Reasons and Endings

A young film maker is faced with having to cut his leading lady, with whom he has fallen in love.

A spirited, magically inventive and charming film full of large dashes of French New Wave quirkiness, and winner of 1990's Pia Film Festival grand prize, The Rain Women set the stage for Shinobu Yaguchi 's later career in offbeat comedies such as Waterboys and Swing Girls. In the first part of the film, two young women live together and create their own eccentric adventures, transforming their (always rainy) everyday environment into an enchanted playground, full of pop-musical sequences and synchronized tooth brushing performances. As the second half of the film shifts to both deeper psychological themes and a more meta-filmic playfulness, Yaguchi develops a bewitchingly melancholic atmosphere of unpredictability. Often compared to Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating, the film is a fascinating example of the exploration of the lines between filmic reality and filmic fiction-a signature jishu film obsession.

Anton M. Kashtanov is a talented surgeon and head of a large clinic. He decides to escape his domineering and bitchy wife Pauline in the village of Still Waters. Here he reconnects with his childhood friend.

Bandhuvulostunnaru Jagratha is the story of Chittibabau (Rajendra Prasad), an orphan who always yearned for the love of a family. He marries Satya (Rajani) and his life changes completely with the joy and excitement of relatives. Eventually, this becomes overbearing for him. Rest of the story is how he manages a clever way to get rid of them.

Counterculture journalist Paul Krassner embarks on an LSD tinged investigation of the last of Manson's disciples: Brenda McCann, Sandra Good, and Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme in order to find out if the Manson Murders were a CIA conspiracy.