A group of old men take over an empty house and proclaim it to be a new “country” they have founded, called Yama. (“Yamato” is one of the oldest names for Japan, “yama” itself means “mountain.”) The men basically refuse to be thrown out of this domicile by some gangsters, and they are successful for several months. Their resistance started on December 8th, the date Pearl Harbor was bombed (not the 7th because one crosses the International Date Line and gains a day while heading west from the U.S.) and lasts until August 15th, the date when Japan officially surrendered at the end of World War II.

Chikagoro Naze Ka Charusuton.1981.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 56 min
Size: 	2.22 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/20ABA4F371C9BFE/Chikagoro_Naze_Ka_Charusuton.1981.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Four Black American slaves, freed in Civil War, make their way to California and set sail for Africa, only to land in feudal Japan. They are held prisoner of the emperor, who also has a passion for music. The prisoners get out their own instruments and bring Dixieland Jazz to Japan.

	
Jazz.Daimyo.1986.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-002.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
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Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	15.0 Mb/s
BPP: 	0.313
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/D0B6300876A651B/Jazz.Daimyo.1986.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-002.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/34C23BDEA8F9A92/Jazz.Daimyo.1986.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Bjarne for this copy

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Quote:
After the wartime government orders the disbanding of the Big Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.

The Last Game 1979 1080i HDTV AAC MPEG2 tattookiss-KG .mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 3 min
Size: 	12.3 GiB
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC

https://nitro.download/view/9525C2EC66C6023/The_Last_Game_1979_1080i_HDTV_AAC_MPEG2_tattookiss-KG_.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese

The post Kihachi Okamoto – Eireitachi no oenka: saigo no sôkeisen AKA The Last Game (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by the always lovely Kumi Mizuno.

One of Okamoto’s trademarks is his recessive staging, i.e. the big foreground wide-angle look, the kind of wide-screen composition which is quite common in spaghetti westerns, particularly those of Sergio Leone’s (partly due to the technical problems of the Techniscope format, widely used in Italy in that period). We could notice this signature in Okamoto’s late 50s films already, that is, a few years earlier than Leone and other western directors.

Operation.Sewer.Rats.1962.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi

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1:41:58 @ 23.976 fps
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[Average DRF/quantizer is 2.51]

https://nitro.download/view/B4923868D8CFCC5/Operation.Sewer.Rats.1962.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi

Language(s):Japanese and a bit Japanese Chinese
Subtitles:Japanese Hardsubs for the bit Japanese Chinese Only

The post Kihachi Okamoto – Dobunezumi sakusen aka Operation Sewer Rats (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The memorable directorial debut of Kihachi Okamoto, who later made “Japan’s Longest Day” and “The Battle of Okinawa.” The main character, Yasuko, is a theater student who wants to avoid ending up in a loveless marriage like her brother and sister. The film rhythmically depicts the twists and turns of how Yasuko pursues her dream of being in a love marriage as her father attempts to marry her to a husband of his own choosing. The modernity of the casts’ outfits also shines. The film also amply demonstrates Okamoto’s signature fast cutting speed and good sense of tempo.

Kekkon.no.subete.1958.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0D801806A854D2F/Kekkon.no.subete.1958.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a salaried employee like himself who is very ordinary, not particularly talented.
The following is his story:
In 1949, Eburi gets married to Natsuko. His monthly salary is 8,000 yen and hers 4,000 yen. Therefore, both have to work to support themselves. Eburi has developed a habituIl tendency to pester around when he gets drunk. One year after their marriage, son Shosuke is born. In 1959, Eburi’s mother dies in despair of her husband who has become listless due to the several ups and downs of gaining big profits and going bankrupt. His father is still alive and Eburi is enable to find a way to pay his father’s debts. He is doubtful if he can make his wife and child happy. Nevertheless, he has somehow managed to survive so far, living in one of the houses at the employee housing quarters. He gives the title “The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman” to his story of half novel and half essay style. When it is published, it receives the Naoki Literary Prize (the award given in memory of popular writer Naoki Sanjugo). At a party to celebrate his award, he gets drunk and pesters around.

Notes
The film is based on a novel written in the style of an essay under the same title by Yamaguchi Hitomi, depicting everyday life of a man categorized as “During-the-war Generation” who spent school days during the war and get married to start new life in the struggling post-war era. “Everyman” in the title means an average salaried employee who makes up an overwhelming majority of the city population in Japan, and “The Elegant Life” indicates sarcasm on betterment of the standard of living of ordinary salaried employees accompanied with Japan’s economic growth after only a decade from the destroyed post-war period. As depicted in the film, the author Yamaguchi Hitomi was awarded the Naoki Literature Prize for this story. When he established himself well enough to become independent, he quit working as a salaried employee. Director Okamoto Kihachi and the leading actor Kobayashi Keiju belong to the same generation as the author. Exploiting innovative effects such as inserting animation sequences, the film humorously presents compassion of a middle-aged salaried employee. Kobayashi Keiju, who was originally noted for his excellent portrayal of salaried employee, won the best leading actor award of the Mainichi Film Contest for his superb performance in this picture.

1.83GB | 1h 42m | 825×344 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/2389B33D6B4AE60/Eburi.manshi.no.yugana.seikatsu.AKA.The.Elegant.Life.of.Mr.Everyman.1963.DVDRip.x264.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/2FD270CB0FC7989/Eburi.manshi.no.yugana.seikatsu.1963.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/ECCE5C090D78608/Eburi.manshi.no.yugana.seikatsu.1963.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled Japan for 300 years. They suspect a traitor in their midst, and their suspicions fall on Niiro, an impoverished ronin who dreams of samurai status, and Kurihara, an aristocratic samurai who befriends Niiro. Niiro longs to identify his father, knowing he is a high-ranking official who will disclose himself only if Niiro achieves samurai status. With American ships in Japan’s harbors, cynicism among the assassins, and change in the air, Niiro resolves to reach ends that may prove ephemeral.

2.08GB | 2h 01mn | 1034×440 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/81AAE0A8766F848/Samurai_Assassin_(1965)_–_Kihachi_Okamoto.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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