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Kei Mizutani (WEATHER WOMAN) stars in this Japanese cult film as one of a cadre of women who decide to form an all female sumo wrestling league. Doffing their shirts and their inhibitions, these women take it to the mat and put on a show that insures their league's success. A campy and fitfully funny erotic comedy, SUMO VIXENS is a bizarre and unforgettable film.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Stereo - Japanese Stereo - English Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus Trivia GameText/Photo Galleries: Photos Production ArtDVD-ROM Features: Screenplay Access
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Based on an acclaimed novel by Emmanuel Carrere, the French psycho-thriller CLASS TRIP plunges viewers into the mind of an emotionally damaged child. Nicholas (Clement van den Bergh) is a shy, socially isolated schoolboy teased by classmates, dominated by an overprotective father (Francois Roy), and frighteningly plagued by nightmarish visions of death and disaster. On a class trip to the French Alps, Nicholas finds himself befriended by the school bully Hodkann (Lokman Nalcakan), who is intrigued by his strange classmate's dreams and hallucinations. When local police find a dead child in the woods--murdered and horribly mutilated--Nicholas senses a connection between the crime and his visions, and sets out to find the killer with the help of his new friend. Writer/director Claude Miller (L'EFFRONTEE, ALIAS BETTY) makes perfect use of pristine cinematography and a haunting orchestral score to create a mournful meditation on the loss of childhood innocence.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAdditional Release Material: Trailer Bonus TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Features
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DIASTOLE Y SISTOLE chronicles the highlights--happy and sad--over the duration of a relationship between El and Ella, a young couple. From their meeting, to the seduction, to the relationship, and then the dissipation of interest in one another, this smart Spanish production takes you through it all--with the emphasis on realism.Spanish VersionDVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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For his 27th film, the
sensei
of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare`s KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as
chaos
or
turmoil,
is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday. However, Hidetora`s youngest and most compassionate son, Saburo, defiantly objects to this hasty decision and is disowned by the proud, stubborn ruler. Once the two eldest sons take control of the empire, they quickly turn on their father and begin vying for total control over the land. As Hidetora is banished from his own kingdom in a bloody battle, he must confront the consequences of his violent, ruthless past. Ten years in the making, RAN represents the culmination of Kurosawa`s career by revisiting his skill at adapting Shakespeare, as evidenced in THRONE OF BLOOD, and displaying the cinematic splendor of his other landmark films such as SEVEN SAMURAI and RASHOMON. With its magnificent costumes, breathtaking settings, and amazingly photographed battle sequences, the film is truly stunning. An epic on the grandest of scales, RAN is not only one of Kurosawa`s finest films, it is a glorious masterpiece of Japanese cinema.
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In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect and Sophie proves to be a bit bizarre, but a real pearl according to Madame Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset). Sophie remains distanced from the family and only comes out of her shell when she meets Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), the spirited and gruff local postal clerk with a grudge against the Lelievres. The two spark a friendship based on their mutual distrust of the slightly aloof Lelievres and they soon learn that they have similar secret pasts. But as Sophie and the postal clerk work themselves into a veritable frenzy of hatred and disdain, Sophie hides an even more troubling secret that fills every moment of her life with shame and terror, and only serves to increase her antagonism towards the Lelievres.Claude Chabrol masterfully guides what starts as a seemingly slight drama into his patent Hitchcockian terrain of explosive psychological melodrama, all couched within a brutal yet detached critique of the bourgeoisie. Bonnaire is icily terrifying as the intense and mysterious Sophie, and both Huppert and Bisset give powerhouse performances in this vision of the evil that lurks just below the surface of civilized society.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.66Audio: Stereo 2.0 - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Documentaries - 1.The Making of LA CEREMONIE (20 Minutes) Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Image Galleries: Essays - 1. Jonathan Rosenbaum - Film Historian and Critic
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