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From director Tokuzô Tanaka (Rashomon, Snow Woman) and based on Koichiro Uno‘s award-winning novel and scripted by visionary writer-director Kaneto Shindo, this loose adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick captures the madness and danger of whaling and combines it with period drama and kaiju monster effects. It is additionally scored by Akira Ifukube, who did the music for the original ‘Godzilla’.

Also known as “Killer Whale”… A small Japanese village is obsessed with killing a monstrous whale that has decimated its hunting parties. The town’s wealthiest man offers his land, position, and only daughter to the individual who can kill the demon whale.

Shaki, a popular young man whose family has been massacred by the beast, steps forward vowing to slay the whale and avenge his relations, but his efforts are complicated by a brutish stranger to the village also intent on killing the monster and collecting on the promised riches.

RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN NORTH AMERICA!

Stars Takashi Shimura, the lead in Kurosawa’s ‘The Seven Samurai’ and had a major role in the original ‘Godzilla’

The DVD version includes expensive bonus material:

Whales in Japanese Folklore
Moby Dick vs Godzilla
Kaiju United speaks

1962 / 100 Minutes / Black & White / Japanese w/English subtitles / A film by Tokuzo Tanaka.

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April 30, 1975 marked the end of Vietnam’s two-decade-old civil war and the start of the exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Despite his alliance to the toppled South Vietnamese government, Long Nguyen (as Long Nguyen) decides to remain in Vietnam. Imprisoned in a Communist re-education camp, he urges his family to make the escape by boat without him. His wife Mai (Diem Lien), son Lai (Nguyen Thai Nguyen) and mother Ba Noi (Kieu Chinh) then embark on the arduous ocean voyage in the hope of reaching the U.S. and freedom.

Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon, and those who were forced to stay behind, Journey from the Fall follows one family’s struggle for freedom.

Produced in 2006 by the Vietnamese expat community and their families, Journey from the Fall was met with great critical response:

“An unmissable, powerful and essential film… so rooted in history and yet made with sensitivity and grace.” — Erika Franklin, Firecracker Magazine, UK FILM Council

“Writer/Director Ham Tran achieves the impossible.” — Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times

“A superbly wrought saga of loss and survival… A remarkably ambitious debut… A major accomplishment. An example of sophisticated, impassioned filmmaking involving mainly people who lived through the harrowing experiences so unsparingly depicted.” — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Features Diem Lien, Kieu Chinh, Long Nguyen, Nguyen Thai Nguyen, Cat Ly, Jayvee Mai The Hiep and Khanh Doan.