Haha we tofaha (2006)

Actors: Hassan Hosny (actor), Lotfy Labib (actor), Talaat Zakaria (actor), Nabil Ali Maher (composer), Ayman Halawani (producer), Yasmin Abdulaziz (actress), Belal Fadl (writer), Reda Hamed (actor), Akram Fareed (director), Mohamed ElSobky (producer),

Genres: Comedy,

Duk haan yum cha (2006)

Actors: Wenders Li (editor), Andy Lau (actor), Andy Lau (producer), Ka Tung Lam (actor), Andy Lau (actor), Suet Lam (actor), Wellson Chin (actor), Ying-Wah Wong (composer), Chi Chung Lam (writer), Qiu Yuen (actress), Chi Chung Lam (director), Lik-Sun Fong (actor), Lik-Sun Fong (actor), Chen On Chu (producer), Daniel Yu Wai-Kwok (producer),

Plot: Man works as a clerk in a shipping company. His life is truly non-eventful and dull, until he meets the beautiful but highly arrogant Karen. By day, Karen is a two-bit host of a home shopping network. When the sun is down, she frequents clubs and discos to fill her time and search for company. Man's affection towards Karen is obvious, but she thinks of him as nothing more than a friend, someone whom she can always rely on though not someone she will care for in return. After a series of failed relationships with men who do not care for her, Karen tries to find consolation in Man, but the tide has changed, so has Man's heart.

Keywords: friendship, unrequited-love
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

The Orchid House (1991)

Actors: Tariq Anwar (editor), Ray Freeborn (miscellaneous crew), Peter Ansorge (producer), Nicholas Hewetson (actor), David Kennaway (miscellaneous crew), Michael Storey (composer), Lesley Cross (miscellaneous crew), Jessica Marshall-Gardiner (actress), Sheelagh Killeen (costume designer), Bobby Ghisays (actor), Jade Magri (actress), Suzanne Lindop (miscellaneous crew), Hayley Williams (actress), Daniel Gigault (actor), Kaz Ové (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Trilogy (1969)

Actors: Geraldine Page (actress), Maureen Stapleton (actress), Anna Hill Johnstone (costume designer), Martin Balsam (actor), Ralph Rosenblum (editor), Truman Capote (writer), Truman Capote (actor), Richard Hamilton (actor), Truman Capote (writer), Mildred Natwick (actress), Frank Perry (producer), Frank Perry (director), Frank L. Thompson (costume designer), Maggie James (miscellaneous crew), Jane Connell (actress),

Plot: "Miriam": Miss Miller has spent her life as a governess for children in some of the most fashionable homes in New York. She is shocked one day to learn that one of her "babies" is expecting a baby of her own and rejects Miss Miller's offer to be the nurse for the forthcoming child. That night, Miss Miller meets Miriam, a strange young girl who resembles Miss Miller when she was a child. Miriam, critical of everything Miss Miller has or does, constantly taunts her about a loveless existence, leading to a violent confrontation and chilling denouement. "Among The Paths To Eden": Mary O'Meaghan, a spinster, strikes up a conversation in a Queens, New York cemetery with a widower who is putting flowers on his deceased wife's grave. After establishing a modest rapport, Mary reveals to the bemused man that she had come to the graveyard specifically looking for a lonely widower, inasmuch as a friend of hers had found two husbands in a cemetery. "A Christmas Memory": As Christmastime approaches in rural Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual batch of fruitcakes for 'people who've struck our fancy'. On Christmas Eve, they talk with great anticipation of the next day, but underneath is the sad, almost unspoken knowledge that the boy is growing up and his cousin is getting older and more frail.

Keywords: alabama, american-south, anthology, aunt-nephew-relationship, based-on-short-story, boy, cemetery, central-park-manhattan-new-york-city, christmas, fear
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: An Event. Truman Capote, Frank Perry, Eleanor Perry, Geraldine Page, Mildred Natwick, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam. Together, they make "Trilogy"a motion picture unlike any other. An Extraordinary Motion Picture Collaboration.

Quotes:

Miss Miller: I had a telephone call from an absolute stranger asking me to meet him in a bar! I'd like to know what authorities to inform about that.

