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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Riyû AKA The Reason AKA The Motive (2004)

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A storm rages over Tokyo. Meanwhile, inside a high-rise apartment block, the bodies of four people are discovered – apparently the victims of a brutal crime. At first, the victims are all thought to be members of one family, but then it transpires that they were not related to each other at all. Investigations run aground. Who were the victims? Who was responsible for – it has to be said – having slaughtered them in such a way? And why on earth were the murders committed? What could possibly have been the motive? Innocuous citizens who do not normally have anything to do with such horrific crimes are dragged onto the case. And the more testimonies that are collated, the closer the case moves towards a surprising conclusion.

2.30GB | 2h 40mn | 789×444 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/7634958A08BFDDD/The.Motive.2004.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/404222C12B711FD/The.Motive.2004.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/8D5F3EF7F2CF96F/The.Motive.2004.DVDRip.x264.part3.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English


Katsuhito Ishii – Samehada otoko to momojiri onna AKA Shark Skin Man And Peach Hip Girl (1998)

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While escaping from the clutches of her sexually warped uncle, Toshiko meets Samehada who pos up in front of her in his underpants. The dude is also escaping from the gangsters he has stolen a pile of loot from, and the two make a daring escape together with the gangster thugs and the little weird guy the uncle sends on their trail. Ultra-violence, bizarre sex, and killer costumes ensue.

1.81GB | 1 h 48 min | 828×466 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/A24C5F934F1EB19/Shark.Skin.Man.And.Peach.Hip.Girl.1998.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/F7BB01175879C0B/Shark.Skin.Man.And.Peach.Hip.Girl.1998.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English(srt)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Karisuma AKA Charisma [+Extras] (1999)

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A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, where there is a peculiar tree called charisma. Should it be destroyed or protected? People stand divided over this one tree.

Extras

1.22GB | 1h 43mn | 716×387 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/2005CDD3ED5124A/Karisuma.AKA.Charisma.%28Kiyoshi.Kurosawa.-.1999%29.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/A93A492082A325E/Karisuma.AKA.Charisma.%28Kiyoshi.Kurosawa.-.1999%29.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Yasuharu Hasebe – Ryuketsu No Koso AKA Blood For Blood / Bloody Feud (1971)

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Late Nikkatsu Action – One of Hasebe’s last for the studio before the Roman Porno films genre became their mainstay.

Nikkatsu Classic Library wrote:
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City.” With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo take notice and want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Jo Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the “change” he sees.

1.05GB | 1h 26mn | 712 x 288 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/329E82BC8F3041B/Blood_for_Blood_%281971%29.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/B341452B5664E56/Blood_for_Blood_%281971%29.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/EAAD7A82CEA4CD6/Ry%C3%BBketsu_no_k%C3%B4s%C3%B4_%281971%29.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Joon-ho Bong – Gisaengchung AKA Parasite (2019) (HD)

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Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads to the Park family home for an interview. Arriving at the house of Mr. Park, the owner of a global IT firm, Ki-woo meets Yeon-kyo, the beautiful young lady of the house. But following this first meeting between the two families, an unstoppable string of mishaps lies in wait.

5.02GB | 2 h 12 min | 1920×1080 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/7A1DCD9C734BE1F/PARASITE.2019.1080p.FHDRip.H264.AAC-NonDRM.mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/C869E32D8EBBB2C/PARASITE.2019.1080p.FHDRip.H264.AAC-NonDRM.srt

Language:Korean
Subtitles:English

Kazuo Kuroki – Rônin-gai aka Street of Masterless Samurai (1990)

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Kazuo Kuroki’s international award-winning period drama was produced in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the death of Shozo Makino, “the father of Japanese films.” Set in the 1830s near the end of the age of the samurai, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and brothel on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are prostitutes and masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. The disgraced and disillusioned former warriors get a chance at redemption when renegade samurai invade the area to murder the prostitutes.

2.30GB | 1h 57mn | 1280×720 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/A0D56E9D7AC799A/Ronin.Gai.1990.WEB-DL.720p.h264.AAC.2.0.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/4E7D7A1AD3BBF78/Ronin.Gai.1990.WEB-DL.720p.h264.AAC.2.0.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/ADA32CA04EC0476/Ronin.Gai.1990.WEB-DL.720p.h264.AAC.2.0.part3.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (Hardsubbed)

Keita Amemiya – Zeiram AKA Zeiramu [+Extras] (1991)

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“When two hapless electricians go out on a job, they have every reason to believe that it’ll be a job like any other. But the bumbling twosome soon find themselves zapped into a virtual reality war zone! This Zone is an artificial dimension set up by Iria, a cute, tough-as-nails bounty hunter and her super-intelligent computer, Bob, to do battle with Zeiram, a seemingly indestructible alien that’s been genetically engineered to kill. The electricians do their best to help Iria take on Zeiram in this epic adventure. Created and directed by noted illustrator Keita Amemuya (Moon Over Tao, Mechanical Violator Hakaider) and starring Yuko Moriyama (Kunoichi Lady Ninja).”

