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Kô Nakahira – Ryojin nikki AKA Hunter’s Diary (1964)

Quote:A complex and far from straight-forward Nakahira film about a womanizer suspected to be a serial killer. 1.21GB | 2h 02m | 712×296 | mkv...

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Yôichi Takabayashi – Kura no naka aka In the Cellar (1981)

Autotranslated from Japanese:It depicts the mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in the warehouse and a younger brother who longs for her. A film adaptation of Seishi...

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Satsuo Yamamoto – Kinkanshoku AKA Annular Eclipse AKA Solar Eclipse (1975)

In the wake of Watergate, the scandal surrounding then Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka’s dealings with construction companies in Japan caused a similar political upheaval. Director Yamamoto chose as the...

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Toshiaki Toyoda – Hakai no Hi AKA The Day of Destruction (2020)

Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness.Quote:“I...

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Miyoji Ieki – Ibo kyoudai AKA Stepbrothers (1957)

Synopsis:The children of the maid in the house of an army officer (fathered by him) are forced to live unacknowledged life and develop great anger against their half-brother… Japanese family...

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Takashi Homma – Kiwamete Yoi Fukei AKA Extremely Beautiful Landscapes (2004)

In the late 1960s, photographer Takuma Nakahira published the legendary photography magazine Provoke with Daido Moriyama. With this edgy writings and photographs, Nakahira rejected preexisting...

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Hiroshi Takahashi – Reiteki Bolshevik AKA Occult Bolshevism (2018)

An unusual J-horror film written and directed by Hiroshi Takahashi, best-known internationally as the screenwriter of The Ring. A day in a group meeting of a Bolshevik cult in a warehouse in present...

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Tetsuya Nakashima – Kuru (2018)

To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist —but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination. 13GB | 2h 14m |...

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Yoshiyuki Kuroda & Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Tôkaidô obake dôchû AKA Yokai Monsters:...

The murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai. 1.78GB | 1h 18m | 1024×436 | mkv...

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Yoshiyuki Kuroda – Yôkai daisensô AKA Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare AKA The...

Spook Warfare, tells the tale of an evil Babylonian vampire inadvertently awoken by treasure hunters, and a brave samurai that teams with the yokai to defeat the bloodthirsty demon. 1.80GB | 1h 18m |...

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Masahiro Shinoda – Akane-gumo AKA Clouds at Sunset (1967)

Quote:A Japanese soldier Tsutomu Yamazki deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this melodrama from director Shinoda Masahiro. When a young maid falls...

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Kenji Misumi – Sakura no Daimon AKA Internal Sleuth (1973)

When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective tries to find out the truth. Review by kagetsuhisoka:Kenji Misumi’s nihilistic cop movie has finally...

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Daisuke Miura – Shônen AKA Call Boy (2018)

Quote:University student Ryo works at a bar part-time to earn money. He is not enamoured with his job or life for that matter. He is introduced to a female pimp who first tests him, and once he passes...

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Rei Hayama – The Pearl of Tailorbird (2018)

Quote:Working between text, sound, and moving-image, Hayama crafts profoundly beautiful short films whose obliquely mythopoetic narratives explore what might best be termed “ecological anomie.”...

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Yukihiro Sawada – Oretachi ni haka wa nai AKA No Grave for Us (1979)

A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble. 2.95GB | 1h 31m | 1904×804 | mkv https://nitro.download/view/18F7FE7F525A3E5/No.Grave.for.Us.1979.WEB-DL.1080p.AAC.H264.mkv or...

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Hitoshi Obuchi – Hitogoroshi Aka Murderer (1976)

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan’s former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none. 692MB | 1h 21m | 656×480 | avi...

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Kajirô Yamamoto – Wagahai wa neko de aru AKA I am a Cat (1936)

Quote:It’s the first film adaptation of Natsumi Soseki’s novel “I Am a Cat”, but I was a little disappointed when I saw it with high expectations, because it’s less than 90 minutes long and there’s no...

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Taizô Fuyushima – Kagoya hangan AKA The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate (1935)

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. 305MB | 1h...

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Akira Kurosawa – Kumonosu-jô AKA Throne of Blood (1957)

A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan....

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Kajirô Yamamoto – Enoken no chakkiri kinta AKA Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket...

A famous sound film comedy by Kajira Yamamoto, best known for being the mentor of Akira Kurosawa. This is actually considered a major classic of physical comedy in Japan and remains perhaps the most...

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