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Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu – Gômon kifujin AKA Female Inquisitor AKA Rusted Body:...
Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler. Rusted Body - Guts of a...
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Daisuke Miyazaki – Plastic (2023) (HD)
Teenagers Jun and Ibuki set out to find the psychedelic rock band Exne Kedy. Plastic.2023.1080p.BluRay.DDP5.1.x264.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 44mnSize: 13.9 GiBDXVA: CompatibleMinimum...
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Shohei Imamura – Buta to gunkan aka Pigs and Battleships aka The Flesh is Hot...
Synopsis: In post-war Japan, people are working hard, but never so much more than the Yakuza. In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be...
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Yôji Yamada – Baka ga tanku de yatte kuru AKA The Donkey Comes on a Tank (1964)
Quote: Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken....
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Ryûichi Hiroki – You’ve Got A Friend (2022)
Yoshio is a man who works for the city’s water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko. Ryuichi Hiroki -...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Shito no densetsu AKA A Legend or Was It? (1963)
A young woman fends off a series of aggressive marriage proposals from a man who committed atrocities during World War II. Quote: Using a sort of reverse aesthetic structure to that of Otto...
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Yôko Yamanaka – Namibia No Sabaku AKA Desert Of Namibia (2024)
Kana (Yuumi Kawai), 21-years-old, works as an assistant at a beauty salon. Thinking about the future is too tedious for her and she doesn’t even know what she wants in life. She has no passion for...
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Shôhei Imamura – Unagi AKA The Eel [Director’s cut] (1997)
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison....
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Yasuzô Masumura – Kyojin to gangu AKA Giants and Toys (1958)
Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry. As a new recruit to the marketing...
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Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Takuji Endo – Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007)
Highlander Colin MacLeod must choose between confronting the immortal who killed his lover centuries ago, or saving the survivors of a ravaged New York City....
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Yukihiko Tsutsumi – Chinese Dinner (2001)
Hoshino (Toshiro Yanagiba) is the mob-connected owner of a ritzy Chinese restaurant. One evening he’s sitting down in a lavishly appointed private room to enjoy an elaborate multicourse dinner, when...
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Kaneto Shindô – Gin shinju AKA Love is Lost (1956)
Quote: Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya. Kiichi and Sakie, a couple who ran a barbershop, and their cousin, Shutaro. However, the war forced Kiichi and Jutaro to go off to war. Kiichi’s death is...
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Jean Marie Boursicot – Kings of Ads, vol. 1& 2 (2003)
Quote: TV commercials collector Jean Marie Boursicot’s (who might be known to you by his Nights of AdEaters) compilation of advertising films and commercials produced by famous film directors....
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Haha no omokage AKA Image of a Mother (1959)
Quote: Michio Segawa, whose father is a water bus driver, lives with his father since his mother died, but he doesn’t feel lonely because he has a beloved carrier pigeon called Dede. Soon, Michio gets...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki aka She Was Like a Wild...
Criterion’s title for this film is “You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum.” From the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Films of Keisuke Kinoshita” program notes: Quote: Masao (Ozu regular Chishu Ryu)...
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Masato Ishioka & Naoto Kumazawa – Tokyo Noir (2004)
A trio of tales delineating Sex and the Japanese city, “Tokyo Noir” provides more emotional colors than just black and white. Picture marks a collaboration between writer-helmers Naoto Kumazawa and...
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Shirô Moritani – Kaikyô AKA The Longest Tunnel (1982)
Quote: In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido from the main island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Asu wa nipponbare (1948)
Quote: Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumnal bus ride from a hot spring town through...
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Kozaburo Yoshimura – Onna no saka AKA A Woman’s Uphill Slope (1960)
Quote: A Woman’s Uphill Slope follows the fortunes of Akie (Mariko Okada), a young woman who visits Kyoto after inheriting a shop that sells traditional sweets. Fascinated by the shop’s traditions,...
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Noriaki Tsuchimoto – Minamata ikki: Isshô o tou hitobito AKA Minamata Revolt...
Quote: In a spiritual continuation of the anguished confrontations that close out Minamata: The Victims and Their World, Minamata Revolt captures the direct negotiations that took place between the...
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