1991
Child's Play 3 (1991)
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Jack Bender
actor:
贾斯廷·威林
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佩瑞·里维斯
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other title:
鬼娃回魂3
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灵异入侵3
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Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.
Queen of the Underworld (1991)
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other title:
夜生活女王之霞姐传奇
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夜生活女王霞姐傳奇
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王霞(叶子楣 饰)本是懵懂无知的茶楼点心女郎,在偶然之中邂逅了黑社会小混混阿伦(单立文 饰),王霞坠入了情网。在阿伦的软磨硬泡之下,王霞半推半就的成为了应召女郎,出卖肉体为阿伦赚钱,之后,王霞意外怀孕,阿伦非但不愿承担父亲的职责,还毒打王霞,强迫她进行了堕胎手术。
悲伤 绝望的王霞结识了名为阿光(柯受良 饰)的男子,两人慢慢走到了一起,王霞改行做了妈妈桑,并且一手培养了当红头牌宝珊,哪知道宝珊竟然和阿光有了私情,愤怒的王霞向阿光讨说法,不仅自己被打,就连两岁的女儿亦受到牵连。悲愤之中,王霞用剪刀刺伤阿光,面临严酷的指控。
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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Jonathan Demme
actor:
Jodie Foster
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Anthony Hopkins
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other title:
沉默的羔羊
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Le Silence des agneaux
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Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
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David Zucker
actor:
Leslie Nielsen
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普瑞希拉·普雷斯利
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other title:
白头神探2½:恐怖的气味
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白头神探再显神威
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Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
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other title:
我自己的爱达荷
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不羁的天空(港)
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In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
Erotic Ghost Story II (1991)
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other title:
聊斋艳谭续集五通神
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聊齋艷譚續集五通神
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五通神有着两个分神,分别为女魔(一条小百合 饰)和男魔(黄秋生 饰),他们共同吸收阴阳之气,以此来维持魔力。一次偶然中,男魔遇见了名为小燕(曾小燕 饰)的少女,被后者的善良和清纯所吸引,两人之间展开了一场人魔之恋,因此而触犯了天条。
小燕的元神被封入了名叫玉印(陈加玲 饰)的女孩体内,长大后,玉印同名为刘山根(郭耀华 饰)的男子走到了一起。为了解救男魔,女魔千里迢迢来到人间,在见到了玉印之后,女魔知晓了事件的来龙去脉,她决心杀掉玉印,以解心头之患。玉印平静的生活被彻底搅乱,为了活命,也为了拯救心爱的男人,玉印只得与一干好友踏上了除魔之路。
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
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Peter Howitt
actor:
Keanu Reeves
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Alex Winter
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other title:
比尔和泰德畅游鬼门关
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阿比阿弟暢遊鬼門關
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1991 film by Pete Hewitt
Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (1991)
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Mitsuo Hashimoto
actor:
野泽雅子
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古川登志夫
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other title:
龙珠Z剧场版5:最强对最强
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ドラゴンボールZ とびっきりの最強対最強
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After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.
Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (1991)
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陈俊良
actor:
陈子强
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黄仲裕
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other title:
新七龙珠
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新七龍珠
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An unauthorized live-action adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga, it follows a band of misfit adventurers trying to stop King Horn and his goal to collect all seven Dragon Balls, and his wish of ultimate power.
The Sensualist (1991)
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阿部行夫
actor:
今西正男
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松岛实
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other title:
好色一代男
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Koushoku Ichidai Otoko
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In the 54 years from his sexual awakening at the age of 7 until the age of 61, Yonosuke had relations with 3740 women and 725 men.
So we learn about the protagonist of Ihara Saikaku's 17th century novel The Sensualist in this animated adaptation, which is directed by erstwhile art director Yukio Abe, best known as the art director of the great Sanrio films of the 70s and early 80s, and scripted by erstwhile director Eiichi Yamamoto, best known for directing the experimental adult epic Belladonna.
Armed with those stats, Yonosuke makes Casanova look like the 30-year-old virgin. The 18th century Venetian and patron saint of latter-day Venutian artists such as Neil Strauss proclaims in his autobiography to have had relations with a mere 200 or so women during his lifetime. Yawn. But Casanova's autobiography is an engrossing and ethnographically invaluable piece of writing, and Yonosuke is a fictional character, so we'll call it even.
Better known as The Life of an Amorous Man, the novel was the first in a series of tracts that Ihara Saikaku published in the 1680s recounting the amorous escapades of the denizens of his Edo-period merchant class demimonde, who were apparently quite the libertines. I'm sure there are some juicy parallels waiting to be drawn between 17th century Japan and 18th century Venice by an enterprising student of comparative cultural studies.
Edo-period Japan was one of the most enlightened and liberal societies the world has ever known when it comes to sexual matters, with its sophisticated amalgamation of sexual openness and artistic expression. Rather than clients visiting prostitutes in dingy dives for a slam-bam-thank-you-mam exchange of fluids, Japan's geisha were government-sanctioned master artists who engaged clients in a classy, ritualized form of intellectual foreplay involving conversation, music and poetry.
The crème de la crème of geisha was the tayuu, and it's one of these creatures that is the object of the chase in this film. The Sensualist tells the story of a fumbling young man who seeks Yonosuke's assistance in getting with a renowned Edo tayuu. Flashbacks weave in and out of the narrative thread, filling us in on Yonosuke's respectable history of romantic dalliances.
The visuals of the film are exquisite, creating a sumptuous homage to the art of the Edo period. The characters are modeled after the style of Edo hanga, and are animated with great care under the supervision of the late great FX animator Mikiharu Akabori. Quite simply, the film is a feast for the eyes. Abe Yukio was first and foremost an art director, and the focus on the film is understandably on creating a sequence of beautiful images, which it does marvelously. There are few anime films as beautiful as this one out there. The film feels like a moving hanga.