871MB | 01:38:32 | 640×336 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/5E70C7B56FC65A3/Zeiram.1991.DVDRip.XviD-KamuiX.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx/sub & srt)

Tatsumi Kumashiro – Yoi-machi-gusa AKA Evening Primrose (1974)

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The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued “Benshi”, a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to ‘doing jobs’ for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group’s activities. Her name was Shino.

1.48GB | 1 h 36 min | 846×360 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/FA0976DE445DE14/Evening.Primrose.1974.DVDRIP.x264.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/F36EF4697B025D4/Evening.Primrose.1974.DVDRIP.x264.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English


Seijun Suzuki – Ukigusa no yado AKA Inn Of The Floating Weeds (1957)

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Another Kayo-eiga (Pop Song Film), inspired by the hit Ukikusa No Yado sung by Hachiro Kasuga. Although the singer has a co-starring role, the movie was designed as a star vehicle for the new Nikkatsu hunk, Hiseaki Nitani. He plays a young gangster wanna-be, framed for a murder and sent to prison. Upon release, he gets revenge against the yakuza boss who set him up.

703MB | 01:14:02 | 640×480 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/8F1172265D31649/Ukigusa_no_yado_%28Inn_Of_The_Floating_Weeds%29_-_Seijun_Suzuki_-_1957.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/BE37ABFF339EA35/Inn_of_Floating_Weeds.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Akio Jissoji – Dialogue (1992)

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A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss. The woman, being confronted with the suggestive evidence of her infidelity, has no other solution than to work on the sex industry for a while to pay for the Private Investigator’s silence.

1.17GB | 1 h 22 min | 704×528 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/BCD84B3B5D62A6D/Dialogue.1992.DVDRip.AC3.x264-Nomi1985.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/2F55608C9C46D06/Dialogue.1992.DVDRip.AC3.x264-Nomi1985.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Hajime Satô – Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro AKA Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

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While a plane is being hijacked, a report of a bomb on board, another report of a UFO in the area is cut short as the hijacker shoots the radio and the controls. This while they encounter a UFO, causing them to crash on an uncharted island in the middle of nowhere. They soon find out there is an assassin on board. Panic ensues when it is discovered that there is a UFO on the island, taking them one by one… changing them.

1.17GB | 1h 24mn | 855×364 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/4CB0F89A0D26929/Goke%2C_Body_Snatcher_from_Hell.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/C4D52BDE0D9F22E/Goke%2C_Body_Snatcher_from_Hell.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

Ye Lou – Suzhou he aka Suzhou River (2000)

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Plot Summary:
The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty, but also a meeting place for memories and secrets. Lou Ye, who spent his youth on the banks of the Suzhou, shows the river as a Chinese Styx, in which forgotten stories and mysteries come together. Mardar, a motorcycle courier in his mid-twenties, rides all over the city with all kinds of packages for his clients. He knows every inch and is successful thanks to the fact that he never asks questions. One day he is asked by a shady alcohol smuggler to deliver his sixteen-year-old daughter, Moudan, to her aunt. Mardar and Moudan grow fond of each other. But their tender happiness is disrupted when Moudan thinks that Mardar has kidnapped her for a ransom. She is so disappointed in him that she jumps off the bridge into the Suzhou River. Mardar is now suspected of murder. When a couple of years later he comes out of jail, he meets the dancer Meimei, an alter-ego of Moudan, and becomes fascinated by her.

1.37GB | 1 h 23 min | 608 x 432 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/F0CB9FD4D213EC4/Souzhou_River.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/4F793D386FFB113/Souzhou_River.part2.rar
Eng srt:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/nl/subtitles/4040777/suzhou-he-en

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English

Kihachi Okamoto – Daiyukai aka Rainbow Kids aka The Magnificent Kidnapping (1991)

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Kihachi Okamoto directs his 37th film with this sweet-natured satire about bungling cops and tax scams. The story opens with an 84-year-old widow and grandmother (Tanie Kitabayashi), who lives in a palatial estate in rural Wakayama prefecture, getting jumped by a trio of bumbling thugs (Toru Kazama, Katsuyoshi Uchida, and Hiroshi Nishikawa) and shoved into their waiting car. Instead of being afraid for her life, she is — to the chagrin of her would-be captors — having the time of her life. Soon the strong-willed granny takes command of her own kidnapping, offering the house of her former maid as a hideout and suggesting the amount of the ransom — ten million yen. Soon the press gets wind of the crime and it soon balloons into a major media event, as the grandmother’s four children fret and consult with the police. Ken Ogata also appears as the crime’s lead detective and long-time friend of the grandmother.

