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Teppei Yamaguchi – Kurama Tengu (1928)
It is 1862 and many young rebellious samurai oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate, strongest among them is Kurama Tengu with his friends Kichibei and Sugisaku, but facing them is the powerful Isamo Kondo and...
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Mikio Naruse – Kagirinaki hodô AKA Street Without End (1934)
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a...
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Yôhei Fukuda & Kôji Shiraishi – Ura horâ (2008)
There are some videos that are sealed and can no longer be seen. We will show you a few of them now. However, promise… That you won’t regret daring to watch these videos. A found footage anthology...
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Buntarô Futagawa – Gyakuryû AKA Backward Flow (1924)
The story of a nihilistic samurai whose mother is killed, whose sister is used and deceived, and who loses the only love of his life. 444MB | 28m 10s | 656×446 | mkv...
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Tôkyô kôshinkyoku AKA Tokyo March [Japanese Print] (1929)
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi’s typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience...
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Mikio Naruse – Yogoto no yume AKA Every-Night Dreams (1933)
In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son—until her...
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Daisuke Itô – Oedo gonin otoko AKA Five Men of Edo (1951)
During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei, whose sole aim was to save...
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Emma Kawawada – Mai sumoru rando AKA My Small Land (2022)
17-year-old Salya grew up in Japan from an early age, leaving the place where she was born with a Kurdish family. She lived a normal high school life, just like the Japanese of her generation, and her...
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Daisuke Itô – Oatsurae Jirôkichi kôshi AKA Jirokichi the Rat (1931)
The only completely preserved silent film directed by Daisuke Ito, this film relates the life of a legendary thief, Jirokichi the Rat in an exquisite original story and through the revolutionary use...
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Masaharu Take – Jû AKA The Gun (2018)
The adaptation of a Akutagawa Prize-winning novel about a young man who becomes obsessed with a gun he’s found, a noir-tinged tale shot mostly in luminous black-and-white. 1.41GB | 1h 38m | 1194×720 |...
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Tomotaka Tasaka – Jochukko AKA The Maid’s Kid (1955)
The story of a young girl (Sachiko Hidari) who moves from a farm to the city of her dreams – Tokyo. Once settled as a maid, she realizes that the superiority of city life is only relative. Her...
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Shiro Moritani – Hokago AKA After School (1973) (HD)
Quote:The world of adults seen by a high school girl in the valley between school and home after school, and the sparkling poison that only a daughter of this age has, gradually spreads ripples in the...
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Teruo Ishii – Chokugeki jigoku-ken: Dai-gyakuten AKA The Executioner II:...
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange,...
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Teruo Ishii – Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken AKA The Executioner (1974)
When regular police procedure fails, an ex-police captain recruits a group of deadly assassins to take down a corrupt Yakuza boss. Their first assignment is to intercept a briefcase belonging to a...
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Hiroshi Takahashi – Eiga: Toshimaen AKA Toshimaen: Haunted Park (2019)
Plot: Saki, Anju, Chiaki, Ami, and Kaya reunite for the first time in years. The five of them excitedly decide to go Toshimaen Amusement Park, a place that was very important to them when they were...
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Kôsaku Yamashita – Bakuchiuci: Sôchô Tobaku AKA Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in...
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Takashi Miike – Kamisama no pazuru AKA God’s Puzzle (2008)
A set of twins — one a hard-working student and the other a drifter — team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own. 3.41GB | 2h 13m | 1024×548 | mkv...
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Takeshi Kitano – Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi AKA A Scene at the Sea (1991)
Quote:Third Window Films continues their collection of Takeshi Kitano Blu-rays with a revisit of his 1991 film, A Scene at the Sea. At the time Kitano was still seen largely as a comeic performer and...
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Yôen dokufu-den: Hitokiri Okatsu AKA Quick-draw Okatsu (1969)
An innocent man gets killed for the debt accumulated by his gambler son. This sets Okatsu, a master with the sword and an adopted daughter of the victim, on a path of revenge. +Commentary by Japanese...
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Akira Kurosawa & Ishirô Honda – Mâdadayo (1993)
Quote:How does a director whose work has long been characterized by its vibrancy deal with the subject of aging and death? With extraordinary patience and grace, it turns out. Madadayo is the last...
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