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Yoshimitsu Morita – Tokimeki ni shisu AKA Deaths in Tokimeki (1984)
An emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker / driver / servant / doctor who is given minimal instruction over the phone by “the organization.” A...
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Kenjirô Morinaga – Shiosai AKA The Sound of Waves (1964)
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue’s affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival,...
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Yoshimitsu Morita – Shitsurakuen AKA Lost Paradise (1997)
The tragic tale of two lovers whose passion burns so intensely it destroys them. Based on the bestselling novel by Junichi Watanabe, is about the fated love affair between Shoichiro, a middle-aged man...
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Shuqin Huang – Ren gui qing AKA Woman Demon Human (1987)
Based on a true story. A girl born in the “theatrical trunk” grows up under the lights of her parents’ Peking Opera Company. This complete immersion into theatrical life naturally leads her to the...
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Hsiao-hsien Hou – Flowers of Shanghai AKA Hai shang hua (1998)
Quote:Based on an 1894 novel by Han Ziyun, and starring Hong Kong film and recording star Tony Leung, Hou’s first film set outside of Taiwan takes place in the elegant brothels of late...
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Kenjirô Morinaga – Shiosai AKA The Sound of Waves (1964) (HD)
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue’s affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival,...
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Yoshimitsu Morita – 39 keihô dai sanjûkyû jô AKA Keiho (1999)
‘Keiho’ is a fascinating thriller dealing with memory, guilt and justice. A young actor is arrested for a brutal double murder. He confesses but pretty soon the possibility of him being mentally ill...
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Ki-young Kim – Goryeo jang AKA Burying Old Alive (1963)
Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one’s parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Rikugun Nakano gakko AKA Nakano Spy School (1966)
How a young second lieutenant becomes your basic Bond is the subject of this spy-vs.-spy noir set in 1938 at the start of the Sino-Japanese War. Jiro (Raizo Ichikawa) leaves his fiancée for a...
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Himatsuri AKA Fire Festival (1985)
The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are...
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Sabishinbô aka Lonely Heart (1985)
Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops,...
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Lav Diaz & Brillante Mendoza & Kidlat Tahimik – Lakbayan (2018)
Quote:Lakbayan (Journey) is an omnibus film that consists of Brillante Mendoza’s Desfocado (Defocused), Lav Diaz’s Hugaw (Dirt) and National Artis for Film Kidlat Tahimik’s Lakaran Ni Kabunyan...
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Shun’ya Itô – Inugami no tatari AKA Curse of the Dog God (1977)
A man looking to mine uranium in a rural Japanese village has the wicked curse of the Dog God set upon him. 1.71GB | 1h 43mn | 855×364 | mkv...
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Ying Chang – Da xia mei hua lu AKA The Fantasy of Deer Warrior (1961)
The happy lives of animals in the forest are stirred by the sudden attack of a pack of wolves. The Uncle Deer comes to rescue, and asks Birdy to notify his son, the deer. Sika Deer and the Deer are...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Haruka, nosutarujii AKA Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)
A fantasy drama about a popular writer who returns to Otaru, his hometown and finds a girl who looks a lot like the woman he once loved. 1.85GB | 2h 46min | 851×460 | mkv...
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Sion Sono – Kaze AKA Wind (1998)
Quote:KAZE (aka WIND, 1998/ 27min) is a coming of age story about a teenage girl who lives in the Wind Village in Yamagata Prefecture. The film also features award winning director Koji Wakamatsu as a...
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Tetsuya Mariko – Ierô Kiddo AKA Yellow Kid (2009)
Quote:Fired from his part-time job in a restaurant kitchen for absenteeism, rookie boxer Tamura has a lot to be angry and frustrated about in his life. But things start to change when he’s approached...
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Azuma Morisaki – Niwatori wa hadashi da AKA Chicken is Barefoot (2004)
A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers. 1.76GB | 1h 54mn | 676×380 | mkv...
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Jin Xie – Nu lan wu hao AKA Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957)
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 not only explores the problems that a young female athlete faces in coming to grips with her ambitions in the field of sports, it portrays the fate of two different...
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Tso-chi Chang – Shu jia zuo ye AKA A Time in Quchi (2013)
At the end of the school semester, Bao is sent to Quchi to be with his recently widowed grandfather because his parents are considering a divorce. Depressed and sullen, he has to transfer to a small...
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