Author Archive: Retro

Elderly couple travel to Tokyo to visit their son and daughter, who are too busy to see them. Written by Yasujiro Ozu. English subtitles. Dir. Yasujiro Ozu.

Elderly couple travel to Tokyo to visit their son and daughter, who are too busy to see them. Written by Yasujiro Ozu. English subtitles. Dir. Yasujiro Ozu.

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents’ feud.

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf. The estate’s executor, a lawyer, sets out to find the killer before everyone–including himself–is murdered.

Film based on the homonymous poem and other documents from the epoque.

Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science schemes.

In the year 20,000 B.C., the continent of Atlantis is ruled by King Yotar (Roldano Lupi), who has set his people on a course of fantastic scientific development. The Atlanteans have dominated the Earth from their capitol city of Metropolis with their powers and technology, but they have also inflicted terrible cruelties on humanity. Yotar has begun experimenting with the powers of life and death on his young son, hoping to grant him immortality. The hero Obro (Gordon Mitchell) appears at the outskirts of Metropolis, leading a quest to stop the Atlanteans and their bloody reign over the Earth. Obro’s brothers and allies are killed by the powerful rays dispatched by the Atlanteans, but he is strong enough to survive them ? he is captured, but rather than kill him, Yotar decides to see if Obro’s super-strong physique would make him a better subject than his son for his experiments. Obro is put through various [...]