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Toshiharu Ikeda – Sukeban mafia: Rinchi AKA Sukeban Mafia (1980)
Toshiharu Ikeda made his directorial debut in 1980 with SUKEBAN MAFIA, a pinku eiga set around high school girls. After the opening requisite showdown between the female lead Onichan and one of the...
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Kô Nakahira – Kurutta kajitsu AKA Crazed Fruit (1956)
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted...
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Toshiharu Ikeda – Chigireta ai no satsujin aka. Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love...
The third entry in the unrelated series which began with Shiryo No Wana, Toshiharu Ikeda’s bloody horror film deals with a policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigating the apparent suicide of a college...
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Kan Mukai – Esa AKA The Bite AKA The Pimp (1966)
Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn’t like what he’s doing, but he needs the money to take care of...
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Kô Nakahira – Mikkai AKA The Assignation (1959)
This well-paced, effective drama by director Ko Nakahira eloquently decries the foibles of adultery by looking at a worst possible scenario. Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Majo no takkyûbin AKA Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Quote:A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. 2.20GB | 1h 43mn | 1024×552 |...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Mononoke-hime AKA Princess Mononoke (1997)
Synopsis:Ashitaka is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope is to travel to the...
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Kaneto Shindô – Kanawa AKA The Iron Crown (1972)
When her husband leaves her for a younger woman, a woman plots revenge against him. 1.57GB | 1h 31mn | 720×480 | mkv...
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Kaneto Shindô – Kôsatsu AKA The Strangling (1979)
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men)...
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Tai Katô – Kaidan Oiwa no borei AKA Ghost of Oiwa (1961)
One of the most beautiful versions of Yotsuya Kaidan. Tamiya, an egomaniacal samurai, determines to reunite with his wife Oiwa, who’s left him after a murder scandal. When her sister Osode is tricked...
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Yasujirô Shimazu – Watashi no niisan AKA My elder Brother (1934)
Quote:Kazuo Hasegawa has wild friends and hates being compared to his stepbrother, Reikichi Kawamura, who is steady, works hard at his taxicab business, and is amiable. That’s why he left home a year...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Fukuro no shiro AKA Owls’ Castle (1999)
As the great military commander Hideyoshi was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village....
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Kinji Fukasaku – Gyangu tai G-men AKA Gang Vs G-men (1962)
Quote:The young Sonny Chiba is fabulous in this wildly entertaining Kinji Fukasaku film. It’s the 4th movie in the very loosely related Gang series. This instalment sees former gangster (Koji Tsuruta)...
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Minoru Shibuya – Haha to ko AKA Mother and Child (1938)
This is an early film from the career of Shibuya Minoru and according to Donald Richie in The Japanese Film: Art and Industry, “One of his best, the 1939 [actally 1938] Mother and Child (Haha to ko),...
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Jun Ichikawa – Ryoma’s Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover (2002)
Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death. Directed by Jun Ichikawa. DVD Source: Rental, DVD5 DVD Format: NTSC...
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Maboroshi Tengu AKA The Phantom Goblin (1962)
The great Okawa Hashizo plays a double role in this thrilling tale of intrigue and corruption within the capital city of Edo. When Moriya Shuma, an injured Edo officer is rescued by a vassal whose...
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NDU – Asia is One (1973)
Lost for decades, Asia is One was rediscovered in 2005. Shot around the time of the reversion, Asia is One initially begins by capturing shifting perceptions in Okinawa and economic developments—from...
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Kazuyoshi Kumakiri – Nonko 36-sai (kaji-tetsudai) aka Non-Ko (2008)
Non-ko (36-sai Kaji Tetsudai), 7th film directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. Stars Maki Sakai and Gen Hoshino (Shakerock). Nobuko commonly called Nonko who is 36 years old and a once-divorced woman returns...
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Yukihiro Sawada – Tomodachi AKA Friend (1974)
Quote:A young girl moves from Iwate to Kawasaki after leaving her village, but she suffers from asthma and is ostracised by her friends. A young boy who dreams of becoming a footballer. The two...
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NDU – Motoshinkakarannu (1971)
A documentary film about prostitutes, yakuza, labor unions, and tourists in Koza City (now Okinawa City) before the reversion of Okinawa to Japan. Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to...
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