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Teinosuke Kinugasa – Yukinojo henge AKA An Actor’s Revenge (1935)
Quote:Here is the 1935/1936 original version of “An Actor’s Revenge”, which was hugely popular at that time and a high point in Kazuo Hasegawa’s career. In fact, he even chose to remake this film as...
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Naoto Kumazawa – Oto-na-ri (2009)
Photographer Satoshi has become famous while working among the rhich and famous. His photos are worh a million. But the young man dreams of taking photos of Canadian landscapes instead of working in...
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Cong Feng – Dr. Ma’s Country Clinic (2008)
Synopsis:In the arid mountains of the remote and inaccessible Huangyangchuan, Gansu Province, a simple small countryside clinic welcomes the local sick and injured. Ma Bingcheng is a respected country...
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Kon Ichikawa – Okuman choja aka A Billionaire (1954)
A full description of the film can be found in James Quandt’s edited collection of writings on (and by) Ichikawa Kon from the Cinemateque Ontario (in Sato Tadao’s essay “Kon Ichikawa” on pages 109 –...
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Zhuangzhuang Tian – Lie chang zha sha AKA On The Hunting Ground (1984)
Tian Zhuangzhuang is perhaps the best known of [the Fifth Generation] for reviving and revitalizing a staple of the Chinese film industry — the “national minority” genre. Made to celebrate the...
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Yôjirô Takita – Okuribito AKA Departures (2008)
SynopsisDepartures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his...
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Yôji Yamada – Otoko wa tsurai yo: Tabi to onna to Torajiro aka Tora-san 31:...
Quote:On a ship en route to the Sado Islands, Tora-san enjoys the company of a beautiful woman (Miyako Harumi), unaware that she’s a famous enka singer traveling incognito. In this variation on Roman...
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Nagisa Oshima – Seishun Zankoku Monogatari AKA Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
Nagisa Oshima’s groundbreaking film opens with young, attractive Mako and her friend hitching a ride from an old man. After her friend leaves, the man tries to rape her, and she is saved only by the...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Watashi-wa beretto AKA It’s Me Here, Bellett (1964)
Quote:Watashi-wa beretto is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima. Yasujirô Ozu assisted as executive creative consultant. 373MB | 26mn 35s |...
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Ki-duk Kim – Ag-o aka Crocodile (1996)
Quote: I often quote Kim Ki-Duk as my favourite director of all time, partly because of his prolific output (I’m glad he numbers his films, I was losing count!) and his consistently emotional style....
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Tokyo koshin-kyoku AKA Tokyo March [Japanese print] (1929)
IMDB:A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi’s typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual...
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Je-gyun Yun – Saekjeuk shigong aka Sex Is Zero (2002)
Eun Sik is 28 years old and has recently started school at the university. He is a member of the Cha Ryu group and practices with them daily, through painful endurance training. He meets the much...
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Pema Tseden – Lhing vjags kyi ma ni rdo vbum AKA The Silent Holy Stones (2005)
From the Buddhist Film Foundation’s website:Pema Tseden (The Search, Old Dog) is the first Tibetan graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, and this is his dramatic feature debut. Made on location in a...
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Shinji Sômai – Tonda kappuru AKA The Terrible Couple (1980)
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrols in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Etsuraku AKA Pleasure of the Flesh (1965)
After killing a man that raped one of his students, teacher Wakizaka finds himself embroiled in a plot being blackmailed into looking after a huge amount of cash. With tensions mounting and anxiety...
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Yu Wang – Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi AKA Master of the Flying Guillotine...
Storyline:The one-armed boxer is stalked by a vengeful flying guillotine expert, after his disciples were killed in the first ‘One-Armed Boxer’ film. But as the flying guillotine master is blind, he...
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Masao Adachi – Danjiki geinin AKA Artist of Fasting (2016)
Quote:Adachi Masao’s long-awaited return from hiatus is an absurdist comedy with political bite. The multilayered hypocrisies of contemporary Japan are slowly unveiled when a wordless man stages an...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô – Mushi-tachi no ie aka The...
Quote:lotwise, a young husband appears to be cheating on his wife. He thinks she is having an affair with her cousin. She retreats to a large upstairs room covered in cobwebs and is trying to will...
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Masao Adachi – Datai AKA Abortion (1966)
IMDB says:A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs. 733MB | 01h 15m 35s | 704 x...
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Takahisa Zeze – Raigyo (1997)
Quote:Murder, sex, blood and designer erotism meet head-on in thisperverse tale of sexual alienation in nineties Japan. Set amidst the desolate background of a warped and twisted Japan.Raigyo takes...
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