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Kazui Nihonmatsu – Konchû daisensô AKA Genocide (1968)
The insects are taking over in this nasty piece of disaster horror directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of...
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Tamizo Ishida – Hana chirinu AKA Fallen Blossoms (1938)
Quote:Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows of women in a geisha house in Kyoto by...
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Tamizo Ishida – Hana chirinu AKA Fallen Blossoms (1938)
Quote:Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows of women in a geisha house in Kyoto by...
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Yûzô Kawashima – Gan no tera AKA The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)
Synopsis:Satoko is a mistress by trade, or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple’s lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn...
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Makoto Shinkai – Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru AKA 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
Told in three interconnected segments, we follow a young man named Takaki through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the...
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Yasuzo Masumura – Blind Beast AKA Môjuu (1969)
Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japan’s foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Joi no kiroku AKA Record of a Woman Doctor (1941)
A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle prejudice and superstition as much as disease. Stars...
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Takashi Miike – Nintama Rantarô AKA Ninja Kids!!! (2011)
PlotRantaro was born into a low class ninja family. His parents hope he can one day become an elite ninja to make his family proud. Rantaro, bearing his parents’ expectations, enters the Ninja...
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Kenji Misumi – Nyokei kazoku AKA The Third Will (1963)
Quote:Misumi directs an adaptation of a famous novel written by Yamasaki Toyoko, writer whose works were adapted numerous times for TV (Shiroi Kyotō is a sort of cult here in Japan) and for the big...
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Kon Ichikawa – Nihonbashi AKA Bridge of Japan (1956) (HD)
Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a sanbi-ha work of decadence,...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Hauru no ugoku shiro AKA Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Gake no ue no Ponyo AKA Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him. 3.16GB | 1h 42m | 1024×560 | mkv...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro AKA Lupin the Third: The...
A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid policeman struggle to free a princess from an evil count’s clutches, and learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of...
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Kinuyo Tanaka – Onna bakari no yoru aka Girl of Dark (1961)
In the late 1950’s prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women Kuniko who is...
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Kiriô Urayama – Yumechiyo nikki AKA Yumechiyo’s Diary (1985)
Yumechiyo Nikki is the story of a woman who is suffering from leukemia, the result of exposure to the atomic blast when she was still unborn. In the last three years of her life, she returns home, a...
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Gorô Miyazaki – Kokuriko-zaka kara AKA From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. 1.30GB | 1h 30m | 1024×552 | mkv...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kataku no hito AKA House on Fire (1986)
Adapted from the autobiographical story by Kazuo Dan which was published a few months before his death, House Of Fire tells story of a popular writer sharing his complicated life with his family, his...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Jakoman to Tetsu aka One-eyed Captain and Tetsu (1964)
Plot:In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu,...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Kurenai no buta AKA Porco Rosso (1992)
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig. 1.70GB | 1h 33m | 1024×552 | mkv...
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Makoto Shinkai – Hoshi no koe AKA Voices of a Distant Star (2003)
Hoshi no Koe ~The Voices of Distant Stars~, is an OVA that uses full 2D and 3D digital animation. It is a story of long distance love bridged by mail messages. Set in 2046, resulting from the...
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