Friday, May 9, 2008

Weekly Trailers

Crows Zero - Takashi Miike (2007)

Based on the Hiroshi Takahashi manga “Crows Zero” takes us into the halls of a high school run by violent punks, but none more violent than Serizawa, the ruling kid in the schoolyard. When newcomer Genji teams up with low level yakuza Ken to usurp Serizawa’s power violence and mayhem ensue.




Tokyo Story – Yasujiro Ozu (1953)

The quintessential Yasujiro Ozu film, “Tokyo Story” follows an elderly couple as they go to visit their grown children in the bustling capital. There they are traded off, mistreated and ignored by all of their family except their kindly daughter-in-law. When they return home and the mother falls deathly ill the children scramble to make it home and deal with how they’ve treated their parents. Named as one of the top ten films of all time by the prestigious film journal Sight and Sound.

1 comment:

1minutefilmreview said...

Great! Can't wait to watch them!