm Yukol – Grounded God AKA Earth Angel (1975)
1971-1980ActionChatrichalerm YukolThailandToi, a drug trafficker, is being chased by the police, as he meets on the run Phol and Nong. The three become a team of robbers, who robs and kills whenever and wherever they wish. Someone names them “The Earth Angels” team. They go down south, recruit a couple more guys and rob a bank. One night while the team happily celebrates their band’s job, the police force raids their place and kills them all one by one. They are not really “Angel” after all.Read More »
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Billy Chan – Long feng zei zhuo zei AKA License to Steal (1990)
1981-1990ActionBilly ChanComedyHong KongGodenzi plays an acrobatic thief who, after taking part in an elaborate burglary, is double-crossed by her partner (Aurelio) and is captured by the police. On her release from prison, Godenzi discovers that her betrayer is now a highly influential criminal in the area and commands a posse of hired thugs. With a new partner by her side, Godenzi looks to avenge her imprisonment and steal the valuables her former partner had double-crossed her for.Read More »
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David Green – Fire Birds AKA Wings of the Apache (1990)
1981-1990ActionAdventureDavid GreeneUSAElite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.Read More »
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John English – Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
1931-1940ActionAdventureJohn EnglishUSADaredevils of the Red Circle” (1939) is a 12-Chapter Republic Movie Serial starring Charles Quigley, David Sharpe, Herman Brix (better known under his subsequent stage name, Bruce Bennett) and Charles Middleton. It was directed by William Witney and John English and is often considered one of the better serials produced by Republic. The serial was the fourteenth of the sixty-six serials produced by the studio.Read More »
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Quan’an Wang – Bai lu yuan (2011)
2011-2020ActionChinaDramaQuan'an WangWhite Deer Plain is a 2011 Chinese drama film directed by Wang Quan’an and based on the novel of the same name by Chen Zhongshi. In the White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province the two most important families – Bai and Lu – and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership.Read More »
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Bruno Paolinelli – OSS 77: Operazione fior di loto AKA Operation Lotus Flower (1965)
1961-1970ActionAdventureBruno PaolinelliItalyA Chinese scientist flies to USA in order to declare that his country is now provided with nuclear weapons.
But the plane is intercepted by secret service and shot down on the Italian territory during the flight.
Nevertheless the scientist is just injured. He’s wanted by many nations but the secret agent Robert Kent luckily comes to his defence.Read More » -
Dzhanik Fayziev – Avgust. Vosmogo AKA August. Eighth (2012)
2011-2020ActionDzhanik FayzievRussiaWarThe story is about a young single mother who is compelled to make her way at risk of her life to Ckhinvali, where her son is, whom she had sent there on the eve of the conflict. The film can be divided into two parts that alternate one with the other: one shows how in the eyes of a young boy the South Ossetian conflict transforms into a fantastic war story with super-robots, and the second shows the reality of the war situation and the journey of the main heroine.Read More »