Name: Embracing
Director: Naomi Kawase
Released: 1992

In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.

Embracing

Ni tsutsumarete

Jun Kunimura

Machiko Ono

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Sachiko Izumi

Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.

The New Asian Cinemas

Suzaku

萌の朱雀

Kohei Fukungaga

Yuka Hyyoudo

Katsuhisa Namase

Kanako Higuchi

Naomi Kawase

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso&#x27;s twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

Shara

Sharasojyu

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The Mourning Forest

殯の森

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Uno Kawase

Mitsuki Kawase

Naomi Kawase raises her voice in anger, blaming her foster mother for threatening to abandon her as a young girl. The camera reveals Kawase&#x27;s impatience when coming to terms with her foster mother&#x27;s senility, and at the same time dwells on her aging naked body with a subtle sense of affection.

Birth/Mother

Tarachime

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Masatoshi Nagase

Kirin Kiki

Kyara Uchida

Miyoko Asada

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Sweet Bean

あん

french

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Junko Abe

Miyuki Matsuda

Tetta Sugimoto

Jun Murakami

On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.

Still the Water

Futatsume no mado

Jackie Burroughs

Victor Cowie

Gosia Dobrowolska

Paul Cox

Katya Gardner

Kyle McCulloch

Brent Neale

Michael O'Sullivan

Sarah Neville

Vince Rimmer

In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara&#x27;s attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore.

Careful

English

Jacqueline Poelvoorde Pappaert

Nelly Pappaert

Hector Pappaert

Valérie Parent

Jenny Drye

Malou Madou

Édith Le Merdy

Olivier Cotica

Rachel Deman

Alexandra Fandango

Rémy Belvaux

André Bonzel

Benoît Poelvoorde

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Français

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Anjelica Huston

Woody Allen

Alan Alda

Joy Behar

Jerry Adler

Ron Rifkin

Lynn Cohen

Zach Braff

Melanie Norris

William Addy

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Bill Murray

Andie MacDowell

Chris Elliott

Stephen Tobolowsky

Brian Doyle-Murray

Marita Geraghty

Angela Paton

Rick Ducommun

Rick Overton

Robin Duke

Carol Bivins

Willie Garson

Bruno Podalydès

Jonás Trueba

Bill Murray is at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn&#x27;t get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it&#x27;s Groundhog Day all over again... and again... and again.

Groundhog Day

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Craig Sheffer

Brad Pitt

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Brenda Blethyn

Edie McClurg

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A River Runs Through It

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Julie Brown

Tom Hickey

Ricky Tomlinson

Bruce Jones

Christine Abbott

Karen Henthorn

Gemma Phoenix

Geraldine Ward

Mike Fallon

William Ash

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Raining Stones

Li Tian-Lu

Lim Giong

Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.

The Puppetmaster

戲夢人生, Xì mèng rén shēng

Chao-jung Chen

Yu-wen Wang

Kang-sheng Lee

Chang-bing Jen

Tien Miao

Hsiao-ling Lu

Within the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.

Rebels of the Neon God

青少年哪吒, Ch'ing shaonien na cha

Li Gong

Huiqin Yang

Peiqi Liu

Liuchun Yang

Kesheng Lei

Zhijun Ge

Wanqing Zhu

Luowen Cui

Jianfa Wang

Zi Lin

A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the camera used in most scenes.

The Story of Qiu Ju

Qiu Ju da guan si

Michelle Pfeiffer

Richard E. Grant

Daniel Day-Lewis

Linda Faye Farkas

Geraldine Chaplin

Mary Beth Hurt

Howard Erskine

Miriam Margolyes

Winona Ryder

Top 5 Musical Martin Scorsese

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Martin Scorsese, one of the great directors of our time, directs Oscar&reg;-winner Daniel Day-Lewis (1989 Best Actor, My Left Foot), Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder in a brilliant adaptation of Edith Wharton&#x27;s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870s. At the center of the film is Newland Archer (Day-Lewis), an upstanding attorney who secretly longs for a more passionate life. Engaged to the lovely but ordinary socialite May Welland (Ryder), Newland resigns himself to a life of quiet complacency. But when May&#x27;s unconventional cousin returns to New York amid social and sexual scandal, Newland risks everything for a chance at true love. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is a spellbinding portrait of hidden romance and regret.

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American Independent Cinema 1978-1990

Bad Lieutenant

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Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and a young man, The &quot;Schofield Kid&quot; (Jaimz Woolvett).

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