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Tôru Kawashima – Ryûji (1983)
Quote:This is an excellent piece of cinema, about life of yakuza (gangster) and his family. Ryuji tries to quit yakuza and spend a decent life with his wife Mariko and daughter Aya…but as he’s used to...
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Tomu Uchida – Koiya koi nasuna koi AKA The Mad Fox [+ commentary] (1962)
Colourful, wildly stylised, immense captivating fable, including animation, kabuki and butoh and collapsing sets. About a soothsayer at court who was driven to insanity by the murder of his lover and...
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Tadashi Sawashima – Oedo Hyobanji Binan no Kaoyaku AKA Good Rascals (1962)
A small-time con artist gets word that his mother will come see him in Edo. To avoid her finding out that he’s been wildly exaggerating his success, he enlists his buddies in a wild scheme to...
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Tamizo Ishida – Hana-tsumi nikki AKA Flower Picking Diary (1939)
Maya Grohn wrote:This film is based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko. It is a story of two girls with totally different family backgrounds. The family of Eiko was in the okiya business,...
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Yasushi Kikuchi & Kôki Matsuno – Zoku Dojo Yaburi: Mondo Muyo AKA Dojo...
Quote:This brilliant motion picture is also based on the writings of Yamamoto Shugoro. It tells the story of Young Lord Takenaka who stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead...
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Yasuzo Masumura – Sekkusu chekku: Daini no sei aka The Sex Check (1968)
Quote:Ogata’s first leading role was in Masumura’s Sex Check — the Second Sex (1968). Here, Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken...
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Shingo Matsumura – Koi to sayonara to Hawai AKA Love and Goodbye and Hawaii...
A woman slowly coming to the realization that a relationship with her ex-boyfriend may well and truly be dead and she faces the decision of whether to resurrect it or move on. 3.78GB | 1h 32m |...
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Gakuryû Ishii (Sogo Ishii) – Ikiterumono wa Inainoka AKA Isn’t Anyone Alive?...
Synopsis:Cult Japanese director Gakuryu Ishii (formerly known as Sogo Ishii, a longstanding influence on Quentin Tarantino) presents a world coming to an end. On a university campus the students...
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Kosuke Takaya – J-Flicks – How to Watch Ozu (2021)
A focus on one of the grandmasters of classic Japanese cinema, world-renowned filmmaker Ozu Yasujiro. 3.60GB | 48m 59s | 1920×1080 | mkv...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Segura magura: shinitai onna aka The Woman Who Wanted to Die...
While Mishima has just committed suicide in public, two couples accidentally meet in an inn inthe countryside: the man and the woman, now with different companions, had known eachother years ago…...
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Takashi Miike – Waru (2006)
Quote:While it has been reported on several anime news sites that the newest Takashi Miike film is based on the Hashida Yukari “boy’s love” manga, WARU, the live action film is actually based on a...
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Tai Kato – Jinsei gekijô – Seishun aiyoku zankyohen aka Theater of LIfe:...
Quote:Few novels were filmed as many times as Shiro Ozaki’s famous Theatre of Life . So rich and appealing is this roman fleuve about chivalrous yakuza that, over the decades, it was rendered in...
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Banmei Takahashi –Ôkami: Running is Sex AKA Running Is Sex (1982)
The film depicts a man and a girl with the sensibility and body of a wolf who threaten a city of people who live like sheep under control. 985MB | 1h 01m | 860×366 | mkv...
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Rintaro Mayuzumi & Kazuyoshi Okuyama – Rampo AKA The Mystery of Rampo (1994)
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his...
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Yûzô Kawashima & Mikio Naruse – Yoru no nagare AKA Evening Stream (1960)
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers...
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Banmei Takahashi – Ai no shinsekai AKA New Love in Tokyo (1994)
SynopsisA look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the...
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Yasushi Sasaki – Hibari ohako: ojo kichisa AKA Hibari’s Favorite (1960)
A young woman searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents. A speedy but not very proficient thief is looking for the big break. A samurai and a priest...
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Masahiro Makino – Wakaki ni ho Jirocho: Tokaido no tsumujikaze AKA Gale of...
The story about the young Yakuza boss Jirocho, the role popularised by the great Chiezo Kataoka! An outstanding movie with intrigue and suspense directed by Masahiro Makino. This is the final in...
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Nobuo Aoyagi – Ai no sekai: Yamaneko Tomi no hanashi AKA World of Love (1943)
16 year old orphan Tomi (played by Hideko Takamine) was a wild and unsettled girl. The juvenile court punishes her to be sent into the mountains of Aoyama for reeducation. Here she is taken care of by...
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Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Yoru no chô AKA Night Butterflies (1957)
Synopsis:As Japan became more prosperous, the Ginza district of Tokyo emerged as the luxury bar and cabaret center it remains to this day. While the charming and beautiful women who operate these...
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