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- This is an odd love story of a girl named Mayumi and her male friend Mai, who decide to open up a barber shop and beauty parlor, where they serve their customers in the nude. The charming novelty sets them up to make a killing in the process.
- Three best friends meet and boldly talk about sex together. Their characters are as different as their lifestyles. One works at a hotel, one at a design firm and the other is a graduate student. The conversations alter their lives as they begin to have different sexual relationships than before.
- A frank coming-of-age story, in which young Yoichi falls for Gloria at the local strip joint. Yoichi's innocent nature has him attending her shows every day, filling his mind with her beauty. The standard bittersweet disappointments of the coming-of-age story are offset by irreverent moments of levity; a quirk of director Yoshimitsu Morita's which he became known for.
- Aema whose husband, Hyun-wu is in prison for involuntary homicide is a frustrated woman. She's pained by his extramarital affairs, but still visits him every week; refusing to divorce him. She meets art student, Kim Dong-yub, and feels a connection between them. Later she encounters Kim Mun-ho, an old boyfriend who lives in the same apartment complex. They have a torrid affair, but she dislikes his sexual perversions. She goes to Dong-yub and their affair is a soul connection. He promises to take her to France. On the day of their departure, her husband receives a special pardon. Will shebe able to break her marital ties?
- A documentary about the taboo of incest, and how modern society perceives it.
- Ki-tae and Cheol-su hang out on their ragged out car eating ice cream and checking out the girls. Hippo shows up looking for Crocodile, who is now in military training. Hippo decides he can use these two bums instead for his drug trade. They lose a bag of dope, are accused of stealing, and must pay for it. Even worse; they then take enough coke to make them rich for life and go on the run.
- Akhtar, a professional hitman, is hired to murder Prabhi by Seth. Using his charm to get near her, he soon finds he's fallen in love. Unable to kill her, he pays a woodcutter the rupee he was paid to do the deed. The film ends with Prabhi being chased by the axe-wielding woodcutter - not showing how the situation resolves.
- BioDrama about the relationship between the painter Bon-woong and the poet Lee Sang. In 1932, during Japanese Imperialism in Korea, Bon-woong returns from art studies in Japan. He's a Fauvist painter who meets the strange man Lee Sang, at an exhibition of his work. They become quick friends, meeting most days and share interests. Lee Sang goes to a health resort for a medical treatment and Bon-woong follows, where they meet Gumhong and both fall for her. The poet loves her in the most base senses, but the painter's love is on a higher plane.
- It's the 1800s, Mansuk lives in a village on the outskirts of Seoul as a butcher; but his main job is beheading those sentenced to death. Whenever political strife erupts, he's kept busy. The servant of a rich man pays Mansuk to behead his master efficiently. Mansuk violently rapes the beautiful daughter of the rich man who's to be executed. He hates the upper-class but keeps his promise to kill gently. After her father's death, Sookyoung and her mother are sold off as slaves. Mansuk hears of this and tries finding her for a long time. Eventually they live happily together but then another revolution happens. How far will Mansuk become entangled in the turmoil and what will become of Sookyoung and their son?
- A couple who work together live in secrecy that they are planning to marry. Pak is more of a traditionalist and so Lee wanders the streets in frustration, until she looses everything. On the day scheduled for the wedding they take the train to Pak's hometown. Will her experiences on the street keep Lee in line, or will she shun a future with such a dull husband?
- Mary Michon studied the routine of 6th grade from the back of classrooms for months, to see how children treat one another and think of adults. She visited urban and rural schools; met with parents and teachers. Michon used all her observations to create the fictional Timotheusschool, a primary school set somewhere in the Netherlands. Everything in the series is based on real events. Several of the 23 children who played the students were discovered during her research. Rehearsals were held every Saturday for a year, and filming was done during school holidays. Some topics like emancipation and the debate over sex education are typical of the early 80s, but friendship, divorced parents, or the Cito test - are timeless. Mylou Frencken (who played Marja), Barbara Pouwels (who played Ellen) and others from the show became professional actors. Sports presenter Jan Joost van Gangelen, was the toddler who played Jannie's younger brother.
- After landing operations, U.N. soldiers enter a village and violate Jeon-Rae. The villagers ostracize her but Jeon-Rae and her son Man-sik, struggle on in poverty. A U.S. military base is set up across the river and the prostitutes who service the soldiers set up a whore town nearby. At her wits end, Jeon-Rae seeks the advice of Yong Nyo and Soon-duk; two of the prostitutes. The Western cultural influence causes disorder to break out. The tension between the villagers and the whores reaches it's peak following the deaths of several village children. Will either side win the war between them? What will be left of the town? And will Jeon-Rae and Man-sik ever forgive being ostracized?
- Anup writes for a newspaper, and his sister is invited to a girl's birthday party by her rich friend Gopa. After she leaves the party, accused of being a thief, Gopa comes to the house to apologize and meets Anup. He refuses her personal apology, saying it's a societal problem. Anup's boss sends him to a rich official's office who needs a speech written. This man is Rajendra, brother of Gopa and husband of the birthday girl. The speech Anup writes goes well, so Rajendra steals Anup's manuscript for a novel and publishes it under his own name. Rajendra is praised for his insight into the issue of poverty, but the workers at his company go on strike. Anup and Rajendra's sister Gopa, support the striking workers, but his paid goons squelch the strike. Disillusioned by the hypocrisy, Gopa leaves her comfortable wealth behind to be with Anup.
