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The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Ishirō Honda

Cast

Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yū Fujiki

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubesc...

Runtime

2h 14m

Cast

Goro Inagaki, Yui Aragaki, Hayato Isomura

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

Robert Rossen

Cast

Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so h...

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce