Tuna fishing. It doesn’t exactly evoke the stuff of drama, yet very dramatic is this gripping yarn (puns intended) about the solemn, solitary lives of the men who catch what ends up as our sushi and sashimi. Opening with a shot of a young couple traversing sand dunes, the woman posits a question – women or fishing? This question fuels the drama of the next two-plus hours. – See more at: link

2.00GB | 2h 20mn | 807×454 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/97EA2BD6207D42A/The.Catch.1983.DVDRip.x264-SMz.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/3F75A2E6E9D2F18/The.Catch.1983.DVDRip.x264-SMz.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/39CC08F7F28D09A/The.Catch.1983.DVDRip.x264-SMz.part3.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

An editor goes to visit her lecherous old professor to discuss a new publication of Akinari Ueda’s Tales of Spring Rain, and he recounts the story of a revived mummified Buddhist monk who ran amok in a village in pre-modern Japan. In the present, he tells her that her late husband has been spotted roaming nearby lately…

Suzuki’s only fiction work that was released between his firing by Nikkatsu in 1968 and A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness in 1977. He did make a number of television commercials during this time, and made “There is a Bird Within A Man” for the television series Sun of Kurobe in 1969, but the latter was not broadcast. The script is by Yozo Tanaka, one of the screenwriters of Branded to Kill, who also worked on the Taisho films. Another Branded to Kill screenwriter, Atsushi Yamatoya, has a small role.

929MB | 48 min 13 s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/8759B5C65744EF4/A.Mummy%27s.Love.1973.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Synopsis by AMG:
After a 14-year-absence, Teruo Ishii returned to the director’s chair with this anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube (Shiro Sano). In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri (Akio Yokoyama) after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife (Chika Nakagami), and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house. This leaves Tsube more bemused than angry. Later, while his wife is bathing in an oil drum, Ri decides to show his unwilling host how long she can hold her breath. When seconds stretch on into minutes, they pull her out of the water. At that exact moment, Tsube trips and falls face first onto her crotch. The second segment — entitled “Akai Hana” — opens with Tsube watching a boy trying to look up the skirt of a young lass selling tea. Instead of berating the kid, Tsube follows the lad to his favorite fishing spot. The river’s edge is covered with beautiful red flowers. Later, they both spy the tea seller wading in the river with her skirt hiked up to her waist. To their surprise, the same red flowers pop out from between her legs. In the third segment, Tsube ventures to a town populated entirely by old, very wrinkled women. The owner of the candy shop tells him that he is the spitting image of the former master of the local Gensenkan Inn. The film flashes back to the story of the master, who looks remarkably like Tsube. When visiting said inn, he encounters the inn’s mistress, a beautiful lass with an ugly facial tick, rendering her mute. Later while entering the public bath, he sees her naked while she prays before a candle-lit alter. He forces himself on her and eventually they couple in her room. The fourth and final section finds Tsuge, along with his literary friend (Mayo Kawasaki) and his friend’s lover (Nana Okuda), trying and failing to run a magazine. When the magazine finally does fold, the writer returns to his wife in the country. Though Tsube has fallen for the girlfriend, she can’t forget the writer. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Promotional still from the film:

1.23GB | 1:38:17 | 528×400 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/3F2CD8EDEC6975C/Gensenkan_Inn.Teruo_Ishii.1993.VHS.Japanese.No_Subs.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/33C084C096F3D3C/Gensenkan_Inn.Teruo_Ishii.1993.VHS.Japanese.No_Subs.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Midnight Eye review:
Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.

As Serpent’s Path opens we see two men, named Nijima (Kurosawa regular Sho Aikawa) and Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa), drive their car to an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. Out of the trunk they drag a man, who they take with them into the building and chain to a wall. Miyashita is out for revenge against the killers of his eight-year old daughter. Nijima, a schoolteacher by trade, is helping him, though exactly why and how these two men decided to team up remains unclear. They proceed to subtly torment their victim, a low-level yakuza, into a confession. Miyashita, himself a former yakuza, is grief stricken and about to lose his sanity altogether. He laments over a perpetually looping extract of home video footage of his daughter, which is played on a tv set in front of their captive. Nijima on the other hand is calm and collected, his detached air of professionalism keeping Miyashita’s smouldering rage at bay.

But the confession they hope for doesn’t come. Instead they get the name of another possible culprit who ends up in the same situation. He in turn gives them the name of another and pretty soon the two avengers find themselves in more trouble than they bargained for and nowhere nearer the identity of the actual murderer.

