Run Truck Rascal, Run!

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a youn...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Runtime

2h 26m

Director

Rob Marshall

Cast

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Runtime

2h 38m

Director

Ang Lee

Cast

Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close sc...

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Philip Kaufman

Cast

Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Tia Carrere