Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
Princess Raccoon (Operetta tanuki goten) (2005)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Joe Odagiri
- Wacky musical rumpus stars Zhang Ziyi as a 'raccoon dog' who falls in love with a prince banished to her enchanted forest.
A fanciful swansong for…
Princesses (Princesas) (2005)
- Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Feat. Candela Pena, Micaela Nevarez
- A raw, heartfelt slice of social realism on Spain's unforgiving streets, this authentic drama about the tenuous friendship between two women who…
Promise, The (Wu ji) (2005)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung…
- Visually exquisite, if utterly frivolous Golden Globe–nominated romantic epic from the director of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE relays the story of…
Protector, The (Tom yum goong, Warrior King) (2005)
- Dir. Prachya Pinkaew
Feat. Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao
- Muay Thai phenomenon Tony Jaa continues his reinvigoration of the martial arts genre with this hotly anticipated follow–up to ONG–BAK: a…
Pusher III (I'm The Angel Of Death: Pusher III) (2005)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Marinela Dekic, Zlatko Buric
- Third instalment of the thoroughly gripping Pusher trilogy closes in on the Sisyphean struggle of drug kingpin Milo (Buric) as he desperately battles…
Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. Angela Baraldi
- Oscar–winning–director Gabriele Salvatore's haughty thriller depicting a desperate private investigator who decides to re–examine…
Rampo Noir (Rampo jigoku) (2005)
- Dir. Hisayasu Sato, Suguru Takeuchi, Atsushi Kaneko
Feat. Tadanobu Asano
- Salacious quartet of horror segments all featuring actor Tadanobu Asano, with directing duties taken by four Japanese indie mavericks, crafting arty…
Red Shoes, The (Bunhongsin) (2005)
- Dir. Yong-gyun Kim
Feat. Hye-su Kim
- Asian horror's preoccupation with inanimate objects continues in this self–consciously stylish, blood–curdling spin on the Hans Christian…
Regular Lovers (Les Amants réguliers) (2005)
- Dir. Philippe Garrel
Feat. Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme
- A richly photographed, Nouvelle Vague–styled homage to the revolutionary spirit of protesters in 1968 Paris, dir. Garrel offers a lucid, at…
Reincarnation (2005)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Yuka
- Another freak–out from the dir. of THE GRUDGE that manages to transport the flaccid J–horror template into a more interesting,…