1.17GB | 2:00:01 | 656 x 352 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/53EFCF15A8B4848/Rainbow.Kids.1991.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/D7FBFE8A4BDC7F4/Rainbow.Kids.1991.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (srt)

Yuuri Sunohara – Jogakusei: Harakiri AKA Zankoku-bi: Onna harakiri 02 AKA School Girl Harakiri (1990)

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A young girl in a sailor moon outfit, sits quietly in an empty room, looking at a photo album of girls (from earlier films in this series) who have commit harakiri. The viewing and thought of the suicide turns her on, much in the way that extreme desire and input draw us closer to feeling we have found something tangible. She believes she has found it, so much that she must feel closer to the experience, and the only way to do so is to commit harakiri herself.

The movie is short but moves at a snail’s pace, prolonging every emotion, every fleeting sense of emptiness this girl feels, the desperate need to feel, and feel control of her life.

Almost pornographic the girl is overcome with the sheer sense if conviction, feeling close to oneself through revealing and the ritual. So much so, she can taste it.

She literally spends 1/3 of the film enraptured by the thought and flooding sensations of the thought, building up the euphoria required to step in and pick up the knife, and in numb curiosity, achieve the act itself.

she handles the blade with such delicate reverence, like one might caress a lover. Only to sheathe the blade slowly, and place it back on the mat before her.

Now she undresses, slowly, nonchalant, folding her clothing nice and neat beside herself, as if innocently, not actually preparing for anything, almost in secret, where the Gods cannot find her.

She touches her naked body, imagining the cuts, the parallel of her inner torment played out as if meant to be made manifest.

She picks up the blade again with excruciating hesitance and uncertainty, wraps the blade so as to not hold by the handle but by the blade itself, for fear of slipping and dropping the knife in cowardice? The act itself hits one like a burning fire. It is easy to contemplate such things. to romanticize, to delve…. but to actually chase the goal and find it, I literally felt like I was on fire watching her commit the act.

For we do not hear her speak, or know her, but we do know her. The youthful confusion, the pain for pleasure in seeking control in life, the desperation, the hopelessness, and the uncertainty of our bodies, and our emotions, as we begin to discover independence and will.

I could empathize with her so deeply, that i literally felt I was being torn apart through the process, and it was staggering. I did not expect it, perhaps it was the droning background haunting the scene, drawing us in, opening us up. Or the subtle looks of longing, loss, confusion, that any of us can relate. Whatever it was, I found it greatly disturbing, and worth investigating.

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This is a second part of Japanese extreme gore series about harakiri. If you saw any of them before, than probably you know what to expect for. If you don’t saw any of this extreme flicks, then I’ll try to explain what should you expect for. First of all – don’t expect for any plot in this movie! If you aren’t gory movies fan than this movie is not for you. During the whole film you’ll see Japanese girl dressed like a schoolgirl. She’ll perform harakiri right before your eyes (of course it’s not real but it looks pretty realistic). Finally she dies. The action is slow, everything is very detailed in this movie. The girls death is long and painful – after she cuts her abdomen, she pulls out her intestine and only after that she dies. Like I said – effects look pretty realistic, so the gore lovers should like this one piece. Otherwise – I don’t see any point in watching this if you’re not gore fan…

348MB | 57:12.110 | 608×448 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/37FCD42292410AC/School.Girl.Harakiri.1990.DVDRip.XviD-FiCO.avi

Language:None
Subtitles:None

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Kare no ootobai, kanojo no shima AKA His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)

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After being threatened by his girlfriend’s brother, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) goes on a trip on his Kawasaki to contemplate his options. He meets Miiyo (Kiwako Harada) by chance, and the two stay in touch. He later receives an invitation to her island, where he begins to teach her how to ride, and quickly falls for her. Miiyo is an extremely quick study, and the two are a well-matched pair. However, her obsession with motorbikes seems to be leading her down a dangerous path.

1.42GB | 1h 30mn | 847×458 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/0E05AB3197CC8CA/Kare_no_ootobai%2C_kanojo_no_shima_1986-Nobuhiko_Obayashi.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/BCBF1D5C0157065/Kare_no_ootobai%2C_kanojo_no_shima_1986-Nobuhiko_Obayashi.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English


Shinji Sômai – Gyoei no mure AKA The Catch (1983)

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Tuna fishing. It doesn’t exactly evoke the stuff of drama, yet very dramatic is this gripping yarn (puns intended) about the solemn, solitary lives of the men who catch what ends up as our sushi and sashimi. Opening with a shot of a young couple traversing sand dunes, the woman posits a question – women or fishing? This question fuels the drama of the next two-plus hours. – See more at: link

