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Masaki Kobayashi – Kaseki (1975)
This drama is adapted from a Japanese television mini-series. In the story, an industrialist learns of a medical condition which will greatly shorten his life. He is on a trip to Europe at the time,...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Akuryo-To AKA Island of the Evil Spirits (1981)
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man’s words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold. 2.96GB | 2h 11m | 1024×554 | mkv...
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Shun Ikezoe – Jujuba (2019)
Shun Ikezoe wrote:People can never really understand each other. Thinking back, I feel this way because of my former mother-in-law. That time, when Kansai dialect and Sichuan Chinese flew back and...
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Takashi Ito – Venus (1990)
Takashi Ito wrote:In the early afternoon, a mother holding her child stands still in the park of a housing project. The kind of sight that is a symbol of beauty and love. Be as that may be, they have...
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Takashi Ito – Drill (1983)
Takashi Nakajima wrote:The filming of the entrance to the company dormitory in which the film-maker was living. Centering the film on one pillar, he warps the spaces to the left and right and creates...
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Takashi Ito – Akuma no kairozu AKA Devil’s Circuit (1988)
Takashi Ito wrote:A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its 400 or 500 meter radius on the...
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Takashi Ito – Zone (1995)
This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is still without even a shudder in a white room. A series of unusual scenes in this room expresses what...
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Takashi Ito – 12-gatsu no kakurenbo AKA December Hide-and-Seek (1993)
Takashi Ito wrote:Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and know the feel of his warmth on my...
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Takashi Ito – Box (1982)
Takashi Ito wrote:I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only revolves 90 degrees. The trick to...
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Takashi Ito – Gi-Souchi ‘M’ AKA Apparatus M (1997)
A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater constructed within the exhibit space that featured...
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Mikio Naruse – Hourou-ki aka Her Lonely Lane (1962)
A dramatized biography of Fumiko Hayashi, the noted Japanese writer. Born to improverished parents Fumiko does all she can to earn money enough to support herself. Along the way she gets invovled with...
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Mikio Naruse – Arakure aka Untamed (1957)
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot...
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Noboru Nakamura – Yoru no henrin AKA Shape of the Night (1964)
A young woman working in a bar is pushed into prostitution by her violent yakuza boyfriend 2.15GB | 1h 46m | 860×366 | mkv...
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Tai Katô – Hana to ryu-seiun hen aizo hen doto hen AKA Flower And Dragon –...
A yakuza film epic about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle. 2.68GB | 2h 44ms | 855×364 | mkv...
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Takashi Ito – The Moon (1994)
Takashi Ito wrote:A long time ago, I would often dream of the uncanny and mystical landscape that appears in moonlight. Irrational landscapes and spaces filled with unspeakable pleasures like a black...
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Doraibu mai kâ AKA Drive My Car (2021)
Adapted from a short story in Murakami Haruki’s “Men Without Women”. A director’s wife was a playwright, but she died two years ago. When he’s invited to direct a play at a festival in Hiroshima, the...
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Hideo Gosha – Kai aka Oar (1985)
Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’ : He buys young girls from poor families to sell them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, though she...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Nihon no higeki AKA A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
Nick Wrigley, Masters of Cinema wrote:At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor...
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Takashi Ito – Memai AKA Dizziness (2001)
Takashi Ito wrote:In the final scene of my last work, A Silent Day, a girl was filming herself with an 8mm camera on a railway bridge. Although the film doesn’t depict the incident, she later jumped...
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Seijun Suzuki – Blood-Red Water In The Channel (1961)
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki’s growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of “real coast guard action stories” was the perfect vehicle...
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