1.16GB | 1h 25mn | 832×468 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B9AE5CCB3A052FB/Hebi.no.michi.AKA.Serpents.Path.%28Kurosawa.-.1998%29.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/CB855B8FBCA2FE1/Hebi.no.michi.AKA.Serpents.Path.%28Kurosawa.-.1998%29.part2.rar

Language(s)Japanese
Subtitles:English

Synopsis: This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

1.80GB | 1 h 48 min | 858×464 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/EE0F6F743272FEA/Kanashii.Kibun.de.Joke.1985.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/F797D3A3A4132B2/Kanashii.Kibun.de.Joke.1985.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/81C5F575274A1FB/Joke_with_a_Sorrowful_Heart.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Here’s Jissoji Akio’s impressive theatrical debut. Distributed by ATG and with a script by Oshima Nagisa, it’s a fascinating dissection of 1960s Japanese youth angst. Oshima wrote the screenplay for television in 1964, but due to the subversiveness of the story it never got made there. Which doesn’t come as a surprise, considering that the film consists of four students in a room, who decide to leave the gas on and bet money on who will stay there the longest…

Quote:
In 1969 Jissoji left TBS, founded his own production company and made the 43-minute long When Twilight Draws Near (Yoiyami Semareba), based on a script by Nagisa Oshima that was originally written for a TV feature for TV Tokyo. The film was released by ATG together with Oshima’s Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki, 1969). ATG subsequently produced Jissoji’s following films, starting with This Transient Life. Together with Kazuo Kuroki and Shuji Terayama he became ATG’s most important director of the 1970s. — Roland Domenig at Midnight Eye

415MB | 43:21.925 | 640×480 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/DB94CCD67D88E57/Yoiyami_semareba_%281969%29.avi
https://nitroflare.com/view/5AA55D20BE01800/Yoiyami_semareba_%281969%29.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s sci-fi fantasy (from a manga by Kazuo Umezu) about a middle school that gets transported by an earthquake to a strange and otherworldly landscape.

1.45GB | 1 h 43 min | 865×468 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/6748B4D550A9321/The_Drifting_Classroom.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/9353D5CC9038A5B/The_Drifting_Classroom.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese, English
Subtitles: English, Japanese hardsubbed

A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city.

1.89GB | 2 h 15 min | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/7BE86F3277C24F8/Tokyo_–_The_Last_Megalopolis.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/84C3C131EDE0497/Tokyo_–_The_Last_Megalopolis.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

A man looking to transplant cherry blossoms along the countryside encounters a blind woman who accompanies him for the journey.

933MB | 1:19:20 | 704×480 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/4BE85A251796138/Cherry.Blossoms.in.Spring.1983.avi
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https://nitroflare.com/view/2AFD80E2C096D08/Haru_Sakura.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Chinese (traditional and simplified, idx/sub)

Synopsis
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and dumb. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations … and joys.

Quote:
The directorial debut of longtime screenwriter and frequent Masaki Kobayashi collaborator Zenzo Matsuyama.

1.98GB | 2 h 8 min | 855×364 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1C48E6FB7AFB367/Happiness.of.Us.Alone.1961.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/096947A8EDC7843/Happiness.of.Us.Alone.1961.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese | English | Japanese Sign Language
Subtitles:English, Japanese

Asuza is a yakusa always dressed in white, a pure, yet tarnished man. A child from the streets, he saw his father assassinated by his older brother, and his mother commit suicide. These traumatizing events haunt him in the present. Asuza is now a member of a criminal group. He has been taken under the wing of the gang’s leader, his new adoptive father. When this second father figure is suddenly assassinated, Asuza plunges rapidly into an infernal revenge scheme. As he searches tirelessly for the killer, he discovers that once again, his older brother is the culprit. A confrontation is inevitable. When Asuza meets his brother face to face, he learns that behind every murder committed, lie motives more complex than they first appear.

1.50GB | 1h 35mn | 704×380 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/558690285CD8623/The_Man_in_White_%282003%29_–_Takashi_Miike.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D64A111B05B1213/The_Man_in_White_%282003%29_–_Takashi_Miike.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (muxed)

Synopsis:
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.

Review:
Wow! The second and final part Miike’s Yurusarezaru mono (or: The Man in White) is pretty damned impressive! Following directly from the previous part’s cliffhanger ending, Miike steps up the action tenfold, adding new deranged characters to obstruct Azusa’s path of vengeance for the death of his boss.

