114. Intentions of murder (1964)

Country: Japan
Directed by Shohei Imamura

Surely I can say that is a movie that captures you since you begin to watch it as it is great visually , with beautiful black and white photography , experimental style, powerful music and great choise of the actors. Most of all has this unique view on things and often strangely contradicted characteristics that consist Imamura's cinematic world: is dark but full of irony, ugly but so beautiful at times, sensual and violent, insensitive to the characters as to be insects under the lens but at the same time camera it gets so close to them that you can listen their breaths and you can feel that their joys and dramas happen right next to you so much that you get drowned on them. A very modern film, way ahead of its time ,that I appreciate deeply

You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbVqZia_Jo

113. An innocent witch (1965)

Country: Japan
Directed by Heinosuke Gosho

In Japanese cinema,  the figure of the young woman that gets sexually and emotionally exploited, taking on her shoulders the 'sins' of everyone , enduring the violence and misogynism of society sacrificing herself, is very common. In this case Heinosuke Gosho through the story of an innocent girl that is sold by her parents to a brothel and latter been accused of been possessed by evil spirits, bringing death to her customers, is making a lot of comments about the economical and ethical status of pre-war Japan. Even if his critic is not going deep to challenge the social structure and is a strong mysticism in the movie that makes you think about the fate as a factor that determines the human lives, the social reality that is depicted in the movie speaks by itself

You can watch the full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQ__ZXcVNo

112. Angel bar 21 (1978)

Country: Thailand
Directed by Euthana Mukdasanit

Sometimes naive and  simplistic , balancing between the comedy , the musical and the drama, this movie still is well directed and an important moment of Thai cinema as it attacks to the social order depicting the injustice and inequality of the society as rarely we seen before. Upper classes, corrupted to the core and supported by the police and the whole system, just exploit the poor who in order to survive are obliged to involve in prostitution or in drug dealing. The movie doesn't hesitate to show us the slums that are invisible , as I know, in all Thai movies of the era, even if is doing it lightly and playful in order to avoid the censors. Euthana Mukdasanit choose to not make us feel better with a happy end: the social reality is hard and he doesn't want to sugar the pill

111. House on little cubes (2009)

Country: Japan
Directed by Kunio Kato

A real masterpiece, this short animation film is so elegant, so beautiful , so powerful ! Is just perfect! Is so emotional that is difficult to watch it without to cry , as evokes feelings and memories to anyone : are the common human hopes, the dreams, the youth, the love, the years that pass without no one to be able to stop them, the loneliness, the death, the insisted memory, the realizations how fragile our existence is that are exposed on the screen with a way that is together sweet but also painful, and concerns every person , everywhere in the earth. Kunio Kato makes a real hymne to the life that makes you smile and gives you optimism, but together you can't avoid the sadness as you feel how everything is temporary and how killer the time is

You can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-C1_wnlAvg

  

110. Insiang (1976)

Country: Philippines
Directed by Lino Brocka

A real masterpiece that I never feel bored to watch again and again! Lino Brocka directs with a sense of documentary giving to the spaces and environment ( the slums that are presented in the movie) equal importance with the faces and characters. The actors are ideal for their roles. O' Hara's scenario is just brilliant giving to the film a quality in a direction that makes it what it is: a well balanced melodrama, a political thesis about the social injustice, a feminist manifesto. Even if Insiang is a low budget modest film that never tries to use the misery or violence as a way to impress , is full of scenes and moments that ,if you watch once, you will never forget and they will follow you for years

-You can watch the full movie here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrW4Zeet6WQ