Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
The true story of a Japanese man during World War II who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, got...
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Pe...
Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radi...
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly ...
Josie Alibrandi is 17 and doesn't know where she belongs. This year, however, everything is going to...
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange eve...
A history written with tears and oil... The life story of the great philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin ...
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his in...
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him...
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has myster...
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from ...
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tension...
On one gloomy rainy night, a writer encounters an unexpected visit paid by a woman of his past. Seek...
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to ...
In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is s...
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautifu...