Movies: 1997

Tales of the Bizarre: 1997 Spring Special is a special edition of Tales of the Bizarre that aired on Fuji Television on March 31, 1997....

The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-sig...

Yamamoto Ryuji, the president of a gay film production company, was troubled. Without a suitable model, he was at a dead end with his project. While searching for material, Yamamoto went to a paid cruising spot for gay men and discovered that a nearb...

Hinako, a geisha, comes from a family of three generations of geisha. She started her career as a geisha in earnest after breaking up with her childhood friend and boyfriend from an old family. She and her fellow geisha friends, Koyomi and Mitsuba, g...

Members of the audience fight against stage performers set to a specially created Xena/Hercules movie....

A robot finds a job as a janitor. He must remember that if it says "Don't Touch", don't touch....

A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved....

When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes ...

The Shoemaker kids are enjoying a quiet summer vacation in the country, until they discover a friendly little Sasquatch.... and the adventure of a lifetime....

A gang of armed criminals bursts into the home of a woman, taking her and the daughters of three of her friends hostage....

Kwang Su (Shin Hyun Jun) has struggled his whole life to shake off the stigma of a shameful family history. He lives in a state of perpetual despair. By contrast, Jong Man (Lee Byung Hun) works as a bartender and spends his days dreaming of becoming ...

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in sea...

Four aging animals, a dog, a cat, a donkey and a rooster escape from their former homes because they weren't as productive and useful for their owners as they used to be. To avoid death, they all move out on a musical journey to Bremen to find a bett...

The "walk in" of the title refers to one person allowing another's soul to take possession of his body at the time of death....

Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Manager to three teams is named Manager of the Yankees. And he finds himself having players like Dwight Gooden, Wade Boggs and Daryl Strawberry who are co...

Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world's most popular Christmas traditions -- from th...

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-th...

A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quie...

Devudu, the adopted son of an honest village head, marries the daughter of a corrupt politician which disappoints his father....

The Letter is a 1997 South Korean film starring Choi Jin-sil and Park Shin-yang....