Come and Go

Nov 19, 2021

2h 38m

★ 0.0

Overview

Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot city through the eyes and experiences of a dozen characters who struggle to find their place in society: among them a Nepali refugee with dreams of opening a restaurant, a Burmese student struggling to make ends meet while working two jobs, and a Taiwanese sex tourist who travels to meet his favorite adult video actress.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Cinema Drifters

Come and Go Trailers

Cast

Xiao Kang

Lee Kang-sheng

Mayumi

Manami Usamaru

Nam

Liên Bỉnh Phát

Yoshiko Tomioka

Makiko Watanabe

Katsuhiko Tomioka

Seiji Chihara

Mousan

Mousam Gurung

Mimi

Nang Tracy

William

JC Chee

Shinji Iida

Jakujaku Katsura

Chang Liang

David Siu Chung-Hang

Ryuji Sawada

Shogen

Lee

Lee Tae-rim

Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.

5.2

The Saviour

Jun 18, 2005

A young Church elder struggles with his faith when the married woman he has been seeing breaks off their relationship.

6.6

The Skeleton Twins

Jun 5, 2014

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

No Image Available

0.0

Mister Fun

Invalid Date

International college student Wei Feng goes on a chaotic mission to convince his traditional parents that he’s on track to graduate, despite secretly flunking out due to an over-the-top party lifestyle. What ensues is a ride through culture clashes, identity crises, and the highs and lows of growing up between two worlds.

2.0

Navy Spy

Mar 13, 1937

A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.

6.3

Ann Carver's Profession

May 26, 1933

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.

4.0

Fake-Out

Nov 18, 1982

Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.

4.6

Loving Couples

Oct 24, 1980

Walter is a successful doctor, and so is his wife Evelyn. Wealthy and good-looking, they should be a happily married couple, but they're not. Walter is so caught up in his career that he fails to keep up with Evelyn. So when she falls for the charms of Greg, a real estate Romeo, it takes Walter by surprise. Even more so, because he finds out about it from Stephanie, Greg's deserted TV weather girl girlfriend.

3.8

Dragonard

May 12, 1987

In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded "dragonard" whip. This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the island's era of savage whippings.

6.2

In the Palm of Your Hand

Jun 21, 1951

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?

4.5

Secrets

Sep 21, 1971

A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

6.6

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

Jul 26, 2013

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

4.8

Tear Gas Squad

May 4, 1940

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

6.8

Go Into Your Dance

Apr 20, 1935

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

7.4

The Good Lie

Sep 10, 2014

A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.

6.3

Letter to the King

Jan 17, 2014

In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a young woman is haunted by the past and out for vengeance and an old man named Mirza is busy writing a letter to the king to get his final wish granted. An altogether urgent and nuanced portrait of a motley group of individuals, too often regarded as a homogeneous group.

5.3

Almost You

Mar 29, 1985

Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.

6.5

Serenity

Jun 25, 1961

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

0.0

Cocoanut Grove

May 20, 1938

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

9.0

The Third Girl from the Left

Oct 16, 1973

A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.