Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

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Every single word from everyone makes me so happy, and I feel like I really did good work. Indeed, to bring out the gem-like sparkle of youth from those girls, both I and the staff shot desperately! Rock like sugar candy, adorable yet with glimpses of a girl’s rebellion in the MV ___ “Love is even cooler than that” ___ This footage is a treasure. “TOKYO Kanojo” too! The scene with Barbie dolls flying in the sky was meant to represent their resistance to becoming puppets obedient to boring adults. The book Okui Kaori is reading is Boris Vian. The location was an open set at the former industrial testing site in Hatsudai — it was a truly wonderful ruin, but it somehow turned into Tokyo Opera City? We shot “KISS de Hanzai” and “TOKYO Kanojo” in just two days. Ahh, I want to hug all five of them! Actually, the director was almost the same age as them. To the Sony staff, thank you so much for preserving this work over such a long time. My heartfelt thanks to all the fans who watched it.

Director: Mariya Satsuki
Cast: Emi Higashiyama
Production Company: Nikkatsu Corporation, Friends of Freesia
Country: Japan
Language: None
Runtime: 30mn

Olive Shoujo no Koi_(1987)_Mariya Satsuki.mkv

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Runtime: 	30 min 56 s
Size: 	219 MiB
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Language(s):No dialogue
Subtitles:None

The post Mariya Satsuki – Olive Shoujo no Koi AKA Olive Girl’s Love (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Dream Island Girl is a visual poem about the loss of humanity in the age of material civilization. The plot is an illusion. Like in a dream, the emotional narrative tells the story.

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Some key points (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

The main theme tune is Pachelbel’s Canon in D, which represents the eternal.

Dream Island is a landfill garbage dump, symbolising the end result of civilization.

The lonely girl from the coastal countryside wanted to escape to Tokyo, but once there her dreams were shattered by the harsh realities of modern city life. She dreams about the world she left behind.

[04:11] Dialogue in tunnel~
Boy : “Sleep… Sleep…”
Girl : “Where are you going? Where are we going?”

The first memory depicts bereavement, death of parents, followed by the girl looking back and bathing her feet in the waves. As it reads in the script: “Only the sea heals the girl.”

In the girl’s boss’ apartment (the adult room) the girl starts playing Pachelbel’s Canon on piano and declares “I found this…” (eternity/ happiness through the eternal), repeating her words to emphasize the importance.

[36:08] In this scene the boy is making a declaration of love by asking her to stay with him forever. At first she’s scared and annoyed by anguish because she doesn’t want to feel trapped in Dream Island anymore. Her feelings give way to affection, but she decides to return home. From this moment on, boy pursues girl.

In the scene (during hometown memory) where the girl is chased into a hut, the encounter with a stranger is possibly symbolic, expressing that there is no safe haven in this world. (Adult world invades the sanctity of childhood memory). The scene ends with the girl licking her wounds (which the script describes as self-healing), followed by the present day girl basking in the healing power of sun and sea.

The girl can look back but she cannot return to the past.

The boy descends deeper into delusion. The girl’s boss is a symbol of the society the boy wants to destroy in revenge, the modern world that causes suffering.

The girl mutters repeatedly…
[58:14] “What should I do?”
[59:15] “Ken, I’m coming home.”

Boy and girl are reunited in a union of empathy and love. (Notice the girl is wearing the boy’s necklace). The union is healing~

The girl as a red rose. Girl and boy as red roses, in the river of life that runs through the city.

The boy who has offered support.

Reveal : Has the boy been carrying the dead girl all along? Is it all his illusion?
(Or shared dreams?)

The boy prays for sublimation.

Transformation through death & rebirth~

Girl looks to boy. Together, they escape into a new dream.

The girl is the boy’s eternal canon, something irreplaceable. He will carry her forever in his Dream Island emptied of the broken civilization.

The final scenes are a depiction of harmony and circle, with a sense of resurrection. In the end there is no end, only the eternal. The cycle of life is endless. The heading in the script for the final scene is “Country of Death–Rebirth.” The boy and girl are the people of Japan (the next generation).

