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Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio’s Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan.

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Early 20th century Japan. Kiyoaki Matsugae, a young aristocrat falls in love with a girl he grew up with; Satoko Ayakura, who is to be married to a prince of the royal family.

Spring Snow 2005 720p HDTV x264 AAC5.1-DoA.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 30mn
Size:	4.51 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	1280x688
Aspect ratio:	1.85:1
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	3 900 kb/s
Audio
Japanese 5.1ch AAC LC @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/296393BC77AE58C/Spring_Snow_2005_720p_HDTV_x264_AAC5.1-DoA.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/883F9D30C39DF5A/Haru_no_Yuki_2005.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based from the novel written by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki. It tells the story of a Japanese boy of Korean origins and his love story with a Japanese girl. The central theme of the movie is about the integration problems of a Zainichi boy in Japanese society.

Go.2001.DVDRip-ATHEiST.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 2mn
Size: 	1.79 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	696x440 ~> 814x440
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BPP: 	0.231
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#1:  	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/792BBCCC9B79FFE/Go.2001.DVDRip-ATHEiST.mkv

Language(s):Japanese, Korean
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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A love fantasy directed by Isao Yukisada.

1.21GB | 1h 17m | 706×476 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2526C6188FB76A4/Seventh.Anniversary.2003.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:None

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Four youths share a two bedroom apartment in a corner of Tokyo. A series of assault cases occur in the same district. Eighteen year old Satoru, a male prostitute, joins them as a new house mate. Their daily life slowly starts to change.

3.44GB | 1h 58m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6784CFC3C9DE648/Paredo.AKA.Parade.2009.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.[imdb]

Kita.no.zeronen.AKA.Year.One.in.the.North.2005.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	2h 49mn
Size:	2.20 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
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Codec:	x264
Resolution:	706x340 ~> 836x340
Aspect ratio:	2.459
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	1 636 Kbps
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Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/B4B08A54459FEBC/Kita.no.zeronen.AKA.Year.One.in.the.North.2005.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their secret was buried.

Alt: A brother and sister share more than the standard love for each other, much more, but that is only the beginning of the extraordinary relationships which are accompanied by unusual affections and deeds all around.

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Haruna is a high school student whose, school-mates, school and life is topsy turvy and often tragic. One of her classmates is the homosexual Ichiro. The boy is often bullied, derided and beaten. He has the scars to show for it. Haruna stands by Ichiro‘s side and comes to know Ichiro‘s secret. Then they discover a corpse by a river beside the tall grass.

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The ‘90s were a strange time to be a teenager, but then what age isn’t? Isao Yukisada, surprisingly making his first manga adaptation, brings Kyoko Okazaki’s cult hit River’s Edge (????·???) to the big screen, recreating those days of nihilistic despair in which ordinary teens spiralled out of control in the wake the bubble bursting, watching all their possibilities disappear in a cloud of smoke. Set in 1994, River’s Edge is a post-bubble story but it also takes place in the period immediately before everything started to go wrong. In 1995 there was a devastating earthquake followed by terror in Tokyo and somehow it all seemed so dark – something the kids at the centre of River’s Edge already seem to see as they watch time flow, knowing all that awaits them is yet more emptiness.

Haruna (Fumi Nikaido), a spirited tomboy and latchkey kid living with her busy single-mother, is in a lazy relationship with violent popular boy Kannonzaki (Shuhei Uesugi) though in truth she doesn’t seem to like him very much. One of her major problems with Kannonzaki is that he keeps picking on one particular guy, Yamada (Ryo Yoshizawa), who is rumoured to be gay. Warned by one of Kannonzaki’s minions, Haruna races off to an abandoned storeroom where she finds Yamada trussed up and naked hidden inside a locker. The pair become friends and he offers to show her his “special treasure” which turns out to be a dead body hidden among the reeds near the edge of the river. Yamada, with another friend, Kozue (Sumire) – a model with an eating disorder, likes to come to the river to gaze at the body in an effort to feel alive.

The ‘90s were full of tales of cruel, emotionless youth torturing itself without mercy and there is something of the era’s insensitivity in the detachment of the central trio. Unable to feel alive, the teens of River’s Edge chase sensation and oblivion through indiscriminate sex, drugs, violence, and self harm but rarely find the kind of fulfilment they so desperately crave. Kannonzaki, the rowdy delinquent, blames his broken home for his lack of connection, making a fierce resentment of a perceived rejection his excuse for his dangerously violent proclivities which run not only to venting his rage on the figure of the gay outsider Yamada but also to drug fuelled rough sex with one of Haruna’s classmates, Rumi (Shiori Doi), who is also chasing agency through sexuality but eventually finds herself cornered in the most terrible of ways.

Yamada is indeed gay, but can hardly say so in the environment in which he lives and so has turned in on himself with a near sociopathic detachment. Having given up on the idea of romantic fulfilment he has resigned himself to loving the object of his affection from afar, happy enough that he exists in the world even if he can never declare himself let alone dare to hope his feelings may be returned. Yamada works as a rent boy in the evenings, going to hotels with middle-aged men for money, but has a fake girlfriend at school, Kanna (Aoi Morikawa), whom he uses as a beard. Kanna, seemingly sweet and oblivious, soon becomes jealous of her boyfriend’s friendship with Haruna and is driven into her own kind of despair by Yamada’s continued coldness.

There’s an especial irony in Yamada’s use of Kanna which is almost certainly not lost on him. These kids, like many before them, abhor the fakery of the adult world but are also unable to embrace their own painful truths. Yamada covers up his sexuality through misleading Kanna, while Kannonzaki is resentful towards his parents who put on a front of marital harmony even after his father ran off with his mistress only to come back a week later with his tail between his legs, and Kozue laments the superficiality of her industry in which everyone falls over themselves to declare something ugly beautiful in order to make themselves feel better. There are no responsible adults here, having ruined the future for their kids they no longer have any kind of moral authority that can offer guidance or support to a jaded generation.

Shooting in the classic 4:3 of a ‘90s TV, Yukisada recreates the narrowness of an era in which the kids struggle to see past themselves, blinkered by their own solipsistic perspective and trapped by the shallowness of their perceptions. Permanently dark, gloomy, and lonely their world is one nihilistic despair in which they feel themselves already dead, living in the half-dug grave of a moribund city giving off its last few puffs of toxic industrial smoke before the whole thing collapses in on itself. In one sense nothing changes, there are no answers or cures for adolescent malaise, but something does eventually seem to shift in the genuine connection formed between two detached outsiders standing on the brink, watching the decay of their era flow past them with melancholy resignation.

— Hayley Scanlon (Windows on Worlds).

2.07GB | 1 h 58 min | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6049200B9E1F066/Rivers.Edge.2018.576p.BluRay.x264-PTP.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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