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Izuru Kumasaka – Pâku ando rabuhoteru aka Park and Love Hotel (2007)

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A movie set in a love hotel, but without a single sex scene? A 59-year-old woman as the heroine? It’s hard to imagine that particular pitch loosening purse strings at major Japanese media companies. A fatally ill teenager? That’s more like it.

Mark Schilling’s review from the Japan Times: No sex at a love hotel
A movie set in a love hotel, but without a single sex scene? A 59-year-old woman as the heroine? It’s hard to imagine that particular pitch loosening purse strings at major Japanese media companies. A fatally ill teenager? That’s more like it.
Director Izuru Kumasaka has incorporated these and other decidedly uncommercial elements into debut feature “Park and Love Hotel” (titled “Asyl” — short for “Asylum” — internationally), which won the Best First Feature Award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. So small miracles do happen, though Kumasaka had an angel in the form of the Pia Film Festival, which gave him a scholarship that included backing for “Park and Love Hotel” for winning three awards in its 2005 edition with his short film “Tea and Milk (Kocha to Milk).”
Kumasaka, who also wrote the script, has made “Park and Love Hotel” a typical Japanese indie film in everything from its deliberate pace and absence of plot to its darkish, grainy visual texture. Instead of two hours of typical indie tedium, however, he has given us four women dealing with loss and loneliness, as well as questions of meaning and purpose, that all are memorably individual and vital. Their drama unfolds in a space that looks like a fantasy at first glance, but comes to feel real — or at least realizable. Their stories may not always have neat endings, but their various epiphanies have a piquant rightness. Though not upbeat in any formulaic way, the film gives off a warm, almost paradisical, glow.
It unfolds in a down-at-the-heels love hotel where a stolid middle-aged manager, Tsuyako (Lily), presides. But when Mika (Hikari Kajiwara), a 13-year-old runaway with gray-dyed hair, happens by, she notices a gang of boys and other unlikely “customers” going inside. Following them up the stairs, Mika discovers that the roof of the hotel has been converted into a park, complete with swings, benches and a playhouse used by young and old alike, none of whom seem concerned about the erotic acrobatics going on underneath.
Tsuyako offers Mika shelter and later scolds her when she finds the girl with a knife, apparently about to slash her wrists. They quarrel, but Mika, after spying on her divorced father with his happy new family — the purpose of her trip — feels comforted by Tsuyako’s anger. At least one adult, she realizes, cares. She is not as alone in the world as she had thought.
Just we are settling into this story about a surrogate mother-daughter relationship, Mika departs with a cheery wave and the film switches narrative gears to Tsuki (Chiharu), a housewife who fast walks past the love hotel every day at the same time. Tsuyako is always outside, sweeping the street when Tsuki passes. They exchange “Good mornings” just as they have for 16 years. After her walk, Tsuki records her total steps from her pedometer in a small notebook — the only “diary” she keeps of her dull existence. Then, one day, the notebook goes missing and Tsuki, searching frantically for it on her walking course, has her first-ever conversation with Tsuyako. She also visits the rooftop park — and is inspired to make a life-changing decision. sk
Finally, there is Marika (Sachi Jinno), a prickly-but-dishy 17-year-old who is a hotel regular, bringing a different guy each time and always carrying a small metal attache case. She is not a prostitute, but rather a researcher of an unusual kind. She is also curious about Tsuyako, whom she senses is harboring painful secrets, and decides to find out what they are.
Holding all these disparate story threads together is Lily, the singer-turned-actress who plays Tsuyako with a matronly gravity while registering every flicker of thought and emotion. Tsuyako doesn’t say much — especially about herself — but we always know what she is feeling, from aching loneliness to defensive anger. She doesn’t ask for pity, or even expect attention, but she does demand obedience from her park visitors, whom she chases away with a clap of her hands promptly at sunset.
Kumasaka lays on the symbolism a trifle thick — Marika’s fascination with sperm as bearers of the life force is one rather icky example — but his ending is absolutely right, coming as it does from everything we’ve learned about Tsuyako, including her need, just like everyone else on the roof, for some human connection. But we also know that tomorrow she’ll be out front, just as always, sweeping — and waiting for that next significant stranger.

