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Posted on August 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) 1080p BluRay DTS x264-HDS
Profound Desires of the Gods / Kamigami no fukaki yokubô (1968)
Drama
An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
Starring: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi, Yasuko Matsui, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Shôhei Imamura
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Posted on October 30, 2015 | Comments Off on Kaidan (1964) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay FLAC1.0 x264-IDE
Kaidan / Kwaidan / Ghost Stories / Hoichi the Earless / Weird Tales (1964)
Fantasy | Horror
This film contains four stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": A woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea…
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Aratama, Rentarô Mikuni, Kenjirô Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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Posted on December 8, 2014 |
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Never Give Up / Yasei no shômei (1978)
Drama
Following a mass murder in rural Japan, ex-special forces soldier Ajisawa adopts the only remaining survivor of the massacre; an amnesiac young girl named Yoriko. Seeking to put the secrets of the past behind them, the pair instead finds themselves in conflict with the corrupt and powerful leaders of a small town. As Yoriko's memories begins to re-emerge, Ajisawa must call upon his killer instincts to survive against the odds.
Starring: Ken Takakura, Ryôko Nakano, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Rentarô Mikuni, Isao Natsuyagi, Takahiro Tamura
Director: Jun'ya Satô
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Posted on June 5, 2014 | Comments Off on Flag in the Mist (1977) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Flag in the Mist / Sweet Revenge / Kiri-no-hata (1977)
Drama | Mystery
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in KitaKyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death. Meanwhile, through the actions of a crusading young journalist, Otsuka is informed of Masao's death. His curiosity piqued, he requests the file and reviews the evidence. Otsuka also has an adoring mistress who owns a bar. By coincidence (?), the real murderer is an associate of one of her employees. Kiriko, now working as a hostess in a different bar, is asked by a friend to tail her boyfriend, whom she suspects of cheating. The boyfriend is murdered in the bar owner's flat, and Kiriko grabs the chance to set her revenge plan into action. Kiriko rigs the crime scene to falsely incriminate the bar owner, who is subsequently jailed. Otsuka's mistress out of the way, Kiriko sets out to seduce and entrap Otsuka, against the advice of the crusading journalist.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Haruko Kato
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
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Tags: Haruko Kato, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Katsumi Nishikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Rentarô Mikuni, Tomokazu Miura
Posted on October 13, 2013 |
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun / Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû (1981)
Action | Romance
Following the unexpected death of her mob boss father, a high school girl inherits a Yakuza gang.
Starring: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri
Director: Shinji Sômai
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Posted on August 18, 2013 | Comments Off on Tsuma (1953) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-KG
Tsuma / Wife (1953)
Drama
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife. She fights back, writing to and visiting the mistress to demand she leaves her husband alone. He consults his friends, she her relatives. Around them, marriages are ending in fights and suicides but in this case, the mistress gives up the stressful fight, leaving the couple together again, no happier than before.
Starring: Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Sanae Takasugi
Director: Mikio Naruse
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Tags: Ken Uehara, Michiyo Aratama, Mieko Takamine, Mikio Naruse, Rentarô Mikuni, Sanae Takasugi
Posted on April 24, 2013 |
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Waga haha no ki / Chronicle of My Mother (2012)
Drama
"Chronicles Of My Mother" recounts the relationship of an author (Koji Yakusho) and his elderly parents. The author has a strained relationship with his father and his mother's (Kirin Kiki) memory grows weaker by the day. A reconciliation is attempted by the son.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Kaho Minami, Aoi Miyazaki, Kirin Kiki, Rentarô Mikuni, Mimura, Erina Mano, Takahiro Miura, Akiko Kikuchi, Midoriko Kimura, Mariko Akama
Director: Masato Harada
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Tags: Akiko Kikuchi, Aoi Miyazaki, Erina Mano, Kaho Minami, Kirin Kiki, Koji Yakusho, Mariko Akama, Masato Harada, Midoriko Kimura, Mimura, Rentarô Mikuni, Takahiro Miura
Posted on July 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Samurai I Miyamoto Musashi (1954) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay FLAC x264-EbP
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto / Miyamoto Musashi (1954)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter in the isolated home of a widow, Oko, and her daughter, Akemi. Oko seduces Matahachi, who forgets his betrothal to the virtuous Otsu. Oko, Matahachi, and Akemi go to Kyoto, but Takezo returns to the village. Matahachi's family rejects Takezo's report and has him arrested for treason. A monk rescues him from death and sentences him to the study of the samurai code. Otsu and Takezo fall in love, and she promises to wait for him when he sets off on the road as a knight errant.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Kaoru Yachigusa, Akihiko Hirata
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
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Tags: Akihiko Hirata, Hiroshi Inagaki, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, Toshirô Mifune
Posted on April 24, 2012 |
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Vengeance is Mine / Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari (1979)
Crime | Drama
Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako, Mitsuko Baishô, Mayumi Ogawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
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Tags: Chôchô Miyako, Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Mitsuko Baishô, Rentarô Mikuni, Shôhei Imamura