Miss Miller: I'm being tortured these days by all sorts of people. The other day on the street a dwarf followed me. He had a little platform with roller skates and he chased me! And then you know what he did? He winked at me! Why would a dwarf wink at me?

Miriam: Ungrateful little monsters...they've forgotten all about you. You've hardly slept through a night because of them, cleaned up their messes, nursed them through fevers, wiped up their vomit, put up with their tantrums, you've given your life for them...they don't even know you're alive!

Mary O'Meaghan: If you married again nobody in the world would criticize you. They say when a widower marries again it's a real compliment to the first wife.

Ivor Belli: I'm the kind of guy who never walks when he can stand and never stands when he can sit.

Narrator: To tell the truth, our only really profitable enterprise was the 'fun & freak museum' we conducted in the woodshed two summers ago. The 'fun' was a stereopticon with slide views of Washington and New York, lent us by a relative who had BEEN to those places. The 'freak' was a three-legged biddy chicken hatched by one of our own hens. Everybody hereabouts wanted to see that biddy. We charged grown-ups a nickel, kids two cents, and took in a good twenty dollars before the museum shut down--due to the decease of the main attraction.

Narrator: In addition to never having seen a movie, she has never eaten in a restaurant, traveled more than five miles from home, received or sent a telegram, read anything except the funny papers and the Bible, worn cosmetics, cursed, wished someone harm, told a lie on purpose, let a hungry dog go hungry.

Narrator: Who are our cakes for? Friends. Not necessarily neighbor friends: indeed, the larger share are intended for persons we've met maybe once, perhaps not at all. People who've struck our fancy. Like President Roosevelt. Like the Reverend and Mrs. J.C. Lucey, Baptist missionaries to Borneo who lectured here last winter. Or the little knife grinder who comes through town twice a year. Or Abner Packer, the driver of the six o'clock bus from Mobile, who exchanges waves with us every day as he passes in a dust-cloud whoosh. Or the young Wistons, a California couple whose car one afternoon broke down outside the house and who spent a pleasant hour chatting with us on the porch. Young Mr. Wiston snapped our picture, the only one we've ever had taken. Is it because my friend is shy with everyone except strangers that these strangers, and merest acquaintances, seem to us our truest friends? I think yes.

Sook: Oh, my...how foolish I am! You know what I always thought? I always thought a body had to be sick and dyin' before they saw the Lord. I imagined that when He came it would be like lookin' at a Baptist window...prettiest colored glass and the sun pouring through...such a shine you wouldn't know it was gettin' dark. S'been a comfort to me...that shine...takin' away all the spooky feelin'. But I'll wager it isn't like that. I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager, at the very end, a body realizes that the Lord has already shone Himself...as things as they ARE. Just what they have always seen we're seein' HIM. Mm, mm. As for me...I could leave the world with TODAY in my eyes!

Narrator: This is our last Christmas together. Life separates us. Those Who Know Best decide that I belong in a military school. And so follows a miserable succession of bugle-blowing prisons, grim reveille-ridden summer camps. I have a new home, too. But it doesn't count. Home is where my friend is, and there I never go. And there she remains, puttering around the kitchen. Alone with Queenie. Then alone.

Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (1932)

Actors: Tomio Aoki (actor), Chishû Ryû (actor), Tatsuo Saitô (actor), Takeshi Sakamoto (actor), Mitsuko Yoshikawa (actress), Yasujirô Ozu (writer), Yasujirô Ozu (director), Akira Fushimi (writer), Shoichi Kofujita (actor), Seiji Nishimura (actor), Donald Sosin (composer), Masao Hayama (actor), Seiichi Kato (actor), Hideo Shigehara (editor), Hideo Sugawara (actor),

Plot: Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Their father is an office clerk who tries for advancement by playing up his boss. When the boys visit the boss' house with their father, they discover that their dad has been making a fool of himself to please his boss, who's son is an outwitted member of the boys' gang. The brothers' revolt claiming that hierarchy should be based on ability, not on social background. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

Keywords: azabu, beer, bicycle, boss, boy, brother-brother-relationship, buffoon, bully, bullying, business-office
Genres: Comedy, Drama,