Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
A Taxing Woman (1987)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Nobuko Miyamoto - A nicely offbeat look at the potentially boring subject of tax evasion. Nobuko Miyamoto plays our star tax collector who meets her match in a hotshot…
Peking Opera Blues (1986)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Brigitte Lin, Cherie Chung, Sally Yeh - One of prolific Hong Kong director/producer Tsui Hark's most celebrated films is a genre–blending romp set around the Peking Opera in 1913. A…
Police Assassins (Yes Madam) (1985)- Dir. Corey Yuen
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, Tsui Hark - Cheesy but fun outing has two hard–as–nails policewomen Michelle Yeoh (in her first lead role) and Cynthia Rothrock turning in their…
Vagabond (1985)- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire - Award–winning drama that artfully presents poetic moments from young vagabond Sandrine Bonnaire’s last month alive, listlessly drifting…
Ladies On the Rocks (1984)- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen - Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (1979)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- 1970s West German drama about two sisters whose unusually close relationship negatively impacts their individual personal lives.
Celine & Julie Go Boating (Celine et Julie vont en bateau) (1974)- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier - Rivette assaults the narrative form for his epic–lengthed, dream–like, near indescribable tale of two girls whose lives and imaginations…
Female Yakuza Tale (Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi) (1973)- Dir. Teruo Ishii
Feat. Reiko Ike - A scorned Reiko Ike returns in this remarkably trashier sequel to SEX AND FURY, ready to unleash another roaring rampage of revenge on sadistic…
Lady Snowblood 1 (Shurayukihime) (1973)
- Dir. Toshiya Fujita
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon… - A classic samurai B–movie made in the heyday of 'Wu Xia' influence, with Kaji playing a bereaved young woman who seeks revenge on the gangsters…
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