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New Recomendations vol.4 |
| Yeogo goedam 2/Memnto Mori (Korea
1999) |
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The engagement between
us is everlasting. |
One day
Min-Ah finds a strange red diary, that is kept by two of her
senior fellow-students, Hyo-Shin and Shi-Eun, who seem to have
an unusually close bond. But that day, Hyo-Shin suddenly kills
herself, for no obvious reason, and the entire school is shocked
and depressed. Min-Ah kept reading the diary and came to a phrase
"Memento Mori (Record the death)", and then strange
things started to happen around her.
Romance, bullying, friendship between girls, relationship with
teachers... A movie by two young directors of Korea that first
depictured the real life of today's high school girls in Korea.
Three featuring actresses are cute and wonderful, and the background
music is also beautiful. Exhibited at the 10th Tokyo International
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. |
| Director |
Kim Tae-yon/Min Kyu-don |
| Cast |
Park Yeh-jin/Lee Young-jin/Kim
Min-sun |
| Official
web site |
http://www.onlyhearts.co.jp/ |
| Information |
DVD & video release
on Apr. 19, 2002 |
| Le Roi Danse / The King Is Dancing(Belgium/France/Germany
2000) |
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My liege is a sun that shines on
Versailles, and my heavens above is an unrewarding gloom. |
A story of hidden agony and forbidden
love between Louis XIV, the king of France, and Lully, a dancing
master who supported the prosperity of Baroque dance.
A score of Baroque dance of 17th century was decoded 20 years
ago. There was Louis XIV who was a brilliant dancer and known
as the Sun King was in it. At only 5 years old, Louis XIV became
king however the mother and her lover seized the real power.
Louis, who was endowed with natural ability of music and dance,
acquired peoples' praise with his dance. There always was a
man right beside Louis. That is Lully who wrote more than 3000
pieces only for the Sun King, Louis XIV. The source of his passion
in music was strong and burning love to Louis.
This is a story of hidden love between two men who brighten
the time, and a tiptop suspense dynamically depicturing the
process of young Louis XIV winning the real power from his mother
and her lover in the power game inside the imperial court. |
| Director |
Gerard Corbiau |
| Cast |
Benoit Magimel/Boris Terral/Tcheky
Karyo |
| Official
Website |
http://www.herald.co.jp/movies/leroidanse/ |
| Information |
DVD & Video release
on Dec. 21, 2001 |
| Blow Dry(UK 2000) |
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The story of a dream
that never gets dry. |
A story
of a family in regeneration. Mother run away with girlfriend,
father runs a barbershop in a small town turning back on the
past glory, and the son seeks his way feeling sorry for his
shiftless father. The family comes to get together before the
annual British Hairdressing Championship.
Brian found out that a hairdressing championship would be held
at his town and decided to take part in it with his father.
The entry condition is to make a team of 3 people. His mother
and father were once the best hairdressers in Britain, but haven't
talked each other for 10 years. The father Phil has been living
lowlife after his wife left him and does not have an incentive
to take in the championship. At that time, the mother Shelly
came to them. She suffers from cancer and does not have much
time left. It would be the last chance for her to retrieve the
family bond, so Brian decided to challenge the championship
for the first time. |
| Director |
Paddy Breathnach |
| Cast |
Josh Hartnett/Rachael Leigh
Cook/Alan Rickman |
| Official
Website |
http://www.gaga.ne.jp/shampoo/ |
| Information |
Video Release on Sep. 13 |
| The
Monkey's Mask(Australia 2000) |
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I didn't know. That poetry is destructive.
Just like sex. |
A dying
word of Mickey, a young female student. That was a piece of
poem in which Mickey wrote her obscene feeling toward "you."
Who killed Mickey? Who is "you"? What happened to
Mickey that night?
Mickey disappeared leaving an erotic poem. Jill Fitzpatrick
is a private investigator who accepts a job investigating the
disappearance of Mickey. Diary, poetry, dolls and videotapes...disclosed
Mickey's hidden and unknown face, a face of prurient devil.
Jill met Diana, Mickey's poetry lecturer and was attracted to
her. Diana was married to a young handsome man but she responds
with Jill. But it is not long before Mickey's strangled body
is found. And there are plenty of people concerned and suspects.
How this murder goes? Who killed Mickey? A shocking truth awaits
Jill |
| Director |
Samantha Lang |
| Cast |
Susie Porter/Kelly McGillis |
| Official
Website |
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| Information |
DVD & Video release Dec. 21, 2001
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