1.51GB | 1:51:32 | 640×352 | avi

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Italian, Russian (muxed)

Nobuhiro Yamashita – Tennen kokekkô AKA A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)

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In “A Gentle Breeze in the Village,” Soyo Migata (Kaho) is a quirky 8th grade student who resides in a tiny rural village somewhere in Japan. The village is small enough where there’s only 6 students that attends their school (from 1st grade through 8th grade). Soyo’s been friends with her classmates since early childhood and they all hang out together like an extended family. One day, a new student named Hiromi Osawa (Masaki Okada) arrives. He’s a good looking boy from Tokyo and all the other students view as something of a celebrity.

2.50GB | 2 h 1 min | 1024×554 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese

Jun Ichikawa – Ashita no watashi no tsukurikata AKA How to Become Myself (2007)

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Plot summary: (from A Nutshell Review)
Juri (Niko Narumi, you’ll be amazed that she’s only so young, but yet has the capability to take on a character that so layered and yet so subtle in her delivery) plays an ideal girl at home and in school, but this facade is quickly stripped away early in the movie, as we see her loathe her parent’s bickering at home, while putting up a false front of a happy, supportive family to the outside world. In the movie, the spotlight is also shared by fellow classmate Hinako (Atsuko Maeda), a popular girl who in a twist of fate, becomes the victim of classroom politics and bullying. Mere acquaintances, they share a poignant conversation just after junior school graduation, before going their separate ways.

The story then fast forwards 2 years later, and Juri, out of curiousity, looks up and emails Hanako, who apparently doesn’t seem to remember her, or their conversation. And thus begins a reintroduction and attempts to build a friendship between the two in what is probably one of the most layered stories I’ve experienced in recent times. It’s almost like kueh-lapis, where each layer can be peeled apart and reveals another understanding at a different level. It tells of the story in three ways, through exchanges of email (more on this later), as the catalyst and fuel for creative writing, and of course, in the character’s real lives. Juri and Hinako wear different masks to play different roles, consciously and subconsciously, and with each being a projection of their artificially created self, there’s no denying just who’s playing what role, and questions of whether they’re relishing these roles are posed, and when do you know to stop and become yourself, truly?

Watching the narrative unfold was part of the fun, as techniques such as panel in panel, and split screens, are used to simultaneously present to the audience the different character’s action / reaction at the same point in time. Not to mention that the shots are beautifully rendered, with text messages from mobile phones bringing to mind Eric Khoo’s Be With Me. In true Ichikawa style, the pacing is deliberately slow, and the wonderful soundtrack comprises of eclectic pop tunes as well as quiet contemplative pieces, all of which I thought complimented the movie very well.

2.51GB | 1 h 37 min | 1280×720 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Shôhei Imamura – Hateshinaki yokubô AKA Endless Desire (1958)

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Synopsis:
On 15 August 1955 at noon, on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender, five people gather outside a train station, each of them wearing the emblem of the former imperial army on their chest. On the day of the surrender, an army general had hidden a can of priceless morphin in an air-raid shelter. It had been agreed then that the general and his three soldiers would meet ten years later to share their loot. Outside the station there is now one person too many. What’s more, one of them is a woman who claims she was married to the now dead general. The four men and the woman hire a house, aiming to turn it into a real estate agency. They start digging the ground to reach the spot where the can was buried. As their work progresses, each of them becomes a victim of their own selfishness, distrust and greed.

1.64GB | 1h 40mn | 953×572 | mkv

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https://nitroflare.com/view/DF24EF7EA498C7F/Endless_Desire_%281958%29_–_Shohei_Imamura.part2.rar

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

Nobuhiko Obayashi – Seishun dendekedekedeke AKA The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

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“Seishun-den Deke-Deke-Deke (The Rocking Horsemen)” (1992): Nobuhiko Obayashi’s comedy tells the story of a teenage boy living in Kagawa Prefecture in 1965 who hears The Ventures’ “Pipeline” and decides to form a band. It’s one of Japanese cinema’s best coming-of-age stories, and captures the cultural flux of the era with wit and insight rather than mere nostalgia. Look for current screen star Tadanobu Asano as the band’s lead guitarist. He was 19 at the time, appearing in his third film.

