Toni Servillo

biography: Marco Antonio Servillo (born 25 January 1959), known as Toni Servillo, is an Italian actor and theatrical director.

Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures

overview: Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.

original_name: Meraviglie. La penisola dei tesori

original_language: it

Exterior Night

overview: Italy, March 16, 1978. Aldo Moro, president of Christian Democracy, the ruling party, is kidnapped by the extreme left-wing terrorist gang Red Brigades. While the criminals put him on trial and condemn him, the Italian government and Pope Paul VI pull their twisted strings to save his life.

character: Paul VI

original_name: Esterno notte

origin_country: FR IT

Italiano

Toni Servillo

biography:
Figura di spicco del teatro napoletano e del cinema italiano.

Vincitore di tre David di Donatello e tre Nastri d'argento come miglior attore protagonista per i film Le conseguenze dell'amore, La ragazza del lago e Il divo.

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

فارسی

iso_639_1: fa

iso_3166_1: IR

english_name: Persian

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

also_known_as:
Marco Antonio Servillo
Tony Servillo

title: Caracas

overview: A well-known Neapolitan writer returns to his hometown after a long absence and encounters an old friend known as Caracas. Caracas, once a neo-fascist skinhead, is now converting to Islam.

character: Giordano Fonte

original_title: Caracas

title: The Consequences of Love

overview: Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?

character: Titta Di Girolamo

original_title: Le conseguenze dell'amore

title: Il Divo

overview: Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

character: Giulio Andreotti

original_title: Il Divo

title: Gomorrah

overview: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.

character: Franco

original_title: Gomorra

title: Senza Lucio

overview: The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla’s side. And much more: daily and deeper aspects of his life, his love for Southern Italy, his passion for cinema, his relationship with music, his bulimic curiosity of launching himself into new artistic adventures, his mercurial energy and his boundless sense of humor.

character: Self

original_title: Senza Lucio

title: The Girl by the Lake

overview: A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.

character: Commissario Sanzio

original_title: La ragazza del lago

title: Viva Viviani

character: Sé stesso

original_title: Viva Viviani

title: A Quiet Life

overview: The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

character: Rosario

original_title: Una vita tranquilla

title: Strangeness

overview: During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.

character: Luigi Pirandello

original_title: La stranezza

title: A View of Love

overview: Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...

character: Sergio Bartoli

original_title: Un balcon sur la mer

original_language: fr

title: Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

overview: In 1976, Faustino, an aspiring guitarist wasting away his teenage years in a sleepy town, gets what could be his big break when he joins the summer tour of a washed-up maestro from the big city.

character: Mimmo Falasco

original_title: Lascia perdere, Johnny!

title: One Man Up

overview: Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.

character: Antonio Pisapia

original_title: L'uomo in più

title: Gorbaciof

overview: Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.

character: Gorbaciof

original_title: Gorbaciof

title: The Jewel

overview: Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.

character: Ernesto Botta

original_title: Il gioiellino

title: Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

overview: Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

character: Pietro

original_title: Morte di un matematico napoletano

title: Sicilian Letters

overview: Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using his personal connection as the Boss' godfather, his task is to get him to reveal his hiding place in their secret letters.

character: Catello Palumbo

original_title: Iddu - L'ultimo padrino

title: It Was the Son

overview: The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.

character: Nicola Ciraulo

original_title: È stato il figlio

title: Razor

overview: Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato.

character: Il guappo

original_title: Rasoi

title: Dormant Beauty

overview: A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

character: Uliano Beffardi

original_title: Bella addormentata

title: Long Live Freedom

overview: Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal, the upper echelons of the party concoct a risky plan: to replace him with his identical twin, a philosopher with BPD, whose eclectic ideas and direct approach unexpectedly make the party surge in the polls.

character: Enrico Oliveri / Giovanni Ernani

original_title: Viva la libertà

title: Rehearsals For War

overview: A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

character: Franco Turco

original_title: Teatro di Guerra

title: Girlfriend in a Coma

overview: Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.

original_title: Girlfriend in a Coma

title: 394 - Trilogia nel mondo

character: Himself

original_title: 394 - Trilogia nel mondo

title: The Great Beauty

overview: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

title: Esterno notte (Parte I)

overview: The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.

title: Esterno Notte (Parte II)

title: Incidenti

title: Red Moon

overview: The downfall of a powerful Mafia family by the hands of its young scion. Based on Aeschylus' tragedy, the Oresteia.

title: Adagio

overview: Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father's old friends, who risk everything to save him.

title: The Last Days of Humanity

overview: The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?

title: Un silenzioso imbroglio

overview: Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago.

title: La divina cometa

title: Il viaggio della signorina Vila

title: Sul vulcano

overview: Three stories to narrate the relationship between mount Vesuvius and the humanity living at its feet. Maria and her flower garden, Matteo, an artist who paints using the volcano's ashes, and Yole, a neo-melodic singer whose devotion to the Virgin Mary is almost idolatric.

title: Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville

title: The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

overview: Tonio, the son the bears King, is kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains. Due to the harshness of a winter that threatens famine, the Bear King decides to invade the land of men (in the hope of finding his son). Thanks to his powerful army and the help of a wizard, while he will succeed at both quests, he will soon find out that bears are not meant to live among men.

title: We Are Cinema

overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

title: Sarò con te

overview: Football offers bitter disappointments, but equally powerful and infinite emotions. Napoli rises again on May 4, 2023, winning the championship with five days to spare, an epochal result destined to remain forever in history. A joy awaited for 33 years and told through the eyes of the players, such as captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo, of personalities from the world of sport, entertainment and journalism, of Napoli's sporting directors and staff, including coach Luciano Spalletti.

title: The Illusion

overview: 1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all regions of Italy, and with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new profile stands out. Having landed in Sicily, at Marsala, the Thousand begin fighting with the Bourbon army, whose numerical preponderance is immediately evident. Under these conditions, it appears almost impossible for the general to breach the enemy defense and penetrate Palermo. But when he is almost forced to retreat, Garibaldi devises an ingenious plan.

title: Saturday, Sunday & Monday

overview: Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the father, Peppino, who gets angry with anyone who happens to shoot: with their children, Juliana and Roberto, and his sister, aunt Meme. Meanwhile, his wife Rosa is dedicated to the preparation of the sauce, which she will serve for Sunday's lunch, to which she invited the neighbors, the accountant Ianniello and his wife.

title: The Confessions

overview: A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...

title: Notte senza fine

title: Love Stories

title: Let Yourself Go

overview: Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.

title: Le voci di dentro

overview: Alberto Saporito spent a very eventful night. His friend Aniello Amitrano was brutally killed and his body was hidden by his neighbors, the Cimmarutas. But he can't remember if it was just a dream or if he actually lived it. That's why he shows up early to the police to file a complaint. However, he doesn't know that his gesture will be the fuse that will cause chaos to explode. Just like his uncle Nicola does with his firecrackers. The uncle has in fact decided to stop talking, because the degradation in which humanity finds itself repels him, and is expressed only through his pyrotechnic language.

