Introduction The Silk Road (Japanese: 敦煌, Hepburn: Tonkō), also known as Dun-Huang, is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Satō. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue. The backdrop of the plotline is the Mogao Caves, a Buddhist manuscript trove in Dunhuang, Western China, located along the Silk Road… Read More
Introduction Captain Newman, M.D. is a 1963 American comedy drama film directed by David Miller and starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin. Outline In 1944, Captain Josiah Newman is head of the neuro-psychiatric Ward 7 at the Colfax Army Air Field (AAF) military hospital, located in the… Read More
Introduction Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. Lawson was a pilot on the historic Doolittle Raid, America’s first retaliatory air strike against Japan, four months after the 07… Read More
Introduction A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 American romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The film was produced by Everett Riskin, and starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, and Van Johnson. The screenplay, written by Dalton Trumbo and Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, was adapted from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm, for which… Read More
Introduction News of the World is a 2020 American Western drama film co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles, and starring Tom Hanks and introducing Helena Zengel. The film follows a Civil War veteran who must return a young girl who was stolen by… Read More
Introduction Battle Cry is a 1955 Warner Color film, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Raymond Massey, and Mona Freeman in CinemaScope. The film is based on the 1953 novel by former Marine Leon Uris, who also wrote the screenplay, and was produced and directed by Raoul Walsh.… Read More
Introduction Tokkan, also known as Battle Cry and Go for Broke, is a 1975 action, comedy film by director Kihachi Okamoto. Outline During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro’s friendship with a pickpocket, who… Read More
Introduction In a broken world struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, a mutated new super virus threatens to destroy the remnants of mankind. Also known as Contamination: Virus 21 (Australian title). Outline When civilisation is hit with the outbreak of a new lethal virus, the results are swift, chaotic, and deadly, throwing the world… Read More
Introduction Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel is a 2011 Russian language film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, released on 05 May 2011. It is a sequel to the films Burnt by the Sun (1994) and Burnt by the Sun 02: Exodus (2010). Outline The film takes place in 1943 during the height of the… Read More
Introduction Burnt by the Sun 2 (Russian: Утомлённые солнцем 2, translit. Utomlyonnye solntsem 2: Predstoyanie) is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov. The film consists of two parts: Exodus (2010; Предстояние, literally ‘Prestanding’) and The Citadel (2011; Цитадель). It is the sequel to Mikhalkov’s 1994 film Burnt by the Sun,… Read More
