LW's Favorite Obscure Movies

About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.

When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.

Two men attracted to the same woman are attending a trip with her in the Mountains during the bird hunting season. A triangular love drama ending with tragedy. Or is it, really?

Documentary about 6 tramps who hop trains in America.

A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman discovers he forgot to bring his wallet and bides his time by ordering more coffee.

The eleventh son of the Qing emperor, who's a kung fu master, is visiting Canton incognito. While there, he meets a loudmouth thief who he takes under his wing, while assassins sent by his fourth brother threaten his life.

The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system, is also one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the world. The film, At Berkeley, shows the major aspects of university life, its intellectual and social mission, its obligation to the state and to larger ideas of higher education, as well as illustrates how decisions are made and implemented by the administration in collaboration with its various constituencies.

When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.

A chance meeting rekindles old memories between a screenwriter and his ex-girlfriend, who is by now married to a well-to-do man.

A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.

A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess Polanski, she comes between him and his band members, and he leaves his dreams behind in search of fame.

Beijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."

A group of Asian prisoners is recruited, trained, armed and sent to Vietnam to destroy a cache of American weapons left behind after the Vietnam War, before the Vietcong discovers its location.

After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.

A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about.

A suicidal, has-been rock star tells an amnesiac woman they are longtime lovers after he witnesses her crash her motorcycle.

When violence is the only life you know, will love save you or just unravel everything?

Cheng Tai-nun is a young martial-arts champion. She marries an elderly landowner so that he can keep his estate from falling into the greedy and corrupt hands of his brother, Yu Yung-Sheng.

The best sword master from China vs the best sword master from Japan. Who will win?

A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.

A discarded cartoon character and some spilt ink combine and interact as if the cartoonist had drawn their actions. Discovering them, the cartoonist then joins in the interaction.