A young man has an affair with an older woman, but he is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband's had plenty of sake to drink and is in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. She pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work and for three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other, but suspicions arise and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrive find out more...

Kobayashi's remarkable 'ghost' stories are a beautiful amalgam of traditional Japanese art and subtle direction. The four stories are adaptations of 18th century ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn and are eerily compelling. Their dramatic impact is all due to subtle visual nuances. Excellent. find out more...

Bergman's fascinating and acclaimed allegorical search for a meaning for human existance. A disillusioned soldier returns from the Crusades to find plague ravaging Europe. Death arrives in person to take his soul, but by beating him at chess he earns a reprieve. Repressive, dark, medieval and superb! find out more...