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City War (Yee Dam Hung Seon) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1988; Director: Sun Chung; Writer: Lu Tung, Wai Ting Leung, Kai-Cheung Chung; Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Lung Ti, Niu Tien, Norman Chu, Mary Hon)
Two cops - both partners and best friends - find their friendship and their lives at stake when they try to take down a ruthless drug dealer.
Le Confessional (Country: Canada, UK, France; Year: 1995; Director: Robert Lepage; Writer: Robert Lepage; Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ron Burrage)
In 1952, a pregnant teenager unburdens her guilt to a young priest under the confidentiality of the confessional. 42 years later, in the same city, a man searches for his roots.
The Delinquent (Fen Nu Qing Nian) (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1973; Director: Chang Cheh, Kuei Chih-Hung; Writer: Kuang Ni; Stars: Chung Wang, Lily Li, Betty Pei Ti, Ti Lu, Lin Tung, Fan Mei-sheng)
A low budget kung fu movie - an ambitious martial arts student infiltrates a murderous gang in the hope of finding the man who killed his father.
Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) (Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Sakichi Satô; Stars: Hideki Sone, Sho Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino, Shohei Hino, Keiko Tomita)
A troubled gangster takes refuge in an inn where strange fertility rites will change him forever.
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Village Of Eight Gravestones (Yatsuhaka-mura) (Country: Japan; Year: 1977; Director: Yoshitarō Nomura; Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto, Seishi Yokomizo; Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yōko Yamamoto, Etsuko Ishihara, Ninako Yamaguchi)
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
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