- Based on the 'not quite Sci-Fi, not quite a Romance' manga by the Fujiko F. Fujio. Yuko dreams of being a best selling children's author, but as an adult she has made little progress. In her depression, she bonds with Ginko, a roadside fortune teller who has had a tragic love life. Both die the next day but appear 10 years before with their memories intact. Will they choose more wisely or be sunk by new unfulfilling choices between career and romance?
- Old man Victor, is a bore of a grocer who always tells sailing tales of the seven seas. None believes him, but his nephew wins a model boat building contest and gets to make the model into an actual boat. This is where Uncle Victor comes in, as a supervisor for the construction, and when the funds for the boat fall through, he even chips in to finish the build. Having been constructed in the backyard, however, makes it tough to get to the Seine River. The whole family has to chip in as one thing after another goes awry. What will become of the troublesome boat, and will Victor ever return to the grocery?
- Magistrate Hwang's daughter Jin-yi, is jilted before her wedding because a shoe maker was smitten with her and commits suicide. Jin-yi becomes a courtesan, and becomes famous for her wits and beauty. She falls for Byuk Kye-su, but he's chosen to be an envoy to a far off kingdom. When he leaves she feels so betrayed she takes to a life of wandering. She meets Lee Saeng, a destitute scholar, and stays with him until she discovers he's going to sell her to a group of itinerate clowns. Instead, she joins them willingly.
- Hyung Jun awakes one day to find his wife has left him, and he must care for his infant son Sang-ah. This is hard for Hyung Jun, as he thinks cooking, cleaning and a babies are women's work. Left with no choice, he takes his son to work with him, and the office soon gets used to the the baby situation. Hyung Jun gets better at taking care of his son, but when he has to work overtime, the only female employee, Ju Mo, helps look after Sang-ah. The two co-workers become close, but then Ju Mo finds out that that her seemingly perfect boyfriend is jealous. Will she go along with this or break up with him and return to Hyung Jun and Sang-ah?
- The contented family of Na-Young, Myung-ho and Cho-rong are off to vacation. Myung-ho must suddenly stay behind for a business emergency, and mom and daughter go on ahead. Na-young is raped by Sang-hyun as her eyes look like a lover that jilted him. Na-Young becomes sexually obsessed with Sang-hyun. Back at home, Myung-ho gets his daughter's piano teacher pregnant. Na-young finds out and divorces Myung-ho to pursue Sang-hyun. Will her ex-husband's begging and her daughter's tears change her mind? Will they be able to forgive and end their wandering desires?
- A Book, a Day is a 2 minute daily broadcast on French TV that presents a different book each day. It covers a literary work of any kind in the broadest sense: novels, documents, biographies, children's books, comic books, paperbacks, even tourist guides; and regularly commands nearly a third of the country's audience.
- After their divorce, Emma is unable to get over Hyun Woo, and turns down Jae-ha's marriage proposal. She meets Sanghyun on a boat, where he collects butterflies on an island. She also finds her ex-husband, who wants to get back together, but he lives with Elica so she turns him down. Emma recklessly rides a horse across the fields to dispel her loneliness. She encounters Sanghyun again, who comforts her, but she turns down Sanghyun proposal. Emma reaches the conclusion that marriage and love are two different things, and decides to be independent.
- Several teenage boys at a roller rink try to work up the nerve to ask out a couple of girls. Meanwhile, some other boys deliver a stolen car to a garage and return to the rink, whisking the girls away to a Disco. Dejected that the girls went for more mature prospects with a car; the three boys get a taxi driver to buy them some liquor, then plot to steal a car. Drinking and cruising the main street in the hot car, the boys stop off at a pizza parlor and pick up a girl whose reluctant friend warns her not to join them. The boy who's driving decides they should try to find the Disco that the other kids went to, and they meet up with the girls and the older car thieves at a stoplight. A drag race ensues to the McDonald's that ends up in a horrifying accident. This after school special dramatizes teenage pride, alcohol and cars.
- Rabmadár ('Prisoner Number Seven') is a young lady who was set up to help her lover steal, but she got nabbed and jailed. Her only wish is to see her sweetheart again, and she finally persuades the prison doctor to let her out for the evening. When she finds her beau, we discover he's a Lothario who's preparing to rob a hotel safe and disappear with his new lover. This collision of worlds results in a fatal accident. (The only surviving print is incomplete.)
- A brief look at some of the highlights of film composer George Delerue's career. A few directors and even more image and sound editors are found in their workspaces, reviewing the films they made in conjunction with him. His artistry in supporting without dominating the image, his subtleties in dynamics, and his instincts for nailing the emotional impact of a scene are discussed - as well as observing him engrossed in the spark of creating with keyboard, pen and paper.
- Impressions of the director's mother waving, burning trash, slideshow of mom gardening, slow motion of mom pointing skyward until Naomi jumps over her. No real time sound - but foley noises or kids playing. Ends with sunsets as Naomi sings a nursery rhyme.
- A political fable. A tragicomedy set in Marseille during the municipal elections of June 1995. In populist northern districts, they rally around the "Nord Ambition" of Bernard Tapie. In pushing for Tapie to take town hall, they count on his support for the northern districts, but difficulties and disappointments follow. Tapie ends up backing the very enemies of his followers, so what happens then? Big fish eat small ones. This is the fourth installment of the Marseille political saga which began with, "Marseille from father to son" (1989).