Plot: This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. Read More
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Note: for the purposes of this article, all Japanese names are presented in the Western fashion, with the given name followed by the family name. There's a Kurt Vonnegut story called 'Who Am I This Time?' about a quiet and formless small-town man named...
Here's a different way of thinking about well-known movies: imagine each one is a stop on a subway line! Designed by David Honnorat and posted at Vodkaster, the cinematic subway map is based on the top 250 movies as voted by IMDb users on June 19 (which,...
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Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Marge tells Homer that they saw Rashomon together, and he says "I don't remember it that way"? Ah, foreign film humor. Since the movie is now culturally integrated enough to become a Simpsons joke (and...

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