Clik here to view.
Hiroshi Shimizu – Nanatsu no umi: Kohen Teiso-hen AKA Seven Seas: Frigidity...
“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 ArticleClik here to view.
Izuru Kumasaka – Pâku ando rabuhoteru aka Park and Love Hotel (2007)
A movie set in a love hotel, but without a single sex scene? A 59-year-old woman as the heroine? It’s hard to imagine that particular pitch loosening purse strings at major Japanese media companies. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jun Ichikawa – Ashita no watashi no tsukurikata AKA How to Become Myself (2007)
Plot summary: (from A Nutshell Review)Juri (Niko Narumi, you’ll be amazed that she’s only so young, but yet has the capability to take on a character that so layered and yet so subtle in her delivery)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Xiaoshuai Wang – Qing hong AKA Shanghai Dreams (2005)
SynopsisIn the 1980s, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country, in order to develop local industry. The film’s main...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nobuhiko Obayashi – Seishun dendekedekedeke AKA The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
Quote:“Seishun-den Deke-Deke-Deke (The Rocking Horsemen)” (1992): Nobuhiko Obayashi’s comedy tells the story of a teenage boy living in Kagawa Prefecture in 1965 who hears The Ventures’ “Pipeline” and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yûzô Kawashima – Onna wa nido umareru AKA Women Are Born Twice (1961) (HD)
The first of Kawashima’s Daiei Studio collaborations with Wakao centers on the life of a Tokyo geisha named Koen and her relationships with various men. Starting out with no singing or dancing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nobuhiko Obayashi – Tenkosei: Sayonara anata AKA Switching – Goodbye Me (2007)
A self-remake of multi-award winning 1982 film by director Obayashi Nobuhiko, “Tenkousei” is about two junior high student switching body. A very unique, experimental film. 1.37GB | 1h 59mn | 640×352...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Naoto Takenaka – Muno no hito aka Nowhere Man (1991)
Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yoshishige Yoshida – Amai yoru no hate AKA Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)
Plot: An ambitious department store worker endeavors to improve his station in lifeby manipulating women to get what he wants – money that is. 901MB | 01:21:18 | 656×272 | avi...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Han Hsiang Li – Qing guo qing cheng AKA The Empress Dowager (1975)
Synopsis:This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic. 1.71GB |...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kazuo Hara – Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974 aka Extreme Private Eros: Love...
Quote:In 1972, Miyuki tells her ex-lover Kazuo that she’s going to Okinawa with their son. Kazuo decides to film her. He narrates his visits to her there: first while her flatmate is Sugako, a woman...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Soo-Kil Kim – Kimi wa hadashi no kami wo mitaka AKA Did You See the Barefoot...
In a small backwater in Northern Japan, self-assured Shigeru and shy Shinji are best friends since childhood. Shigeru, an aspiring hobby painter, adores the seemingly unapproachable flutist Haruyo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yuan Zhang – Guo nian hui jia AKA Seventeen Years (1999)
A modest family is destined for tragedy due to the rivalry between two teenage stepsisters. It begins when Tao Lan accidentally kills her stepsister. Seventeen years later, a female guard escorts the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heinosuke Gosho – Jinsei no onimotsu aka Burden of Life (1935)
Quote:“Rooted in “salaryman” comedy and family drama, Burden of Life represents a marked advance over Gosho’s previous three shomin comedies. It placed sixth in the 1935 Kinema Jumpo polling, and has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mrinal Sen – Padatik aka The Guerrilla Fighter (1973)
SynopsisA political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman. Both are rebels: the activist against political treachery and the other on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Setsurô Wakamatsu – Shizumanu taiyô AKA The Unbroken (2009) (HD)
Hajime Onchi (Ken Watanabe) works for Goku Airlines. He becomes the head of the labor union and fights to improve working conditions for the workers. The corporate bosses at Goku Airlines doesn’t take...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Toshiaki Toyoda – Unchain (2000) (HD)
Quote:Documentary on the Japanese boxer Unchain Kaji, who retired from the ring at the age of 30 with an eye injury and a losing record. He then tries to start a new life as a civilian. 7.94GB | 1h...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yang Li – Mang jing AKA Blind Shaft (2003)
SynopsisTwo Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the “accident”, happen upon their latest victim. But one of them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leon Dai – Bu neng mei you ni AKA Cannot Live Without You (2009)
SynopsisA down and out man and his daughter live in an illegal hovel. The two live a happy peaceful life until the authorities intervene when the child reaches school age. 1.29GB | 1 h 32 min |...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ryuichi Hiroki – Yawarakai seikatsu aka It’s Only Talk (2005)
Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a variety of men friends, each...
View Article