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Shôhei Imamura – Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari AKA Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Synopsis:Vengeance Is Mine is the come-back feature of master Shohei Imamura after a 10 year hiatus. The film is based on a real-life serial killer who went on a killing spree across Japan in the 60s....
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Shinsuke Ogawa – 1000-nen kizami no hidokei AKA Magino Village: A Tale (1987)
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of...
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Yôji Yamada – Tasogare Seibei AKA The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Synopsis:Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother;...
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Kaizo Hayashi – Harukana jidai no kaidan o AKA The Stairway To The Distant...
Quote:Stairway to the Distant Past is the second film in the Mike Hama Private Investigator Trilogy. If you’ve seen part one The Most Terrible Time in My Life you must seek this out to find out how...
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Mikio Naruse – Onna no naka ni iru tanin AKA The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Synopsis:Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Zatôichi to Yôjinbô AKA Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Synopsis:This film brings together two of the greatest characters created in Japanese cinema. Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) is the blind swordsman who goes back to a village that he remembers as peaceful...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Senso to ningen: Unmei no jokyoku AKA Men And War Part I...
Quote:Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei’s (The Human Condition)...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Senso to ningen II: Ai to kanashimino sanga AKA Men And War...
Quote:Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei’s (The Human Condition)...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Senso to ningen III: Kanketsuhen AKA Men And War Part III...
Quote:Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei’s (The Human Condition)...
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Akira Kurosawa – Nora inu AKA Stray Dog (1949)
Quote:Stray Dog is an intense criminal story that examines the psychology of the characters as in compares the similarities between criminals and detectives. These similarities are balanced on a thin...
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Kaizo Hayashi – Wana AKA The Trap [+Extras] (1996)
Quote:The 3 Part of the Maiku Hama Triology is the best and probably darkest of all the films. In fact, this episode is more of a horror-like thriller reminiscent of a Takashi Miike film. “The Trap,”...
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Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Kasama no chimatsuri AKA...
Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds. 1.73GB | 1h 27mn | 1024×426 | mkv...
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Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Shin zatô Ichi: Yabure! Tôjin-ken AKA Zatoichi Meets the...
Synopsis:Zatoichi the blind masseur and crack swordsman finds trouble in the edge of town in this 22nd installment of the classic samurai film series. When Zatoichi confronts the master Chinese...
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Masao Adachi & Haruhiko Arai – Funshutsu kigan – 15-sai no baishunfu AKA...
Synopsis:A young prostitute tries to understand why she suffers from melancholy and benumbed feelings. Against a background of sexual liberation and political subversion, this latest libertine work by...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Nerawareta gakuen AKA School in the Crosshairs (1981)
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student… Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi...
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Kenji Misumi – Zatôichi kenka-daiko AKA Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)
SynopsisZatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses...
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Shôhei Imamura – Nippon konchûki AKA The Insect Woman (1963)
Synopsis:Tome is born into poverty in rural Japan, in the late 1910s. Chuji, her father, dotes on her; her mother is less faithful. Tome becomes a neighbor’s mistress, works at his mill as World War...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Shiroi Kyotô AKA The Great White Tower (1966) (HD)
Director Satsuo Yamamoto wields his sarcastic scalpel in this message movie that takes jabs at the practices of the medical profession. Zaizen Goro may only be an assistant professor but he has...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hitomi no naka no houmonsha AKA Blackjack AKA The Visitor...
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidently. She is taken to hospital but it advised that she will never regain the sight in...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hausu AKA House (1977)
Oshare (Gorgeous) is excited about spending summer vacation with her father, until she finds out that his beautiful, freakishly serene girlfriend Ryouko would be going as well. Oshare decides she will...
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