In rural Japan, farmers protest after their access to their water storage is blocked by corrupt landowners. The botanist Ikushima tries to resolve the conflict by locating an alternate water source for the peasants. Meanwhile, he falls in love with Motoko, who is the secretary and liaison of Tachibana, who owns the water storage. With both men being in love with Motoko, soon tensions start to escalate.
Year: 2020
A group of young UN soldiers in Lebanon enters service with pro-Israeli views and a naive outlook on war. They go through a radical change of heart as they witness and film the Qana massacre. They secure video evidence indicating that Israel deliberately bombed a UN camp killing 106 refugees.
Columbia’s Once to Every Woman was the first of A. J. Cronin’s medical novels to be adapted for the screen. The drama of the piece hinges on the conflict between brilliant young surgeon Barclay and crusty hospital head Dr. Selby. On another, less-crucial front, Barclay and playboy physician Preston vie for the attentions of pretty nurse Miss Farnshawe. The story comes to a tension-laden climax as Barclay prepares for a delicate brain operation — a revolutionary procedure which has been opposed by Dr. Selby throughout the picture. Once to Every Woman was scripted by frequent Frank Capra collaborator Jo Swerling.
At the outbreak of World War II, the famous ‘Mona Lisa’ is removed from the Lourve Museum in Paris, and stored for safekeeping in London. Sir James Collison, director of National Art Museum in London, is determined to safeguard the priceless painting. But Carl Hoffmeyer, a German fanatic art collector, is equally determined to steal the painting even it takes murder to do so.
The Reason Why presents two cronies who sit before an isolated country house and gradually spill forth their personal feelings about the things they have killed. Addresses the impulse toward war, violence and murder, pondering whether man is a violent animal ‘programmed’ to kill.
Victor is a young boy who dreams about becoming a firefighter one day, unfortunately his mother is told that he’s been diagnosed with leukaemia and only has one more month to live, his mother goes to the local fire station to try to make her kid’s dream come true.
A group of youthful soldiers stationed in the Philippines prepare to fight after they learn about Pearl Harbor. One disgraced soldier redeems himself by heroically crashing his plane into a ship carrying Japanese troops.