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Yi Yi (2000) -- (Movie Clip) Is It Really You?

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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)

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Yi Yi (2000) -- (Movie Clip) Is It Really You? Because the kid (Jonathan Chang) wouldn't eat at his uncle's wedding, dad

Yi Yi (2000) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Not Worthy Of You Opening with the wedding, director Edward Yang introduces the Taipei family at the center of his societal portrait, with emphasis on Kelly Lee as daughter Ting-Ting, Zeng Xinyi as an interloper visiting Grandma (Tang Ruyun), and Wu Nianzgen Wu the befuddled dad, in the international hit Yi Yi, 2000.

Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1965 1964) -- (Movie Clip) A Prophet Has Appeared Craziness in the newsroom, with meteor showers and a heat wave then Naoko (Yuriko Hoshi) is sent to cover a mystical person (Akiko Wakabayashi, whom we recognize as a fugitive foreign princess who was somehow captured en route to Japan) creating public panic, in Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, 1964.

Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964) -- (Movie Clip) ..Identified As King Ghidorah! Professor Miura (Hiroshi Koizumi) and his crew have been staking out the hot swelling meteor that landed in the opening scenes which finally cracks open, revealing the title character, causing panic in nearby Matsumoto, in the fifth Godzilla-franchise feature, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, 1964.

Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Fabulous Discovery Dr. Yamane (Takashi Shimura), with daughter Emiko (Momoko Kochi) now leading the expedition on Odo Island, American reporter Steve (Raymond Burr) and sidekick Iwanaga (Frank Iwanaga) observing, as the star makes his first appearance, in Godzilla, King Of The Monsters, 1956, edited from the original 1954 Japanese feature.

Brass Target (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Up Your Sweet Red Commie... Profane especially for the period but full marks to George Kennedy, in high octane portrayal of General George Patton, in post-War Germany, tangling with a fictional Russian general (Reinhold Olszewski) over military justice and stolen Allied gold, in Brass Target, 1978.

Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Tokyo Has No Defense Relatively safe in a newsroom, American reporter Steve (Raymond Burr) sets up his tape recorder, maybe for posterity, as the monster gets down to business in Tokyo, in the original U.S. version of Godzilla, King Of The Monsters, 1956.

Gojira (1954) -- (Movie Clip) What Could Have Caused This? The opening of the original feature by Ishiro Honda for Toho Films, with trouble at sea, followed by the introduction of Akira Takarada as sea salvage worker Hideo and Momoko Kôchi as girlfriend Emiko, in Gojira, 1954, re-cut and released two years later in the U.S. as Godzilla.

Monterey Pop (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Feelin' Groovy (59th Street Bridge Song) Composer Paul Simon and partner Art Garfunkel, their entire appearance in the film, performing Simon’s remarkably brief tune, formally titled The 59th Street Bridge Song, in June, 1967, in D.A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop, 1969.

Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922) -- (Movie Clip) What's The Matter With Me? Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), after delivering a lecture on psychoanalysis in his legit identity, has adopted the persona “Balling,” and entranced industrial heir Hull (Paul Richter) into inviting him to his own club, and losing big money, in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, 1922.

Woman Under The Influence, A -- (Movie Clip) Here's To Everybody! From the meal after the emergency overnight shift at the home of construction crew boss Nick (Peter Falk) and Mabel (Gena Rowlands), whose dalliance after he stood her up remains her secret, in A Woman Under The Influence, 1974, written and directed by Rowlands' husband John Cassavetes.

Evil Under The Sun (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Far Too Many Skeletons Hotelier Maggie Smith greets Peter Ustinov as detective Poirot, before the first evening's cocktail party, with Roddy McDowall, James Mason, Sylvia Miles, Jane Birkin and others but finally dominated by Diana Rigg, in the Agatha Christie mystery Evil Under The Sun, 1982.

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - (Original Trailer) A robot child dreams of becoming a real boy in Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001), a movie conceived by Stanley Kubrick.

Bird - (Original Trailer) Saxophone great Charlie Parker (Forest Whitaker) builds a career in jazz while fighting drug addiction in Clint Eastwood's Bird (1988).

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