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Yoshimitsu Morita – Pink cut: Futoku aishite fukaku aishite aka Pink Cut:...
A light comedy which celebrates youth’s freedoms, aspirations, and boundless energy. Mayumi and Mai are hair stylists who open a Barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due...
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Tai Katô – Ayame kasa: kenka kaidô aka Road Warriors (1960)
Wandering gambler movie filled with humor and compassion. An odd couple of a gangster and a masterless samurai becomes involved in a variety of events as they travel. Rare film from Tai Kato, one of...
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Shin’ichirô Ueda – Kamera o tomeru na! AKA One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Quote:Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned Second World War Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies. 2.51GB | 1h 35m |...
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Waga koi wa moenu AKA Flame of My Love (1949)
Quote:A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as...
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Yasuo Furuhata – Isan sôzoku AKA Estate Inheritance (1990)
The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members. 1.82GB | 1h 53m | 716×462 | mkv...
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Tomotaka Tasaka – Tsuchi to heitai AKA Mud and Soldiers (1939)
Summary from the Film Society of Lincoln Center website:Shooting on location in China, Tomotaka Tasaka presents a low-key but stirring account of the day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese...
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Tomu Uchida – Dotanba AKA The Eleventh Hour (1957)
Quote:Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the...
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Yôichi Takabayashi – Akai scandal: Jôji aka Red Scandal: Affair (1982)
Quote:When a chaste wife first learned about ecstasy … I’m a woman in a high-class whore.Colored with glittering sensuality, Yuki Mizuhara now falls into beauty 2.06GB | 1h 11m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
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Masahiro Kobayashi – Ai no yokan aka The Rebirth (2007)
Quote:The Locarno Film Festival is renowned for showing interesting, unconventional films, favoring fresh, undiscovered talent over established names. The two do occasionally mix: one example is...
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Shûichi Okita – Nankyoku ryôrinin AKA The Chef of South Polar (2009)
Quote:Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now: He is unexpectedly assigned to a south polar mission to serve as head chef at the Dome Fuji...
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Hisayasu Satô – Kurutta Butokai AKA Muscle (1989)
Hisayasu Sato, known as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Pinku Eiga, has been known from being one of the most complex and versatile filmmakers to come out of pink films and one of the few to shoot...
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Yûji Makiguchi – Tamawarinin Yuki AKA Virgin Breaker Yuki (1975)
Quote:Based on a porno manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this pair of short features follow the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a...
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Yûji Makiguchi – Tamawarinin Yuki: nishi no kuruwa yûzukirô AKA Virgin...
Quote:Based on a porno manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this pair of short features follow the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a...
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Naoyuki Tomomatsu – Rôjin to rabudôru: Watashi ga shochô ni natta toki… AKA...
Quote:Mr. Ueno, retired, lives alone; he talks to Maria, a maid-droid his parents brought from their factory decades ago. Maria became Ueno’s companion after his parents’ deaths, and now her battery...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Fukushûki AKA Vengeance Demon (1969)
Quote:A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that madness and disease runs in their blood. A group of villagers plot to steal their property, beating and hanging the...
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Kichitaro Negishi – Asa wa dameyo aka Never in the Morning! (1980)
Auto translated from Japanese:Underwear maker designer Miki enjoys a free-spirited sex life. She doesn’t mind the existence of Tsujimoto, who has a reputation as a playboy. One day Miki confessed in...
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Noboru Nakamura – Chieko-sho AKA Portrait of Chieko (1967)
Tetsuro Tamba portrays Kotaro Takamura, one of Japan’s most celebrated artists. A poet and sculptor, Takamura is married to Chieko (Shima Iwashita), who has artistic aspirations of her own. She...
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Hideo Sakaki – Arî kyatto AKA Alley Cat (2017)
A boxer’s cat Maru goes missing. Soon after, he finds her in the arms of a blond-haired punk who calls her Lily and refuses to give her up. Quote:‘Alley Cat’: Hideo Sakaki delivers a fresh take on the...
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Yoshitarô Nomura – Giwaku AKA Suspicion (1982)
Quote:A car with two passengers plunges into the sea. The man dies, his wife (Kaori Momoi) is barely scratched. So did she or didn’t she? Shima Iwashita stars as her lawyer. 1982 Mainichi Film Awards...
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Ryûtarô Nakagawa – Yagate umi e to todoku AKA One Day, You Will Reach The Sea...
Quote:Mana Kotani was friends with Sumire Utsuki for years. She admired Sumire’s freewheeling ways and mysterious charm, but Sumire broke off connections with her. Later, Mana hears of Sumire’s death,...
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