2.00GB | 2h 20mn | 807×454 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/97EA2BD6207D42A/The.Catch.1983.DVDRip.x264-SMz.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/3F75A2E6E9D2F18/The.Catch.1983.DVDRip.x264-SMz.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/39CC08F7F28D09A/The.Catch.1983.DVDRip.x264-SMz.part3.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang – Fun Bar Karaoke (1997)

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Pu, a young girl, has been dreaming that her mother, who had died some years before, is building a house. A fortune teller advises her that, should she continue to have this dream, her father will die when the house is completed. Her father, a playboy, is a karaoke regular. He eventually becomes involved with Yok who has connections with the Chinese Mafia. Noi, son of an American soldier who dreams of saving money, is learning English and wants to leave for America. He is in love with Pu, but too shy to reveal his love for her. Pu cannot stop dreaming about the house. Her father’s relationship with Yok brings him nothing but bad luck… ..

862MB | 1:40:50 | 608 x 352 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/C7BD474D86A81AF/Fun.Bar.Karaoke.1997.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi
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https://nitroflare.com/view/C0128822BD75D8B/Fun.Bar.Karaoke.1997.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.sub

Language(s):Thai
Subtitles: English (idx/sub)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Hebi no michi AKA Serpent’s Path (1998)

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Midnight Eye review:
Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.

As Serpent’s Path opens we see two men, named Nijima (Kurosawa regular Sho Aikawa) and Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa), drive their car to an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. Out of the trunk they drag a man, who they take with them into the building and chain to a wall. Miyashita is out for revenge against the killers of his eight-year old daughter. Nijima, a schoolteacher by trade, is helping him, though exactly why and how these two men decided to team up remains unclear. They proceed to subtly torment their victim, a low-level yakuza, into a confession. Miyashita, himself a former yakuza, is grief stricken and about to lose his sanity altogether. He laments over a perpetually looping extract of home video footage of his daughter, which is played on a tv set in front of their captive. Nijima on the other hand is calm and collected, his detached air of professionalism keeping Miyashita’s smouldering rage at bay.

But the confession they hope for doesn’t come. Instead they get the name of another possible culprit who ends up in the same situation. He in turn gives them the name of another and pretty soon the two avengers find themselves in more trouble than they bargained for and nowhere nearer the identity of the actual murderer.

1.16GB | 1h 25mn | 832×468 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B9AE5CCB3A052FB/Hebi.no.michi.AKA.Serpents.Path.%28Kurosawa.-.1998%29.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/CB855B8FBCA2FE1/Hebi.no.michi.AKA.Serpents.Path.%28Kurosawa.-.1998%29.part2.rar

Language(s)Japanese
Subtitles:English

Yimou Zhang – Yi ge dou bu neng shao AKA Not One Less (1999)

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In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if there’s not one less student when he returns. Within days, poverty forces the class troublemaker, Zhang Huike, to leave for the city to work. Minzhi, possessed of a stubborn streak, determines to bring him back. She enlists the 26 remaining pupils in earning money for her trip. She hitches to Jiangjiakou City and begins her search. The boy, meanwhile, is there, lost and begging for food. Minzhi’s stubbornness may be Huike and the village school’s salvation.

1.51GB | 1 h 42 min | 977×550 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/A48952043FEEDFD/Not.One.Less.1999.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/F1C45D12E9E00DB/Not.One.Less.1999.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.part2.rar

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English Spanish Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Czech Danish Dutch Finnish German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Italian Norwegian Polish Swedish Turkish

Akio Jissoji – Yoiyami semareba aka When Twilight Draws Near (1969)

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Here’s Jissoji Akio’s impressive theatrical debut. Distributed by ATG and with a script by Oshima Nagisa, it’s a fascinating dissection of 1960s Japanese youth angst. Oshima wrote the screenplay for television in 1964, but due to the subversiveness of the story it never got made there. Which doesn’t come as a surprise, considering that the film consists of four students in a room, who decide to leave the gas on and bet money on who will stay there the longest…

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In 1969 Jissoji left TBS, founded his own production company and made the 43-minute long When Twilight Draws Near (Yoiyami Semareba), based on a script by Nagisa Oshima that was originally written for a TV feature for TV Tokyo. The film was released by ATG together with Oshima’s Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki, 1969). ATG subsequently produced Jissoji’s following films, starting with This Transient Life. Together with Kazuo Kuroki and Shuji Terayama he became ATG’s most important director of the 1970s. — Roland Domenig at Midnight Eye

415MB | 43:21.925 | 640×480 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/DB94CCD67D88E57/Yoiyami_semareba_%281969%29.avi
https://nitroflare.com/view/5AA55D20BE01800/Yoiyami_semareba_%281969%29.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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