title: The Girl in the Fog

overview: A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

title: We Believed

overview: 1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.

title: Loro 1

overview: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010.  "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive.  Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

title: The Vesuvians

overview: Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

title: Hitler Versus Picasso

overview: In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify “Classic Art”.  This immersive new documentary reveals the Nazi’s complicated relationship with classical and modern art, displaying an incredible number of masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir and Gauguin amongst others, intertwined with human stories from the most infamous period of the twentieth century.  A state-of-the-art detective story exploring the Nazis’ obsession with creative expression, Hitler versus Picasso combines history, art and human drama for an unforgettable cinema experience.

title: Loro 2

title: La voce di Pasolini

overview: The texts of the poet, director, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, read by Toni Servillo and accompanied by archival images, reconstruct the history of Italy since the war through to the 70s: the love for the people, the hatred of the bourgeoisie, the difficult relationship with the youth protest.

title: 5 Is the Perfect Number

overview: Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.

title: Il teatro al lavoro

overview: The human and artistic adventure of the creation of "Elvira", the show by Toni Servillo produced together with the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, based on the lessons of Louis Jouvet at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris in 1940. The authors' gaze follows Servillo and his young companions from their departure at the Venice Biennale to their arrival at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, via Naples and Milan.

title: Into the Labyrinth

overview: When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.

title: Emilio Vedova. Dalla parte del naufragio

overview: The documentary is about a well-known Venetian artist, Emilio Vedova, born exactly one hundred years ago. Our guide to the artist's life is his own diaries, read to us by a superb actor: Toni Servillo. The portrait of the artist is rounded out by interviews with influential figures in the art world who knew Vedova and saw him in action. Above all, however, it is Vedova himself who erupts on the screen, thanks to stock footage and his own painting style.

original_title: Emilio Vedova. Dalla parte del naufragio

title: Watermark

overview: A confessional meditation on the relation between water and land, between light and dark, between past and present, between the living and the inanimate, dreams and achievements.

title: Hermitage: The Power of Art

title: The King of Laughter

overview: In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his son's, young Eduardo De Filippo.

title: Loro

overview: Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.

title: Cercando La grande bellezza

title: The Vanja Earthquake

overview: Through the rehearsals and the tour of the show based on Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Vinicio Marchioni takes us to the Italian province destroyed by the earthquake and the places of the Russian writer. The Vanja earthquake starts from the Chekhovian masterpiece to investigate Italian post-earthquake immobility through the tragicomic gaze of Chekhov, making the public aware of the extraordinary human strength of the writer. A journey into the Italian theatrical creation; a journey in the earthquake that destroyed central Italy; a journey into the words and soul of Anton Chekhov.

title: The Inner Cage

overview: A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.

title: The First Day of My Life

overview: In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.

title: Casanova's Return

overview: Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.

title: The Hand of God

overview: In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

title: All Star - Ritorno al cinema

overview: A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

character: Spettatore che arriva a spettacolo iniziato

title: Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

overview: A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism.

title: Nowhere

overview: Three different epochs through the gaze of three children: Zelinda, who loses her mother to the Spanish Flu during World War I and sees the specter of Nazism loom; Assunta, who lives during the Nazi occupation between bombings, raids, and executions; Icaro, who abandons the countryside during the Years of Lead (“Anni di Piombo”) and accepts a new life. A story across the difficulties and the troubles of the 20th century between memories, affection, nostalgia, and gratitude.

title: La Grazia

overview: As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, including his confidante and daughter, Dorotea.

title: Carlo!

title: Livio Garzanti: Il gran viziato - La morale nascosta di un editore formidabile

overview: Livio Garzanti: a difficult and moody man, a brilliant and highly cultured publisher. Toni Servillo recounts his two worlds, the publisher’s and the private, which intertwine in the choices and ideas of an intellectual who hated rhetoric and cultural snobbery, always preferring surprise, provocation, and the truth, even if disturbing.

original_title: Livio Garzanti: Il gran viziato - La morale nascosta di un editore formidabile

title: The Lüneburg Variant

overview: The story centers around the mysterious death of sixty-eight-year-old Dr. Dieter Frisch, a wealthy industrialist and chess master, living outside Vienna. Having returned from his office in Munich on Friday evening, he was discovered on Sunday morning in the orchard of his estate, at the center of a concentric maze, built in the shape of a chess board. Dr Frisch was found lying in a pool of his own blood, with his antique silver pistol several feet from the body. There was no suicide note, but a primitive chess set was found by police, in Dr Frisch's study, set up at a complicated middle-game position.

title: Dante. Fuga dagli inferi

title: Trick

overview: Successful illustrator Daniele Mallarico travels to Naples to look after his four-year-old grand-son while his daughter is away for a few days. What begins as a simple babysitting job turns into a subtle psychological duel, as the child’s boundless imagination slowly unsettles him. Trapped together in the apartment, Daniele is forced to confront something far more disturbing than a mischievous child: the fear of aging and the loss of creativity. Through this strange encounter, he may rediscover the power of imagination he thought he had lost.

title: Toni Servillo in Monsieur Baudelaire, quando finirà la notte?

overview: From Sala A in Via Asiago, Rome, an evening in honour of Toni Servillo, in which the actor and director from Afragola engages with the poetry and prose of Charles Baudelaire in a monologue written for the theatre by Giuseppe Montesano.

original_title: Toni Servillo in Monsieur Baudelaire, quando finirà la notte?

title: Into the Labyrinth

title: Razor

title: Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

overview: Live performance, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, July 2006.  'L'italiana in Algeri' (English: 'The Italian Girl in Algiers') is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier text set by Luigi Mosca. It premiered at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 22 May 1813. The music is characteristic of Rossini's style, remarkable for its fusion of sustained, manic energy with elegant, pristine melodies.

original_title: Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

title: Saturday, Sunday & Monday

title: Caracas

title: The Consequences of Love

title: Il Divo

title: Gomorrah

title: Senza Lucio

title: The Girl by the Lake

title: Viva Viviani

title: A Quiet Life

title: Strangeness

title: A View of Love

title: Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

title: One Man Up

title: Gorbaciof

title: The Jewel

title: Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

title: Sicilian Letters

title: It Was the Son

title: Razor

title: Dormant Beauty

title: Long Live Freedom

title: Rehearsals For War

title: Girlfriend in a Coma

title: 394 - Trilogia nel mondo

title: The Great Beauty

title: Esterno notte (Parte I)

title: Esterno Notte (Parte II)

title: Incidenti

title: Red Moon

title: Adagio

title: The Last Days of Humanity

title: Un silenzioso imbroglio

title: La divina cometa

title: Il viaggio della signorina Vila

title: Sul vulcano

title: Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville

title: The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

title: We Are Cinema

title: Sarò con te

title: The Illusion

title: Saturday, Sunday & Monday

title: The Confessions

title: Notte senza fine

title: Love Stories

title: Let Yourself Go

title: Le voci di dentro

title: The Girl in the Fog

title: We Believed

title: Loro 1

title: The Vesuvians

title: Hitler Versus Picasso

title: Loro 2

title: La voce di Pasolini

title: 5 Is the Perfect Number

title: Il teatro al lavoro

title: Into the Labyrinth

title: Watermark

title: Hermitage: The Power of Art

title: The King of Laughter

title: Loro

title: Cercando La grande bellezza

title: The Vanja Earthquake

title: The Inner Cage

title: The First Day of My Life

title: Casanova's Return

title: The Hand of God

title: All Star - Ritorno al cinema

title: Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

title: Nowhere

title: La Grazia

title: Carlo!

