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• Croatian :
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    The scariest movie I have ever seen. No its not a horror genre movie. Its real. What it says about the Balkans and its people scares me silly.
    
• Finnish :
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    Aki Kaurismäki's perversely minimalist Finnish comedy or depressing slock. A factory girl resolves to take a revolutionary stand, arms herself with a packet of rat poison, and sets out for revenge. How you react to this film may well depend on how much real life one has seen. One who grew up very poor could easily react very differently from one who has never seen hopelessness from lack of choices. I think its a fine picture but should your main reaction be - its ugly, depressing, ... then don't waste your time. Consider it an "art" film and blow it off. The video includes a quirky music-video rendition of "Those Were the Days" by Kaurismäki's house band, the Leningrad Cowboys.
    
• French :
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    Daniel Auteuil works at a condom manufacturer. When he learns he's about to be fired, with the help of his neighbor, he pretends to be gay so his boss can't fire him without seeming prejudiced. Every gag is handled with a superb understatement.
    
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    From the same author as . On center stage is a self-centered publisher who has a weekly dinner with his friends: the one who brings the biggest idiot wins. He has a sure fire winner in a civil servant who make models out of match sticks. I thought I would bust a gut as the "idiot" turns the tables.
    
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    Daniel Auteuil is a tough cop who is estranged from his family, a group of dedicated organized criminals. Excellent cop story French style.
    
• German :
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    Story from the 6th Army's perspective. Only 6000 men of several hundred thousand survived to return home after the war. Interesting to compare to which focuses on a sniper-to-sniper vie of the same piece of hell from the Russian view.
    
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    In 1945 a naïve American returns to his native Germany and meets a railroad-company heiress who is involved with a neo-Nazi terrorist group called the Werewolves. A hypnotic maze of romance, passion, and betrayal.
    
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    Emil Jannings stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hat, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation.
    
• Japanese :
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    Juzo Itami was attacked and seriously injured by a knife-wielding yakuza after this film was released. Its about the intimidation techniques of the Japanese mafia.
    
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    tireless, single-minded investigator for the Japanese Revenue Service, and her confrontation with a hotshot businessman who thinks he knows all the angles when it comes to cheating the government. staring Miyamoto (writer-director Itami's wife). The sequel, is delightful although the topic is corruption.
    
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    On my top 10 list. a Juzo Itami film. a young widow named Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) is struggling to make ends meet by running a noodle restaurant. Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki), a truck driver, saves Tampopo's young son from being beaten by a group of school girls and is rewarded with a bowl of very bad ramen (noodles). Goro tells Tampopo the awful truth about her cooking and she asks for his help. Together they search for the perfect ramen recipe.
    
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    Juzo Itami film. A black comedy that chides solemn, traditional Japanese funeral rites. A modern Japanese family is compelled to hold a Buddhist funeral for its patriarch--who happened to own a brothel. When the family buys a video tape to instruct them on what to do and say at the funeral ...
    
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    Akira Kurosawa's classic has been copied many times but never matched. A classic. On the all-time short-list for movie buffs.