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Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment, set amidst Hong Kong's bleak, urban landscape. One of the decade's most influential foreign films.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxedInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Director Masaki Kobayashi invested five years of preparation before shooting this anthological adaptation of four tales of the supernatural by Lafcadio Hearn. The first, Black Hair, stars Rentaro Mikuni as a poverty-stricken samurai who leaves his kind wife (Michiyo Aratama) to marry the daughter (Misako Watanabe) of a wealthy official. After years of misery with this woman he returns to his first wife to find a bitter surprise. In the second, The Woman of the Snow, a woodcutter (Tatsuya Nakadai) and his brother take shelter from a snowstorm in a deserted hut. However, trouble arises when a strange woman (Keiko Kishi) appears. The third, Hoichi the Earless, features a blind temple musician (Katsuo Nakamura), who is known for his mastery of the ballad of the Heike clan. A samurai ghost bids him sing the ballad at the Heike tomb, and Buddhist priests protect him by painting his body with a depiction of the sacred text. In the last tale, In a Cup of Tea, a samurai (Ganemon Nakamura) famed for courage, has a recurring vision of the face of another samurai in his tea. Shot entirely on a soundstage to allow the director complete control of the film's palette, it's a stunning display of sensuous color, perfectly suited to these otherworldly tales of the macabre. Takemitsu's musique concrete score is eerily appropriate.DVD Features:Notes: New and improved English subtitle translationRegion 1Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35Single Side - Dual LayerRSDLAudio: Dolby Digital Mono - Japanese Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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The french cult director Jean Rollin, who has made a career out of making erotically charged horror films that focus on vampires and virgins, began his career with this 1968 film, THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE. Expanded from a short film, it covers all of the subject matter and imagery that Rollin became known for--blood, naked women in sexual yet horrific circumstances, existentialism, and fetishism of vampires and their base, lustful desires.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.66Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - French
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Part documentary part experimental narrative, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON may occupy a genre all its own. Inspired by the Surrealist storytelling technique known as Exquisite Corpse, Mr. Weerasethakul roamed the Thai countryside interviewing people to contribute a line or perhaps a chapter to his narrative. What results is a film unlike any other, simultaneously a documentary about the people of Thailand's many villages and their surreal narrative, built one line at a time, that begins with a story about Dogfahr, a caring teacher who teaches a disabled boy and ends, quite literally, miles from there.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxedAdditonal Release Material: Interview - 1. Apichatpong Weerasethakul - DirectorInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Luisina Brando gives a brave performance in Maria Luisa Bemberg's NOBODY'S WIFE. Brando plays Leonor, a pleasant wife and mother who appears to have a great existence. But when she discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she leaves her current life behind. Reinventing herself with a new job, Leonor also embarks on a series of romantic escapades, discovering what it means to be adult and free. All the while, she keeps a watchful eye on her children, who wait impatiently for the day when their mother will return home.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Screen - 1.33Audio: Dolby StereoAdditional Release Material: InsertInteractive Features: Chapter Selection
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