Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926). 　　Yoso means "esoteric priest" which implies "sorcerer." For such a rarely screened film, it seems to have attracted an unwieldy number of English titles: The Sorcerer, Ghostly Priest, Bronze Magician, Phantom Priest, & on the subtitled 35 mm print the only fully apropos title, Priest & Empress, not to be confused with another Raizo Ichikawa film called The Priest & the Beauty (Anchin to Kyohima, 1960). 　　Japan of the Nara Era had a sovereign female emperor or Mikado, Koken-Shotoku Tenno, who fell under the sway of a Buddhist priest named Dokyo. His influence over her proved so untoward that Empress Koken-Shotoku gave him titles which implied the imperial line might actually pass to him should the Empress die, despite that the imperial line had been preserved as a single dynasty back into prehistory. 　　The crisis engendered by Dokyo led to the banning of women ever again becoming Mikado, a decision periodically revisited including in our own generation when there stood a strong threat of no authentic male heir. 　　The film takes this historical reality & makes of it a believable though tough & very odd love story. Dokyo, who has indeed been called "the Japanese Rasputin," is here played by Raizo Ichikawa. Though Dokyo clearly uses the affections of the Empress (played by the ethereally beautiful Yukiko Fuji) for personal gain & power, his intense devotion to Shotoku is nevertheless no falsehood. When it comes time for his assassination, it is very much Rasputin-like, as he is damnably difficult to kill. It's portrayed quite horrifically but it remains simultaneously sorrowful because his love of Shotoku was no pose.

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926). 　　Yoso means "esoteric priest" which implies "sorcerer." For such a rarely screened film, it seems to have attracted an unwieldy number of English titles: The Sorcerer, Ghostly Priest, Bronze Magician, Phantom Priest, & on the subtitled 35 mm print the only fully apropos title, Priest & Empress, not to be confused with another Raizo Ichikawa film called The Priest & the Beauty (Anchin to Kyohima, 1960). 　　Japan of the Nara Era had a sovereign female emperor or Mikado, Koken-Shotoku Tenno, who fell under the sway of a Buddhist priest named Dokyo. His influence over her proved so untoward that Empress Koken-Shotoku gave him titles which implied the imperial line might actually pass to him should the Empress die, despite that the imperial line had been preserved as a single dynasty back into prehistory. 　　The crisis engendered by Dokyo led to the banning of women ever again becoming Mikado, a decision periodically revisited including in our own generation when there stood a strong threat of no authentic male heir. 　　The film takes this historical reality & makes of it a believable though tough & very odd love story. Dokyo, who has indeed been called "the Japanese Rasputin," is here played by Raizo Ichikawa. Though Dokyo clearly uses the affections of the Empress (played by the ethereally beautiful Yukiko Fuji) for personal gain & power, his intense devotion to Shotoku is nevertheless no falsehood. When it comes time for his assassination, it is very much Rasputin-like, as he is damnably difficult to kill. It's portrayed quite horrifically but it remains simultaneously sorrowful because his love of Shotoku was no pose.

狄仁杰奉命巡查江南各道，途径临安城时被卷入一起神秘的少女失踪案，经过深入调查他发现与当地的邪教有关，案件疑云密布错综复杂，背后妖僧的身影若隐若现，狄仁杰以非凡的才智抽丝剥茧，一步步逼近真相，开启了一场正义与邪恶碰撞的探案之旅…...

狄仁杰奉命巡查江南各道，途径临安城时被卷入一起神秘的少女失踪案，经过深入调查发现与当地的淫词邪教有关，案件疑云密布错综复杂，背后妖僧的身影若隐若现，狄仁杰以非凡才智抽丝剥茧，一步步逼近真相，开启了一场正义与邪恶碰撞的探案之旅…

Bill Maher's ninth stand-up special airs 13 Feb on HBO. 　　In the special, Maher's going to address whether the "Great Recession" is really over; the fake patriotism of the right wing; what goes on in the mind of a terrorist; why Obama needs a posse instead of the secret service; the drug war; Michael Jackson; getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan; racism; the Teabagger movement; religion; the healthcare fight; why Gov. Mark Sanford will come out looking good, and how silly it is to ask "Why do men cheat?"; and why comedy most definitely didn't die when George Bush left office.

Bill Maher's ninth stand-up special airs 13 Feb on HBO. 　　In the special, Maher's going to address whether the "Great Recession" is really over; the fake patriotism of the right wing; what goes on in the mind of a terrorist; why Obama needs a posse instead of the secret service; the drug war; Michael Jackson; getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan; racism; the Teabagger movement; religion; the healthcare fight; why Gov. Mark Sanford will come out looking good, and how silly it is to ask "Why do men cheat?"; and why comedy most definitely didn't die when George Bush left office.

当一位年轻僧人接触到“博阿健身房”的健美运动员时，他重新连接到了自己身体的力量，引发了一场彻底的转变。

“我没死”是一个身份模糊的年轻人对情人发出的呼唤，他不满足于自己的生活，羡慕一名成熟男人的风度、事业、妻子，于是在这个男人奇异死亡后，年轻人占有了他的灵魂乃至爱情。本片看似“奇幻”，实则残酷刻骨，光天化日下的亲情仇恨和三角爱欲纠缠在导演哲学家式的讲述下平添了几分离奇。曾出演过《低俗小说》的葡萄牙美女玛丽亚·德·梅黛洛在片中与帅气小生麦赫迪·德比（《继子》）共同演绎赤裸叛逆的一见钟情。

酒鬼伊莎贝尔想要为她的侄女的洗礼庆祝，但她的父亲无法原谅过去的错误。他希望维持一副完美家庭的图景。伊莎贝尔必须勇敢地选择自己的道路。

酒鬼伊莎贝尔想要为她的侄女的洗礼庆祝，但她的父亲无法原谅过去的错误。他希望维持一副完美家庭的图景。伊莎贝尔必须勇敢地选择自己的道路。