0.98GB | 2:15:22 | 872×480 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/ED776566168607F/Seishun_dendekedekedeke_%281992%29.avi

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Yûzô Kawashima – Onna wa nido umareru AKA Women Are Born Twice (1961) (HD)

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The first of Kawashima’s Daiei Studio collaborations with Wakao centers on the life of a Tokyo geisha named Koen and her relationships with various men. Starting out with no singing or dancing talents, the young, free-spirited Koen is initially eager to please and happy to do what she is told. With time and experience, however, she gradually begins to notice a change in herself and questions what she wants out of life. Played with subtle shifts in emotion, Wakao’s delicate performance earned her the Kinema Junpo Award and Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress.

3.30GB | 1 h 38 min | 1280×544 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Nobuhiko Obayashi – Tenkosei: Sayonara anata AKA Switching – Goodbye Me (2007)

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A self-remake of multi-award winning 1982 film by director Obayashi Nobuhiko, “Tenkousei” is about two junior high student switching body. A very unique, experimental film.

1.37GB | 1h 59mn | 640×352 | avi

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English


Nai-Hoi Yau – Gun chung AKA Eye in the Sky (2007)

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Plot summary: (from Variety.com)
A Hong Kong police surveillance unit finds itself caught up in the rough-and-tumble of underworld violence in smart action-thriller “Eye in the Sky,” helming debut of longtime Johnnie To scripter Yau Nai-hoi. Well-received at its world preem in Berlin’s Forum, and stuffed with To regulars on both sides of the camera, this looks to have a similar fest and distribution arc to the best of To’s own signed movies, and will be welcomed by the same aficionados.

Opening plunges straight into the story, criss-crossing several of the main characters on a tramcar as the viewer still doesn’t know who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. Sustained sequence leads straight to a jewelry store robbery in which the thieves escape by the skin of their teeth.

Leader of the gang is Shan (Leung) who, in a demonstration of ruthlessness that sets up his character for the finale, has to deal with the grumbles of his cohorts during a post-heist, rooftop barbecue. His men want a bigger score than they just pulled off — and Shan himself wants a bigger cut of the goods from his superiors — which leads to a second robbery that turns into a cat-and-mouse game between cops and crims.

Leading the surveillance unit is grizzled Capt. Wong, codenamed “Dog Head”, who’s taken under his wing a bushy-tailed rookie codenamed “Piggy”. Dog Head stresses to her that the SU simply tracks and monitors people, and doesn’t become involved in either judgments or emotions — a rule that Piggy later breaks, with heavy consequences, as they follow Shan through the streets of Kowloon.

Performances at all levels have the effortless of an ensemble that’s comfortable with each other. Leung is especially good as the cool mastermind who conceals deeply psychotic rage, while Yam shows a more mature, kindlier side as the SU vet. Shiu is fine in a smaller role as his hard-assed SU boss.

1.38GB | 1h 29mn | 704×464 | mkv

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Language(s):Cantonese
Subtitles:Chinese/English (.sub/.idx)

Naoto Takenaka – Muno no hito aka Nowhere Man (1991)

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Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Based on the Manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge.

1.63GB | 1 h 47 min | 702×394 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5B1A1685228B478/Muno.no.Hito.AKA.Nowhere.Man.1991.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/356A8D107F7E096/Muno.no.Hito.AKA.Nowhere.Man.1991.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Chinese

Noboru Tanaka – Hitozuma shudan boko chishi jiken AKA Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)

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There’s a Nobura Tanaka masterpiece lurking behind this lurid title. Today many critics feel Tanaka was the best director in Nikkatsu’s pink film stable, but in the 70s his work was constantly overshadowed by other studio masters like Chusei Sone and Tatsumi Kumashiro. This film was his first major “break-through.” Despite the “objectionable” necrophilia scenes, the movie was applauded by the mainstream press, praised for Hideo Murota’s remarkable performance , and honored by the Japanese Academy of Films and Motion Pictures and Kinema Jumpo as the best film of 1979.

3 boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they’ve developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack.Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.

Director Tanaka is no stranger to obsessive and twisted love stories (also see Secret Chronicles:She Beast Market [1974] and his Showa trilogy (e.g Sada Abe: Docu-Drama, Watcher In The Attic & Beauty’s Exotic Dance:Torture!) but this film benefits strongly from a terrific performance by Hideo Murota, in a major comeback role. After playing a villain in numerous features throughout the 60’s, he was imprisoned for cocaine poessession in 1971. Upon release from jail, Murota met a cold shoulder from his former friends and studio executives. Nikkatsu offered him a pink job amid a flurry of negative press. Sagaciously they teamed Murota with Noriko Kurosawa, a mainstream actress bolstering a lofty reputation, and added director Tanaka to the heady mix. Without compromising their position on roman-porno, the studio produced a major pink film which triumphantly crossed into the japanese mass market. This was one of the first pinku eiga to succeed on a grand scale.