title: The Lüneburg Variant

title: Dante. Fuga dagli inferi

title: Trick

title: Into the Labyrinth

title: Razor

title: Saturday, Sunday & Monday


Oldřich Kaiser

biography:
He has starred in many films in his long career. Recent films include Dark Blue World, Shark in the Head and Handcuffs. He also plays the lead role in Menzel's adaptation of Hrabal's I Served the King of England. He is also famous for his roles in TV series such as 30 Cases of Major Zeman and Hospital on the Edge of Town.

He has also appeared in many TV shows such as Maybe the Magician Will Come or the improvisational Russian Roulette as a well-known comedy duo with Jiří Lábus. Together they also made the long-running radio improvisation series The Tlučhořovi, which reached eight hundred episodes in November 2007, and the successful TV show Zeměkoule.

A species of shoebill (Cychrus kaiseri) is named after him, which he discovered together with entomologist and neurosurgeon Vladimir Benes in the summer of 2004 in Asia. From 1980 to 2005, his wife was the Czech actress Naďa Konvalinková. Since 2020, his wife has been the singer-songwriter Dáša Vokatá.

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Bakaláři

original_name: Bakaláři

original_language: cs

The Czech Century

overview: Czech Century brings the key moments of the history of the Czech nation from 1918 to 1989.

character: Oskar Krejčí

original_name: České století

Možná přijde i kouzelník

original_name: Možná přijde i kouzelník

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

overview: While on vacation with their bickering parents in Portugal, Eva and her little brother Johnny find two strange clots of clay on a polluted beach, who can speak and move on their own. They create two octopuses out of the blue and green material and take them home to Prague, soon discovering that their new pets attract electricity and other disasters.

character: Sergeant

original_name: Die Tintenfische aus dem zweiten Stock

original_language: de

Dynastie Nováků

original_name: Dynastie Nováků

Možná přijde i... Kaiser a Lábus

original_name: Možná přijde i... Kaiser a Lábus

name: Hospital on the Edge of Town - The New Generation

original_name: Nemocnice na kraji města ...nové osudy

Na vodě

character: Bohumil Kundera

original_name: Na vodě

Thirty Cases of Major Zema

overview:
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman is a Czechoslovak action-drama television show intended as a political propaganda to support the official attitude of the communist party. The series were filmed in the 1970s.

Each episode encompasses one year, and investigations are stylized to that year. Most are inspired by real cases. The series follows the life of police investigator Jan Zeman during his career from 1945 to 1975.

character: Petr

original_name: 30 případů majora Zemana

Muž na radnici

overview: Muž na radnici was a Czechoslovak television program which was broadcast in 1976. The program was directed by Evžen Sokolovský. In 2011, it was announced that the program, along with 17 others, would be released on DVD within three years.

original_name: Muž na radnici

Birlibán

character: (voice)

original_name: Birlibán

Nemocnice na kraji města

overview: Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.

original_name: Nemocnice na kraji města

Zpátky se Sobotou

character: Self (archive footage)

original_name: Zpátky se Sobotou

Stopy života

character: Bauer

original_name: Stopy života

Paragrafy na kolech

original_name: Paragrafy na kolech

Povídky malostranské

character: Bureš

original_name: Povídky malostranské

Labyrint světa a ráj srdce

character: Poutník

original_name: Labyrint světa a ráj srdce

Ruská ruleta

original_name: Ruská ruleta

Můj obchod se psy

original_name: Můj obchod se psy

Ruská ruleta

job: Writer

department: Writing

Český

Oldřich Kaiser

biography:
Za svou dlouhou kariéru hrál v mnoha filmech. Z poslední doby například ve filmech Tmavomodrý svět, Žralok v hlavě nebo Pouta. Hraje také hlavní roli v Menzelově adaptaci Hrabalova díla Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále. Proslul také rolemi v televizních seriálech jako 30 případů majora Zemana či Nemocnice na kraji města.

Ve známé komediální dvojici s Jiřím Lábusem vystupoval také v mnoha televizních pořadech jako Možná přijde i kouzelník či improvizační Ruská ruleta. Rovněž spolu natočili dlouhý rozhlasový improvizační seriál Tlučhořovi, který dosáhl v listopadu 2007 osmi set dílů, a úspěšný televizní pořad Zeměkoule.

Je po něm pojmenován druh střevlíka (Cychrus kaiseri), kterého objevil společně s entomologem a neurochirurgem Vladimírem Benešem v létě 2004 v Asii. V letech 1980 až 2005 byla jeho manželkou česká herečka Naďa Konvalinková. Od roku 2020 je jeho manželkou písničkářka Dáša Vokatá.

Výše uvedený popis je převzat z článku Oldřich Kaiser na Wikipedii, licencováno pod CC-BY-SA, plný seznam přispěvatelů na Wikipedii.

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

Oldřich Kaiser

biography:
In seiner langen Karriere wirkte er in zahlreichen Filmen mit. Zu seinen jüngsten Filmen zählen „Dark Blue World“, „Shark in the Head“ und „Handcuffs“. Er spielte außerdem die Hauptrolle in Menzels Verfilmung von Hrabals „Ich diente dem König von England“. Bekannt ist er auch für seine Rollen in Fernsehserien wie „30 Fälle des Major Zeman“ und „Krankenhaus am Stadtrand“.

Er trat zudem in vielen Fernsehsendungen auf, darunter „Maybe the Magician Will Come“ und die Improvisationsshow „Russian Roulette“, wo er zusammen mit Jiří Lábus ein bekanntes Comedy-Duo bildete. Gemeinsam produzierten sie die langjährige Radio-Improvisationsserie „The Tlučhořovi“, die im November 2007 die 800. Folge erreichte, sowie die erfolgreiche Fernsehsendung „Zeměkoule“.

Eine Schuhschnabelart (Cychrus kaiseri) ist nach ihm benannt; er entdeckte sie im Sommer 2004 zusammen mit dem Entomologen und Neurochirurgen Vladimir Benes in Asien. Von 1980 bis 2005 war seine Frau die tschechische Schauspielerin Naďa Konvalinková. Seit 2020 ist seine Frau die Singer-Songwriterin Dáša Vokatá.

