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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Katte ni shiyagare! Eiyû-keikaku AKA Suit Yourself or...
Two men get involved with a brother and sister that want to drive a local gang out of their neighborhood. 1.34GB | 1h 23m | 720×432 | mkv...
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Sumiko Haneda – Usuzumi no sakura AKA The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms (1977)
The poignant focal point for this film is a cherry tree that is over 1400 years old. Beginning with the tree, the director then explores the families and environment around the tree. The editing and...
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Takumi Furukawa – Taiyo no kisetsu AKA Season of the Sun (1956)
Quote:The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into...
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Sachiko Hidari – The Far Road AKA Toi ippon no michi (1977)
A landmark in Japanese cinema, The Far Road is the first feature film planned, produced, and directed as well as starred in by a woman, Sachiko Hidari. Inspired by her many years of work as an actress...
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Seijun Suzuki – Hana fubuki: Hono ni mau ichiban matoi AKA Storm of Falling...
Four secret agents investigate a series of mysterious fires in a small town in Edo-era Japan. This is an episode of the TV Series “Oedo Sochi-mo,” which follows the same group of secret agents as they...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Gendai sei hanzai zekkyô hen: riyû naki bôkô AKA Violence...
Quote: Part of Wakamatsu’s ongoing fascination with sexual predators. It’s an incel film avant la lettre, executed in true Wakamatsu style. Certainly not his most prominent or polished work, though...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Katte ni shiyagare!! Dasshutsu keikaku AKA Suit Yourself...
Quote:Nestled in the mid 90’s when Kurosawa was heavily involved in creating diptych crime stories such as “The Serpent’s Path” and “Eyes of the Spider” and especially his “Revenge” double feature,...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Sei kazoku AKA Sex Family (1971)
Quote:It’s supposed to be a political critique of the japanese patriarchal family structure. The father wearing his military uniform is dominating his family sexually and violently. And while his...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Hika AKA Secret Flower (1971)
A very rare ATG distributed Wakamatsu, starring Ken Yoshizawa and Rie Yokoyama as two pieces of a destructive love-triangle. Has all the usual Wakamatsu themes of politics, suicide and twisted love,...
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Guzen to sozo AKA Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between...
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Yasuzo Masumura – Akumyo: shima arashi AKA Bad Reputation: Notorious Dragon...
Quote:Set in 1937, this is the story of Asakichi, who is played by Shiuntaro Katsu, best known as being Zatoichi in 26 films. Asakichi has been disowned by his father for gambling, so he heads off to...
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Tai Katô – Nihon kyôka den AKA The Blossom and the Sword (1973)
Yakuza film about Mine, a strong-minded woman, who risks her life and her body in a desperate search for true love. 8.60GB | 2h 26m | 1920×800 | mkv...
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Sadatsugu Matsuda – Umon Torimonocho Benitokage AKA Case of Umon: The Red...
Quote:Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard. 950MB | 1h 29m | 859×358 | mkv https://nitro.download/view/E371C157CB67BAE/Case_of_Umon_-_The_Red_Lizard.mkv...
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Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Yoru no kawa AKA River of the Night (1956)
Synopsis:Japanese drama from the 1950s, following a proud textile-dying family who continue practicing the traditional art even when most are abandoning it. Eldest daughter Kiwa (Fujiko Yamamoto)...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kamata kôshinkyoku AKA Fall Guy (1982)
Quote:The English title Fall Guy is fitting – this is a film about a stuntman who takes several plunges for his movie star friend – but there’s a clever touch of subversion in the less obvious...
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Tetsuya Nakashima – Pako to mahô no ehon aka Paco And The Magical Book (2008)
Plot / SynopsisThere once was a hospital where patients and even doctors and nurses were all strange. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his own company, is a super cranky old man. One day, he...
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Kei Kumai – Ogin-sama AKA Love and Faith (1978)
Ogin-sama (1978) Synopsis:Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord...
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Kiyoshi Nishimura – Bara no hyôteki AKA The Target of Roses (1972)
Bara no hyôteki (1972) A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing – that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi...
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Mai bakku pêji aka My Back Page (2011)
Mai bakku pêji (2011) Quote:Based on Saburo Kawamoto’s autobiographical novel My Back Pages: Aru 60-nendai no Monogatari (A Story of Life in the 60s), the film is set during the student protests at...
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Yasuzo Masumura – Sonezaki Shinju AKA Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)
From All Movie Guide:“Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class....
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