The Vault

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series. Topic: Film "The Drifting Gambler" (1970). Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Constraints: ONLY ver

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to de

A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him

Dragons, the rulers of the sky. To many people on the surface, they are a dire threat, but at the same time, a valuable source of medicine, oil, and food. There

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame;

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years.

With the aroma of gumbo in the air and the sound of jazz drifting from dimly lit clubs, criminals and crooked cops mix and clash in the cutthroat streets of New

Three sisters live alienated existences in modern day Tokyo. One works as a secretary, one is a prostitute, and one is a criminal. The secretary is cynically un

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. Task: Write a factua

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Me

During the back-end of the 19th century, the genius but socially awkward engineer Sorano Appare and the wise yet cowardly samurai Isshiki Kosame find themselves

Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the bea

Misaki Yamada, 30 and single, has no clear ambitions. After drifting between jobs and places, she works as a care worker until trouble in love and work upends h

During the American Civil War, five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they wake to f

Tatsuhiko, a quiet high school student in the coastal city of Karatsu, spends his days fishing and drifting through adolescence. Just before summer vacation, Yo

A jaded grocery store employee drifting through his bleak routine encounters a man by the name of Life. Through his conversations with Life, the protagonist's i

After a breakup, Yaki is constantly on the road, drifting from couch to couch. As he runs out of hosts, his cynicism cracks, forcing him into an anti-odyssey -

After being released from prison, a young man is sent to track down his old friend while drifting through an existential journey that forces him to choose betwe

Shinano is a character designer drifting through a monotonous routine. Her work is absorbed into a commercially driven system, and on social media, she feels no

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 2

After a drug deal goes horribly wrong, Celia is pulled into a surreal odyssey of self-discovery. Drifting through a distorted world, she encounters temptation,

With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a b

One fateful summer, a group of elementary school kids set adrift on an abandoned apartment building must look within themselves to find a way back home. Animati

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handym