9 Souls (2003)

Nine men sharing a prison cell somehow manage to find a way to escape and set out together to find the treasure that the “King of Counterfeiters” had buried. As we might expect from any movie built on this premise, things go wrong for the escapees but never in quite the way we expect. Before …

Policeman’s Diary/Keisatsu nikki (1955)

There is a type of movie the Japanese have regularly made that I have rarely found in any of the other major film cultures. It's not quite a comedy, though there are often many chuckles (rather than laughs). It's not quite a tragedy, though things often end badly for many of the characters. It's not …