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Masao Adachi – Sain aka The Closed Vagina (1963)

Sain (The Closed Vagina) 57min, 16mm The Nihon University Cinema Club (Nichidai Eiken) was an organization formed in 1957 by Hirano Katsumi, Kanbara Hiroshi, Ko Hiro, and Jonouchi Motoharu. Employing...

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Sion Sono – Otoko no hanamichi AKA Man’s Flower Road (1986)

Quote:A Tokyo student is running full out; we see him in a meadow, at university, then swimming in a river. He reappears in his garden, naked, then at home as he eats with his family, and then as he...

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Masao Adachi – Danjiki geinin AKA Artist of Fasting (2016)

Quote:Adachi Masao’s long-awaited return from hiatus is an absurdist comedy with political bite. The multilayered hypocrisies of contemporary Japan are slowly unveiled when a wordless man stages an...

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô – Mushi-tachi no ie aka The...

Quote:lotwise, a young husband appears to be cheating on his wife. He thinks she is having an affair with her cousin. She retreats to a large upstairs room covered in cobwebs and is trying to will...

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Masao Adachi – Datai AKA Abortion (1966)

IMDB says:A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs. 733MB | 01h 15m 35s | 704 x...

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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hanagatami (2017)

Quote:Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside’s nature and culture, Toshihiko soon...

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Takahisa Zeze – Raigyo (1997)

Quote:Murder, sex, blood and designer erotism meet head-on in thisperverse tale of sexual alienation in nineties Japan. Set amidst the desolate background of a warped and twisted Japan.Raigyo takes...

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Hirokazu Koreeda – Manbiki kazoku AKA Shoplifters (2018)

A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold. 3.90GB | 2 h 0 min | 1280×688 | mkv...

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Tadashi Imai – Bushidô zankoku monogatari AKA Cruel Tales Of Bushido...

Quote:Kinnosuke Nakamura plays seven roles in consecutive generations of Iikukuras: (Jirozaemon, Sajiemon, Kyutaro, Shuzo, Shingo, Osamu, Susumu), from medieval warrior Jirozaemon to modern day...

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Toshio Matsumoto – Bara no sôretsu AKA Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Quote:What can be said about Funeral Parade of Roses other than that it is the personification of a fever dream, and the definition of a “mindfuck.” Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 cult film is nothing but a...

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Akihiko Shiota – Kaze ni nureta onna AKA Wet Woman in the Wind (2016) (HD)

When a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into...

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Akira Kurosawa – Kagemusha [+Extras] (1980)

Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa’s reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As...

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Teruo Ishii – Narazu-mono (1964)

Intrigue and mystery surround a cold-hearted assassin who must keep one step ahead of the Hong Kong police as he tries to find out who framed him for the murder of a woman and set him up as the fall...

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Tadashi Imai – Adauchi AKA Revenge (1964)

Quote: This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled...

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Yoshishige Yoshida – Arashi ga oka aka Wuthering Heights (1988)

This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte’s classic novel, and Georges Bataille’s analyzes, takes place in medieval Japan instead of 19th-century Yorkshire. Onimaru (Yasaku Matsuda) is an...

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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Onna jigoku: mori wa nureta aka Woods are wet (1973)

– Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other...

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Takashi Makino – 2012 (2013)

2013/35mm & 16mm & 8mm film → HD/16:9/30minMusic by Makino Takashi Everything I saw during 2012. This work will show you the dynamic moment of changing from film image to digital image....

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Jun Kurosawa – NEKO-MIMI (1993)

Quote:Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by certain rules, can be played time and again,...

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Kazuo Kuroki – Kamiya Etsuko no seishun aka The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko (2006)

“Very sweet, wryly funny in spots, but always haunted by war (described sparingly but never shown). It was based on a stage play and betrays its theatrical roots in some of the pacing and staging....

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Masao Adachi – Yûheisha – terorisuto AKA Prisoner / Terrorist (2007)

Politically-motivated Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi’s first feature in over three decades tells the tale of an imprisoned terrorist who is forced to confront his ideological convictions head-on...

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