Footnotes

The film uses a Japanese colour-code system of expression. Relating to the girl’s clothing but also to objects, backgrounds and surroundings~

White = innocence/ purity
Red = life experience/ adulthood
White/red = combination of the two/ in between/ transitional
Dark blue = maturity (specifically female/ womanhood) and is directly related to the sea (this is in reference to her adult dress on Dream Island)

Her white/red yukata dressing gown design features sakura (cherry blossoms).

The name of the girl’s hometown Hachimori means “forest” (many-trees).

The director describes the river that runs through the city as the river of life, continuously flowing. Water is a rejuvenating force. Flowers blossom.

[01:07:44] During the final chapter (death & rebirth) the girl can momentarily be seen as the White Bride riding the funeral cart in place of the coffin. You can barely notice her before she disappears out of shot. The script describes the funeral procession as heading towards the sea. In the penultimate scene the script describes the boy and girl as floating in the air (they are both on that cart), looking to the sky and disappearing into the sea.

From black screen to white, darkness into light, through the tunnel of the dream.
RK. ƸӜƷ

Director: Shôichirô Sasaki
Writers: Shôichirô Sasaki
Cast: Toyo Kikuchi, Sachiyo Nakao, Kazuki Tomokawa
Producer: Megumi Fujimura
Cinematography: Tetsuro Katsuragi
Production Company: NHK
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 15mn

	
Dream.Island.Girl.1974.720p.HDTV.AAC.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian, Japanese

The post Shôichirô Sasaki – Yumenoshima Shôjo AKA Dream Island Girl (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Original title: 無名の人生
A man’s journey through life, marked by various names and labels, leads him to unexpected success while confronting modern social issues and personal struggles along the way.

Director: Ryuya Suzuki
Writers: Ryuya Suzuki
Cast: Ace Cool, Remi Chon, Eri Kamataki
Producer: Kenji Iwaisawa
Cinematography: Ryuya Suzuki
Music: Ryuya Suzuki
Production Company: Rock’n Roll Mountain, INTERFILM, Greenwich Entertainment
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 33mn

Jinsei.2025.1080p.BluRay.DDP5.1.x264-ZoroSenpai.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 33 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Arabic, French (Canadian)

The post Ryuya Suzuki – Jinsei (2025) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss
– basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths –
whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie,
are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori.

Director: Yûsuke Watanabe
Writers: Kikuma Shimoiizaka, Yûsuke Watanabe
Cast: Mayumi Ogawa, Mako Midori, Naoki Sugiura
Producer: Shigeru Okada
Cinematography: Shoei Nishikawa
Music: Michiaki Watanabe
Production Company: Toei Company
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 31mn

