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Foundation date 1 january 2001
Cinema Epoch is an independent film distribution and production company based in the U.S. It was founded by distribution veteran and filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka. The company specializes in the release of foreign, independent and cult cinema. Its first release was the martial arts classic Master of the Flying Guillotine. The company's DVD releases are distributed through E1 Entertainment.
Filmography of Cinema Epoch (31 films)
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, 1h35Directed by Gregory Hatanaka
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Matt Hannon, Bai Ling, Kayden Kross, Tommy Wiseau, Kristine DeBell, Laurene Landon
Blue Dream (2013)
, 1h29Directed by Gregory Hatanaka
Genres Drama
Actors James Duval, Dominique Swain, Kayden Kross, Pollyanna McIntosh, Noah Hathaway, Walter Koenig
Robert Harmon is a newspaper journalist in the late 1990s. As the internet begins to take over and print circulation declines, he is forced to make a series of unethical and immoral decisions leading to his downfall.
Nipples & Palm Trees (2012)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Sadie Katz, Akihiro Kitamura
After having trouble with his girlfriend, a painter named Jackson searches Los Angeles to find love, though he mostly finds casual sex.
Violent Blue (2011)
, 2h9Directed by Gregory Hatanaka
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Silvia Šuvadová, Nick Mancuso, Garret T. Sato, Gregory Hatanaka
Katarina is a music teacher intent on completing and uncovering the secret behind an unfinished music symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej, an introverted electronics inventor who finds himself falling in love with the mysterious student who lives downstairs. His work is being financed by a nefarious tycoon named Bolo. When Katarina's ex-husband Pietro shows up and imprisons her, locking the woman up in a cage, her brother must question whether to sacrifice himself in order to free her.
Air: The Musical (2010)
, 1h40Origin USA
The film follows six individuals, all of whom are struggling to find their place in the world.
Breaking Point (2009)
, 1h37Directed by Jeff Celentano
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Tom Berenger, Armand Assante, Busta Rhymes, Sticky Fingaz, Musetta Vander, Frankie Faison
Steven Luisi, ex avocat de la défense de criminels tente de reprendre son métier après avoir lutté contre son addiction à la drogue et après avoir souffert d'une tragédie familiale.
Sea of Dust (2008)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Tom Savini, Ingrid Pitt, Bill Timoney
Circulation (2008)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Yvonne DeLaRosa
Opening narration from Gene, a middle-aged American, explains that he has died, entered purgatory, and has been having strange dreams and compulsions. In this afterlife, people slowly take on the characteristics of animals, and Gene's nature is that of a spider. As he drifts aimlessly through Baja, Mexico, where he died while on vacation, he meets a Mexican woman named Ana who can speak no English. Ana, who is taking on the characteristics of a caterpillar, died on the way to meet her boyfriend when her abusive ex-husband attempted to kidnap her. Because he speaks no Spanish, Gene can only understand that she needs help. Grateful to find a purpose, Gene decides to help Ana, unaware of the danger posed by her violent ex-husband, who also died in the botched kidnapping attempt. Along the way, Gene and Ana witness much in the way of strange behavior, and they begin to give in to their own bestial compulsions: Ana begins eating leaves, while Gene becomes obsessed with wrapping everything in web-like rope. Although ashamed at the cannibalistic ramifications, Gene ultimately begins eating corpses he has wrapped in rope. In the end, Gene preys upon and consumes Ana's ex-husband.
Wool 100% (2006)
, 1h40Directed by Mai Tominaga (富永まい)
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Actors Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kyōko Kishida, Eiko Koike
Elderly sisters Ume (Kyōko Kishida) and Kame (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) spend their days dumpster diving in order to find various "treasures" that they haul back to their house, which is full of the various objects that they've collected over the years. One day they discover a skein of red yarn, which prompts the appearance of Aminaoshi (Ayu Kitaura), a strange young girl that uses the yarn to repeatedly knit and then unravel a red sweater. They try to get her to leave, only for her to refuse and try to damage things in the house. The two sisters let her stay, but her presence brings back memories of a door-to-door junk dealer that they had both become infatuated with before he left to fight in World War II. He never returned, but Ume and Kame kept hope that he would return and collected various bits of trash in preparation for when he comes back. Through Aminaoshi, the two sisters eventually come to terms with the fact that the junk dealer will not return.
Mad Cowgirl (2006)
, 1h29Directed by Gregory Hatanaka
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Actors Sarah Lassez, James Duval, Walter Koenig, Devon Odessa, Vic Chao, Jaason Simmons
The central character in Mad Cowgirl is Therese, a meat inspector who is dying of a brain disorder. The film follows Therese on her surreal descent into violence, in which men in her life become the Ten Tigers of Canton that she must kill in order to become a better woman.
Gallipoli (2005)
, 1h30Genres War, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films
Actors Jeremy Irons, Sam Neill
Through the use of surviving diaries, letters and photographs from both sides, the film shows the bravery and the suffering on both sides. The film also contains: interviews with international experts, location landscape, underwater and aerial photography, 3-D computer animations and re-enactments of trenches.
Gozu (2003)
, 2h10Directed by Takashi Miike
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Comedy horror films, Gangster films
Actors Shō Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino, Shōhei Hino, Renji Ishibashi, Kenichi Endō, Masaya Katō
Structurally, Gozu is a succession of bizarre scenes sandwiched between a storyline involving Minami’s search for his Yakuza brother Ozaki in a small town, that is reminiscent of the episodic quests in Greek Mythology.
Tokyo Decadence (1992)
, 2h15Directed by Ryū Murakami
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Romance, Pornographic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Miho Nikaido, Hiroshi Mikami
A timid Japanese college student, Ai (愛, lit. "love"), works as a specialty prostitute for an exclusive escort agency that caters to wealthy, mostly perverted, Japanese men in Tokyo. To please her clients, she has to play out elaborate fantasy scenarios involving sexual humiliation and light SM/bondage.
Hundra (1983)
, 1h49Directed by Matt Cimber
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Laurene Landon, María Casal, Ramiro Oliveros, Frank Braña, Eduardo Fajardo
Hundra belongs to a tribe of Amazons. She is the only tribe member of her age who has never been with a man. She declares she would keep it like that. One day when she goes hunting, her tribe is outnumbered and slaughtered by barbarians. As the only survivor she travels to an old wise woman and asks her for advice. To her surprise she is told she ought to become a mother in order to prevent the final extinction of the Amazons. Subsequently Hundra seeks a father for her child. The first candidate has bad manners and it turns out that he is suffering with a sadistic personality disorder. While she continues her search she is confronted by a murderous robber baron who only wants to kill her. Later she encounters an effeminate pimp. Eventually she gets to know a gentleman who works as healer. She asks him to become the father of her child but she is told that a man won't get in the right mood if he is approached in an all too blunt way. Hundra asks other women to help her to live up to his expectations. Consequently she succeeds in seducing him, gets pregnant and delivers a child. Unfortunately now an evil pagan priest kidnaps Hundra's daughter. Thus Hundra is coerced into joining a sinister ritual where the priest's followers humiliate her. During this session she is informed that her new friends have freed the child. She fights back and returns to her home lands. The female narrator explains there was proof that Hundra's spirit kept on living in all women ever since.
Butterfly (1982)
, 1h48Directed by Matt Cimber
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, Edward Albert, James Franciscus
Jess Tyler is a hermit who guards a silver mine. His daughter Kady ran off and gave birth to the illegitimate child of a rich man who refused to marry her.