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Zhangke Jia – Shan he gu ren AKA Mountains May Depart (2015)

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/7696EC0C47AD902/Mountains.May.Depart.2015.HD720P.X264.AAC.mkv...

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Chuan Lu – City of Life and Death AKA Nanking Nanking (2009)

The third film from award-winning Fifth Generation director Lu Chuan (Kekexili: Mountain Patrol), City of Life and Death (Nanking Nanking) is a devastating account of the massacre that occurred during...

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Miyoji Ieki – Robo no Ishi AKA The Wayside Pebble (1964)

Synopsis: The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small...

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Akio Jissôji – Uta AKA Poem (1972)

Quote: This is the last film of the ATG trilogy of the director Akio Jissoji, who sought the roots of inner psychology and eroticism. It’s a story of a young man who turns his back on the modern...

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Hirokazu Koreeda – Umimachi Diary AKA Our Little Sister (2015) (HD)

There are three sisters: 29-year-old Sachi Kouda (Haruka Ayase), 22-year-old Yoshino Kouda (Masami Nagasawa) and 19-year-old Chika Kouda (Kaho). They live at a house in Kamakura, Japanese. Their house...

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Takeshi Kitano – Ryûzô to 7 nin no kobun tachi AKA Ryuzo and His Seven...

From hollywoodreporter.com To the many ways in which the career of Japanese auteur and action star Takeshi Kitano resembles that of Clint Eastwood, we can now add another: Both have made the...

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Toshio Masuda – Kanzenna yugi AKA Perfect game (1958)

In recent years, director Toshio Masuda has worked on the international stage with action-oriented movies such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and the Space Cruiser Yamato films. But he began his career in the...

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Momoko Andô – 0.5 miri AKA 0.5 mm (2014)

From japansociety.org Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on...

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Masaru Konuma – Tsuma-tachi no seitaiken: Otto no me no maede, ima… AKA...

I just love Japanese pinku eiga:the genre filled with rape,misogyny and erotic submission. Masaru Konuma is among the most prominent directors of Japanese erotic cinema.”Wife’s Sexual Fantasy:Before...

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Yuxin Zhuang – Ai qing de ya chi AKA Teeth of Love (2007)

Synopsis: An experienced TV drama screenwriter and a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhuang Yuxin makes his debut feature Love Teeth in 2006, winning much applause from critics. Praised as the...

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Takashi Miike – Kaze ni tatsu raion AKA The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)

Jack-of-all-trades director Miike Takashi takes on more serious material in the human drama The Lion Standing in the Wind about the experiences of a Japanese doctor in Africa. Featuring location...

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Kôji Wakamatsu – Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun: Asama sanso e no michi AKA United...

In a stark depiction of the dissatisfaction that followed the demise of 60’s idealism, United Red Army follows the story of the titular leftwing Japanese terrorist group that came together in 1972 as...

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Kinji Fukasaku – Fukkatsu no hi AKA Day of Resurrection AKA Virus (1980)

A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left...

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Robert Houston – Shogun Assassin (1980)

A sort of remake of Lone Wolf and Cub for the western market condensing the series in one film. In 1980, Americans David Weisman (producer) and Robert Houston (director) stumbled upon the Japanese...

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Shun’ya Itô – Hanazono no meikyu AKA Labyrinth Romanesque (1988)

Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel....

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Kôji Wakamatsu – Amai wana AKA Sweet Trap (1963)

An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza… http://nitroflare.com/view/6F7C9F0C1C0627F/1963_Sweet_Trap_-_Wakamatsu.mkv...

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Ki-duk Kim – Bin-Jip AKA 3-iron (2004)

Plot Summary (Taken from IMDb): A young drifter enters strangers’ houses – and lives – while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing...

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Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha AKA Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)

Quote: From the ashes of Dead or Alive’s apocalyptic ending comes Dead or Alive 2, both a continuation of the series and a stand-alone film on par with its predecessor. Serving up shockingly graphic...

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Seijun Suzuki – Tantei jimusho 23: Kutabare akuto-domo aka Detective bureau...

Japanese director Seijun Suzuki solidified his growing cult following with this offbeat adaptation of Haruhiko Ooyabu’s crime novel. Jo Shishido stars as Det. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a...

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Hideo Sekigawa – Hiroshima (1953)

“Hiroshima” is a feature film directed by Hideo Sekigawa and was independently produced outside of major studio system in 1953. In fact the film was supported by the Teacher’s Union of Hiroshima who...

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