Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hyôryu kyôshitsu AKA The Drifting Classroom (1987)
Nobuhiko Obayashi’s sci-fi fantasy (from a manga by Kazuo Umezu) about a middle school that gets transported by an earthquake to a strange and otherworldly landscape. 1.45GB | 1 h 43 min | 865×468 |...
View ArticleAkio Jissôji – Teito monogatari AKA Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city. 1.89GB | 2 h 15 min | 853×480 | mkv...
View ArticleSeijun Suzuki – Haru-Sakura AKA Seijun’s Different Stages of Cherry Blossoms...
A man looking to transplant cherry blossoms along the countryside encounters a blind woman who accompanies him for the journey. 933MB | 1:19:20 | 704×480 | avi...
View ArticleKa-Fai Wai – Joi sun ho AKA Written By (2009)
SynopsisA lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter’s novel. 1.82GB | 1 h 24 min | 864×368 | mkv...
View ArticleHideo Nakata – Joyû-rei AKA Don’t Look Up (1996)
Hideo Nakata, director of the Japanese horror phenomenon, Ringu, made his feature debut with Joyurei, or Ghost Actress, also known as Don’t Look Up. Nakata worked from a screenplay by Hiroshi...
View ArticleAkio Jissoji – Akutoku no sakae aka Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice...
Synopsis :A decadent Count in 1920’s Japan becomes obsessed with the works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writers novels, and recruits a variety...
View ArticleTatsumi Kumashiro – Seishun no satetsu aka Bitterness of Youth (1974)
Quote:“Bitterness of Youth (1974) was Kumashiro’s first non-roman poruno (<– wrong), based on a novel with a family resemblance to Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy “and set in a milieu of imploded...
View ArticleJohnnie To & Ka-Fai Wai – Sau sun nam nui AKA Love on diet (2001)
SynopsisA depressed, obese woman tries to lose weight in order to win back her ex-boyfriend with the help of a fellow Hong Konger whom she met in Japan. 2.71GB | 1 h 35 min | 1024×576 | mkv...
View ArticleShangjun Cai – Ren shan ren hai AKA People Mountain People Sea (2011)
Synopsis : Lao Tie knows in his heart that he must help find his younger brother’s killer, despite his own problems. He has only recently returned home penniless to the remote mountain community after...
View ArticleYuzo Kawashima – Onna wa nido umareru AKA Women Are Born Twice (1961)
Set in Tokyo in the 1960s, this film shows the gradual transformation of Koen, a young geisha who is not good at music and dance, from carefree creature to a self-aware, mature woman through meeting...
View ArticleUmetsugu Inoue – Arashi o yobu otoko aka The Man Who Causes A Storm (1957)
IMDB:Shoichi is a violent young man just released from jail who aspires to be a drummer. He works his way up by playing gigs in a hip Ginza club, an eventually wins a drumming contest. But what he...
View ArticleHiroshi Shimizu – Nanatsu no umi: Zempen Shojo-hen AKA Seven Seas: Virginity...
“Seven Seas, the first of Shimizu’s great silent films of the 30s, was scripted by Kogo Noda, Ozu’s close associate, from a novel by Itsuma Maki (a pen name of the noted writer, Umitaro Hasegawa). The...
View ArticleYusuke Iseya – Kakuto (2003)
Director Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s young protegee debut, an obscurely low key drug drama. Quote: Iseya enrolled on a film course at New York University in 1998, which he funded through modelling work, and...
View ArticleXiaowen Zhou – Ermo (1994)
In the course of cinematic history, there have been many great quests: searches for the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant, the true nature of Humankind, the essence of God, and, during this film...
View ArticleSun-Woo Jang – Gyeongmajang ganeun kil AKA The Road to the Racetrack (1991)
Synopsis:R (MUN Seong-geun) returns from studying in France and reunites with J (GANG Su-yeon), whom he used to live with in Paris. For some reason, however, J refuses to have sex with R. Angered by...
View ArticleYinan Diao – Zhifu aka Uniform (2003)
Quote:Economic unrest roils central China’s Shaanxi Province: local factories are merging, thugs threaten managers, personnel records get lost, and workers are without protections such as health...
View ArticleHirokazu Koreeda – Aruitemo aruitemo aka Still Walking (2008)
Quote:The lyrical, profoundly moving Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) is contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore – eda’s most personal work to date. Created as a tribute to his late mother, the...
View ArticleSogo Ishii – Totsugeki! Hakata Gurentai aka Charge! Hooligans of Hakata (1978)
The film that put ISHII on the map, thanks to a Grand Prize at Japan’s bastion of indie cinema, the PIA Film Festival. Those who know the director mainly for his punk style films will be surprised,...
View ArticleKiyoshi Nishimura – Hairpin Circus (1972)
A retired racing champion, now a driving instructor, gets involved with the speed tribes after impulsively taking to the streets to relive his former glory. 1.17GB | 1 h 24 min | 864×368 | mkv...
View ArticleSatyajit Ray – Parash Pathar aka The Philosopher’s Stone (1958)
Parash Pathar was Satyajit Ray’s immediate follow-up to his celebrated Aparajito. The film bears the heavy (but never oppressive) influence of Ray’s idol, French filmmaker Jean Renoir. Tulsi...
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