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iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

title: Posel dobrých zpráv

original_title: Posel dobrých zpráv

title: Podivný výlet

overview: Petr, Martin and Čenda spent part of their youth in the war in the Beskydy Mountains. They were united by a common danger. Years later, when their personal lives are in crisis, on their trip to the Beskydy Mountains together, they reminisce about their youth...

original_title: Podivný výlet

title: Shadow of a Flying Bird

overview: It doesn't help to have an exacerbated situation like a family losing their only son - killed in a motorcycle accident. His parents, however, don't know the girl who survived, now being treated at a local hospital. Especially the honest and principled father, presented as a model worker and responsible official, cannot come to terms with her superficiality and carelessness, with her dubious life values...

character: Štěpán

original_title: Stín létajícího ptáčka

title: Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin

overview: Two young, inexperienced students, dissatisfied with the demands of their teachers and the mentoring of their parents, try to cross illegally into the country - but because they are headed for friendly Poland, nothing happens to them. The story is set in the early 1960s and depicts the heyday of café bands. The two protagonists admire one such band, which plays jazz, misses school and wants to radically change their current life, which they find grey...

original_title: Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin

title: Pětina průměrného života

original_title: Pětina průměrného života

title: Bandité

character: Fragoletto

original_title: Bandité

title: I Served the King of England

overview: Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of history will continually stand in his way.

character: Old Jan Dítě

original_title: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále

title: Jak se zranit ve službě

original_title: Jak se zranit ve službě

title: Sagarmatha

overview: The dramatic story of a mountaineering expedition to the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, realistically captures the atmosphere of the expedition, reveals complex interpersonal relationships in tense situations, and the dramatic struggle between human will and desire to overcome danger...

character: Jan

original_title: Sagarmatha

original_language: sk

title: Sázka pro dva

original_title: Sázka pro dva

title: Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV.

original_title: Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV.

title: Dobrodružství pod postelí

original_title: Dobrodružství pod postelí

title: Dark Blue World

overview: Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.

character: Jan Machatý

original_title: Tmavomodrý svět

title: Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

overview: The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and showed well-deserved relaxation after a job well done in managing socialist cinema. Vladimir Sís interspersed this with excerpts from films, mainly his own and also a little of others who had worked on the "Hill of Dreams".

character: Self - Actor and Singer

original_title: Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

title: Poslední koncert

original_title: Poslední koncert

title: You Kiss Like a God

overview: A romantic comedy about love and life of young French teacher Helena.

character: František

original_title: Líbáš jako Bůh

title: Kooky

overview: Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.

character: bezdomovec

original_title: Kuky se vrací

title: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

overview: Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing helps. They each start keeping a diary about this first encounter between two human beings — from very different perspectives, as one might imagine. And as they get on each other’s nerves and recount terrible things about each other, they discover an unexpected new emotion: love.

title: Pražákům, těm je hej

overview: The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.

title: Smart Philip

overview: Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city.

title: Vendeta

overview: In a deserted clearing, a forest ranger finds the lifeless body of a man. He manages to revive him, but the man remembers nothing. He doesn't know how he got into the forest or why he is covered in blood, and instead of answering questions, he runs away. The ranger sets out after him and gradually discovers that the man is involved in a bloody vendetta, which he may have initiated himself and in which his fourteen-year-old daughter plays an important role.

title: Kleofášek

title: Vyžilý Boudník

overview: Two inseparable friends, Vyžilý and Boudník, a village self-made talent and a not-so-successful professional theatre actor, want to make a living as entertainers. But they are running up against both the ceiling of their abilities and the disfavour of the approval authorities. The normalization era of the 70s and 80s does not favour anything distinctive and both heroes repeatedly experience setbacks. Although the story of a lost generation was planned at the end of the former regime, it was not released until 1990.

title: Sny o Zambezi

overview: Two aspiring car racers have a big dream: they want to make a journey to the heart of Africa. But their value system is severely skewed, and one of them is willing to steal to do it. What's more, he causes a car accident, from which he tries to escape, and ends up in prison.

title: Love

overview: Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has been living alone with her divorced pretty mother Eva (Milena Dvorská), a dentist, for many years. Recently, however, Eva met her former school-days love at a graduates' party, nowadays a famous hockey goalkeeper Brukner (Frantisek Velecký). Also his marriage fell apart; he leaves the national team and decides to leave Prague for his home town and to share flat with Eva. He takes with him his son Petr (Oldrich Kaiser), in Andrea's age, who gets his last chance to finish a grammar school in the town.

title: Meeting in July

overview: A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.

title: Shark in the Head

overview: Shark in the Head unfolds into a stunning cinematic powerhouse that combines comedy and drama for a touching story about how we influence the people we meet while being profoundly affected ourselves by the colors they bring to our own lives.

title: Three Brothers

overview: Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humor and songs.

title: Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“

title: Walking Too Fast

overview: The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional destruction wreaked by totalitarianism.

title: Kaiser & Vokatá v undergroundu

overview: Oldřich Kaiser and Dáša Vokatá, a compelling duo on the Czech music scene, first collaborated on Vokatá’s 2014 solo album Dva divoký koně, which featured their later hit Můj milý. Their first official joint release came with the live album Perly sviním (2020), showcasing a mix of underground anthems and original songs by Vokatá, recorded at the Magorovo Vydří festival.

title: Cirkus Maximum

overview: The history of famous Czech circus families is well known. However, even circus families are affected by the changing times, and so when Ferdinand, the father and ringmaster, bitterly complains that circuses used to stick together like a family, but today a family that sticks together is like a circus attraction, everyone has to think about how to save the international circus festival and, in fact, Circus Maximum itself.

title: Maturita za školou

overview: The short story film follows the fate of three young men who will soon have to decide what to do with their lives. The first "Poet", an aspiring author, publishes his first poem, while the sporting career of the second "Rep", a national table tennis player, is disrupted by a maths repartee. The last "Beaver Grizzly" is a tramp more used to solitude, yet he starts a pioneer troop...

title: Clownwise

overview: Once a hugely popular clown trio, Oskar, Max, and Viktor are now living very different lives. The intense fight that ended their friendship has left them on bad terms for over 40 years. Max is battling colon cancer, Viktor's wife is losing a battle to Alzheimer's, and Oskar, who's never been the best dad, is trying to rescue his daughter from an abusive relationship. The good old days are gone indeed. Despite their situations, each one still tries to maintain a sense of humor. They look fondly on the days when they were slapstick superstars. However, when it comes to the issues that led to their career demise, they just can't seem to let their anger go. As they hesitantly agree to a reunion, they begin to find that the only way back to the top is through forgiveness.

title: Královský gambit

overview: Wenceslas II, who already has adult children Eliška and Václav, refuses to marry the young Alžběta Rejčka. In the end, he succumbs to the insistence of Abbot Konrád. The queen brings him Poland as a dowry, and Wenceslas II thus expands his empire. He still lives in the shadow of his great father, Přemysl Otakar II, and his lords reproach him for his weakness and inability to fight. Wenceslas is truly afraid of the moment when he will have to lead an army into the field and prefers to settle disputes diplomatically. His fencing teacher Hynek of Dubá and his mistress Anežka know about the king's weakness, and Václav seeks their company rather than his young wife. However, Rejčka admires the king and trusts him with the charm of a young girl. The enemy invades the country and advances quickly. It is necessary to confront him in the field, but the king hesitates and postpones the decision.

