Masayuki and Sachie had little to lose when they first met each other. They were young. Their lives unscripted. It did not take long for Masayuki to quit his job and for the two to move in together. In a neighborhood where the red paper lanterns lit up the alleyways at nightfall, they keep each other warm. Love takes its toll when they find that Sachie is pregnant.Read More »
1970s
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Toshiya Fujita – Aka chôchin AKA Red Lantern (1974)
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Steven Hilliard Stern – Harrad Summer (1974)
1971-1980DramaSteven Hilliard SternUSAStanley, Harry, Sheila and Beth have just finished their first year at Harrad College and have a special bond together. Harrad College isn’t an ordinary school. The school conducts an experiment where students from different sex are put together in one room. Sexual freedom is encouraged. Now the summer break has arrived, the four have decided to spend the holidays together. They will visit an old friend of Beth and after that spend two weeks at the families of Stanley, Harry and Sheila. They have to fight against bias however. Not everyone is fond of Harrad College and some see it as only an easy way for the students to fulfill their feelings of lust. Will the relationships and beliefs of the four students hold up under the constant pressure?Read More »
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Daniel Schmid – Schatten der Engel AKA Shadow of Angels (1976)
Daniel Schmid1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyQuote:
One of the most controversial productions by the late German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was his stage play The Garbage, the City and Death; when he sought to film the play in Germany, Fassbinder was denied state funds on the basis of a charge of anti-Semitic content. Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid, a film-school colleague and longtime friend of Fassbinder’s, undertook the project in 1976, employing Fassbinder’s now-familiar repertory company including Fassbinder and his then-wife Ingrid Caven. Set amid the Frankfurt lowlife–prostitutes, pimps, sadistic police and perverted businessmen–the story concerns a streetwalker (Caven) who is reportedly too chic for her own good and can’t make a go of it among her only available clientele. She is brutalized by her pimp (portrayed by a very slim Fassbinder), who continues to send her out on the streets while he indulges his preference for men. Luck comes her way in the form of a Jewish businessman (Klaus Lowitsch); he hires her only to listen to him talk and, occasionally, pose as his bride in the murky nocturnal street scene.Read More » -
Pier Paolo Pasolini – Il Fiore delle mille e una notte AKA Arabian Nights (1974) (HD)
Pier Paolo Pasolini1971-1980ArthouseFantasyItalyQuote:
The concluding part of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy Of Life”, following The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights corrects many of the mistakes found in the latter, noticeably its ramshackle, uneven approach, and returns to the charming territory of the former. Indeed, the film is as good as The Decameron, if not better, and is generally considered to be the trilogies crowning moment and one of Pasolini’s finest films (critic Tony Rayns recently included it amongst his choices for Sight and Sound’s 2002 Top Ten Critics’ Poll).Read More » -
Ting-Hung Kuo & Koichi Takano – Sûpâ robotto Maha Baronu AKA The Iron Man (1974)
Ting-Hung Kuo1971-1980ActionComedyJapanKoichi TakanoSuper Robot Mach Baron is the 1974 sequel TV series to Super Robot Red Baron and this sequel to the Red Baron.Read More »
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Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos – Touha zvaná Anada AKA Adrift (1971)
1971-1980Czech RepublicDramaElmar KlosJán KadárA fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman.Read More »
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Jun’ya Satô – Ningen no shômei AKA Proof of the Man (1977)
Junya Sato1971-1980CrimeDramaJapanWhen an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City. There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime.Read More »
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Various – Skæve dage i Thy AKA High Times in Thy (1971)
Various1971-1980DenmarkDocumentaryQuote:
During the summer of 1970 the association ‘The New Society’ created a summer camp on a barren field somewhere in Denmark. More than 7000 people visited the camp in the course of 3 months. The goal was to explore alternative lifestyles and new ways of coexisting and ultimately an attempt at creating a better model for the society. In the wake of Thy Summer Camp a multitude of lifestyle experiments followed: Christiania, Project House and various small communities all around the country. Denmark was forever changed.Read More » -
Yûsuke Watanabe – Han gyakû no tabi AKA Rebellious Journey (1976)
1971-1980ActionCrimeJapanYûsuke WatanabeHiroshi kakurai killed the village of political Goro. His killing was perfect and he did not leave any clue again. He lived in the mammoth estate, and he was a child favorite ordinary man whose career was a designer of toys. Kakurai was thinking of “killing” a little tired of the nerve work and washing his feet. It was his dream to buy a land in the island of the Seto Inland Sea, and to live there and to die quietly. Kakurai had a request for a new killing.Read More »