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Masahiro Shinoda – Akane-gumo AKA Clouds at Sunset (1967)
Quote:A Japanese soldier Tsutomu Yamazki deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this melodrama from director Shinoda Masahiro. When a young maid falls...
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Kenji Misumi – Sakura no Daimon AKA Internal Sleuth (1973)
When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective tries to find out the truth. Review by kagetsuhisoka:Kenji Misumi’s nihilistic cop movie has finally...
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Hitoshi Obuchi – Hitogoroshi Aka Murderer (1976)
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan’s former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none. 692MB | 1h 21m | 656×480 | avi...
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Kajirô Yamamoto – Wagahai wa neko de aru AKA I am a Cat (1936)
Quote:It’s the first film adaptation of Natsumi Soseki’s novel “I Am a Cat”, but I was a little disappointed when I saw it with high expectations, because it’s less than 90 minutes long and there’s no...
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Taizô Fuyushima – Kagoya hangan AKA The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate (1935)
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. 305MB | 1h...
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Kajirô Yamamoto – Enoken no chakkiri kinta AKA Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket...
A famous sound film comedy by Kajira Yamamoto, best known for being the mentor of Akira Kurosawa. This is actually considered a major classic of physical comedy in Japan and remains perhaps the most...
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Tôru Kawashima – Chi-n-pi-ra (1984)
Based on the script by the late Shoji Kaneko, director Toru Kawashima turned it into a buddy movie that has quite the cult following in Japan. The two already collaborated on the, in my opinion,...
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Yûzô Kawashima – Tonkatsu taisho AKA The Pork Cutlet General (1952)
Yusaku, whose nickname is “Tonkatsu Taisho” (General Pork Cutlet), is a popular young children’s doctor. Mayumi, a female doctor of another hospital, plans to expand her clinic with the advice of a...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Akuryo-To AKA Island of the Evil Spirits (1981)
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man’s words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold. 2.96GB | 2h 11m | 1024×554 | mkv...
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Mikio Naruse – Hourou-ki aka Her Lonely Lane (1962)
A dramatized biography of Fumiko Hayashi, the noted Japanese writer. Born to improverished parents Fumiko does all she can to earn money enough to support herself. Along the way she gets invovled with...
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Mikio Naruse – Arakure aka Untamed (1957)
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot...
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Hideo Gosha – Kai aka Oar (1985)
Kiwa is Iwago’s devoted wife. A former wrestling champion, he has become a ‘zegen’ : He buys young girls from poor families to sell them to geisha houses. He is quite successful but Kiwa, though she...
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Seijun Suzuki – Blood-Red Water In The Channel (1961)
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki’s growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of “real coast guard action stories” was the perfect vehicle...
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William Chang – Ren she da zhan aka: Calamity of Snakes (1982)
Quote:Most gruesome snake-horror film ever !!! It’s very difficult to get a good copy of this film – and if you can get hold of one, the tape is most often only in Cantonese language. During the...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Otto ga mita ‘Onna no kobako’ yori AKA The Husband...
Synopsis:The young owner of the nightclub,Ishizuka(Jiro Tamiya) is attracted toa beautiful married woman, Namiko(Ayako Wakao) and is falling in love with her. However, Ishizuka forms a plot to take...
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Tae-Yong Kim – Yeogo goedam 2 aka Whispering Corridors 2: Memento Mori (1999)
Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is soon fascinated to learn that two people she thought to be very close friends have in fact begun a forbidden romance at her school. She finds herself unable to...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Shamisen to ootobai aka Love New and Old (1961)
Quote:A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child. Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Quote:This early Shinoda film is about a...
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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Kanikôsen AKA The Crab Cannery Ship (2009)
Based on Takiji Kobayashi’s 1929 novel “Kanikosen”. Quote:Aboard the Japanese crab ship ‘Kanikosen’ equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum...
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Kazuo Kuroki – Utsukushii natsu kirishima AKA A Boy’s Summer in 1945 (2002)
Quote:Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki’s sixth decade behind the camera, “A Boy’s Summer in 1945” (literally “A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima”) is a lyric, novelistic drama set...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Funky Hat no kaidanji: Nisenman-en no ude aka Hepcat in the...
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues....
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