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Shûji Terayama – Bokusâ AKA The Boxer (1977)
Quote:In mid-career, while he is on a winning streak, and in the middle of a fight he is winning, a young boxer is revolted by the violence of the game. He allows himself to be beaten up and quits the...
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Kôhei Oguri – Umoregi AKA The Buried Forest (2005)
“What secrets lie deep in the buried forest? Veteran filmmaker Oguri Kohei, the director of such films as The Sting of Death and Sleeping Man, helms The Buried Forest (a.k.a. Umoregi), one of a select...
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Yôichi Higashi – Za reipu AKA The Rape (1982)
Summary:Based on the book by Keiko Ochiai, “The Rape” details the struggles and determination of a young woman who is attacked and raped on her way home from her lover’s and shows how she comes to...
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Kôhei Oguri – Kayako no tameni AKA For Kayako (1985)
Synopsis:Summer vacation is nearly over and Korean undergraduate SanjunIm (Japanese name: Hayashi) is returning to his school in Tokyo from his home in Hokkaido. On the way he stops in Morimachi, in...
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Kon Ichikawa – Yukinojô henge AKA An Actor’s Revenge [+Extras] (1963)
Synopsis:Master Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 classic is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made in Japan.Kasuo Hasegawa stars as Yukinojo, a talented kabuki actor who specializes in...
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Kare no ootobai, kanojo no shima AKA His Motorbike, Her...
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....
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Takashi Miike – Shin Jingi no Hakaba AKA Graveyard of Honor [+extras] (2002)
Synopsis:In Japan’s underground yakuza society, some men define themselves by honor, others by vengeance… and some are beyond definition – cold-blooded merciless sociopaths. And in this remake of...
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Shimako Sato – Eko Eko Azaraku aka Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Quote:Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who’s behind the supernatural attack, Misa also...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi no hakaba AKA Graveyard of Honor (+Extras) (1975)
Quote:Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku’s original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari, Outlaw Gangster VIP). Shot through with the...
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Toshiya Fujita – Daburu beddo AKA Double Bed (1983)
Kato (Ittoku Kishibe) is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako (Naoko Otani), and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki (Akira Emoto) who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a...
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Ann Hui – Visible Secret aka Youling renjian (2001)
IMDB:An unemployed hairdresser and a strange nurse, meet at a club and start a romance. Since meeting her, the young man encounters unexplained things which she says are spirits she can see. They run...
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Hark Tsui – Ying hung boon sik III jik yeung ji gor AKA A Better Tomorrow 3...
From StompTokyo.com:The first film in our Chow pow-wow, A Better Tomorrow 3, is a prequel to John Woo’s two breakthrough crime dramas, A Better Tomorrow and A Better Tomorrow 2. It tells the story of...
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Heinosuke Gosho – Hanayome no negoto AKA The Bride Talks in Her Sleep (1933)
Five friends make a pact to stick together through school, agreeing to graduate at the same time and to marry at the same time… 1.10GB | 56m 39s | 640×480 | avi...
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Toshiya Fujita – Umitsubame Jyo no kiseki AKA The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel...
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up...
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Ryuhei Kitamura – LoveDeath (2006)
SYNOPSIS:One night in a bar, Sai, a yakuza apprentice falls in love with Sheela, the girlfirend of clan Kurogane’s boss. But the beautiful Sheela disappears 3 days to only seen back 342 days later...
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Kôhei Oguri – Foujita (2015)
Japanese artist, Foujita, is Paris’ darling in the roaring twenties, loved for his delicate nudes. After leaving his 1st wife, Fernande, he meets Lucie Badoud and names her Yuki (snow in Japanese)...
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Mikio Naruse – Kotan no kuchibue AKA Whistling in Kotan (1959)
“Hashimoto Shinobu wrote the script based on Ishimori Nobuo’s original story, which won prizes including the first Mimei Literature Award. Depicts an Ainu girl and her younger brother living in a...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kamikaze yarô AKA Kamikaze Man: Duel At Noon (1966)
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII. Write-up by sketchesofcinema:Sonny Chiba and Kinji Fukasaku head to Taiwan in this international action thriller influenced by spy...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Rizi AKA Days (2020)
Quote:Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before. 2.37GB | 2s 06m | 1280×690 | mkv...
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Minoru Kawasaki – Neko Râmen Taishô aka Pussy Soup (2008)
Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler, Executive Koala) returns with yet another bizarre offering of Japanese film oddity.Taisho’s father is a supermodel cat, and everybody believes that Taisho will...
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