民国秘闻之天谴图腾

　　故事讲述重案组刑警“东根”（金正贤 饰）在被残忍杀害的尸体身上发现10年前自杀的制药公司高管“英勋”（朴成贤 饰）的日记，在揭露其背后真相过程中与自己被遗忘的过去相遇。

　　1945年抗战胜利前夕，侵华日军第七三一部队在哈尔滨平房区以“给水防疫”为名，秘密进行惨无人道的细菌战研究，大肆抓捕平民进行活体实验，妄图以此扭转败局。小贩王永章（姜武 饰）等人被强行抓入“特设监狱”，日军以“配合健康检查与防疫研究即可换取自由”的虚伪承诺，欺骗他们遭受冻伤实验、毒气实验、活体解剖等极端折磨……
　　影片通过平民视角揭露日军反人类暴行，展现绝境下国人不屈的反抗精神，旨在让世人铭记历史，勿忘国耻，捍卫和平。

　　A small town detective investigates into a Sociology professor when a mutilated body is found and women have gone missing from his class.

　　一条地下运毒链条牵扯出帮派小头目老狗（姜武 饰）、地头蛇三哥（包贝尔 饰）等人所在的地方帮派的交易网。在老狗管理的狗市里，愣头青东子（刘奕铁 饰）阴差阳错地卷入这场漩涡中，并获得老狗赏识成为其最心腹的小弟。帮派老大葛爷的离奇暴毙，让权力真空引发惨烈厮杀，几大狠人血拼上位，神秘势力暗中操盘，然而东子的身份也似乎并不简单。在情谊和生死面前，人性赌局的考验也让事态变得越来越扑朔迷离。

　　在冰岛的一个偏远渔村，两个情同手足的男孩开始面对成长和觉醒。其中一个男孩爱上一个女孩，而另一个男孩则发现他对最好的小伙伴有着另一层感情。这是一个难忘的夏天，他们将以出人意料的姿态进入成人世界……

　　《神探夏洛克》（Sherlock）2016年推出特别篇，福尔摩斯回归原著维多利亚时代，调查一宗神秘的幽灵新娘谋杀案。Thomas Ricoletti惊讶地发现，几小时前自杀身亡的妻子Emelia Ricoletti身着旧婚纱再次出现了，她的幽灵带着强烈的复仇欲望在街上徘徊。从迷雾笼罩的莱姆豪斯到被废弃的教堂深处，福尔摩斯、华生以及他们的朋友不得不想尽办法对付这个“从坟墓里爬出来”的敌人，但最终的真相却出乎所有人的意料……

　　帕特利斯·勒孔特 最出色的黑色惊悚片，探讨现代社会中的人性及人与人之间的信任关系。本片根据比利时侦探小说家乔治·西默农的原著改编，写老裁缝易尔先生平日沉默寡言，孤独一人住在公寓里，一日，22岁的邻居姑娘皮埃莱特被人残杀于灌木丛中，平素行为古怪的老单身汉伊尔成了众人眼中的疑凶......
　　本片可称为一部心理分析影片，着重展示易尔与爱丽丝的心路历程，对于人物之间的个性和心理状态的揭示很有层次感，故事情节和环境的渲染都有厚重的希区柯克影子，两位主要演员在导演沉静的基调中把演技发挥得淋漓尽致。这本小说在1946年曾拍摄过一次。

　　九岁的安娜和家人居住在柏林，1933年到来，一切都开始发生了变化，在她四周，一个陌生人的画像开始挂满在大街小巷，懵懂的安娜不知道发生了什么。不久之后，她和她的家人踏上了一场逃亡之路，安娜在旅途中充满了好奇和困惑，而她也无法忘记陪伴自己童年的那只粉色玩具兔，可惜兔子早已被落在了柏林的家中，逐渐被黑暗所包围。

　　Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
　　YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
　　1969 Won Grand Prize
　　Dusan Hanák
　　A government official in Czechoslovakia mistakenly believes he has cancer. He reasons his involvement in clandestine activities during the Stalin administration have fated him to die from a dreaded disease. He searches for inner peace as he feels the guilt of his past transgressions. This film tied for the Grand Prize at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1969.
　　Slovak director Dusan Hanak was one of Czech cinema's brightest and best talents of the '60s and '70s, but because of censorship this was not manifest until the late '80s. Dusan made an impact on the film world with his auspicious debut 322 (1969). Though banned until 1988, when it was finally released, it earned international acclaim and the Grand Prix award at the Mannheim Film Festival. Hanak's sophomore effort, the documentary Obrazy Stareho Sveta/Image of an Old World (completed in 1972), was also not released until 1988 and neither was his 1980 film Ja Milujem, Ty Milujes/I Love You, You Love. Only Hanak's 1976 film Ruzove Sny/Rose-Tinted Dreams passed muster with censors and saw a timely release.

　　The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.

　　Ok, folks, this is my last Ishii upload. Totsugeki! Hakata gurentai is his first feature and last 8mm film. Haven't watched it yet myself, but from the looks of it, this is very much reminescent of eighties and nineties v-cinema, sort of like early Miike (only made in 1978). There is considerably more dialogue than in his earlier films, but it doesn't seem too complicated plotwise.

　　This is commonly known as Jean Renoir's first American film (1941), although Renoir scholar Alexander Sesonske has established that Renoir's creative role in the project was severely hampered by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and that he didn't regard much of the film as his own. (The ending, for instance, was written by Zanuck and directed by Irving Pichel.) Nevertheless, the film has certain beauties and pleasures. Part of it was shot in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp, and the treatment of the small community living ~Censored~ is often pungent and distinctive.