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Eitarô Morikawa – Bushidô muzan AKA The Tragedy of Bushido (1960)
Iori, a 16-year-old boy, is forced to commit “seppuku” (ritual suicide) to follow his late sovereign in death and thus preserve the honor of his samurai clan. His older brother’s wife, Oko, who raised...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Kagami no onnatachi AKA The Women in the Mirror (2002)
For his latest film, Yoshida turned once more to melodrama as a means of sensitively engaging a difficult political issue, here the devastating legacy of the Hiroshima bombing. Mariko Okada stars, in...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Nippon dorobô monogatari AKA Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)
Hayashida Gisuke is illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during the burglary he becomes a witness of derailment. Later some commies were found guilty in this incident, but...
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Atsushi Ueda – Umibe no Onnanoko AKA A Girl on the Shore (2021)
Two junior high school students enters a casual sex relationship. A.Girl.on.the.Shore.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264.ww45.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h 47 minSize: 6.84 GiBVideoCodec:...
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei (1967)
letterboxd: In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car...
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Seiji Hisamatsu – Onna no koyomi AKA Five Sisters (1954)
The story of five sisters – based on the short story collection ‘A Calendar’ by Sakae Tsuboi. Film was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Seiji Hisamatsu Five Sisters 1954 DVDRip...
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Yuki Teshima – Fishmans (2021)
Detailing the life of Shinji Sato and his now renowned band Fishmans. Fishmans 2021 1080p BluRay AAC 2.0 x264.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 2h 52mnSize: 4.74 GiBDXVA: IncompatibleMinimum...
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