title: Rumburak

overview: In this fairy-tale comedy, a clumsy second-rate wizard, Rumburak, gets stuck in the world of humans. He has forgotten the spell that allows him to return to his home fairyland. His only joy is watching the figure skater Helen, whom he would like to woo. His hopes of returning to fairyland dawn when he discovers a computer in a research institute that could generate the lost spell.

title: Plavení hříbat

overview: The holidays of Vince Adamek, a student of the agricultural school in his native village in South Moravia, are purely working. He likes his job as a zootechnician so much that he seems to turn down an assistant position at the university...

title: The Great Movie Robbery

overview: The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czechoslovak film industry, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue. The protagonists of the piece are comedians Oldrich Kaiser and Jirí Lábus, who are set to accept an award from Japanese television representatives at the exhibition. At the same time, five gangsters plot to seize a revolutionary invention devised by professor Suzuki - a super holograph, which enables any figure from television to be transported in the flesh into the real world, and vice-versa.

title: The Hussites

overview: What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan Hus didn't even get warm in Constance, let alone burn up? What if Jan Zizka had more than one healthy eye? This animated comedy from director Pavel Koutský playfully breaks the myths about the Hussite era as the pedestal of history is occupied not by preachers and military leaders but by two unbelievable scatterbrains, who become the heroes of their time against their will.

title: Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu

overview: The 19-year-old volleyball player has been bedridden for a long time due to a spinal injury. The self-confident and energetic girl has time to recap her life and short sporting career so far...

title: Revizor

overview: A theatre production of Gogol's play The Inspector General.

title: Goodbye, Medeo

overview: The director and choreographer from Prague are preparing a show performance "Oriental Fairy Tale" - a ballet on ice with the participation of vocal and instrumental ensembles and pop singers. They are shooting their picture in Kazakhstan at the Medeo high-altitude skating rink.

title: It's Not Me

overview: The two heroes of the film's story - the decent but dry engineer Zárub and the marriage swindler Majer - are granted this wish by the mysterious forces of the moon. The two men change their appearance, which, however, contrasts sharply with their unchanged characters and voices. The incomprehensible swap naturally becomes the source of many comic plots and situations.

title: Velká sázka o malé pivo

overview: The year is 1946 and the story takes us to a great bar among the characters of Prague's gallery. A professional conman, commonly known as "The Engineer", makes a bet with pickpocket Franz that he will sell Karlštejn Castle to a rich American who is currently in Prague...

title: Putování Jana Amose

overview: The distressing fate of the Czech great Jan Amos Komenský, forced to leave his homeland after the White Mountain disaster. It depicts his encounters with various European personalities of the 17th century - the Queen of Sweden, artists and scientists. It emphasises the hero's nobility, but also his inner resilience, which allowed him to overcome many personal and professional tragedies. The parable of The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart becomes part of the story. However, Comenius's concept is sculpturally lifeless and, in particular, the religious dimension is "erased" from it. The simplistic biography therefore does not avoid schoolboyish dryness.

title: Komediant

overview: Saxony, devastated by the Thirty Years' War, is led by the comedy troupe of the principal Fortunato. The student Vavrinec has fled Bohemia and greatly values the text of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, which he has acquired on his wanderings around the world.

title: Little from the Fish Shop

overview: Deep underneath the sea surface, accompanied by a fish orchestra, the voice of the ocean is telling a story of Little -- the Sea King's daughter. They left the plundered waters of their home to live among humans.  They now lead a strenuous life in a somber fish shop in the heart of the harbor district where one day, Little comes to meet a handsome, confident and somewhat fresh young man -- H.H. From this moment on, the life of Little is to take a sea change.

title: The Gardener's Year

overview: A devoted gardener and his wife live peacefully at the foot of a hill, tending their nursery according to nature’s rhythms. When a new castle owner seeks to transform the entire estate and demands they sell their garden business, the couple refuses. In response, the owner erects barbed-wire fences and places a guard at the entrance road…

title: Zubatá nekouše!

overview: The series Zubatá nekouše aneb Šestkrát o smrti vážně i nevážně (Death Doesn't Bite, or Six Serious and Lighthearted Stories About Death), directed by Czech and Slovak animators, was intended for children aged nine and older.

title: U Tlučhořů

title: Red Captain

overview: Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the former secret service.

title: Usnula jsem

title: Crazy Kingdom

overview: By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty long way round to be achieved... Funny fairy tale full of action, excitement, fun, magic but also love.

title: O princezně na klíček

overview: In the fairy tale comedy, a strange princess is born. She can be wound up like a mechanical toy. At first glance, this seems like a certain advantage, because if such a child is naughty, the parents simply won't wind them up. But when adolescence arrives and with it first love, it's not so simple. After all, Princess Marenka also had quite a few problems with her "peculiarity".

title: A Prominent Patient

overview: In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.

title: Cuddling Cat Ears

overview: A funny movie about the life of the girls from the girls choir from south Czech republic.

title: The Pied Piper

overview: A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed.  One of the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

title: Aldabra: Once Upon an Island

overview: Impressive family film offers a unique stories of the wonderful animals who inhabit the Aldabra atoll, were born here, create communities, give birth to young and struggle for their survival.

title: Barefoot

overview: Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city boy was used to.

title: Opravdová láska

overview: The next installment in a loose series about Renata Soukupová, first a girl and now a young woman. Renata, currently living in Paris, makes another return to the Czech Republic: a man comes to pick her up, and she decides to give him her love and trust. We know him from previous episodes; he is a former dissident named Holý, and he and Renata have always been attracted to each other. Renata realizes that he is finally the man with whom she would like to have a family. But Holý does not want children...

title: Můj otec a ostatní muži

overview: Autumn 1988. Renata is studying journalism. She lives with her jealous boyfriend Standa, whom she occasionally cheats on. She edits the school magazine and is perhaps a little more daring than the others, mainly because she doesn't want to be the daughter of her father, a bigwig at the Ministry of the Interior. But the situation is getting out of her hands—Renata's anti-regime mini-activities and her romance with dissident Holý are getting the attention of the STB. Her dad is worried about his career and maybe even convinced that he should disinherit her. Her relationship with Standa is getting complicated.

title: The Girl Behind the Mirror

overview: She is the happy mother of a seven-year-old daughter and lives with her partner, journalist Ivan, in a wooden log cabin from the First Republic on the shore of a flooded quarry. The place is idyllic, but the relationship between Renáta and Ivan is more complicated. Ivan is now a forgotten curmudgeon, while Renáta, who has become a director, is at the peak of her powers. She encounters a new and intense love and must make a painful decision about this unexpected problem...

