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Kunio Shimizu & Sôichirô Tahara – Arakajime ushinawareta koibitotchiyo aka...
Quote:Takeru (Renji Ishibashi), a young rebel, is travelling alone in the North of Honshu. He once used to practice pole vaulting but he gave up and became a robber. Along his trip he crosses the path...
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Kamyu nante shiranai AKA Who’s Camus Anyway? (2005)
Quote:Throws down the gauntlet with the very first shot, in which the camera glides sinuously all over the sprawling exterior of a university campus, caroming from one group to characters to another,...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Burû Kurisumasu AKA UFO Blue Christmas (1978)
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new “blue-bloods” being persecuted by the rest of mankind,...
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Tôru Murakawa – Bara no hyôteki AKA Target (1980)
Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama. Almost no information online. 1.25GB | 1h 39mn | 836×356 | mkv...
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Susumu Hani – Gozenchu no jikanwari AKA The Morning Schedule (1972)
Hani’s subsequent work, Morning Schedule , combines his interest in contemporary youth with his continued interest in modern women. The story deals with two high school girls who decide to take a trip...
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Akihiko Shiota – Hiru mo Yoru mo AKA Lifeline (2016)
Plot: Ryosuke (Koji Seto) runs a used car dealership in the sticks, some way outside Tokyo. He inherited the business, and doesn’t enjoy running it. When a girl (Jun Yoshinaga) is dumped by the driver...
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Akihiko Shiota – Gaichû AKA Harmful Insect (2001)
Eiga Wiki wrote:Harmful Insect follows a girl named Sachiko after her father dies, her mother attempts suicide, and her entire class is gossiping about her possibly having an affair with her sixth...
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Makoto Shinozaki – Sharing (2014)
Two girls experience anxieties of their own in a story set in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan. One girl is a professor studying the dreams related to the...
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Naomi Kawase – Vision (2018)
Juliette Binoche finds rapture in the forests of Yoshino Jeanne (Juliette Binoche) travels to Japan to search for the rare medicinal plant ‘Vision’, which according to legend only appears once every...
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Shigehiro Ozawa – Tosei-nin retsuden AKA Yakuza’s Tale (1969)
SynopsisA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible...
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Eiji Okuda – Kyôko to Shûichi no baai AKA Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi (2013)
Quote:The fifth directorial effort and the first in around six years from film director and actor Okuda Eiji. This drama, set before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake, offers a delicate...
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Daisuke Itô – Hangyakuji AKA The Conspirator (1961)
Synopsis:During an era of civil wars, in the 7th year of Tenso, Yoshimoto Imagawa was overthrown by Oda Nobunaga with the help of Ieyasu Tokugawa. Ieyasu’s wife, Lady Tsukiyama, was of the ruined...
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Kaneto Shindô – Fukurô aka The Owl (2003)
Quote:It is often said that comedy is the most untranslatable element from culture to culture. This is perhaps even more the case with surreal mixed genre films like this. In Shindo Kaneto’s film (his...
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Takashi Shimizu – Tomie: Re-birth (2001)
“An art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.” 692MB | 1:41:00 | 720×480 | avi...
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Story: A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. Quote:What distinguishes Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda from the crowd is a refreshing modesty. Rather...
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Shôhei Imamura – Buban No Kaizoku AKA The Pirates of Bubuan (1972)
Quote:Imamura reveals remote and impoverished islands in the Philippines to be the home of rival factions of pirates in this absorbing investigation into a little-known way of life. “In ballsy,...
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Shinji Aoyama – Sad Vacation (2007)
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in...
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Noyuki Yamayuki Umibe Yuki AKA To the Fields, to the...
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully,...
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Shinji Aoyama – Roji e: Nakagami Kenji no nokoshita firumu aka To the Alley –...
Kenji Nakagami one of the most notable Japanese writers of the post-war died in 1992. Is work reveals a strong connection to is homeland, Kishu: a mountainous region which connects to the pacific...
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Hideo Gosha – Goyokin (1969)
Synopsis: “Former samurai Magobei is forced to return to his sword-dueling ways when the gang he once ran with puts an innocent woman in danger. Coming to this woman’s defense, Magobei is tortured and...
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