Original Sin (1992)

1992

Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22-year-old man. Nami is an attractive woman, and she loves her husband, who runs the real estate agency she works at. One day, during a rainstorm, a mysterious drifter stumbles into her and, following her on her way back to the office, asks for (and gets) a job from her husband, over […]

Wife Collector (1985)

1985

Wife Collector was director Hisayasu Sato’s third feature film, made in 1985. It follows the actions of a disgruntled taxi driver who regularly rails his clients, videotaping the act. One of his victims, whom he has for some reason developed a sort of attachment to (partly due to the physical remains of the act; the evidence being the bite mark left on his shoulder), can no longer enjoy sex with her husband. Instead, she takes […]

With or Without You (1999)

1999

Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn’t like her job, he isn’t too pleased working with her dad. They’re trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?

A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair (2012)

2012

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever. In 1767, the British Princess Caroline is betrothed to the mad King Christian VII of Denmark, but her life with the erratic monarch in the oppressive country becomes an isolating misery. However, Christian soon gains a fast companion with the German Dr. Johann Struensee, a quietly idealistic man of the Enlightenment. As the only one who […]

Autumn Lights (2016)

2016

An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple. Set against Iceland’s dramatic landscape, Autumn Lights is a story of morality, virtue, and relationships as seen through the eyes of a foreigner in a strange land. The story follows David, an introverted American photographer adrift in remote Iceland while on assignment. When he gets caught in a local investigation after discovering a deserted body washed […]

In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles (1985)

1985

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon – her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lives. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, […]

Xiu Xiu (1995)

1995
May 24, 2020

Yu Lei plays an orphan Xiu Xiu, who is married to a foreign land when she was three. Her husband, a hunter (Lau Hok Yin), doesn’t know how to love her. So a passionate affair is unavoidable when she meets up with a military doctor (Winston Chao).

S for Sex, S for Secrets (2014)

2014
May 23, 2020

Hung and Bobo struggle with their newly marriage and sex life, and things get complicated when a mystery girl steps in their marriage. On the other hand, Sze, a business woman, has a husband who suffers from sex addiction…