	
Yūsuke Watanabe - Two Bitches [1964].mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yûsuke Watanabe – Nihiki no mesu inu AKA Two Bitches (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Ryosuke Fujimura, an immoral man who has committed every crime except murder, is suddenly attacked by his old robbers, Ohno and Kojima, in front of the prison gate on the day he is released from prison for the umpteenth time for marriage. . The two planned to get revenge on Fujimura, who ran away with a large amount of stolen money. However, Fujimura successfully threw them away and gave them a shot. He jumped on the train that just happened to arrive. He discovers a man who looks just like him who was sitting with the big star Reiko Otsuki, and attacks the man as he falls asleep and changes his clothes. Ohno and Kojima, who had been chasing him, carried the unconscious man out of the train, mistaking him for Fujimura. Fujimura, who has set up a duo, immediately shows off his lovemaking skills and ends up attracting Reiko’s attention. Reiko was surprised to find that his attitude was completely different from the stone-cold demeanor of the man she had been with the previous day, and that was no surprise; the man who had taken Fujimura’s place was Bunpei Sagara, an official in the Ministry of Education and an authority in the field of moral education, who happened to be a moral expert. I was on my way to Yamashiro City for the educational model city issue. Meanwhile, in Yamashiro City, there is an uproar over the model city issue; the mayor’s faction, blinded by the 10 million yen that would be transferred to the city if designated, and the opponents of moral education clash head-on in front of the station, and when the train arrives, chaos ensues. In that moment, Fujimura, who was none other than Sagara, disappeared. However, when the inspector Sagara went missing, the mayor’s faction panicked and found him, and he was forcibly brought to the principal’s Asabuki residence, where he was given a warm welcome. Fujimura didn’t understand the situation at first, but when he eventually found out, he pretended to be a government official and had the nerve to do so. However, in this Asabuki family, Keima, the principal, indulges in textbook corruption, his wife Miyako stumbles over the driver, Nishikura, the eldest son, Keiichi, pretends to be Don Juan, and the eldest daughter, Kazumi, abandons her lover, Toshio, and loses her virginity. The family is made up of a super apure who sells them with triangular lottery tickets, and the second son Koji is a mystery fanatic who makes a time pistol and plots the perfect crime. At that time, Ohno and Kojima, who had been lynching Sagara, finally realized that it was not Fujimura, so they rushed to Yamashiro City, found Fujimura giving a strange speech at school, grabbed Koji, made him hold the money, and that night. , invaded the Asabuki residence. However, Kouji also took this as an opportunity to fire a timed pistol at Fujimura’s bed, planning to commit the perfect crime by setting Ohno and the others as the culprits. That night, Fujimura opens the triangular lottery ticket he bought from Kazumi and finds that he has won, so he is happy and immediately goes to Kazumi’s room, but gets into a big fight with Toshio who bursts in. However, during that time, a timed pistol explodes in Fujimura’s room, and the two who sneaked in are startled and run away. The mayor’s faction quickly concludes that the explosion was the work of the opposition, and hides Fujimura in Reiko Otsuki’s villa. However, the next morning, Sagara appeared at the public hall’s moral education lecture covered in scars, claiming to be the real inspector. The mayor’s group blinked, and while Ohno and Kojima were stunned, they were arrested by the police. At that time, Fujimura and Reiko hit it off and were having fun with her love drive.

Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Writers: Yukio Mishima, Atsundo Kubota, Katsumi Nishikawa
Cast: Shirō Ōsaka, Kinzō Shin, Hiroyuki Nagato
Producer: Shōzō Ashida
Cinematography: Minoru Yokoyama
Music: Toshiro Mayuzumi
Production Company: Nikkatsu Corporation
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 27mn

	
Immoral Lecture 1959 AMZN WEB_DL.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Katsumi Nishikawa – Fudôtoku kyôiku kôza AKA Immoral Lecture (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won’t allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya’s first film to star in Shochiku.

Director: Toshio Masuda
Writers: Toshio Masuda
Cast: Tetsuya Watari, Shima Iwashita, Bunjaku Han
Producer: Asai Jimusho, Shochiku
Cinematography: Mitsuji Kanau
Music: Harumi Ibe
Production Company: Shochiku
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 30mn

Saraba.Okite.1971.1080i.HDTV.MPEG2.AAC-JPTVclub.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4C172DE6889FBE8/Saraba.Okite.1971.1080i.HDTV.MPEG2.AAC-JPTVclub.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese

The post Toshio Masuda – Saraba okite AKA Law of the Outlaw (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
The simple and honest elementary school principal Taiga (Iwata) was at a loss after the school’s donation money was stolen. At that time, he found a bag containing a large sum of money and hid it at home, intending to use it for the school. His wife, who happened to discover it, took the blame upon herself and committed suicide together with their beloved child. Grief-stricken, Taiga resigned from his position and moved to Oshima, seeking to detach himself from the world. Yet life there became nothing but days drowned in alcohol…

Director: Zanmu Kako
Cast: Yūkichi Iwata, Chiyoko Mimura, Utako Suzuki
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 46mn

	
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Audio
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Zanmu Kako – Shuchû nikki AKA Diary of a Drunkard (1921) first appeared on Cinema of the World.