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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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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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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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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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Chui Mui Tan – Love Conquers All (2006)
Quote: Like that famous saying, Tan Chui Mui speaks softly, but she carries a big stick. Her films are quiet little affairs, but boy, do they pack an emotional wallop. She has a knack for easing you...
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Satsuo Yamamoto – Nippon dorobô monogatari AKA Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)
Hayashida Gisuke is illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during the burglary he becomes a witness of derailment. Later some commies were found guilty in this incident, but...
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Tokuzô Tanaka – Rikugun Nakano gakko: Ryu-sango shirei (1967)
letterboxd: In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car...
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