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Yasuzô Masumura – Jotai AKA Vixen (1969)
Masumura’s 44th film capitalizes on the student unrest of the late sixties as background for a story about a ‘liberated’ woman. Cruelly nymphomaniac, Michi is described as an ‘independent child of the...
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Yoshikuni Matsunaga – Kekkon annai misuterî AKA Matchmaking Service Mystery...
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she’ll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine’s mansion and...
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Kei Kumai – Umi wa miteita AKA The Sea Is Watching (2002)
Quote:O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel’s owner, O-Shin...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu AKA Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo Sasahara, an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord’s mistress, who has recently displeased the ruler. Reluctantly,...
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Shigeo Tanaka – Obi o toku Natsuko aka I’ll Cry Alone (1965)
Story: Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Nagaya shinshiroku AKA Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
PLOT: An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid board....
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Norifumi Suzuki – Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô AKA Sex and Fury (1973)
SynopsisDuring the Meiji era, a gambler named Ochô takes revenge on the three dignitaries who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist, and crosses paths with a British femme fatale....
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Kô Nakahira – Sono kabe o kudake AKA Break Down That Wall (1959)
Crime film about a man who becomes a murder suspect out of the blue. Sono.kabe.o.kudake.1959.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264.KG.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h 39 minSize: 2.84 GiBVideoCodec:...
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Kôji Shima – Kaidan otoshiana AKA The Pit of Death (1968)
Haruo Kuramoto works in a company where he wants to climb by marrying the director’s daughter. But he has a problem: he maintains a secret relationship with Reiko, secretary in the same company, whom...
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Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Chijo AKA On This Earth (1957)
SynopsisKanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get...
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Kazuo Hase – Kaidan zankoku monogatari AKA Cruel Ghost Legend (1968)
A samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to “repay his debts.” Because of the samurai’s actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse. From Aurum Encylopedia of Horror, p.197 (CONTAINS...
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Mikio Naruse – Shûu AKA Sudden Rain (1956)
Synopsis: THE SADNESS OF THE FIGHT IS THE SADNESS OF LOVE. THE JOY AND DECLINE OF LIFE THAT ONLY COUPLES KNOW. A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Chi wa taiyô yori akai (1966)
A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on all adults....
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Yasuzô Masumura – Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru AKA A Wife Confesses (1961)
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession. Quote: The spirit of Resnais runs deep in this...
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Yôji Yamada – Kyuchan no dekkai yume AKA Let’s Have a Dream (1967)
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland....
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Kinji Fukasaku – Bôsô panikku: Daigekitotsu AKA Violent Panic: The Big Crash...
Bank robber Takashi and his partner in crime have been targeting banks across the country and they agree to do one more job before they can flee to Brazil. Unfortunately the heist does not go as...
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Kaizô Hayashi – Waga jinsei saiaku no toki AKA The Most Terrible Time in My...
Part One of the Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy Detective Maiku “Mike” Hama (Masatoshi Nagase; Mystery Train) navigates the Yokohama underworld with razor sharp threads, Belmondo cool and two-fisted...
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Aien kyo AKA The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
A young country girl becomes pregnant, is spurned by her lover and takes up the life of an itinerant player. The.Straits.of.Love.and.Hate.1937.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Hanaoka Seishû no tsuma AKA The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
Quote: The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as...
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Happyakuman seki ni idomu otoko AKA The Man Who Challenged 8...
In the year 1729 an unusual tale of intrigue unfolds around the succession of 8th shogun Yoshimune. When a young master swordsman shows up in Edo claiming to be Shogun Yoshimune’s illegitimate son it...
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