Island of Loves (1982)
• June 8th, 1982 • 2h 50min
Drama
Overview
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Lost in Translation
Released on: 2003-09-18
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
The State I Am In
Released on: 2001-02-01
Drama
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. The...
Zatoichi
Released on: 2003-09-06
Adventure, Drama, Action
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Rashomon
Released on: 1950-08-26
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
The Last Samurai
Released on: 2003-12-05
Drama, Action, War
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Released on: 1999-11-17
Animation, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Science Fiction
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Released on: 1957-10-11
Drama, History, War
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Dolls
Released on: 2002-10-12
Drama, Romance
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
Millennium Mambo
Released on: 2001-10-31
Drama, Romance
Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Sanjuro
Released on: 1962-01-01
Drama, Action, Comedy
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
The Karate Kid Part II
Released on: 1986-06-18
Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance, Family
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
Tattoo
Released on: 2002-04-04
Thriller, Drama, Crime
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...
March Comes In Like a Lion
Released on: 2017-03-18
Drama
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie
Released on: 2023-04-28
Drama, Thriller
The individuals that comprise the Tokyo MER team rush to on-site disasters and accidents, performing...
The Third Murder
Released on: 2017-09-09
Drama, Mystery, Crime
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
The Great White Tower
Released on: 1966-10-15
Drama
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
Haru
Released on: 1996-03-09
Drama, Romance
A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its me...
Dawn of the Felines
Released on: 2017-01-14
Drama
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while...
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Released on: 1970-01-26
War, History, Drama
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
The Great War of Archimedes
Released on: 2019-07-26
War, Action, Mystery, Drama
It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the worl...