Yaky Yosha Movies

Erotic thriller starring Playboy Playmate turned B-movie queen Shannon Tweed that features an atypical emphasis on the mystery at the heart of its plot. Tweed stars as Eve, the hostess of a late-night radio call-in show about sex and relationships. Despite her area of expertise, Eve is unhappily married to Philip (Vernon Wells), who treats his beautiful wife like one of his valuable possessions. When she meets Edge (Emile Levisetti), a talented sculptor, Eve is instantly smitten and quickly embarks on a torrid affair with the young artist. Worried that Philip will discover her infidelity, Eve grows even more concerned when Edge steals Philip's gun. She enlists two friends, Kate (Catherine Oxbenberg) and Peter (David Kriegel) to break into Edge's apartment and seek information about his past and identity. After her friends turn up dead and her husband drugs her, Eve doesn't know whom she can trust, but even she could never guess the shocking connection between her husband and her lover. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

In an embattled Israel, director and co-author Yaki Yosha (with Yoram Kaniuk), has come up with a successful pacifist film that is not political -- a most unusual accomplishment. The story is based on Kaniuk's book "The Last Jew," and its subject matter would apply to any war-ravaged area of the world, at any time in history. The ex-soldier Boaz (Shraga Harpaz) has just returned from battle, struggling with the guilt of a survivor remembering those who died -- morose and taciturn, he finds it difficult to adjust. One day he runs into an ex-teacher, the father of one of his buddies killed in the war, and the teacher supplicates him to do an "album" of his memories of the dead son. Boaz reluctantly complies, mainly out of consideration for the father's own emotional needs. He is rewarded by the grateful father, and when this simple act gets around, he finds himself doing more albums for people and miserably making money on the activity -- like a vulture feeding off the dead. The people he meets are real, grieving for their losses, and so Boaz finds himself put in an untenable position: he cannot say no, but saying yes has made life that much harder for him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi