Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Stupid Boy (Garçon Stupide) (2005)
- Dir. Lionel Baier
Feat. Natacha Koutchoumov, Pierre Chatagny, Rui Pedro Alves
- Raw drama focused around Loic, a young gay swinger in Switzerland, and his attraction to an older man who offers unexpected emotional stability.…
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi) (2005)
- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Young-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi
- A visually dynamic endpoint to Park Chan–wook's feted vengeance trilogy, this final chapter in the saga emerges from a female perspective, and…
Takeshis' (2005)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi…
- Returning to his comedic roots, dir. Takeshi Kitano springs layer upon layer of self–reference and in this conceptually ambitious, though…
Tetsujin 28 (2005)
- Dir. Shin Togashi
- Wacky but earnest live–action update of the classic 1950s anime GIGANTOR, replotted to depict the struggle between a ferocious robot 'Black Ox'…
Three Times (2005)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Chen Chang, Shu Qi
- Taiwanese great Hou Hsiao–Hsien rekindles the memory of three of his finest films, linking a trio of elegant, erstwhile love stories (across…
Tickets (2005)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
- Surprisingly succinct take on the "omnibus" film sees the trifecta of Olmi, Kiarostami and Loach intersect three eclectic stories on a…
Tiger Blade, The (Seua khaap daap) (2005)
- Dir. Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn
Feat. Atsadawut Luengsuntorn
- Spiffy addition to the Thai martial arts boom, with action centered around the recovery of a magical ‘tiger blade’, by cops and robbers…
To Die in San Hilario (2005)
- Dir. Laura Mana
Feat. Lluís Homar
- A light, whimsical tale of redemption, in which an aging gangster on the run seeks refuge in a sleepy backwater, only to be mistaken for a wealthy…
Tokyo Zombie (2005)
- Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…
- An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
Tony Takitani (2005)
- Dir. Jun Ichikawa
Feat. Issey Ogata, Rie Miyazawa
- A small jewel of a drama, based on a story by Haruki Murakami, about a lonely illustrator (Ogata) who meets the woman of his dreams, only later…