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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi –Émotion AKA Emotion (1966)
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a...
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Kôji Shima – Jûdai no seiten AKA Teenager’s Sex Manuel (1953)
A seventeen-year-old high school student, Fusae Nishikawa, while observing a physical education class at her menstruation class, steals her classmate Eiko Takanashi’s wallet on a whim. An anonymous...
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Shozin Fukui – Hentai rando AKA Hentai Land (2004)
Pop art documentary faeturing ‘Koe-chan’. She is an idol shop clerk of the large manga shop ‘Mandarake’, popular for her ‘costume-play’. Sven Roth on LB wrote: A little documentary gem from Shozin...
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Kenji Misumi – Yotsuya kaidan AKA The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)
This is another of the many versions of the famous story: a poor samurai causes the death of his ailing wife, who is first disfigured by poison (seemed far-fetched until the Yushchenko dioxine case),...
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Kôji Shima – Asakusa no yoru (1954)
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action....
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Kaidan yukijorô AKA The Snow Woman (1968)
Based on the same Lafcadio Hearn “Yuki Onna” story told in Masaki Kobayashi’s classic film “Kwaidan”, but otherwise unrelated (despite Tom Weisser’s typically misinformed and erroneous write-up in...
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Ryûichi Hiroki – Rihatuten aruji no kanashimi AKA Barber’s Sorrow (2002)
A S&M comedy about a masochist barber. Barber's Sorrow 2002 dvdrip.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 37mnSize: 1.63 GiBDXVA: CompatibleMinimum settings: MetVideoCodec: x264Resolution:...
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Kôji Shima – Shojo jutai (1966)
Shojo Jutai (1966) is a 1966 movie directed by Koji Shima, with notable stars Ayako Wakao, Takao Ito, and Sanae Nakahara. Koji Shima - Shojo Jutai [1966].mkvGeneral Container: MatroskaRuntime: 1 min...
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Higuchinsky – Uzumaki AKA Spiral (2000)
Quote: Based on the phenomenally popular horror manga by Junji Ito, Uzumaki is the debut feature of Japanese music video director Higuchinsky (born Akirhiro Higuchi). Something strange is going on in...
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Jigoku AKA The Sinners of Hell (1960) (HD)
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. Jigoku.1960.1080p.BluRay.FLAC.x264-MANJI.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Shôhei Imamura – Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu AKA Warm Water Under a Red...
An impossible tale. Taro, an old man who dies homeless in Tokyo has told Yosuke, a weak-willed out-of-work salaryman about a golden statue that he left years ago in a house by the sea in Noto. Yosuke...
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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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Jun’ya Satô – Soshiki bôryoku (1967)
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans. Organized Violence 1967 1080i HDTV AAC MPEG2 JPTVclub.tsGeneralContainer: MPEG-TSRuntime: 2h 0mnSize: 7.04 GiBVideoCodec:...
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Yoshihiro Ishikawa – Kaibyô nori no numa AKA Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit (1968)
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Takafusa Ryuzoji, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade...
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Nobuyuki Saitô – Hahako kankin: Mesu AKA Captured Mother and Daughter: She...
Synopsis: A Japanese schoolgirl witnesses the suicide of her close friend. In the aftermath she gets caught up in a world of sex trafficking after meeting a guy hiding his true intentions. Of course...
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Masashige Narusawa – Hana fudâ tôsei AKA Flower Cards Chivalry (1967)
Review from Takuma_964 @ Letterboxd wrote: An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by...
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Kurôzu Explode AKA Crows Explode (2014)
A month later. Genji Takiya has graduated. New fights begin to see who will climb to the top at Suzuran High School. Meanwhile, a battle against nearby Kurosaki Industrial High School begins....
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Akira Kurosawa & Ishirô Honda – Yume AKA Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990)
Quote:Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a...
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Masashige Narusawa – Hana fudâ tôsei AKA Flower Cards Chivalry (1967)
Review from Takuma_964 @ Letterboxd wrote: An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by...
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Kenji Misumi – Koto yûshû: Ane imôto (1967)
Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter’s fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cuisine in jeopardy. VTS_01_0.IFOGeneralContainer:...
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