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Subgenre Sampler
Muscle (Kitami) (1988)- Dir. Hisayasu Sato
Feat. Kiyomi Ito, Takeshi Ito, Simon Kamai - Interesting, expressively stylised item from cult Japanese dir. Hisayasu set in the muscle clubs, bars and bedrooms of Tokyo.…
Music Teacher, The (1988)- Dir. Gerard Corbiau
Feat. Jose Van Dam, Anne Roussel, Patrick Bauchau - Sterling voiced Jose Van Dam plays an opera star who retires to train an aspiring nymphette and her wayward peer. Like the superlative operatic…
My Neighbour Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) (1988)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
- Dir. Miyazaki’s first huge hit in Japan is a model family film: realistic characters responding to realistic crises in a realistic way, though…
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (TV Series) (1988-1999)- Feat. Kevin Murphy, Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu…
- Legendary cult series about a man and his robot buddy who get shot into space by an evil scientist and forced to watch the most horrific…
Mystic Pizza (1988)
- Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish - Julia Roberts' star quality shines in this, her debut film, contrasting the love–lives of three pizza waitresses in a town called Mystic.…
Naked Gun, The (1988)- Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson… - Leslie Neilsen perfects his deadpan for the Zucker Bros., who do for police work what their classic FLYING HIGH did for air travel. A…
Natural Causes (1988)- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales - A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
Navigator, The (A Medieval Odyssey) (1988)- Dir. Vincent Ward
Feat. Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Marshall Napier - A group of 14th Century Cumbrians experience future shock when their mining expedition leads them to contemporary New Zealand. A terrific adventure…
Never Say Die (1988)- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Temuera Morrison - Geoff Murphy re–applies his GOODBYE PORK PIE formula for this good–natured action yarn which posits Temuera Morrison as an unwitting…
Ngati (1988)- Dir. Barry Barclay
Feat. Tuta Ngarimu Tamati, Iranui Haig, Tawai Moana… - A moving and powerful drama about an Australian immigrant who encounters the spiritual home of the local 'Ngati' or tribe, which triggers his own…
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