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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari AKA Casting...
Reiko is a journalist who travels to Nagaoka to report on the victims of the Tohoku earthquake. She will also run into her ex-boyfriend Kenichi, who hopes to convince her to star in a play based on...
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Takashi Miike – Yurusarezaru mono AKA The man in white (2003)
Asuza is a yakusa always dressed in white, a pure, yet tarnished man. A child from the streets, he saw his father assassinated by his older brother, and his mother commit suicide. These traumatizing...
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Kazuo Kuroki – Matsuri no junbi AKA Preparation for the Festival (1975)
Tateo is a young man living in a small rural village. He is a credit bank clerk, but his work is tedious. He tends to be interested in sex, but he does not quite fit in with the sexually loose milieu....
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Kaizô Hayashi – Yume miruyoni nemuritai AKA To Sleep so as to Dream (1986)
Quote:An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Sada: Gesaku · Abe Sada no shôgai AKA Sada (1998)
Based upon the case of Sada Abe, who on May 17, 1936 killed and emasculated her lover. These events took place during a period of war, economic depression, public unease and growing militarism, a time...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Kindaichi Kosuke no boken AKA The Adventures of Kosuke...
Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most well known being The Inugami Family. 1.65GB | 1 h 54 min |...
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Takashi Miike – Chûgoku no chôjin aka The Bird People of China (1998)
SynopsisA salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more then they expected. 2.12GB | 1 h 58 min | 854×462 | mkv...
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Kon Ichikawa – Nobi AKA Fires on the Plain (1959) (HD)
SynopsisIn the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation. 4.96GB | 1 h 44 min | 1280×536 | mkv...
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Shin’ya Tsukamoto – Tokage AKA Lizard (2003)
Tokage was commissioned by television network NHK for a series in which the works of famous Japanese authors would be narrated on film, as captured by noteworthy directors. Tsukamoto was asked to...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – 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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Kôhei Yoshidome – Shin ningen shikkaku AKA New – No Longer Human (1978)
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of...
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Toshihiro Tenma – Kyôso tanjô AKA Many Happy Returns (1993)
Quote:A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose members...
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Mio Ezaki – Macao no Ryu AKA The Dragon of Macao (1965)
StoryRyu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen...
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Kazuo Ikehiro – Nakayama shichiri AKA In A Ring Of Mountains (1962)
Quote:This movie is probably as close to a chick flick as Raizo ever made! But there’s still good action and a very inventive sword fight at the end. Raizo fans cannot resist him any way. Info is...
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Shelly Silver – A Tiny Place That is Hard to Touch (2019)
In a faceless apartment in Tatekawa, Tokyo, an American woman hires a Japanese woman to translate interviews about Japan’s declining birthrate. The two women grate, fight, and then crash together in...
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Takehiro Nakajima – Kyôshû AKA Remembrance [+Extra] (1988)
This ATG film is a family drama set in 1953 in a small rural town in Tosa, Kochi. This was the first directorial effort by Takehiro Nakajima, a novelist whose work was adapted into Preparation for the...
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Monsutâzu kurabu AKA Monsters Club (2011)
Quote:Having abandoned modern civilization, Ryoichi lives an isolated, self-sufficient life on a snow-covered mountain and sends mail bombs to the CEOs of corporations and TV networks. One day, he...
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Yomigaeri no chi AKA The Blood of Rebirth (2009)
Quote:Based on a well-known Japanese legend, the story concerns the sage-masseur Oguri (Tatsuya Nakamura), who is summoned by ailing King Daio (Kiyohiko Shibukawa). Despite receiving superlative...
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Hirokazu Koreeda – Hana yori mo naho (2006)
Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a...
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Kagi aka The Key (1974)
SynopsisAn elderly college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his wife. He bribes his son in law to shag ger because it makes him jealous and he can perform better. He keeps a journal of his...
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