F. Scott Fitzgeraldin novelliin pohjautuva elokuva kertoo uskomattoman tarinan Benjamin Buttonista, joka syntyy vanhana miehenä ja kasvaa takaperin - eli nuortuu keski-iän kautta kohti lapsuuttansa. Viisikymppisenä Benjamin rakastuu parikymmentä vuotta nuorempaan naiseen, mutta pian suhde on haasteiden edessä, kun pari näyttää väistämättä kasvavan erilleen - kirjaimellisesti.
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his nation. The son of a great fighter who didn't wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, Huo resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win.
Lontoolainen Dan on turhautunut kirjailija, joka kirjoittaa työkseen muistokirjoituksia kuolinilmoituksiin. Dan ihastuu salaperäiseen Aliceen, johon törmää sattuman kautta kadulla ja uusi suhde saa nuoren miehen itsevarmuuden ja elämänilon palaamaan. Kukoistava Dan uskoo löytäneensä rakkauden lontoolaisesta valokuvastudiosta... Kaunis ja hillitty Anna on ammatiltaan valokuvaaja. Hän flirttailee Danin kanssa, vaikka on menossa naimisiin komean lääkärin Larryn kanssa. Annan ja Danin flirtti kehittyy kiihkeäksi salasuhteeksi, jolla on uuvuttavat vaikutukset Daniin. Samaan aikaan Danin uusi ystävä, amerikkalainen Alice luo Lontoossa itseään ja elämäänsä uudelleen alusta, vailla muuta painolastia tai omaisuutta kuin vaatteet yllään. Alicekaan ei kerro kaikkea itsestään, mutta tunteistaan hän on aina rehellinen, mikä tässä ihmissuhteiden vyyhdissä on melko poikkeuksellista. Sekoitus on täydellinen, kun kohtalo johdattaa myös Larryn ja Alicen yhteen...
Ikääntyneet vanhemmat Shukichi (Chishu Ryu) ja Tomi Hirayama (Chieko Higashiyama) lähtevät käymään kiireisten lastensa luona Tokiossa ja Osakassa. Päästyään perille Tokioon pariskunta huomaa, ettei lapsilla ole aikaa heille, koska heillä on oma elämä, työ ja perhe, joiden välillä heidän on vaikea tasapainotella.
The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Huikeasti visualisoitu kokoelma perinteisiä japanilaisia kummitustarinoita - elävien ja kuolleiden aavemaisia, pelottavia, koskettavia, rakastavia ja väkivaltaisia kohtaamisia.
Eddy on pienestä pitäen ollut korttihai. Hänen kaverinsa päättävät ottaa riskin ja antavat kaikki rahansa Eddylle, joka osallistuu pokeripeliin. Kaikkihan tietävät, ettei rehellisellä työllä rikastu. Uhkapeli päättyy kurjasti, sillä Eddy häviää 500.000 puntaa. Summa on maksettava viikossa ja myöhästymisestä rangaistaan sormien katkaisemisella. Kun pakkaa tulee sekoittamaan vielä pari onnetonta murtomiestä ja raivohullu gansteri alkaa hengissä selviäminen vaikuttaa lotto-voitolta. Loistava musiikki, hersyvällä huumorilla rakennetut henkilöhahmot ja kurvikas käsikirjoitus tekevät tästä viileimmän brittileffan pitkään aikaan. Guy Ritchien nerokasta esikoisohjausta on kehuttu sekoitukseksi Pulp Fictionia ja Reservoir Dogsia sekä brittileffaa Housut pois. Kohutun toimintakomedian näyttelijöinä yllättävät mm. Sting, ex-jalkapalloilija Vinnie Jones tosielämän kriminaali, edesmennyt Lenny McLean. Maailmalla miljoonia katsojia keränneen elokuvan pohjalta on jo kuvattu tv-sarja.
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.
When Harris runs out of toilet paper, a nightmare is unleashed from which he may never escape.
On a quiet afternoon an elderly woman prepares some afternoon tea for her and her husband. This short film was made on a single Super-8 cartridge, edited in camera, shot in sequence with only one take per shot. This was originally made for an Los Angeles film event called: "Attack of the 50 Foot Reels".
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
A shut-in´s routine is disrupted by the visit of his older brother. The disruption leads to joy in the end.
Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Scheffer interlaces the images with interviews with Dun, stage director Pierre Audi and librettist Xu Ying, about the opera and the role tea and oriental philosophy play in this work. Using monochrome, sometimes abstract images (in yellow, blue, red and green), close-ups of plants and flowers and images of the Chinese nature and people (sometimes accelerated or decelerated, sometimes in black-and-white), he mirrors the stylised opera performance and Dun's reflective music.
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their commercial dominance. In 1839, the Middle Empire introduced prohibition. The Opium War was declared… Great Britain emerged as the winner, but the warning was heeded: it could no longer depend on Chinese tea. The only alternative possible was to produce its own tea. The East India Company therefore entrusted one man with finding the secrets of the precious beverage. His mission was to develop the first plantations in Britain’s Indian colonies. This latter-day James Bond was called Robert Fortune – a botanist. After overcoming innumerable ordeals in the heart of imperial China, he brought back the plants and techniques that gave rise to Darjeeling tea.
A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world, tribe members have other motives up their sleeves regarding the black tea legacy. Each for their own cause, rival tribal members become tangled up in a web of love and hate.
This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.