title: A Walk Worthwhile

overview: The young couple Uli and Vanilla want to split up, but lust and money get in their way.

title: Non Plus Ultras

overview: NON PLUS ULTRAS is a comedy with a social subtext. It takes a satirical look at a short stretch in the life of five "fans" of one Prague football club who belong to the hardcore supporters - ultras or hooligans. The gang members' lives revolve around football. They revere their "world-famous" English counterparts and uncritically take them as their role models. The undeclared leader of the gang is Bejcak (played by David Novotny), a charismatic young man of around 30 years old with natural authority. He is not stupid; he likes to use foreign words, but always in a slightly unsuitable context. The oldest member of the gang is the lonely forty-year-old Tycka (Vladimir Dlouhy), whom Bejcak took under the gang's wing. Tycka is much older than the others. The stuttering youth Pejsek (Karel Zima) is a fanatic lover of all things "English". He is seconded by the none-too-bright Potapec (Michal Novotny) and the agile, wiry Vocko (Matej Hadek), who is constantly devising new loutish exploits.

title: Líbáš jako ďábel

overview: The ambulance doctor František moves away from his wife Bohuna to his new love Helena. She has been married for several years to the successful writer Karl. However, thanks to her husband's philandering, she was by no means happy in it. It seems that František and Helena are finally waiting for peaceful days and now, on the threshold of fifty, they will finally be able to experience their satisfied love. However, their enthusiasm is not shared by their past partners.

title: Amerika

overview: Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).

title: Hadrián z Římsů

title: Sun, Hay, Erotica

overview: The local farmers' cooperative organized a trip to Italy, in which the Škopkovci took part. They went there at the invitation of the Italian agricultural cooperative, whose employees are going to visit Hoštice in return. In addition to the sights, the goal of the tour was also an excursion to a modern Italian cowshed. After returning home, Hoštice and its inhabitants are waiting for a "great approach to Europe" - they plan to improve the neglected village by building a nudist beach. However, as it usually happens, the Italian delegation appears at the least convenient moment. Strangely enough, they like the cooperative's neglected economy so much that they propose to preserve it as an open-air museum...

title: The Octopuses from the Second Floor

overview: While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.

title: Wilson City

overview: Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Eisner and an experienced FBI officer Food, who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.

title: Loaded Eels

overview: This is not just a game. It is an escape from everyday life, an escape which is impossible to give up. Loaded Eels is a black comedy about a group of men who decided to escape from their everyday lives through role-playing. They pretend to be soldiers of SWAT team, evacuating community centers, dragging unsuspecting people into their game. They are driven by Adrenalin and delusion which makes them feel like Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. Everything goes smoothly until they find themselves in the wrong place and at the wrong time.

title: Krásný čas

overview: The third installment in a loose series featuring the character Renáta Soukupová. Renáta is on the threshold of her thirties and is determined to conquer Bohemia back, to find her permanent and certainly beautiful existence here. And, of course, love, because she left France partly due to a failed romantic relationship. However, things do not turn out as the young woman imagines.

title: Palachův týden

title: Tetinka

title: Kam nikdo nesmí

overview: Lucie Rýdlová is found dead at a destroyed car after a night accident. The seat position shows that she cannot have been driving, and the dissection proves that she had died about four hours after the accident. It is for sure that a timely medical assistance could have saved her life. A pretty young tennis player Lucie lived at her grandmother, because her parents had been working abroad. Criminalists found out that the girl was going out with the interpreter Valenta (Eduard Cupák), who was twenty years older than her, divorced and a bit egoistic man.

title: The Man with Hare Ears

overview: Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commit suicide; his young girlfriend Katka tells him she’s pregnant; and the man with hare ears – his alter ego from one of his stories – appears to him in everyday situations.

title: Mít tak holku na hlídání

title: Kat nepočká

overview: In 1944, the popular film actress Hlínová is arrested by the Gestapo for sheltering a Resistance man. A film producer uses his connections with the Nazis to promote her in order to finish the film. Just before the last day of filming, actress Hlínová realizes that she is under constant guard and wants to escape. However, she is arrested again.

title: Chasing Fifty

overview: What happens in the mountains, stay in the mountains. Giant Mountains are truly the spice of local highlanders who live here, whether any season. Skier with one leg, the legendary womanizer adorned with infertility, the bartender with a penchant for divination... And Pavka, the oldest living member of a traditional cross-country Bulán family.

title: Měsíční tónina

title: Deset malých běloušků

overview: Ivan Mládek's detective parody takes us to a private birthday party, which an eccentric count livens up for his own amusement by inviting the cream of television entertainment at the time. As the comedians leave this world one by one, the survivors pay tribute to them with recordings of their performances, which each of them was tasked with bringing as a gift to the birthday boy.

title: A Christmas Story

overview: Three families, three festive stories. Uninvited guests, new love, and a quest for the perfect winter. 'A Christmas Story' weaves humor and holiday spirit into a heartwarming journey through the ups and downs of the season.

title: The Last Race

overview: In 1913, Czech skiing champion Bohumil Hanč perseveres alone in a fierce snowstorm during a race, collapses from exhaustion and exposure, and is found by his friend Emerich Rath, who risks his own life in a desperate rescue attempt. Tragically, Hanč succumbs to the elements, and shortly after his friend Václav Vrbata, who lent Hanč his coat, also perishes in the blizzard.

title: Gobseck

title: Milenci paní Susanne

title: Revue za šest korun

title: Kouzlo derby

overview: The film intertwines several stories connected by one important football match between Sparta and Slavia.

title: Můj hříšný muž

overview: A Czech film about love and marital crisis as a work injury.

original_title: Můj hříšný muž

title: Český pekáč

title: Barnabáš a Tobiáš aneb Cestovní kancelář Krasohled

original_title: Barnabáš a Tobiáš aneb Cestovní kancelář Krasohled

title: Pension Lola

title: Přišel na večeři

title: Čertova stěna

title: Leaving

overview: A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation gradually goes from bad to worse.

title: Habermann

overview: A story set in a small village in Sudetenland between 1937 and 1945. "Habermann" is based on true events.

title: Five plums

overview: Věra lives alone and nothing seems to be waiting for her in life. She misses the time when she used to be truly happy – when she went to the sea with her friends. However, only debris remains of the old group and it is not certain whether they will be able to handle such an adventure. Nevertheless, they long to set sail together once again on the open sea towards idyllic bays and sunsets. Little does she know that the greatest threat to their expedition will not be the sea, nor the old grievances that will surface during the journey, but their own children, who have no sympathy for their elderly parents' crazy trip.

title: Kaiser & Vokatá v undergroundu

title: The Great Movie Robbery

title: Pension Lola

place_of_birth: Liberec, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

title: Posel dobrých zpráv

title: Podivný výlet

title: Shadow of a Flying Bird

title: Šestapadesát neomluvených hodin

title: Pětina průměrného života

title: Bandité

title: I Served the King of England

title: Jak se zranit ve službě

title: Sagarmatha

title: Sázka pro dva

title: Smrt císaře a krále Karla IV.