Like the first part, Miike shoots this in a wild hand-held style that, surprisingly (because, as I noted in my review for part 1, I generally hate “shaky cam”), works in the film’s favour. The wild abandon of the cinematography helps generate a sense that we are getting a rare glimpse into a foreign world of yakuzas, gun fights, corruption, and psychopaths – sometimes from a shaky distance, other times in the midst of the action. Shots are creatively framed, but also give a sense that the camera has simply been tossed into the middle of the scene (a great example is a scene where the camera is moved about by the actors on a Lazy Susan as they chow down a meal).

It’s not only Miike and crew’s stylistic prowess that shines through, the story, while simplistic, was quick to suck me in. This second part reveals a depth to the characters, making bloodied deaths seem all the more poignant. Azusa and company also are far more brutal in their delivery of justice in this second part.

Both parts of Yurusarezaru mono is essential viewing for Miike fanatics. I’m so pleased that having watched sixty-plus films by the guy, Miike still manages to surprise me.
— Dave Jackson (Letterboxd).

1.70GB | 1h 48mn | 704×380 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/D1DEEA6F8C88484/The_Man_in_White_Part_2_-_Requiem_for_the_Lion_%282003%29_–_Takashi_Miike.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/352FD0F94F1D286/The_Man_in_White_Part_2_-_Requiem_for_the_Lion_%282003%29_–_Takashi_Miike.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Muxed)

Hideo Nakata, director of the Japanese horror phenomenon, Ringu, made his feature debut with Joyurei, or Ghost Actress, also known as Don’t Look Up. Nakata worked from a screenplay by Hiroshi Takahashi, who also wrote the screenplay for Ringu 2.
On the set of a dark WWII drama, a young director, Murai, works with two actresses playing sisters. He clearly has a bit of a crush on Hitomi, the older actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bedside. The younger actress, Saori, is inexperienced and playful. One day the production uses discarded tail ends from other productions to shoot, and when they’re looking at the dailies later, they see the scene they were shooting interrupted by a scene (with no sound) from an earlier film. There’s a horrified woman onscreen, with another woman, out of focus, laughing maniacally in the background. There’s also a shot going up a dark stairway to an attic. The footage looks strangely familiar to Murai, who insists that he saw it on television as a boy and was haunted by it. “Have you ever seen a movie and not been able to get it out of your head?” he asks his producer. Murai and Hitomi begin to have strange visions of a ghostly woman around the studio. Murai, obsessed with the footage, gives it to an old editor and asks him to find out its origin. A crewmember tells Murai of another soundstage he worked on that had a ghost in the rafters. One day there’s a tragic death on the set, and the production shuts down for a formal investigation. Murai looks into his own past, and finds a frightening connection between the film he’s shooting and the strange footage he’s uncovered.
[allmovie]

523MB | 01:15:08 | 576 x 352 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/49E3BAEEC5D0D50/Don%27t.Look.Up-Ghost.Actress%281996%29.XviD_Add9_.avi

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English Hardsubbed

In this Japanese samurai adventure, a brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to the enemy. The remaining samurai try in vain to coerce him back, but their efforts are thwarted by crooked warriors who launch an attack.
The sword fights are especially exciting.

an imdb user wrote:
Before “Samurai Assassin”, “Sword of Doom” or “Kill!”, director Okamoto helms this light hearted actioner that has just about every element from other chambara movies. Well photographed and meticulously planned, it’s an impressive genre film.

The film opens with action as the Iga ninja chase and attack a lone young man who turns out to be another Iga ninja but has quit the clan in search of a moral life. The young man defeats the ninja including the feared leader. Observing the fight is a wandering ronin who befriends the young man noting that while the man is a good fighter, he’s ignorant of the ways of the world. Almost immediately they are greeted by an odd stranger who claims he will soon become the ruler of Japan. The stranger convinces them to join a passing armed delivery service headed by a young woman who’s a short sword expert. And so it starts, complete with political intrigue, a stolen shipment of rifles, a ruthless pirate gang commanded by a beautiful princess and the return of the Iga ninja who have vowed to kill the young man.

The film is very brisk and Okamoto’s direction is stylish and experimental, especially in the editing. Shot in clear black and white and with a jazzy, quirky score by Masaru Sato, the film is a lot of fun despite the rather standard storyline.

