Every fall the REEL ROCK Film Tour brings the year's most exciting new climbing films to live audiences around the world. For 2010, the tour features six amazing short films, with stories from the cutting edge of alpine climbing, bouldering, sport climbing, and traditional climbing.
Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's branch manager is Asano. He is an ambitious man and tries to shift the blame to Hanzawa. Hanzawa then attends an inquiry about the loan failure at the bank's headquarters in Tokyo. Hanzawa denies fault and promises to retrieve the 500 million yen loan. He did this because it's the only way for Hanzawa to survive as a banker.
Raymond Blanc believes becoming a good cook is all about mastering the basic techniques. Raymond taught himself to be a Michelin star chef. But first, he had to understand what happens to food when you cook it different ways. Once you know what is happening when you roast, fry, poach etc then you can cook anything. After forty years of trial and error, Raymond wants to share what he has learnt. Each week he takes a different technique and shows five delicious dishes using that technique. The recipes range from simple to ambitious and Raymond delivers it all in his easy, warm, inimitable way.
Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.
First Footprints explores the story of how people arrived and thrived on our continent. With startling new archaeological discoveries revealing how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments.
Sawako (Ryoko Hirosue) was dumped by her husband and since then she has raised her three sons alone. One day, she happens to meet a young man (Sota Fukushi) who is dying. She falls in love with him at first sight. The young man also suffers from memory loss. Sawako names him Hoshio. Taking advantage of his memory loss, she decides to make him live with her and as the father of her three sons. Now, Sawako, her three sons, her grandmother and Hoshio all live together. Sawako hopes Hoshio never regains his memory. Hoshio also begins to develop feelings for her. Whenever Sawako has troubles, Hoshio helps her out with his mysterious ability. Hoshio's past is also a mysterious. A mystery that is finally revealed.
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womaniser; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an ageing barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm. Only one of these men will win her heart in the end... Featuring rare television performances from Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Paul Scofield, this trilogy of plays forms a dramatic and controversial study in male behaviour. Differs slightly from the omnibus version that aired 3 Jan 1969 on NBC (US).
The Heart of Glairung is a Thai television drama, the fifth Thai drama of the "Lookmai Kong Por"-Series. The romance - drama starring the The Times Su BAnyam, Nijhoff Losuwan and many top performers. The first episode aired on 3 February BE 2557 - February 21 BC 2557 , Monday - Friday 18.30 - 19.45 each episode.
A love story between a young man and a young woman during college. "Forget me not" is the flower of love and promise.
Jao Noi Sukkawaong, a nobleman, falls in love with Man Muang at first sight. Man Muang has a half-sister called Ming La. Ming La's mother doesn't want Man Muang to be more well known than her daughter, so she orders Man Muang around and forces her to do everything for Ming La. When Ming La sees the nobleman, she falls in love with him, which causes Man Muang to steps back for her sister. How will the love between the nobleman and Man Muang survive all the hardships and obstacles ahead?
A story of Daonin, a poor country girl who was tricked to work as a prostitute in Bangkok. Just as Daonin's life could not get any worse, she was picked up by a talent spotter who groomed her into a highly sought after superstar. Seduced by her new-found fame and fortune, Daonin refuses to acknowledge her poor family and past livelihood for fear of losing her status. Lies started to pile up, leading her into a corner where she has no choice but to face the consequences of her actions.
Ming is a girl who lives with her grandfather and grandmother. Her grandfather hates her because her mother escaped with her grandfather and left her with him. So she tries to learn and make good things for them. In reality her grandfather loves her but he doesn't say anything because he still hates her mother. Her family has a food shop near an apartment. Prik came from the country and lives in this apartament. He usually comes to eat at her store and he and Ming are always bickering. Time passes, Prik becomes a doctor and Ming becomes a nurse.
Sartra, a young businessman, marries Rachawadee out of duty, not love. Though she loves him, she cannot bear an heir, leading her to devise a plan for another woman to conceive in her place. Lada, a public relations employee, is chosen, but a failed scheme causes Sartra to mistakenly sleep with Piangor—Lada’s friend, whom he had secretly admired.
Celebrated American pianist Vladimir Horowitz in his first televised piano recital, taped at Carnegie Hall on February 1, 1968, and broadcast nationwide by CBS on September 22 of that year.
Veelorong is given a job as a governess in Adit's house. Known to those around them as the Golden House. The house holds a lot of mystery that are chosen to be left unexplained. there was a ghost that haunted the mansion at night. Or so the villagers thought.
Kaew (Ken) is a slave in the late 1800′s Thailand under King Chulalongkorn’s reign during the Chakri dynasty. He grows up during a time when slavery is coming to an end in Thailand. Kaew is what you would call a grandfathered slave meaning in all technicality he is a slave because his parents were slaves. He essentially inherited the disposition of being a slave. Society was changing, new laws were put in place that would allow Kaew to retire from slavery at 21. However, his master (creditor), Phraya Chaiyakorn refused to free him. The story centers around Kaew, his struggle for freedom and the love he has for Namtip played by ‘Bella’ Ranee Campen, the young noble woman who is the daughter of his master and the heart of his inner strength. Eventually he does obtain his freedom and becomes a nobleman.
Wanees and Maysa are proud parents who want what's best for their four children. They teach them what's right and wrong, and discover that they are also learning new things.
Hafez Naguib was raised between his mother's sophisticated family, and his father's poor and modest family. When his father gets killed at the time of the English occupation, he swears to take revenge for him and every other persecuted Egyptian citizen, and leads the life of a true patriot.
Aom's a shopaholic who has gotten herself into debt for 400k dollars, one day she decides to runaway fearing that debt collectors might try to hunt her down and harm her. Her boss Lek and her are always fighting and have never gotten along but he offers to help pay her debt if she will pretend to be his girlfriend so his mother will stop trying to set him up.
A wealth television company producing a documentary creates waves in the community.