Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Red Beard (Akahige) (1965)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki… - An unusual hospital drama from dir. Kurosawa, collaborating for the final time with Mifune, who here plays a tough doctor coaching an intern (Kayama)…
Samurai Assassin (1965)
- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratana… - Sharply delivered samurai epic based on the infamous Sakurada Gate Incident of 1860 in which a high–ranking shogunite official was assassinated…
Samurai Spy (1965)- Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
Feat. Koji Takahashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Kei Sato - This atypical samurai saga ventures from the norm through overenthusiastic plotting, a Latin–infused score, and arresting…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
Feat. Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva - A tragic, Carpathian folk tale of two lovers separated by a family feud is the basis for Parajanov’s staggering debut. Miraculous visuals and a…
Shop on High Street, The (The Shop on Main Street) (1965)- Dir. Jan Kadar
- A key film of the Czech film renaissance of the 1960s, that explores 'everyday fascism' through the story of a Jewish shopkeeper who mistakes her…
Simon of the Desert (1965)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook - A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
Sucker, The (Le Corniaud) (1965)- Dir. Gerard Oury
Feat. Andre Bourvil, Gerard Oury, Louis de Funès - Quintessential French farce finds the affable Bourvil tricked into driving a Cadillac to Bordeaux containing thousands of dollars of jewelry and…
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1965)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey - The life of a Parisian prostitute, analysing the likes of women, language, western society as well as cinema itself. Godard's cinematic essay broke…
Assassination (Ansatsu) (1964)- Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
Feat. Tetsuro Tamba, Eiji Okada - Japan’s turbulent, late 19th century landscape is the backdrop to this fiercely stylized tale of a masterless whose sword edge thrusts between the…
Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey - One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…
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