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Subgenre Sampler

 
Violent CopViolent Cop (1989) Aro Favourite
Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
Popular entertainer 'Beat' Takeshi's directing debut is a stylish, witty yet cynical and disturbing elegy to violence executed with alarming…
Human LanternsHuman Lanterns (Ren pi deng long) (1982)
Dir. Chung Sun
Feat. Leih Lo
The Shaw Brothers' first international star, Lo Leih, excels in this horror–suspenser as a mad lampshade maker in olden–day China who…
Ninja WarsNinja Wars (Iga ninpûchô) (1982)
Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba
Period fantasy action involving magicians, love potions and endangered royalty in ancient Japan, a story resolved with a fair amount of…
Christiane F.Christiane F. (1981) Recommended
Dir. Ulrich Edel
Feat. David Bowie
Absorbing account of the decline and fall into the Berlin's degrading drug and prostitution scene of two young heroin addicts. Features the music and…
For Your Height OnlyFor Your Height Only (1981)
Dir. Eddie Nicart
Feat. Weng Weng, Yehlen Catral, Carmi Martin
Schlocky riff on the 007 franchise with pint sized ass–kicker Weng Weng as the world's smallest super spy, Agent 00, doing battle with mad…
Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, TheMysterious Castle in the Carpathians, The (Tajemstvi hradu v Karpatech) (1981)
Dir. Oldrich Lipsky
Feat. Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky
Cult oddity based on the Jules Verne novel The Carpathian Castle, a sci–fi horror story about a campy count who haunts a house overlooking a…
They Call Her...Cleopatra WongThey Call Her...Cleopatra Wong (1981)
Dir. Bobby A. Suarez
Feat. Marrie Lee
Singapore's top policewoman, the deadly Miss Cleopatra Wong, teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit operation in this…
Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts)Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)
Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet
When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
HouseHouse (Hausu) (1977) Aro Favourite
Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami
Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
That Obscure Object of DesireThat Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Recommended
Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet
Masterpiece of loopy morals, terrorist attacks and chastity belts that turns that age old loves–me–loves–me–not story once…

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