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Heinosuke Gosho – Hanayome no negoto AKA The Bride Talks in Her Sleep (1933)
Five friends make a pact to stick together through school, agreeing to graduate at the same time and to marry at the same time… 1.10GB | 56m 39s | 640×480 | avi...
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Toshiya Fujita – Umitsubame Jyo no kiseki AKA The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel...
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up...
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Ryuhei Kitamura – LoveDeath (2006)
SYNOPSIS:One night in a bar, Sai, a yakuza apprentice falls in love with Sheela, the girlfirend of clan Kurogane’s boss. But the beautiful Sheela disappears 3 days to only seen back 342 days later...
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Kôhei Oguri – Foujita (2015)
Japanese artist, Foujita, is Paris’ darling in the roaring twenties, loved for his delicate nudes. After leaving his 1st wife, Fernande, he meets Lucie Badoud and names her Yuki (snow in Japanese)...
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Takashi Miike – Kaze ni tatsu raion AKA The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)...
(from Japanese Film Festival)Lion Standing in the Wind is based on a real story and chronicles the inspirational life of Dr Koichiro Shimada who sets off to Kenya to serve as a medical doctor. In a...
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Takashige Ichise – Teito taisen AKA Tokyo: The Last War (1989)
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately,...
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Nagisa Oshima – Shinjuku dorobo nikki AKA Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)
When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. 1.70GB | 1h 36m | 960×720 | mkv...
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Josef von Sternberg – The Saga of Anatahan [1958 version] (1953)
Quote:In June 1944, twelve Japanese seaman are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years. The island’s only inhabitants are the overseer of the abandoned...
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Tomomi Mochizuki – Umi ga kikoeru AKA Ocean Waves AKA I Can Hear the Sea (1993)
Quote:As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down. 2.02GB | 1h 12m |...
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Mikio Naruse – Kotan no kuchibue AKA Whistling in Kotan (1959)
“Hashimoto Shinobu wrote the script based on Ishimori Nobuo’s original story, which won prizes including the first Mimei Literature Award. Depicts an Ainu girl and her younger brother living in a...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kamikaze yarô AKA Kamikaze Man: Duel At Noon (1966)
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII. Write-up by sketchesofcinema:Sonny Chiba and Kinji Fukasaku head to Taiwan in this international action thriller influenced by spy...
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Mikio Naruse – Iwashigumo AKA Summer Clouds (1958)
Synopsis:This ensemble piece recounts the lives of a family of farmers by interweaving several different storylines. Holding these stories together is the central figure of a young war widow torn...
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Katsuhito Ishii – Party 7 (2000)
IMDB:Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who’s stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive...
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Minoru Kawasaki – Neko Râmen Taishô aka Pussy Soup (2008)
Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler, Executive Koala) returns with yet another bizarre offering of Japanese film oddity.Taisho’s father is a supermodel cat, and everybody believes that Taisho will...
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Tomu Uchida – Jinsei-gekijô: Hishakaku to kiratsune aka Theater of Life:...
Quote:Hishakaku (Koji Tsuruta), a kyakubun (visitor) with the Kokin gang, frees his lover Otoyo (Junko Fuji) from a brothel run by boss Oyokota (Tatsuo Endo), accompanied by Miyagawa (Ken Takakura)...
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Kazuo Hara – Yuki Yukite shingun AKA The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Synopsis:The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On is a brilliant exploration of memory and war guilt, a subject often ignored in modern Japan. In this controversial documentary, Kazuo Hara follows Kenzo...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Shiiku AKA The Catch (1961)
The Catch 飼育 (1961) : Based on a prize-winning novella by Kenzaburo Oe -– Oshima removes the homoeroticism of the source but adds his typical touch of incestuous desire –- The Catch is set during the...
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Toshiya Fujita – Jûhassai, umi e (1979)
Quote:I haven’t watched it yet and there seems to be very little information available, but from what I understand, it’s a bleak story of two alienated youths (Morishita Aiko and Nagashima Toshiyuki)...
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Seijun Suzuki – Akutarô-den: Warui hoshi no shita demo AKA Born Under Crossed...
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. 2.26GB | 1h 37m | 1056×448 | mkv...
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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Hard Luck Hero (2003)
review:*** might contain spoilers *** Story: After being convinced by his friend Ishii, Asai decides to take part in a fixedunderground Thai-Boxing fight as a last minute replacement. The deal is...
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