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Yoshihiko Matsui – Tsuitô no zawameki AKA Noisy Requiem (1988)
Makoto, a youth bound to the slums of Osaka, murders brutally and often, hoarding the entrails he collects atop his rooftop shelter. 3.18GB | 2 h 29 min | 716×537 | mkv...
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Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu – Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen AKA Red...
Quote:It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan’s context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the...
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Kajirô Yamamoto & Akira Kurosawa – Uma aka Horse (1941)
The story of the film is simple: A young girl in the countryside raises a young horse and develops a deep relationship to the animal. But the war is becoming part of life, so in the end she has to...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Dai-bosatsu tôge AKA The Sword of Doom (1966)
Quote:Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely. 2.53GB | 2 h 0 min | 1024×438 | mkv...
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Ji-shun Duan & Jun’ya Satô – Mikan no taikyoku AKA The Go Masters (1982)
Quote:“The Go Masters” begins and ends with the same game of Go, but 32 years separate the opening and closing moves. In between, there is war and heartbreak, death and disease, doomed lovers,...
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Kôkichi Tsukiyama – Shibukawa Bangorô (1922)
A film on the life of Bangorō Shibukawa, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Tadao Satō’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three...
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Yôichi Sai – Tomo yo shizukani nemure AKA Let Him Rest in Peace (1985)
Tsuyoshi Shindo came to the town of Tamari to prove the innocence of his friend, Sakaguchi. Sakaguchi was accused of attacking the president of Shimoyama Kensetsu, a local construction company, with a...
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Yoshimitsu Morita – Tokimeki ni shisu AKA Deaths in Tokimeki (1984)
An emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker / driver / servant / doctor who is given minimal instruction over the phone by “the organization.” A...
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Kenjirô Morinaga – Shiosai AKA The Sound of Waves (1964)
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue’s affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival,...
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Yoshimitsu Morita – Shitsurakuen AKA Lost Paradise (1997)
The tragic tale of two lovers whose passion burns so intensely it destroys them. Based on the bestselling novel by Junichi Watanabe, is about the fated love affair between Shoichiro, a middle-aged man...
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Makoto Satô – Self and Others (2001)
SynopsisIn 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflected in Gocho’s photographic images has become more profound over time since his death and...
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Kenjirô Morinaga – Shiosai AKA The Sound of Waves (1964) (HD)
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue’s affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival,...
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Yoshimitsu Morita – 39 keihô dai sanjûkyû jô AKA Keiho (1999)
‘Keiho’ is a fascinating thriller dealing with memory, guilt and justice. A young actor is arrested for a brutal double murder. He confesses but pretty soon the possibility of him being mentally ill...
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Kaku Arakawa – 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki (2019)
Synopsis A 4-part documentary chronicling the creative process of the legendary Japanese filmmaker. He is shown as a passionate artisan, a steadfast trailblazer, and a father butting heads with his...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Rikugun Nakano gakko AKA Nakano Spy School (1966)
How a young second lieutenant becomes your basic Bond is the subject of this spy-vs.-spy noir set in 1938 at the start of the Sino-Japanese War. Jiro (Raizo Ichikawa) leaves his fiancée for a...
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Kaneto Shindô – Hadaka no jûkyû-sai AKA Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)
Quote:Almost a decade before Imamura’s Vengeance Is Mine, Shindo crafted this fascinating documentary-inspired portrait of a serial killer that drew upon the actual events of a troubled nineteen-year...
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Himatsuri AKA Fire Festival (1985)
The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are...
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Kurobara shôten AKA Black Rose Ascension (1975)
Quote:This self-reflexive pinku eiga film may be to Nikkatsu softcore what Boogie Nights was to American hardcore. Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director clearly modeled on...
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Takashi Tsuboshima – Ai no kizuna AKA Bonds of Love (1969)
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story “Tazutazushi”. Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior’s daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance...
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Sabishinbô aka Lonely Heart (1985)
Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops,...
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