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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
Posts Tagged "japan"
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Black Rain **** (1989, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura) – Classic Movie Review 9417
The 1989 neo noir action crime movie Black Rain is a thoroughly involving, beautifully crafted cop thriller from Ridley Scott, who lifts a serviceably routine plot into an exciting movie. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia […]
Ai No Korîda [In the Realm of the Senses] **** (1976, Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima) – Classic Movie Review 9393
Writer-director Nagisa Ôshima’s disconcerting passionate sexual drama 1976 Ai No Korîda caused a wave of controversy and was long banned in the UK. This ‘Last Tango in Tokyo’ was finally approved for public screening by the […]
The Barbarian and the Geisha ** (1958, John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 8970
Director John Huston’s 1958 romantic adventure drama The Barbarian and the Geisha stars John Wayne as Townsend Harris, the first US consul to Japan in 1856, who gradually wins respect of the local people, and […]
The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]
The Night My Number Came Up **** (1955, Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 8507
A military transport aircraft’s flight from Hong Kong to Japan starts to bear a startling similarity to one of the passenger’s bad dreams, which had ended with a plane crash. Michael Redgrave stars as the […]
An Actor’s Revenge [Yukinojô Henge] **** (1963, Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao) – Classic Movie Review 8357
Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese Eastmancolor classic An Actor’s Revenge [Yukinojô Henge] is a cleverly intricate and rivetingly compelling drama about Yukinojo, a touring Kabuki actor who sets out to avenge himself on the three […]
The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] ***** (1952, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiaki Konoe, Eitarô Shindô) – Classic Movie Review 8028
Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1952 The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] is a world cinema classic, with a remarkable performance by Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a 17th-century samurai’s daughter who leads a life of […]