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‘Peon’ is a true story told through a delivery rider’s phone screen. An order comes in to deliver passports. On his way, he receives a voice message offering him money to send it to a different address. He finds out that
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‘Peon’ is a true story told through a delivery rider’s phone screen. An order comes in to deliver passports. On his way, he receives a voice message offering him money to send it to a different address. He finds out that
Hayashi, a typical white-collar japanese worker, lives passively the ravages of the daily routine in Tokyo. Little by little his personal life is revealed and in it loneliness and frustration are discovered within a soci
Rubén González appears one day on a farm looking for work, the owner of the farm, a German named Hans, gives him the opportunity to stay, what he doesn't know is that Rubén comes with intentions to steal, since he has in
A pawn advances two squares and initiates four duel situations in a bar.
Documentary that portrays the resistance of different groups of people for food sovereignty and the right to free and millennial sowing against a group of corporations that intend to take over the territory, leaving many
Rita is twenty-four years old and has never had an orgasm. All she remembers from her first sexual experience is disappointment and a kitschy painting of peonies hanging on the wall before an old sofa creaking beneath he
Narrated excerpts from Chen Shi-Zheng’s acclaimed stage production of Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion, filmed in Paris after its Lincoln Center presentation. This two-hour document condenses the epic kunqu love story of
It's been a year since the incident, and "Los Peones" are reminiscing about their friendship at a fancy band dinner that will take place at the pisibidi. Who will take a prize home that night? We'll find out soon.
Salomon, a traveller, comes back to his hometown. Sitting at the bar of his old friend Jean, he remembers Dimitri, his travelling companion who died in a strange shooting.
The intricate and difficult life of a theatrical troupe actress with the stage name of Red Peony.
The Flower King Yaojun of the Hundred Flowers Banquet was violently killed in front of the eyes of the immortals, and many immortals were killed one after another. Legend has it that there is a temple on the top of Kunlu
The first Chinese sound film. It tells the story of Hong Pion (Red Peony), a singer-songwriter who, after her marriage to the depraved Faxiang Chen, not only tormented and suffered, but also endured the decline of her ar
Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebted to their gen
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko th
A sakada is a farmer who works in a sugarcane field. The film proceeds to document the stages of sugar production once in the mill, then shifts to the unrest outside where a sakada was shot to death by one of the haciend
In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a handsome instructor develop an intense relationship.
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town’s businesses, murders him, Oryu is o
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is b