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Hajime Ishimine – Kasutamu-meido 10.30 AKA Custom Made 10.30 (2005)
On Oct. 30, 2004, acclaimed Japanese musician Okuda Tamio held a one-day-only concert at Hiroshima Stadium. The project that started as the documentary of the concert soon evolved into a story of...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Ningen no jôken AKA The Human Condition: I. No Greater...
Quote: Masaki Kobayashi’s six-part magnum opus, The Human Condition, based on Junpei Gomikawa’s postwar novel, bears the imprint of Kobayashi’s tutelage under legendary filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita at...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Dramadas: Modae kurushimu katsuji chûdoku-sha jigoku no...
An early TV film by Kurosawa, one of two for the Dramada (1990-1993) series. Stars Kurosawa regulars Ôsugi Ren and Suwa Tarô. Wordholic.Prisoner.1990.DVDrip.x264.AC3.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Ningen no jôken AKA The Human Condition: III. A Soldier’s...
Quote: Masaki Kobayashi’s six-part magnum opus, The Human Condition, based on Junpei Gomikawa’s postwar novel, bears the imprint of Kobayashi’s tutelage under legendary filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita at...
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Akira Kurosawa – Uma no uta AKA Song of the Horse (1970)
Kurosawa’s lost masterpiece has finally come to light. Filmed in 1970 and aired on Japanese television “Song Of The Horse” is his visual poem for the horse, the creature that he loved the most. Told...
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Shinji Aramaki – Space Pirate Captain Harlock AKA Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)
Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him....
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Makoto Shinozaki – Inu to arukeba: Chirori to Tamura AKA Walking with the Dog...
imdb wrote: Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who’s loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and...
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Kô Nakahira – Shiki no aiyoku AKA Four Seasons of Love (1958)
Another sprawling Nakahira drama detailing the love life of several members of a middle class family. Shiki No Aiyoku (1958).mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 47mnSize: 1.62 GiBVideoCodec:...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Dobunezumi sakusen aka Operation Sewer Rats (1962)
Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by...
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Yasuo Furuhata – Tasumania monogatari aka Tasmania Story (1990)
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island’s immense natural beauty, and he is...
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Yukihiro Sawada – Kojika monogatari Aka Deer Friend (1991)
Set in Hokkaido, Japan’s outback, an eight-year-old boy discovers a fawn whose mother has been hit by a car. Hiding it in an abandoned railway station, he attempts to raise it by himself....
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Maruhi joshikosei: kagai circle AKA Secret High School Girl:...
Quote: Sick of his job, bank clerk Inoue Norio becomes frightened of his partner’s death during S&M, and flees to the snow country of Hokuriku, where he meets a schoolgirl, Tanaka Sachiko. He gets...
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Takashi Miike – Araburu tamashii-tachi AKA Agitator (2001)
A fearless Yakuza captain’s loyalty is tested as two ambitious underbosses attempt a takeover of both his clan and a rival Yakuza gang. Agitator.2001.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkvGeneralContainer:...
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Moratoriamu Tamako AKA Tamako in Moratorium (2013)
Quote: Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn’t help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping...
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Masahiro Kobayashi – Nihon no higeki AKA Japan’s Tragedy (2012)
Fujio Murai learns that he has lung cancer. A doctor tells him to have surgery on the day that is the anniversary of his wife’s death. Murai ignores the doctor and leaves the hospital with his son....
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Tatsunari Ôta – Ishi ga aru AKA There Is a Stone (2022)
Plot: A woman visits a strange town where she encounters a man skipping stones by the riverside. They occupy their time with mindless play until at last twilight falls....
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Yasuzô Masumura – Senba zuru AKA Thousand Cranes (1969)
Synopsis: In adapting Kawabata’s famous novel about the entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father’s life, Masumura subverts the literary genre...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Jokei: Gokinsei hyakunen AKA. Torture Chronicles 2: Another...
Another rare Wakamatsu for y’all…..this time from his late 70s shintoho roughies/torture era. A sort of sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition, and much along the same lines as...
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Akira Ikeda – Kimajime gakutai no bonyari sensô AKA The Blue Danube (2020)
The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite village from 9 to 5 – orders are orders after all....
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Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu – Shojo no harawata AKA Entrails of a Virgin (1986)
A very weird exploitation flick. The whole film seems to centre round a group of dominating male chauvinists abusing young Japanese models after a photo shoot. After which they are butchered one by...
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