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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô AKA The Yakuza Papers, Vol....
Synopsis:The successor to Hiroshima’s most powerful yakuza family, the Muraokas, is whacked in broad daylight on a busy city street. What unfolds is a yakuza succession crisis, as the weaseley...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Chojo sakusen AKA The Yakuza Papers 4:...
Synopsis:As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families...
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Soo-Kil Kim – Kimi wa hadashi no kami wo mitaka AKA Did You See the Barefoot...
In a small backwater in Northern Japan, self-assured Shigeru and shy Shinji are best friends since childhood. Shigeru, an aspiring hobby painter, adores the seemingly unapproachable flutist Haruyo...
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Yôichi Sai – Buta no mukui AKA The Pig’s Retribution (1999)
Virginal 19-year-old Shokichi goes to the small island Maja-jimais, to collect the bones of his father Shoji, a man he never knew, which have been left to bleach in the sun at the foot of the cliff...
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Akira Kurosawa – Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku aka Rhapsody in August (1991)
Quote:A beautiful and deeply moving work,it deals with a taboo subject which is rarely treated on the screen.The approach is much different from that of Alain Resnais in “Hiroshima mon amour”,and the...
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Noboru Tanaka – Ushimitsu no mura AKA Village of Doom (1983)
Little known 1980’s exploitation flic with violent ending During the Second World War, a young man from a secluded village is denied the chance to serve in the Japanese army through his tuberculosis....
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Heinosuke Gosho – Jinsei no onimotsu aka Burden of Life (1935)
Quote:“Rooted in “salaryman” comedy and family drama, Burden of Life represents a marked advance over Gosho’s previous three shomin comedies. It placed sixth in the 1935 Kinema Jumpo polling, and has...
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Shinmitsusa AKA Intimacies (2012)
Quote:Epic feature film that clocks in at four hours and fifteen minutes, born from a proposal at an actor training school. Three-part structure consists of an ensemble play by directors as they...
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Setsurô Wakamatsu – Shizumanu taiyô AKA The Unbroken (2009) (HD)
Hajime Onchi (Ken Watanabe) works for Goku Airlines. He becomes the head of the labor union and fights to improve working conditions for the workers. The corporate bosses at Goku Airlines doesn’t take...
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Unchain (2000) (HD)
Quote:Documentary on the Japanese boxer Unchain Kaji, who retired from the ring at the age of 30 with an eye injury and a losing record. He then tries to start a new life as a civilian. 7.94GB | 1h...
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Juro Kara – Genkai-nada AKA The Sea of Genkai (1976)
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea. 1.39GB | 2h 2mn | 640×464| mkv...
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Saikaku ichidai onna AKA The Life of Oharu (1952)
Quote:Based on Saikaku Ihara’s novel, The Life Of Oharu charts the tragic demise of Oharu (Kinuyo Tanaka) in 17th century Japan. An attendant at the imperial court in Kyoto, she is exiled to the...
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Shin’ya Tsukamoto – Zan (2018)
Quote:Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan, Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure to be...
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Susumu Hani – Furyo shonen AKA Bad Boys (1961)
Quote:Susumu Hani’s first feature was this gritty pseudo docudrama of juvenile delinquency based upon a collection of papers, ‘Wings That Couldn’t Fly’, written by the inmates of a boy’s prison. The...
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Isshin Inudô – Kiiroi namida AKA Yellow Tears (2007)
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke – the manga artist, Shoichi –...
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Shiori Kazama – Kasei no kanon aka The Mars Canon (2002)
Quote:A look at the problems two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, have in their relationships, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out. Kohei and Kinuko, despite their age...
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Ryuichi Hiroki – Yawarakai seikatsu aka It’s Only Talk (2005)
Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each...
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Takashi Miike – Silver – shirubaa (1999)
Based upon the manga by Hisao Mali, Silver centres around the exploits of Jun Shirogane (Shinobu Kandori), a karate expert and undercover police officer who conventionally has also undergone FBI...
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Shozin Fukui – Den Sen aka Infection (2004)
Shozin Fukui, whose directorial style is often compared to that of Shinya Tsukamoto, put out two extremely strange DV-shot cyberpunk horror films in the 90s, 964 Pinocchio in 1991 and Rubber’s Lover...
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Heinosuke Gosho – Ima hitotabi no AKA Once More (1947)
SynopsisBefore the war, Nogami, a doctor who devotes himself to the caring of the poor, meets Akiko during a theatrical representation. She’s a sheltered girl from a wealthy bourgeois family who finds...
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