1.58GB | 1h 36mn | 844×352 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F485A48518C0960/Rape_and_Death_of_a_Housewife_%281978%29_–_Noboru_Tanaka.part1.rar
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (muxed)

Eiichi Yamamoto – Sen’ya ichiya monogatari AKA One Thousand and One Nights (1969)

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This movie is completely wacky. Completely. Wacky. It concerns the story of a poor water seller in Baghdad who stumbles his way through ali baba and his 40 thieves, the tower of Babel, sinbad the sailor, the island of the sirens and many others stories that either i didn’t recognise from the 1001 nights stories or were just made up by the animation team on one of what must have been many acid binges. The film was made in 1969 with a crew of about 15 animators and others (the same names pop up in multiple roles) and is thus forced to employ a number of techniques to cheapen the animation, using still frames incorporating live action shots (for such hard to animate things as the ocean) and shooting live action footage of miniature models for the landscape shots. Despite this there is a great deal of skill in the animation, especially in the number of things the morph into other things. Some scenes in this film are intensely erotic blending abstract and direct representations of sex scenes and orgies. The abstract sex scenes was some of the weirdest animation i’ve ever scene, essentially an undulating mass of pink springing forth the occasional phallus or feminine curve. It is interesting that although this movie does not conform to the styles and convention of Japanese anime there is visible in some characters prototypes of what would become staple anime genre identities. The mecha/ monster, the naive Kawaii girl, the gritty needs-no-man woman. However all in all this film is totally totally one hundred percent wacky. If a festival near you has got its hands on the only surviving print in the world, take advantage of the opportunity, go see it and take a tape recorder in with you and record the soundtrack, some classic psychedelic sixties music is attached to this movie.

2.79GB | 2 h 10 min | 1024×436 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese+Commentary
Subtitles:English, German

Yoshishige Yoshida – Amai yoru no hate AKA Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)

Hirokazu Koreeda – Distance (2001)

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With its focus on the emotional aftermath of a religious cult’s terrorist attack on Tokyo, “Distance” was always going to invite comparisons with the Aum cult’s nerve gas attack on the city’s subway system in 1995.

Yet, rather than simply recreating that tragedy, “Distance” takes us into a far more complex, and decidedly more unsettling, drama about loss and bereavement.Three years after the fictional Ark of Truth group has contaminated Tokyo’s water supply with a genetically-engineered virus, leaving 128 people dead and 8,000 injured, four of the dead cult members’ relatives meet to pay their respects to their loved ones at the lake where their ashes were scattered.

Forced to spend the night in the forest after their car is stolen, the foursome end up staying with the group’s only surviving member in their old headquarters.Despite providing plenty of flashbacks to the events that led up to the fatal day, writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda never explains their motivation. Proving more interested in the reactions of the cult members’ relatives, this muted drama builds into a brooding study of their feelings of loss, responsibility, and incomprehension.

By using lots of handheld camerawork and deliberately eschewing the use of any musical score, “Distance” creates the kind of unsettling atmosphere that could have come straight out of a horror film… except there’s no monster, nothing supernatural, and no real demons.

It’s creepy, inspired film-making, demonstrating that Japanese cinema’s current interest in the horrific stretches far beyond shockfests like “Ring”, “Battle Royale”, and “Audition”.

Much like 2001’s “Eureka”, this impressionistic film knows that real horror is to be found in recognizing the gulf of incomprehension that lies between one’s self and others.

3.67GB | 2 h 12 min | 996×576 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Keisuke Kinoshita – Koge AKA The Scent of Incense (1964) (HD)

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The success of The River Fuefuki encouraged Kinoshita to return to period filmmaking once again with this “epic” chamber drama about a geisha mother and her daughter. Based on the popular novel by Ariyoshi Sawako, the story begins as Ikuyo (Nobuko Otowa) is forced into prostitution from poverty; she soon becomes known as a woman who will agree to her clients’ basest desires. Although shielded from her mother’s profession, her daughter Tomoko (Mariko Okada) is deeply ashamed by her mother’s degradation—while still accepting her financial support. But when Mariko attracts the attention of a boy from a well-to-do family, the danger arises that he might discover Mariko’s secret. Kinoshita ventures into Mizoguchi territory here, with a decided difference: he never shies away from showing the harshness of a prostitute’s life. The two leads work beautifully together, capturing the closeness that still exists even in the most troubled relationship between a mother and her daughter.

