The Pleasures of a Woman

A man who doesn't care about life wanders around Tokyo at night in search of a place to die, and is taken by the strange men he meets one after another. A strange place. The story unfolds here of men who enjoy loving men. When the man who hasn't followed her remembers that the reason he hasn't followed her until now is because he didn'...

Runtime

1h 5m

Cast

Nao Suzuki, Seiji Nakamitsu, Yuya Ishikawa

Upon helping her friend audition for their all-girls high school's production of Romeo & Juliet, freshman Sun-wha is unexpectedly cast as Juliet. To her surprise Romeo is played by the über-cool and stunning senior Ha-nam, whom all the girls seem to have a crush on. As the two would-be thespians grow closer, Ha-nam takes Sun-wha under ...

Runtime

1h 45m

Cast

Roh Jeong-eui, Cho Soo-hyang, Kwon Na-ra

University student Ryo is having a relationship with his classmate Natsuo. One day, his estranged singer-songwriter father Shinya shows up...

Runtime

1h 31m

Cast

Yudai Yamaguchi, Yuki Mitsunaga, Kazuma Akabane

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Donna Deitch

Cast

Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley

Kudo is a new employee at a major temporary staffing company. At the Tokyo branch office where he was training, there was Sanae, the branch manager and the person in charge of training new employees. When Sanae was a new employee, she continued to be sexually harassed by her managing director, Yokaichi, and now that she is in a positio...

Runtime

1h

Cast

Chihiro Asai, Komari Awashima, Motoko Sasaki

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