Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) 2008 ( 9)

Don Giovanni 1987 ( 9)

Live performance from Salzburger Festspiele in 1987. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor. Stage director Michael Hampe. Starring Samuel Ramey and Anna Tomowa-Sintow.

Andrea Chénier 1985 ( 7.5)

Live from ROH 1985. Giordano's Andrea Chenier is one of the greatest of verismo operas, full of heart-stopping big tunes and powerful emotional situations. If it is not as well-known as it should be, it is because in summary it sounds a little too like Puccini's Tosca: there is a tussle between political opponents over a woman, an attempt to save a condemned man, a tenor aria about writing poetry on the eve of execution. The difference is that Gerard (Giorgio Zancanaro) is not a villain like Scarpia, he is an idealist whom the French Revolution has betrayed as much as it has his rival the poet Chenier (Placido Domingo). His temptation to abuse his power to seduce the virtuous Maddalena (Anna Tomowa-Sintow) is a momentary one, though its consequences are terrible. There is a streak of post-Wagnerian decadence in much of this--Maddalena is at least as much in love with death as she is with Chenier, and the final love duet has a deeply sinister aspect. -- From Amazon.co.uk

Baibu-ya no onna shujin: Uneri-nuku 2007 ( 2)

Ranko takes photos of "Human Body Flower Arrangements" with the theme of "The Female Body and Ikebana'." She herself becomes the subject of photos, playing with flowers, and never missing a risqué pose. But lately, she has also felt stuck in her work. When Ranko's husband, who has a butt fetish, informs her of "Love & Peace," a site that sells vibrators to women, she is shocked by the colorful variety of goods.

Reawaken 2006

A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk without direction; three women decades apart all bound by one inescapable fate.

Sexual Harassment Baptism: Eating Disorder 2008

Kimizuka is rescued by Saya in the form of a sister when she collapses in the park, but she has no belongings and no memory of herself. Saya is expelled from the monastery for writing a pornographic novel, and takes Kimizuka to the hotel where she is staying, and asks her various questions to use her as a model for the novel. In Kimizuka's mind, the image of women crying and crying after being forced to have sex comes to mind.

Papilio 1987 ( 2)

František Cepl is a young man from a simple family. He graduated from a real school and was going to study technology. When the occupation came, he had to work as a factory assistant. There he meets an older man named Telec, whom everyone knows as Hrabě. He impresses František with his ostentatious disdain for work and his shameless flirtation with women. František, whom the Count calls Papilio (butterfly butterfly), is filled with youthful ideals, while the Count, on the other hand, is an extract of the crudest individualism. He has worked his way up from a student at a business academy and a theatre actor to a member of a pre-war gallery. He blackmails, steals, drinks, abuses women and, in a way, Papilio himself.

My Daughter's Operation 1987

A car accident occurs and Dusan's teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult to injury, Dusan is unable to donate a kidney when he finds out he is not Milena's biological father. Dusan is left to cope with his wife's infidelity, as well as the life of his ailing daughter.