Rather than gliding through a crude naturalistic approximation of Edo Japan, the characters inhabit the actual art and expressive symbols of the era. The ocean undulates like an ink painting, white lines on a black background. Naked bodies entwined in an embrace float through fields of lotuses. Shadows of long-eared rabbits hop across folding screens painted with stormy waves. Prints of Edo beauties or landscapes by the great masters pan across the screen, creating a heady and intoxicating atmosphere in which art, sex and life intermingle, rather than simply telling a story.
Although this is definitely a film for adults, and there is a good deal of nudity, a bit of rubbing, and a whole lot of bobbing, none of it is explicit. Actual shunga from the same period as this novel are far more explicit. Instead, symbols like the turtle and the camellia that were used back then to hint at sexual matters are used in a similar spirit during lovemaking scenes. The only time the film borders on funny is when they use the same strategy as 1001 Nights and Cleopatra and suddenly coyly shift from a shot of the couple embracing to a shot of abstract animation showing a suggestively shaped flame, or a clap of lightning that sends birds flying off of a tree. But for the most part, these shots of abstract animation are subtle and creative, and they feel like a modern extension of the traditional Japanese symbolic tradition.
Originally released in Japan around 1990, this 54-minute film was presumably a direct-to-video release. Gone were the days when a film like Belladonna, this film's only real analogue in anime, could be released in the theaters. It appears to have disappeared into obscurity fairly quickly, and it's hard to find almost any information about it anymore. Needless to say, it has not been re-released on DVD.
This film deserves a better fate. If ever a film qualified as a buried gem, this is it. There is quality work here. This was an ambitious project that was clearly a labor of love. Director Yukio Abe masterfully handles a complex narrative that flows between the present, the past and the abstract, making every image count. Mikiharu Akabori's character animation is subtle but nuanced, authentically reproducing the complex dress of the era and the styles of physical representation of Edo-era prints. And Eiichi Yamamoto deserves a lot of credit for penning an excellent script tangled with poetry, authentic inflection and subtle wit. Together, they did a good job of visualizing some pretty difficult material in a way that remained true to its explicit nature without teetering too much into the realm of bad taste.
More importantly, they fully utilized all the means available in animation to create a thematically and visually consistent interpretation of the spirit of the novel. They channel the actual art of that period into the modern means of animation, achieving a sense of artistic unity that could not be achieved in a live-action adaptation.
Despite being an erotic film, it's not meant to be titillating. The film has a sense of spiritual and literary depth that goes beyond mere sexual exploitation. It reminds me of the themes invoked in 1001 Nights, the first Animerama film, which was also directed by Eiichi Yamamoto: Ambition, lust, curiosity. The desire to push yourself to be the best YOU you can be, to go higher and higher, just to see if you can do it. That is one running themes that seems to occupy Eiichi Yamamoto in the three characters of Yonosuke, Belladonna and Aldin. 1001 Nights was intended as a film for adults addressing complex adult themes, not as erotica, and I find that that's the case with this one, although the erotic element is unmistakably more dominant here. The film feels like an homage not only to the art of Edo Japan but to the erotic sensibility of that era.
And lest all this make the film sound like a stuffy art film, it's clear that they don't take themselves too seriously. It's entertaining to watch the protagonist, a bumbling stand-in for every ordinary loser out there who isn't a Don Juan like Yonosuke, fumble his way into the arms of this goddess.
Alongside Belladonna, The Sensualist is one of the rare attempts to do tasteful and artistic adult fare in animation. The studio that produced this ambitious film might come as a surprise: It was Grouper Production, a short-lived studio that was co-founded in 1986 by Masami Hata, the director of many of the very same Sanrio productions on which Yukio Abe acted as the art director. Hata directed several of Grouper's productions, including the Hobberdy Dick TV series, the Super Mario Brothers: Princess Peach movie, and the Ping Pong Club TV series. As far as I know, this is the only film that Yukio Abe directed. Since then, he has returned to art directing, most recently working again under Masami Hata on the Stitch TV series produced by Madhouse.
How did this project come about? It seems so out of character with everything else done by the studio as well as the director. Was it a project he had always wanted the chance to direct? So many questions. Grouper continued operating for several years after this film was released, so at the very least, it didn't put them out of business, which is a relief. Belladonna was produced 20 years earlier. Films like this only seem to come around in 20 year increments. Hopefully that means we'll be getting a new one soon. It's understandable that most studios don't have the daring to try their hand at something a little more ambitious like this, but it's still a shame. The talent is out there to make a new adult epic. It only makes me all the more grateful for the occasional aw-the-hell-with-it moments of indulgence like The Sensualist
Toto the Hero (1991)
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other title:
小英雄托托
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Toto le héros
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80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
"The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" Shoscombe Old Place (1991)
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Patrick Lau
actor:
杰瑞米·布雷特
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爱德华·哈德威克
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other title:
肖斯德姆别墅
一个漆黑的夜里,福尔摩斯与华生带着马灯,潜入肖斯德姆别墅附近的一座教堂,在教堂下面那阴森恐怖、堆放着众多陈年棺材的地穴里,两人举起了撬棍……
一个血腥味与恐怖意味十足的故事.
Wonderful Course (1991)
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other title:
Devil's Vindata
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妖魔道
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Two rival Taoist schools, one all-female, the other one all-male, must become allies to fight a demon as one of the priestesses is unaware that she's the daughter of the demon and has to lose her virginity to avoid turning into a demon herself.