Literary Adaptation Movies

A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of ordinary movements from the everyday which appear, evolve and freeze...

'...is unsuitable for any man's love.' (Xi Xi, A Woman Like Me) Sum-yin patches up wounds, masks scars and performs other beautician services that,...

Julia, a waitress without much going on in her life, accepts a job offer from Milo, a writer in crisis who needs an assistant to talk to. From these...

An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional...

Middle Eastern folktale collection One Thousand and One Nights has been greatly treasured by Western storytellers who are fascinated by the fantastic...

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to...

Three classics tales (The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Jack and the Beanstalk) are retold in condensed adaptations.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

A charitable childhood deed holds fateful consequences for poor Pip. An anonymous benefactor paves the way for Pip’s transformation and...

A man finds a whistle bearing a mysterious Latin inscription, which, when blown, awakens horrors beyond human understanding. A decade before the...

Follows an aging artist who, after the death of her partner, is moved into a unique long-term care residence where she begins to distrust her...

A touching drama based on the novel of the same name by Eikichi Hashimoto. In the 23rd year of the Meiji period, weather forecasts were rarely...

During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy number 13 Cheung Chi-ping. While Wu establishes a...

Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya...

The Alhambra Girls perform a dance at Alhambra Theatre, London. Lost.

The White family await their guest. Sergeant-Major Morris has just returned from serving in India.He carries a cursed monkey's paw. It can grant the...

We all carry our leaves, some of winter, some of spring and summer. But all leaves grow, breathe and wither with time; and so do we.

Driven to the wilderness to bury the key to a horrible secret, a harried scientist is confronted by his own gruesome creation. Based on excerpts from...

British adaptation of Trilby filmed in Kinemacolor. Presumed lost.

Set in Florida and inspired by Harmony Korine’s homonymous book, Leo Gabin’s film consists of a collage of YouTube videos, mostly...