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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of VengeanceLady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga) (1974)
Dir. Toshiya Fujita
Feat. Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Excellent, though not widely celebrated sequel, has Kaji put her sword skills to work in Meiji Japan playing off the ruthless government against an…
Lancelot Du LacLancelot Du Lac (1974)
Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Bresson endows the legend of King Arthur with his unique style and vision, and exposes a density of ideas by stripping the story back to its base…
Lone Wolf & Cub 6: White Heaven in HellLone Wolf & Cub 6: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
Dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi
The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro. Lone wolf and Cub return for their final battle…
Love in the RainLove in the Rain (Un amour de pluie) (1974)
Dir. Jean-Claude Brialy
Feat. Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo, Suzanne Flon
More pomp and circumstance from Romy Schneider, here playing a well–to–do French woman indulging in various love affairs while holidaying…
MarthaMartha (1974)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm
Addressing his favourite subject, emotional cruelty, Dir. Fassbinder skillfully works a vein of pitch–black comedy in depicting Margit…
MirrorMirror (Zerkalo) (1974)
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
Appropriately titled autobiography of Tarkovsky's childhood, impressioned by the volatile cultural environment. Unique in both form and vision, this…
Nuits RougesNuits Rouges (1974)
Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Jacques Champreux, Gayle Hunnicutt
Another Franju masked adventure launched from Louis Feuillade serials and his own excellent JUDEX, only this time in filmed in a garish, exagerrated…
Phantom of Liberty, ThePhantom of Liberty, The (1974)
Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti
The great surrealist's penultimate film uses a Chinese–box structure to weave a dream–like tableau of set pieces that waver from to the…
StaviskyStavisky (1974)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francois Perier, Anny Duperey
Belmondo lends his shafty screen persona to the role of notorious financier, swindler, and raconteur Alexandre Stavisky, whose monetary exploits and…
Street Fighter, TheStreet Fighter, The (1974)
Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
Feat. Sonny Chiba
Career–making martial arts outing for Japanese icon Sonny Chiba, mugging his heart out as a brutal enforcer who turns the tables on his…

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