The fight scenes are extremely well shot with careful camera placement and sharp editing taking place of actual movement from the actors. Believe me, I’d rather see actors who can actually do the moves but here is an example of how to shoot a fight when the actors may not be the best. It works really well.

Recommended.

697MB | 01:37:42 | 640×272 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/71FAD0E3BC37F16/Warring.Clans.1963.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.avi
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https://nitroflare.com/view/92B947106C4EE3D/Warring.Clans.1963.DVDRip.XviD-WRD.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx/sub)

Synopsis:
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade’s wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. This year’s Oscar entry from Japan finds SHINDO in top form and his 49th and reportedly last film as fresh and poignant as ever.

1.66GB | 1 h 54 min | 865×468 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F74F3FDD77DFC93/Ichimai.no.hagaki.AKA.Postcard.2010.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/19D7713AA23530D/Ichimai.no.hagaki.AKA.Postcard.2010.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles: English (muxed)

Synopsis :
A decadent Count in 1920’s Japan becomes obsessed with the works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writers novels, and recruits a variety of theives, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delight of his rich and decadent friends.
In search of new sensations, the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the noblemans wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his coterie.
Full of startling images and with a gripping storyline, this film is a feast for the eyes and mind. A classic waiting to be discovered.

Bonus :
– Documentary on pink cinema
– Interview with movie critic Jasper Sharp

1.70GB | 01:35:36 | 704×368 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/54102C1A4167F71/Prosperities_of_Vice.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/33792EBD2D42D83/Prosperities_of_Vice.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx/sub & srt)

Quote:
“Bitterness of Youth (1974) was Kumashiro’s first non-roman poruno (<– wrong), based on a novel with a family resemblance to Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy “and set in a milieu of imploded student radicalism: A callow law student impregnates the classmate he is tutoring, then dumps her for his wealthy cousin. The most extraordinary scene has the antihero and his ex revisit the ski resort where they began their affair—carrying on in the snow in a long, behavioral sequence that recapitulates their relationship as they roll struggling and screaming downhill toward a raging river.”

700MB | 1:24:34 | 672×288 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/8D4490A3A962794/bitternessofyouth.avi
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Synopsis:
In the wake of The Bomb, ex-soldier Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) joins a Hiroshima yakuza gang — the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia — and then the shootings, slashings, betrayals, and scheming begin. Premiering a year after The Godfather, The Yakuza Papers also broke box-office records and spawned sequels, but, in contrast, took a ruthlessly de-romanticized view of the underworld. Based on an actual gang boss’ memoirs, The Yakuza Papers plunges the audience into a gritty, brutal, violent newsreel of a three-decade struggle for power of Shakespearean complexity, a nihilistic epic unlike any other.

2.53GB | 1 h 37 min | 1024×426| mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/BD2D607F737D530/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Kanketsu.hen.Final.Episode.1974.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/AE4D09F0AD789C9/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Kanketsu.hen.Final.Episode.1974.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/591C7E9CB1D3900/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Kanketsu.hen.Final.Episode.1974.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part3.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (muxed)

A single mother’s ex-husband refuses to pay for their son’s schooling. While working in hospice care, a dying patient offers to kill her ex-husband psychically so their son will collect life insurance. When her ex-husband turns up dead, she becomes the prime suspect.

Alongside the most esoteric and bizarre art films of his career (the Taisho films and “Capone”), Suzuki directed two mysteries in the ’80s as self-contained episodes of TV series. These are much more straightforward and easily to follow than the films he was releasing theatrically at the time (or his ’70s TV work), but they harken back to his early days as a genre filmmaker, and there are still lots of eccentric touches and powerful images.

1.30GB | 1 h 33 min | 708×531 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1C6F1573C5B85F0/A.Family%27s.Choice.1983.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/B9463759B133F01/A.Family%27s.Choice.1983.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Set in Tokyo in the 1960s, this film shows the gradual transformation of Koen, a young geisha who is not good at music and dance, from carefree creature to a self-aware, mature woman through meeting and parting with a variety of men. Kawashima Yuzo, who excels at directing comedies, shows his strengths here by exposing his heroin’s delicate feelings with pathos. Wakao Ayako is radiant in her coquettish role. The director and the actress later went on to make such films as Wild Geese Temple (62) and Elegant Beast (62) together.

1.08GB | 1:39:04 | 688×288 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/E9A660CD555D3F0/Women_Are_Born_Twice_%281961%29.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/ADA0DBF2401C255/Women_Are_Born_Twice_%281961%29.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None