In Manchuria during WW2, newspaper reporter Okubo (Makoto Sato) arrives at a beleaguered frontline garrison nicknamed Desperate Outpost and immediately takes an interest in the double suicide of a captain and his lover who supposedly killed themselves on the eve of battle. However when an old flame of Okubo’s named Tomie (Izumi Yukimura) inadvertently gives away his true motives to … Read the rest
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Blue Christmas (Kihachi Okamoto, Japan, 1978)
After Professor Hyodo makes claims about UFO’s and aliens he disappears and TV reporter Minami (Tatsuya Nakadai) is assigned to investigate. Minami’s search turns up rumours of people whose blood has turned blue after exposure to UFO’s and their forcible incarceration and vivisection in secret US detention camps. But Minami’s attempts to reveal the truth face a global conspiracy by … Read the rest
