Lady Snowblood Love Song of Vengeance (1974) Criterion Collection 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi

Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance / Lady Snowblood 2 / Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga (1974)

Drama | Thriller

Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

Starring: Meiko Kaji, Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yoshio Harada, Shin Kishida, Tôru Abe
Director: Toshiya Fujita

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Tags: Jûzô Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Meiko Kaji, Shin Kishida, Tôru Abe, Toshiya Fujita, Yoshio Harada

Tampopo (1985) 720p BluRay DD2.0 x264-CtrlHD

Tampopo / Dandelion (1985)

Comedy

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.

Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka
Director: Jûzô Itami

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Tags: Jûzô Itami, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Nobuko Miyamoto, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tsutomu Yamazaki

The Makioka Sisters (1983) Criterion Collection BluRay 720p x264 DD1.0-MySiLU

The Makioka Sisters / Fine Snow / Sasame-yuki (1983)

Drama | Romance

This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain). Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.

Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kotegawa Yûko, Jûzô Itami, Kôji Ishizaka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Kon Ichikawa

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Tags: Ittoku Kishibe, Jûzô Itami, Keiko Kishi, Kôji Ishizaka, Kon Ichikawa, Kotegawa Yûko, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yoshiko Sakuma