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Posted on March 18, 2024 | Comments Off on Mom Is That You (2023) 1080p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
Mom, Is That You?! / Konnichiha, kâsan (2023)
Comedy | Drama
Akio Kanzaki's job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he's on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn't exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo's old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she's covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother's home, but after encountering kind, warm-and almost nosey-neighbors and a side of his mother he'd never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yô Ôizumi, Mei Nagano, You, Moe Edamoto, Kankurô Kudô, Min Tanaka, Akira Terao
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Posted on May 30, 2020 | Comments Off on Way to Find the Best Life (2019) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Way to Find the Best Life / Saikô no jinsei no mitsuke kata (2019)
Adventure | Drama
A lady called Mako has done well for herself and her business. A lady called Yukie is a devout housewife who has done what she needs to do and been good to everyone. Other than the obvious, they do not share much in common, but advanced cancer has given them a shared fate. They are about to die, but do not want to leave this mortal coil on that note. They decide to go for it when they come across a bucket list, which itemizes deeds they should undertake before dying.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yûki Amami, Tsuyoshi Muro, Hikari Mitsushima, Rio Suzuki, Ryusuke Komakine, Kento Kaku, Kiyoshi Maekawa
Director: Isshin Inudô
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Posted on July 13, 2019 | Comments Off on Sakura Guardian in the North (2018) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Sakura Guardian in the North / Kita no sakuramori (2018)
Drama
In August, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the area around Sakhalin Island. Tetsu Ezure escaped with her two sons from Sakhalin Island and arrived in Abashiri City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. What awaited for them was extreme cold weather and famine. They worked very hard. In 1971, Tetsu’s second son Shujiro returns to Japan after finding success in the United States. He visits Abashiri for the first time in 15 years. His mother Tetsu Ezure lives alone there.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masato Sakai, Ryôko Shinohara, Hiroshi Abe, Kôichi Satô, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Yôjirô Takita
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Posted on August 29, 2016 | Comments Off on About Her Brother (2010) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
About Her Brother / Otôto (2010)
Drama | Family
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother. The father (Masayuki Mori) and stepmother (Kinuyo Tanaka) are not exactly an expressive, demonstrative couple, and so the brother Hekiro (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) depends on his sister Gen (Keiko Kishi) for companionship and care. The situation turns much more serious when Hekiro becomes terminally ill, yet his sister continues to provide the support he needs – leading him to reach some valuable insights.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tsurube Shôfukutei, Yû Aoi, Ryô Kase, Nenji Kobayashi
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Tags: Nenji Kobayashi, Ryo Kase, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tsurube Shôfukutei, Yôji Yamada, Yû Aoi
Posted on June 25, 2016 |
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Living with My Mother / Nagasaki: Memories of My Son / Haha to kuraseba (2015)
Drama
Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the civilians in the southern city of Nagasaki. However, upon returning home she is visited by an apparition. which continues to return in order to commiserate and reminisce with the woman about the past, family, affection and war.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazunari Ninomiya, Haru Kuroki
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Posted on June 17, 2016 |
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Kabei: Our Mother / Kâbê (2008)
Drama
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Posted on July 19, 2015 | Comments Off on The August without Emperor (1978) 4K REMASTERED 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
The August without Emperor / Kôtei no inai hachigatsu (1978)
Drama | Thriller
Satsuo Yamamoto may not be the most popular japanese director, yet he’s one of those who actually committed his career to making films with social & political ideas. Always trying to point out some of the taboos of Japanese Society, presenting ideas and inviting the audience to think about it. Here, August without Emperor seems to be about a train hijacking involving the military & a coup d'etat (to be confirmed). This looks massive, and representative of a "cinema of ideas".
Starring: Tsunehiko Watase, Sayuri Yoshinaga
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
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Posted on April 28, 2015 |
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Cape Nostalgia / Fushigi na misaki no monogatari (2014)
Drama
A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yûko Takeuchi, Tsurube Shôfukutei
Director: Izuru Narushima
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Posted on September 22, 2014 | Comments Off on Buddha The Great Departure (2011) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Buddha: The Great Departure / Tezuka Osamu no budda: Akai sabaku yo! Utsukushiku (2011)
Animation
2005 years ago in India, a boy named Siddhartha Gautama of the kingdom Shakya is born. When Siddhartha was born there was a prophecy that the boy would become a king of all the kingdoms. At that time various kingdoms were continuously raging wars with each other. When the boy attained puberty, he associated with people from the lower class like Migaila a girl who was known as a thief. Siddhartha began to have doubts about the strict class system even though he is raised in luxury as a future king. Later, the powerful kingdom of Kosala attacks the kingdom of Shakya. Both sides fight fiercely. The commander of Kosala's army is the general's son Chapra. He is thought of as the most brave soldier in the kingdom of Kosala. Chapra was actually born into slavery but hid his background. By the general's order he came all the way up into his current position. Chapra wants to make a successful career for himself and Siddhartha abondons his family's wealth to find Tao. These two opposite persons meet in the war and changes the fate of their respective kingdoms…
Starring: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masato Sakai, Kiyokazu Kanze, Tomoka Kurotani, Nana Mizuki, Ai Orikasa, Junko Takeuchi
Director: Kôzô Morishita
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Tags: Ai Orikasa, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Junko Takeuchi, Kiyokazu Kanze, Kôzô Morishita, Masato Sakai, Nana Mizuki, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomoka Kurotani
Posted on September 13, 2014 | Comments Off on Buddha 2 The Endless Journey (2014) 720p BluRay x264 AC3-WiKi
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey / Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Budda – Owarinaki tabi (2014)
Animation
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha continues traveling. Siddhartha is overwhelmed by the sufferings he witnesses around him. Meanwhile, Prince Ruri of Kosara begins his attack on the Shakya clan.
Starring: Kiyokazu Kanze, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Nana Mizuki, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Shin'ya Ohwada, Hiromasa Taguchi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Director: Toshiaki Komura
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Tags: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Hiromasa Taguchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiyokazu Kanze, Nana Mizuki, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Shin'ya Ohwada, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Toshiaki Komura
Posted on August 25, 2013 |
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A Chorus of Angels / Kita no kanaria-tachi (2012)
Mystery
20 years ago, an elementary school student falls on an island in the northern tip of Hokkaido. A teacher and 6 students makes contact through songs. What happened to the studen who fell? The teacher returns 20 years later to meet with her former students.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kyôhei Shibata, Toru Nakamura, Kôtarô Satomi, Mirai Moriyama, Hikari Mitsushima
Director: Junji Sakamoto
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Tags: Hikari Mitsushima, Junji Sakamoto, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyôhei Shibata, Mirai Moriyama, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Toru Nakamura
Posted on December 20, 2011 | Comments Off on 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
