Playful White Fingers

Since ancient times, in peaceful fishing villages facing the ocean, village elders still followed the tradition of requiring virgins to marry. In this country where radio wave culture has completely permeated... even now. This is a semi-documentary Nikkatsu that obscenely and abnormally captures this lewd ritual and a world where innoc...

Runtime

1h 6m

Cast

Kurumi Jōgenji, Megumi Aoi, Hiroko Fuji

The industrial group's boss, Fujita, has used bad means for the prosperity of his company. In recent years, he tried to take over a rival company, but failed, and he was noticed by the prosecution. He was driving to a villa in the mountains to destroy evidence, and on the way he encountered a fallen woman, Tomoko, and took him with him...

Runtime

1h

Cast

Ayumi Kimino, Yuzu Hoshino, Riri Kouda

Momoko, who attends the prestigious private school, is a married couple with a school nurse, Ryunosuke. Only Momoko's uncle, the principal, Abe, knew the secret. One day before graduation, a new vice-principal, Hisae, will be transferred. Momoko's best friend, Airi, is a fan of Ryunosuke, and for some reason she appears in the health ...

Runtime

1h

Director

Kazuyoshi Sekine

Cast

Ayumi Kimino, Iku Sakuragi, Hitomi Enjô

Saburo runs away from home without telling his wife, Kyoko, that he was restructured. Saburo was given the name of Unkokusai when he was told by a mysterious priest, Chinkokusai, who appeared in front of him at a loss to become the same priest as himself. The husband and sister started living together from the married woman Shiori who ...

Runtime

1h

Cast

Ayumi Kimino, Ichiha Kan'no, Mari Yamaguchi

While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the sit...

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Alfred Lot

Cast

Mélanie Laurent, Éric Caravaca, Gilles Lellouche

Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of hist...

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

Ivan Barnev, Oldřich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch

The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

János Bán, Marián Labuda, Zdeněk Svěrák

In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský, Václav Neckář, Jitka Zelenohorská

Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed r...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

Magda Vášáryová, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek

An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A lyrical and humorous adaptation of writings by Bohumil Hrabal.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Jiří Menzel

Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr