A Lenda do Sol dos Últimos Dias do Xogunato (1957)
Gênero : Comédia, Drama
Runtime : 1H 51M
Director : Yūzō Kawashima
Escritor : Hisashi Yamanouchi, Yūzō Kawashima, Shôhei Imamura
Sinopse
Saheji, um rebelde engenhoso, é obrigado a permanecer em um bordel para pagar sua dívida. No início, ele é tratado como um hóspede indesejável que nunca vai embora, mas logo se envolve com os hóspedes, anfitriões, criados e garotas de alterne – resolvendo os problemas de todos com sua inteligência.
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Mona Paparu é húngara e mora na Romênia. Ela deixa a filha pequena com um parente distante para poder acompanhar o pai numa viagem à Alemanha. Ela não o via há anos e ele diz estar muito doente. Mas, chegando lá, Mona descobre que o pai está endividado com traficantes. Ele a entrega aos cuidados de dois traficantes de escravas, que a levam para a Inglaterra. Mona termina num elegante mas estranho bordel, o Bibliothèque Pascal, onde as prostitutas são forçadas a agir como personagens de histórias literárias.
Ocho é sequestrado por um clã yakuza que usa uma quadrilha de mulheres para contrabandear drogas nas suas vaginas. Descobrindo que o chefe do crime havia matado o último chefe e sequestrado a sua filha, Ocho une forças com as mulas das drogas contra o clã.
A sort of re-telling of Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai”. This time the protagonists are a group of Chinese villagers who must band together to recruit outside help to defend themselves against marauding Japanese pirates demanding protection money. Set in year 1556, it’s supposedly based on true events occurring during the twilight of the Ming Dynasty.
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
Investigação de série de assassinatos ocorridos numa companhia de teatro aponta como principal suspeito Marot, ator já morto. Inspirado na clássica obra de Edgar Allan Poe.
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
A samurai from the Edo Period time travels to present day Japan where he meets a divorcee and her son. Soon, he discovers a passion for making pastries.
Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.
Lucy é uma jovem universitária que vive precisando de dinheiro. Para isso, divide o apartamento com outras duas pessoas e possui uma série de pequenos empregos. Por meio de um anúncio de jornal, entra em contato com uma inusitada agência, que a contrata para prestar um trabalho estranho chamado beleza adormecida. Ela adormece. Ela acorda. É como se nada tivesse acontecido.
The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future.
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.
Um policial irlandês nada ortodoxo e um nervoso agente do FBI trabalham juntos na investigação de uma rede internacional de contrabando de drogas.
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The ghost of a courtesan who died in 1934 returns to Hong Kong fifty-three years later, seeking to reunite with the man she loved.