5.6

Waist Deep

2005, USA

• Actors: Tyrese Gibson, Shawn Parr, Henry Hunter Hall, Johnny Pruitt, Meagan Good, Darris Love, Larenz Tate, William Duffy, The Game, Kimora Lee, Wil E. Young, DeWayne Turrentine Jr., Wade Allain-Marcus, Paul Terrell Clayton, Ray Bengston, Earl Minfield, Dagmar Stansova, Kasi Lemmons, Laura Miro, Tommy Abate, Dawn Reavis, Dylan Tays, Yolanda Whittaker, Julio Gonzalez, Michael Eric Dyson, Misty Alli, Cecelia Antoinette, Erik Betts, Christopher Carrington, Julius Denem
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Vondie Curtis-Hall
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In South Los Angeles, while bringing his beloved son Junior back home from school, the paroled ex-convicted O2 promises his son that he would always come back to him and never leave him alone. However, his car is hijacked and Junior is kidnapped. Without any lead, O2 forces the street vendor Coco to help him to find where his car might have been sent for disassembling. Meanwhile, O2's addicted brother Lucky discovers that the cruel leader of the Outlaw Syndicate, the drug lord Meat, is keeping the boy arrested in a room and asking a ransom of US$ 100,000.00 that he believes O2 have from an old heist. O2 and Coco plot a scheme to put the pimp P-Money and Meat against each other and steal their money.

  7.1

Memoirs of a Geisha

2004, USA

• Actors: Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi, Zoe Weizenbaum, David Okihiro, Miyako Tachibana, Kotoko Kawamura, Karl Yune, Eugenia Yuan, Yôko Narahashi, Michelle Yeoh, Kenneth Tsang, Ken Watanabe, Navia Nguyen, Natsuo Tomita, Youki Kudoh, Ziyi Zhang, Fumi Akutagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Koji Toyoda, Rick Mali, Steve Terada, Laura Miro, Diane Mizota
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Rob Marshall
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.