Other Films Viewed

Solaris -- Tarkovsky (1972)
Russian Ark -- Alexandr Sokurov (2002
The Passenger ("Professione") - Michaelangelo Antonini (1975)

The Ballad of Narayama -- Shohei Imamura (old people banished to die on top of mountain)

Black Rain -- Shohei Imamura (family's travails in the aftermath of hiroshima bombing)

Before Sunset -- Richard Linklater (couple meets in Vienna)

Diary of a Country Priest -- Robert Bresson (an idealistic priest arrives at his first parish only to face apathetic congregation)

The Hidden Fortress -- Kurusawa

High and Low -- Kurusawa (industrialist family becomes target of kidnapper)

Hiroshima Mon Amour -- Alain Resnais (Japanese Man and french woman meet in Hiroshima after the war)

In the Mood for Love -- Wong Kar-Wai (a man and woman move into neighboring apartments on the same day)

Osaka Elegy -- Kenji Mizoguchi (switchboard operator is entrapped in a ruinous affair with her boss)

Ornamental Hairpin -- Hiroshi Shimuzi (after forced to prolong his stay at a rural spa after accidentally cutting his foot on a hairpin, a soldier tracks down the pin's owner. Features actor Chishu Ryu as a young actor)

Twenty Four -- Keisuke Kinoshita (a chronicle of a young teacher and her unwavering commitment to her students in a rural island community in Japan)

Sword of the Beast -- Hideo Gosha (low-level swordsman betrayed by comrades goes into isolation, but finds motley group illegally mining shogun's gold)