5.95GB | 3h 23mn | 1916×804 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/0588B4755D142B4/Keisuke_Kinoshita_-_1964_-_The_Scent_of_Incense_%281080p%29.mkv
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English


Naomi Kawase – Koma (2009)

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Kawase’s contribution to the 2009 Jeonju Digital Project.

A Japanese-Korean man (Kitamura Kizuki) travels to a village in Nara to fulfill his late grandfather’s final wish. A local woman (Nakamura Yuko) shows him around town, but the relationship grows into something beyond visitor-and-guide.

522MB | 33:53.765 | 704×400 | avi

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

Kazuo Hara – Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974 aka Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)

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In 1972, Miyuki tells her ex-lover Kazuo that she’s going to Okinawa with their son. Kazuo decides to film her. He narrates his visits to her there: first while her flatmate is Sugako, a woman Miyuki is attracted to; then, while she works at a bar and is with Paul, an African-American soldier. Once, Kazuo brings his girlfriend, Sachiko. We see Miyuki with her son, with other bar girls, and with Sachiko. Miyuki, pregnant, returns to Tokyo and delivers a mixed-race child on her own with Kazuo and Sachiko filming. She joins a women’s commune, talks about possibilities, enjoys motherhood, and is uninterested in a traditional family. Does the filmmaker have a point of view?

1.63GB | 1 h 32 min | 698×540 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B689313835A1F70/Extreme.Private.Eros.Love.Song.1974.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D6F8F9BF26AD120/Extreme.Private.Eros.Love.Song.1974.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Akira Kurosawa – Sugata Sanshirô AKA Judo Saga (1943)

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Sanshiro Sugata (Susumu Fujita) wants to learn jujitsu. But after he witnesses the power of judo firsthand, he abandons his jujitsu training to study with judo master Shogoro Yano (Denjirô Ôkôchi). Under Yano, Sanshiro learns the combative elements of the art, and he also masters satori — the quiet, meditative aspects of judo style. With both in hand, he fights for the respect of his former teacher and for the love of his teacher’s daughter, Sayo (Yukiko Todoriki).

2.24GB | 1 h 19 min | 762×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/6A5E3607306E95D/Sugata.Sanshiro.1943.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/192B4F4FDC3F08E/Sugata.Sanshiro.1943.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/BCB6C0D2F700ABC/Sugata.Sanshiro.1943.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.part3.rar

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

Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai AKA Battles Without Honour and Humanity AKA The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

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In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) and his buddies find themselves in a new war between fractious and ambitious yakuza. After joining boss Yamamori, Shozo is drawn into a feud with his sworn brother¹s family, the Dois. But that¹s where the chivalry of traditional yakuza film ends and the hypocrisy, betrayal, and assassinations begin. A rare and critical perspective on the history of Japan after World War II, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY is a tour-de-force that revolutionized the yakuza genre and launched Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara to international stardom.

2.63GB | 1 h 39 min | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/AAAB0E051497BF0/Jingi.naki.tatakai.AKA.Battles.Without.Honour.and.Humanity.1973.576p.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/A626082015D16DC/Jingi.naki.tatakai.AKA.Battles.Without.Honour.and.Humanity.1973.576p.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/CC9489EC08BF015/Jingi.naki.tatakai.AKA.Battles.Without.Honour.and.Humanity.1973.576p.part3.rar

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

Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Hiroshima shito hen AKA The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima AKA Hiroshima Death Match (1973)

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Synopsis:
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji, who went on to star as Rhett Butler in the Tokyo stage version of Gone with the Wind), finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka’s niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba) draws our series’ hero, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), into a new round of bloodshed, culminating with the tragic demise of the young Yamanka.

2.49GB | 1 h 39 min | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1B7301AC5F3EC62/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Hiroshima.shito.hen.1973.576p.BluRay.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/A93F2DFF124E56C/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Hiroshima.shito.hen.1973.576p.BluRay.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/3389FFE308E80C3/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Hiroshima.shito.hen.1973.576p.BluRay.x264.part3.rar

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

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