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Kinji Fukasaku – Odoshi AKA The Threat (1966)
IMDb comments:You can watch this crime drama as a sort of Japanese DESPERATE HOURS. A just married ordinary man has his family held as hostage by three hoodlums who want him to do something for them....
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Seijun Suzuki – Hyakuman Doru O Tatakidase AKA Million Dollar Smash-And-Grab...
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. The two boys eventually face each other in the ring. 859MB | 1h 29m | 640×288 | avi...
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Ann Hui – Qian yan wan yu AKA Ordinary Heroes (1999)
Synopsis:Critically-lauded but somewhat distant drama from Ann Hui. Review by Kozo (taken from Love HK FIlm):Award-winning political drama from Ann Hui treads on rich territory and results in a noble,...
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Hajime Hashimoto – Tantei wa bar ni iru 2: Susukino daikousaten AKA Phone...
The Detective is back and out to solve the murder of a close friend. He and his partner Takada get more than they bargain for when a prominent local politician becomes a major suspect. 2.02GB | 1h 59m...
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Go Shibata – Osoi Hito aka Late Bloomer [+Extras] (2004)
In this weird, wicked and wonderfully perverse shocker from Japan, we meet Sumida, a disabled young man marked by his wheelchair, his electronic voice box, his rampant alcoholism, and his appetite for...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Arigatô-san AKA Mr. Thank You (1936)
Based on a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari, this lighthearted road film follows the rolling wheels of a country bus manned by a driver who says “thank you” to everyone he...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Kaze no naka no mendori AKA A Hen in the Wind (1948)
A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son’s hospital bills. 1.43GB | 1h 23m | 716×537 | mkv...
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Yang Zhang – Xiang Ri Kui AKA Sunflower [+ Extra] (2005)
synopsisRelationship between father and son against the background of the Maoist regime in China, starting at the end of the Cultural Revolution in the year that Mao died (1976), and into the...
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Eiichi Kudo – Sono go no jingi naki tatakai AKA Battles Without Honor and...
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different...
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Mikio Naruse – Hikinige aka Hit and Run (1966)
In 1966, Mikio Naruse made two films that featured elements of the suspense/thriller genre. According to IMDb, The Stranger Within a Woman came first in January. Then in April, this film was released...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Yasha-ga-ike AKA Demon Pond (1979)
Quote:Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Shibirekurage AKA The Hot Little Girl (1970)
Aspiring fashion model Midori (Atsumi Mari) finds herself caught between a dubious lover (Kawazu Yûsuke) and the yakuza. The sixth and final film in Daiei’s “Mollusk” series. Masumura co-authored the...
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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Happiness (2016)
Quote:Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Ai to kibô no machi AKA A Street of Love and Hope (1959)
Quote:Nagisa Oshima’s first feature film, A STREET OF LOVE AND HOPE paints a biting portrait of poverty and class difference through the life of a young boy who sells pigeons on the street. The...
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Shôhei Imamura – Hateshinaki yokubô AKA Endless Desire (1958) (HD)
Quote:Ten years after World War II, five people set out dig up a stash of morphine buried under a butcher shop in this black comedy by Shohei Imamura. 2.09GB | 1h 40m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
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Sion Sono – Sion Sono Fantasia Short Film Collection (2003)
Film 1: Fainda no Onna (Woman in the Viewfinder)Sakura Mizutani, Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoko Kashiwagura Photographer Suga (Kenji Mizuhashi) aiming to win the photo contest and Lulu (Sakura Mizutani), a...
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Sadao Nakajima – Datsugoku Hiroshima satsujinshû AKA The Rapacious...
Sadao Nakajima had made his name with Toei’s particular brand of violent action movie, but by the early seventies, the classic yakuza flick was going out of fashion. Datsugoku Hiroshima Satsujinshu...
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Tetsuya Mariko – Miyamoto kara Kimi e AKA From Miyamoto to You (2019)
SYNOPSISFollowing the manga series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working...
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Koji Wakamatsu – Singapore Sling (1993)
letterboxd: Japanese directors rarely fare well when they venture outside their home turf, the 80s and 90s weren’t really Wakamatsu’s best eras either. Just to say that expectations were pretty low...
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Hiroshi Ando – Blue (2001)
Quiet and introspective Kayako routinely has lunch on a rooftop with three of her friends that attend an all girls high school with her in a seaside town. One day she invites Masami Endo to join the...
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