After foiling an assassination attempt on a middle eastern dignitary, Sgt Wu (Sibelle Hu) is ordered to whip an all female commando squad into shape. But personal and professional rivalries with the all male Tiger squad training in the same camp mean the girls have their work cut out for them. When both teams are assigned to protect a jewellery … Read the rest
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A Story from Echigo (Tadashi Imai, Japan, 1964)
In 1937 the success of sake brewery employee Ryukichi (Shoichi Ozawa) leads to jealousy and resentment from workmate and fellow Echigo villager Gonsuke (Rentaro Mikuni). When Gonsuke encounters Ryukichi’s wife Oshin (Yoshiko Sakuma) on the path home he rapes her and then torments the good-natured Ryukichi with rumours of Oshin having an affair. As these rumours gnaw at Ryukichi a … Read the rest
Diary of a Lady-Killer (Ko Nakahira, Hong Kong, 1969)
Businessman Zhou (Han Ching) has a problem. His prim and proper fiancee Xiulan (Fang Chin) won’t let him have sex. So Zhou resorts to chatting up a succession of easy lays to satisfy his urges. But one by one the women Zhou’s slept with turn up dead – strangled – and when Zhou finds his latest lover choked with his … Read the rest
Five Men in a Circus (Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1935)
A wandering five man brass band that includes ladies man Torakichi (Hiroshi Ureko) and wannabe violinist Kokichi (Heihachiro Okawa) find themselves stuck at a seaside resort after their latest booking falls through. But the arrival in town of the travelling Asahi circus whose performers are out on strike at the circus manager’s tyrannical behaviour offers the men not just employment … Read the rest
The Glamorous Ghost (Hajime Sato, Japan, 1964)
A husband named Asami (Ko Nishimura) fed up with his wife Sugie’s (Masumi Harukawa) cheating ways strangles her after an argument. Taking her body in a hearse he then visits her lovers; the president of a large company named Kitamura (Meicho Soganoya) and a physician at Tokyo hospital Dr.Yamagoshi (Nobuo Kaneko) and threatens to expose their affairs and humiliate them … Read the rest
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, Japan, 1969)
At a Tokyo gay bar pretty teen transvestite Eddie (Peter) is the star attraction and carries on a secret relationship with Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya) who pushes drugs to the bar’s patrons. But Gonda is also the lover of the bar’s owner, transvestite Leda (Osamu Ogasawara), and fears Leda informing the police about his drug dealing if his affair is discovered. … Read the rest
A Legend of Turmoil (Seiji Izumi, Japan, 1992)
When the boss of the veteran Kasabe union is attacked his loyal second-in-command Otaki (Akira Kobayashi) strikes back but soon discovers that their enemy is a formidable alliance of Yakuza gangs with an ambitious construction boss turned would be politician named Nakajima whose clout means he has the chief of police in his pocket. As violence between the two sides … Read the rest
The Delightful Forest (Chang Cheh and Pao Hsuen-Li, Hong Kong, 1972)
In prison after slaying his cheating sister-in-law and her lover swordmaster Wu Sung (Ti Lung) finds himself begged by the prison boss’s son Shih-En (Tien Ching) to defeat a thug named Chung (Chu Mu), who’s seized control of a town known as The Delightful Forest. In combat Wu emerges victorious but Chung’s boss, corrupt local official Commander Zheng, has our … Read the rest
Internal Sleuth (Kenji Misumi, Japan, 1973)
Veteran cop Okumura (Tomisaburo Wakayama) finds himself on the trail of Sugiyama, who’s stolen a cache of guns from a US airbase and is on the run after shooting dead two police officers. But things get messy when the killer guns down a rival gang member whose boss Okumura is friends with, while the increasingly ruthless Seijin-kai gang, whom Sugiyama … Read the rest
Ad Astra (James Gray, US, 2019)
In the near future waves of anti-matter from Neptune wreak havoc on Earth. Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is enlisted to help since the source of the shockwaves is believed to be a spaceship captained by Roy’s father, Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) and long believed to be lost. But as Roy embarks on a perilous mission to Mars he … Read the rest