title: Dobrodružství pod postelí

title: Dark Blue World

title: Poslední koncert

title: You Kiss Like a God

title: Kooky

title: The Diaries of Adam and Eve

title: Pražákům, těm je hej

title: Smart Philip

title: Vendeta

title: Kleofášek

title: Vyžilý Boudník

title: Sny o Zambezi

title: Love

title: Meeting in July

title: Shark in the Head

title: Three Brothers

title: Bohumil Hrabal „Takže se stalo, že...“

title: Walking Too Fast

title: Kaiser & Vokatá v undergroundu

title: Cirkus Maximum

title: Maturita za školou

title: Clownwise

title: Královský gambit

title: Rumburak

title: Plavení hříbat

title: The Great Movie Robbery

title: The Hussites

title: Zrcadlo pro Kristýnu

title: Revizor

title: Goodbye, Medeo

title: It's Not Me

title: Velká sázka o malé pivo

title: Putování Jana Amose

title: Komediant

title: Little from the Fish Shop

title: The Gardener's Year

title: Zubatá nekouše!

title: U Tlučhořů

title: Red Captain

title: Usnula jsem

title: Crazy Kingdom

title: O princezně na klíček

title: A Prominent Patient

title: Cuddling Cat Ears

title: The Pied Piper

title: Aldabra: Once Upon an Island

title: Barefoot

title: Opravdová láska

title: Můj otec a ostatní muži

title: The Girl Behind the Mirror

title: A Walk Worthwhile

title: Non Plus Ultras

title: Líbáš jako ďábel

title: Amerika

title: Hadrián z Římsů

title: Sun, Hay, Erotica

title: The Octopuses from the Second Floor

title: Wilson City

title: Loaded Eels

title: Krásný čas

title: Palachův týden

title: Tetinka

title: Kam nikdo nesmí

title: The Man with Hare Ears

title: Mít tak holku na hlídání

title: Kat nepočká

title: Chasing Fifty

title: Měsíční tónina

title: Deset malých běloušků

title: A Christmas Story

title: The Last Race

title: Gobseck

title: Milenci paní Susanne

title: Revue za šest korun

title: Kouzlo derby

title: Můj hříšný muž

original_title: Můj hříšný muž

title: Český pekáč

title: Pension Lola

title: Přišel na večeři

title: Čertova stěna

title: Leaving

title: Habermann

title: Five plums

title: Kaiser & Vokatá v undergroundu

title: The Great Movie Robbery

title: Pension Lola


Saburo Shinoda

Kusa Moeru

overview: The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

character: Minamoto no Sanetomo

original_name: 草燃える

original_language: ja

Kashin

overview: Centered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the modern Japanese millitary system.

character: Yoshida Torajiro

original_name: 花神

Ultraman Taro

overview: After being killed in a monster attack, adolescent young man Kotarô Higashi is transformed by the entire Ultra Family into a powerful new Ultra-being, Ultraman Tarou.

character: Kotaro Higashi / Ultraman Taro (voice)

original_name: ウルトラマンタロウ

Battleship Musashi

original_name: 戦艦武蔵

Golden Bowl

overview: Focus, concentration, proper posture and good release are the hallmarks of a good bowler. Welcome to Golden Bowl bowling alley. A bit rundown and small but no worse for wear, the Golden Bowl is stockbroker Shu Akutagawa's favorite haunt. A regular, he likes nothing better than the rumble of the bowl running down the alley and crash and crackle of the pins tumbling down. When a beautiful, older and married neighbor - who shares the same name as his old flame Hitomi - makes an appearance at the Golden Bowl, things start to heat up as Shu teams up with her to challenge some pro bowlers. Will Shu be as lucky with Hitomi as he is with the pins? --NTV

character: Yoji Sakura

original_name: ゴールデンボウル

Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu

character: Daisuke morita

original_name: 人はそれをスキャンダルという

Silver Kamen

overview: After Professor Kasuga is killed by fiendish aliens for plans to a super-rocketship, his children trek across Japan, protected by the second-oldest brother, Koji, who transforms into the super-cyborg, Silver Mask.

character: Kozo Kasuga

original_name: シルバー仮面

Kyo, Futari

overview: The 45th NHK Asadora. Set in an old Kyoto tsukemono (Japanese preserved vegetables) store, this series depicted the conflicts between a woman, her daughter and her father-in-law. It is a story about the relationships of three generation of women in the Nakahide family.

character: 父・中村市郎

original_name: 京、ふたり

Mizuiro no toki

overview: The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her mother, who is a nurse. The first six-month Asadora. Average rating of 40.1%.

character: 隅谷吾郎

original_name: 水色の時

美談の団地心中

original_name: 美談の団地心中

Onihei Hankachō

overview: Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

character: 酒井祐助

original_name: 鬼平犯科帳

Hideyoshi

overview: A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.

character: Niwa Nagahide

original_name: 秀吉

最後の晩ごはん

character: 로이드

original_name: 最後の晩ごはん

Downtown Story

overview: The story revolves around a bar and a poor church in downtown Yokohama , a port town . Kazami Yobuko is a singer and hostess at the bar . The bar originally belonged to Yobuko's mother, Ranko, but Ranko committed an assault and is serving time in prison, and the bar now belongs to Tsukiyo. This is the story of the twists and turns of the love story between Yobuko and a poor pastor , Shioya Isaku. The story begins on Christmas Eve, when Isaku helps Yobuko, who is suffering from a miscarriage .

original_name: ダウンタウン物語

Fushoku no kōzō

overview: A powerful trading company uses all means to obtain the uranium enrichment technology.

character: Uson Yukio

original_name: 腐蝕の構造

愛・深き淵より

original_name: 愛・深き淵より

愛情の証明～新妻への恐怖のメロディ～

original_name: 愛情の証明～新妻への恐怖のメロディ～

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Català

iso_639_1: ca

iso_3166_1: ES

english_name: Catalan

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: CN

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as:
篠田三郎
Saburō Shinoda

title: Way Out, Way In

overview: Japanese crime film.

original_title: 高校生番長

title: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

overview: A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.

character: Professor Fukazawa

original_title: ゴジラvsデストロイア

title: Godzilla vs. Mothra

overview: Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.

original_title: ゴジラvsモスラ

title: Midnight Disk Jockey

overview: Pinky violence film

original_title: 高校生番長　深夜放送

title: Innocent Sinner

original_title: 夜のいそぎんちゃく

title: The High School Deviates

original_title: 高校生番長 ズベ公正統派

title: Love for Eternity

original_title: 高校生心中 純愛

title: Snow Country Elegy

original_title: 樹氷悲歌

title: Poem

overview: A rigidly devoted young servant lives in a decaying aristocratic household as its members drift toward modernity, hedonism, and financial collapse. While the family quarrels over the fate of their estate, he clings to tradition and ritual, becoming a quiet witness to the social change and emotional unrest around him.

