A Peter Watkins film depicting fictional events in Europe in 1976, focusing on a shipyard strike and a kidnapping of a Danish EEC Minister.
A double feature presenting Peter Watkins' "The Web," a reconstruction of the Allied landing in occupied France, and "THE GLADIATORS," a bleak satire set in the near future where global powers prevent war through televised 'Peace Games' fought to the death.
In Japanese with English subtitles. With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.