Tugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character. In this summer, Tugumi loves Kyoichi Takahashi, who works in the art gallery of the town. One of Tugumi’s old boy friends, the leader of bad boys, attacks Kyoichi and kills Tugumi’s pet dog from jealousy. Tugumi plans revenge.

Tsugumi (1080p).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/0745BACE7361F55/Tsugumi_(1080p).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/AEF6AD38DF85AF9/Tsugumi_(1080p).ass

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
In this downbeat, comedic portrait of ’80s corporate Japan, a section chief and family man (Hajime Hana) fights off the gloom of his impending retirement by rekindling his youthful love of jazz music.

Kaisha monogatari Memories of You (1988)

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Runtime: 	1h 39mn
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https://nitro.download/view/D12DE5627D8C95D/Kaisha_monogatari_Memories_of_You_(1988).mkv

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

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.

Zawa-zawa.Shimo-Kitazawa.2000.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-NYCR4T.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/AA57556EFE20445/Zawa-zawa.Shimo-Kitazawa.2000.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-NYCR4T.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Jun Ichikawa – Zawa-zawa Shimo-Kitazawa AKA The Whispered City (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Directed by the late, great Jun Ichikawa (Tony Takitani, Dying at a Hospital); about the storied Tokiwa apartment that in the 1950s housed up-and-coming manga luminaries such as Osamu Tezuka, Shotaro Ishinomori, Fujiko Fujio and numerous others.

Mark Schilling of the Japan Times called Tokiwa: the Manga Apartment one of the best Japanese movies of the 90s; Kinema Jumpo named it among the 200 greatest Japanese films of all time.

Tokiwa the Manga Apartment.1996.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/CBD8BAF2EEE9329/Tokiwa_the_Manga_Apartment.1996.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Jun Ichikawa – Tokiwa-so no seishun AKA Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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“Veteran director Jun Ichikawa (Tony Takitani), who died suddenly the night that he finished editing this film (originally a private project), reveals his more personal and playful side while filming with nothing more than a few friends as actors and a camcorder. The film follows Yuki’s visit to Tokyo in search of her missing brother, Hisashi, and their later reunion with Hisashi’s ex-wife. Ichikawa’s camerawork and plain sets draw out a more affectionate and gentle side of these characters and their connection amidst the barren Tokyo cityscape.”

Sutsu.wo.kau.AKA.Buy.a.Suit.2008.NTSC.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/F4CADFF16294AB4/Sutsu.wo.kau.AKA.Buy.a.Suit.2008.NTSC.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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

The post Jun Ichikawa – Sûtsu wo kau AKA Buy a Suit (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Via the New York Times: “The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa’s “No Life King” bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film’s constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy trying to converse with his mother must compete with a home computer for her attention, it’s not hard to see why the boy has retreated into his own computer-dominated world.”

No Life King 1989 480p U-Next WEB-DL AAC H.264-JPTVclub.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4189FD32EE60288/No_Life_King_1989_480p_U-Next_WEB-DL_AAC_H.264-JPTVclub.mkv https://nitro.download/view/0FBB2DADAFEB18F/No_Life_King_1989_480p_U-Next_WEB-DL_AAC_H.264-JPTVclub.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Jun Ichikawa – No raifu kingu AKA No Life King (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

Quote:
Against all odds, director Jun Ichikawa has successfully adapted Haruki Murakami for the screen, transforming one of the writer’s lyrical short stories into an equally lyrical film. “Tony Takitani” is as detached and melancholy as its subject, a technical illustrator (Takitani, played with muted sorrow by Issey Ogata) in love with a woman (Rie Miyazawa) whose perfection conceals a spiritual flaw.

Tony is born into isolation, burdened with a roaming jazz musician for a father, a mother who died in childbirth and an unfashionably Western name. A virtuoso at drawing machines but lost when it comes to human beings, he is just sliding into middle age when his hermetic world is breached by the appearance of a wisp named Eiko. She is perfection in form, but as spiritually bereft as Tony. While he dwells on machines, she is compelled to buy “an alarming number of clothes.”

Together, they embody the psychological fallout of Japan’s postwar boom: equal parts technical precision and compulsive materialism. “I’ve never met anyone who inhabits her clothes with such obvious relish as you,” Tony tells his love. She replies that she feels “clothes fill up what’s missing” inside of her. Their respective obsessions form a perfect union until Eiko is consumed by her own consumerism, and Tony finds himself alone again — with a pivotal difference. This time he recognizes his solitude for what it is and aches for what he’s missing.

Directed with economy and an elegant eye, Ichikawa’s visuals resonate beneath their simplicity, with monochromatic backgrounds doubling as expressionistic landscapes. The camera pans from left to right, from scene to scene and time to time, observing Tony through an omniscient voiceover occasionally punctuated by the characters’ own self-narrative.

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s piano soundtrack is equally muted as it underscores the film’s vision of emotional desolation within a free-market heaven. Whether you view it as a metaphor for a country or a singular study of the human condition, “Tony Takitani” explores the borders between solitude and loneliness, hunger and consumption, memory and loss. Ichikawa has made a film that’s more a visual poem than a narrative, and all the more exquisite for it.

— Neva Chonin

Tony.Takitani.2004.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/73EDABD22DFE416/Tony.Takitani.2004.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

https://fikper.com/m5L64Q60WT/Tony.Takitani.2004.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Jun Ichikawa – Tonî Takitani AKA Tony Takitani (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.