A Separation – 2011

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease. Director : Asghar Farhadi|Maryam Naraghi Cast : Ali-Asghar Shahbazi|Babak Karimi|Kimia Hosseini|Leila Hatami|Merila Zarei|Payman Maadi|Sareh Bayat|Sarina Farhadi|Shahab Hosseini|Shirin YazdanbakhshContinue reading “A Separation – 2011”

Hard Romanticker – 2011

Writer-director Gu Su-yeon’s new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole overflowing with sex and fury. Day after day, (fictional) Gu finds fresh foes and makes the local hoodlums wantContinue reading “Hard Romanticker – 2011”

Remigration – 2011

Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collarContinue reading “Remigration – 2011”

Badboys – 2011

In the 1970s, director Fukasaku Kinji’s Yakuza Papers films chronicled decades of gang warfare in post-war Hiroshima. Over three decades later, up-and-coming young director Kubata Takashi brings a new generation of Hiroshima motorcycle gangsters to the big screen with Badboys. Based on Tanaka Hiroshi’s hit comic series of the same name (which also spawned fiveContinue reading “Badboys – 2011”

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