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Subgenre Sampler
Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff) (1954)
- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyoko Kagawa… - One of Mizoguchi's great classics, based on an 11th century Japanese folktale elaborated into a sprawling vision of a cruel, mysterious cosmos, where…
Senso (1954)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Christian Marquand - A period love story set in the tumultuous 1860's in Italy, when it was occupied by invading Austrians. Dir. Visconti turns his eye on a love…
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune - Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
Sound of the Mountain (Yama No Oto) (1954)- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Soh Yamamura - Dir. Naruse reprises the disintegrating marriage (and cast) of his earlier film, REPAST, in this profoundly affecting tale of a young woman (Hara)…
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Hands Off the Loot) (1954)- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Jean Gabin, RenĂ© Dary, Jeanne Moreau - Laid–back though influential French noir chronicling a wealthy, retired racketeer (Gabin) who is pulled back into the life of crime when his…
Twenty-Four Eyes (24 Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi) (1954)- Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita
Feat. Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu - An elegiac triumph of nostalgia for youth and wartime humanism, this cherished landmark of Japanese cinema gracefully chronicles the 20–years…
Uwasa no onna (Her Mother's Profession, The Woman in the Rumour) (1954)- Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
Feat. Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiko Kuga - Dir. Mizoguchi's longtime muse, Kinuyo Tanaka, plays the madame of a geisha house who falls prey to rumour when both herself and her daughter become…
Victoria in Dover (The Story of Vickie) (1954)- Dir. Ernst Marischka
Feat. Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven - A prequel of sorts to the SISSI trilogy lovingly details the formative romance between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Romy Schneider features…
Albert Lamorisse's Classic Shorts (White Mane, The Red Balloon) (1953-1956)- Dir. Albert Lamorisse
Feat. Alain Emery - French director Albert Lamorisse's two landmark films WHITE MANE and THE RED BALLOON presented together on a single DVD is a must–have…
Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) (1953)- Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Feat. Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata - Tragic story of unrequited love set during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159, where a samurai warrior falls in love with a married…
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