character: Jun

original_title: 哥

title: Between Women and Wives

overview: Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

character: Kenichi

original_title: 妻と女の間

title: The All-Out Game

overview: When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt so suddenly on campus. Rikiya is an honor student, recommended to the Toa University by his school and is almost certain of being accepted next spring. Shiro is long on brute strength but short on brains. Naturally, they waste little love on each other, so there is very little ground for any understanding between them.

character: Rikiya Kudo

original_title: 高校生番長　棒立てあそび

title: Not Forgotten

overview: Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.

character: Akuzawa

original_title: 忘れられぬ人々

title: Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance

overview: 16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

original_title: 女賭博師壷くらべ

title: Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon

overview: After killing his brother, Prince Yamato is banished from his father's kingdom until he can bring his dangerous powers under control. On his journey, he meets and joins with the magical priestess Oto, and together they go to fight against an evil god that has been ravaging the Earth in the form of an enormous hydra. Will Yamato ever return home to reclaim his rightful place on the throne?

original_title: ヤマトタケル

title: The Kiss

overview: One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

title: Thousand Cranes

overview: April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?

title: Sakura

overview: The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.

title: Into the White Night

overview: A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji.  As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...

title: Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills

overview: Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.

title: Riot in Gujo

overview: Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.

title: Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra

original_title: ウルトラマンタロウ ウルトラの母は太陽のように

title: Luxury Yacht: First Love Tour Murder Case

overview: Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project to reunite with her first love. She was nominated by Yamano, a classmate from elementary school. Kanako meets Yamano for the first time in 15 years, but for some reason their old stories don't add up. She gradually begins to suspect that Yamano is a fake, but...

character: Tomoyuki Anzai (Green Tourism Tour Guide)

original_title: 豪華ヨット　初恋ツアー殺人事件

title: Sex Revolution

overview: Story exposes free-sex among highschool students.

title: The Driverless Hearse

original_title: 無人霊柩車 美人女将の死体を乗せて函館の夜を走る！

title: Nemuri Kyōshirō

overview: Kyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by the man posing as Ieyoshi. He then learned that Ieyoshi had been acting oddly ever since returning from Kyoto six months ago. Sir Fumiya's investigation of the O'oku (Shogun's harem in Edo Castle) uncovered the plot and reported that Sir Higo-no-Kami had been controlling the fraud. That's when Kyoshiro heads to Kyoto to find clues...

title: The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

overview: The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.

title: I Am a Cat

overview: Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

title: The Frame

overview: Japanese director Satoshi Isaka spins this taunt thriller about an ultra-ambitious reporter who soon finds herself on the receiving end of tabloid dirt. Popular television actress Hitomi Kuroki stars as Yuko, an ice-queen TV news editor who is approached by a mysterious man from the PTT Ministry. The man offers her proof, on videotape, that a major university is bribing a particular government official to overlook a massive media merger. The secret transaction has already resulted in the death of one investigator. Yuko promptly broadcasts the damning footage, and high-ranking bureaucrat Aso (Takanori Jinnai) is forced out of office.

title: Mystery of the Coral Seas

overview: A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who was supposed to have accompanied her the whole time is a mysterious man.

original_title: 珊瑚色ラプソディ殺人事件

title: Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders

overview: Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The tour group is traveling in a luxurious coach to Lake Megami in the Tateshina Plains. On the way, they are disturbed to hear that Shirai, a hostess who was supposed to come along on the tour, has been murdered. And the next day, the body of Hasegawa, another tour member, is floating in Lake Megami...

original_title: 豪華サロンカー婚約ツアー殺人事件

title: The Awakening

title: Maya no Isshou

title: The Imperial Japanese Empire

overview: Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

title: Mori no gakkō

title: High School Affair

title: Eternal Monument

overview: A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

title: Takamine - The Man By Which Cherry Blossoms Bloomed in America

overview: Takamine is a biopic about Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the late biochemist known for successfully crystallizing and isolating adrenaline, which is also called epinephrine. Dubbed the father of modern biotechnology, Takamine also produced Takadiastase, a digestive enzyme still used as an ingredient in medicines. He was also enthusiastic about establishing friendly relations between Japan and the United States. He was responsible for a gift of 3,000 cherry trees in the U.S. capital, Washington D.C.

original_title: TAKAMINE アメリカに桜を咲かせた男

title: Tea Brewer

overview: Raita is a deaf boy who has just lost his father. His father wanted him to succeed his tea shop, but Raita didn't want to because his relationship with his father was not good. While he was closing the tea shop, Teiji, who is a genius tea blender, came to the shop and challenged Raita to compete on blending the regendally tea which Raita's father was famous for.

title: あぶない！財テク主婦の株体験

overview: A housewife who wins a large fortune in the stock market becomes obsessed with financial strategies and eventually develops an affair.

original_title: あぶない！財テク主婦の株体験

title: It Was a Faint Dream

overview: Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realising that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.

title: When the Cookie Crumbles

title: Inside the Storm of Love

overview: Comedy-suspense thriller about a girl, who investigates her sister's mysterious death.

title: Hometown

overview: Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.

title: The Time of Reckoning

overview: "The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.

title: Way Out, Way In

title: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

title: Godzilla vs. Mothra

title: Midnight Disk Jockey

title: Innocent Sinner

title: The High School Deviates

original_title: 高校生番長 ズベ公正統派

title: Love for Eternity

title: Snow Country Elegy

title: Poem

title: Between Women and Wives

title: The All-Out Game

original_title: 高校生番長　棒立てあそび

title: Not Forgotten

title: Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon

title: The Kiss

title: Thousand Cranes

title: Sakura

title: Into the White Night

title: Riot in Gujo

original_title: ウルトラマンタロウ ウルトラの母は太陽のように

original_title: 豪華ヨット　初恋ツアー殺人事件

title: Sex Revolution

title: The Driverless Hearse

original_title: 無人霊柩車 美人女将の死体を乗せて函館の夜を走る！

title: Nemuri Kyōshirō

title: The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

title: I Am a Cat

title: The Frame

title: Mystery of the Coral Seas

original_title: 珊瑚色ラプソディ殺人事件

original_title: 豪華サロンカー婚約ツアー殺人事件

title: The Awakening

title: Maya no Isshou

title: The Imperial Japanese Empire

title: Mori no gakkō

title: High School Affair

title: Eternal Monument

original_title: TAKAMINE アメリカに桜を咲かせた男

title: Tea Brewer

title: あぶない！財テク主婦の株体験

original_title: あぶない！財テク主婦の株体験

title: It Was a Faint Dream

title: When the Cookie Crumbles

title: Inside the Storm of Love

title: Hometown

title: The Time of Reckoning

Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu

original_name: 人はそれをスキャンダルという

愛情の証明～新妻への恐怖のメロディ～

original_name: 愛情の証明～新妻への恐怖のメロディ～