A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

Sapporo.Orinpikku.1972.Criterion.Collection.720p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 47 min
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https://nitro.download/view/1C3A27325603AB0/Sapporo.Orinpikku.1972.Criterion.Collection.720p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Sapporo Orinpikku AKA Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Orin (Shima Iwashita) is a blind woman in the early 20th century who as a young girl became a goze, or itinerant entertainer, one of the few options available to women like her in Japan at the time (one of the others was to be a prostitute). Orin’s life is largely miserable, her misery the result of traditionalist attitudes, but she never grasps that her society is punishing her merely for the twin crimes of being a woman and disabled.

Orin is exiled from her troupe for moral lapses, and wanders the road on her own until she bands together with a deserter from a war Japan is fighting in Siberia (Yoshio Harada). The pair forge a curiously celibate partnership as they tour the countryside trying to keep out of the way of the various parties wanting to do them harm…

Ed Howard on Only the Cinema wrote:
This is a complex and powerful film, stunning in its steady accumulation of imagery and the tragic commentary of its narrative. Shinoda handles this potentially didactic material with remarkable delicacy, never allowing it to become a heavy-handed “message” film. Its messages are always contained organically by the story, and by the character of Orin, who’s played with wonderful range and quiet intensity by Iwashita (Shinoda’s wife, incidentally). Her performance encompasses strength, despair, sensuality, loneliness, and mystery, and she’s a wonderfully sensitive actress for depicting the emotional subtleties of this tale…This is a truly masterful film, filled with multiple layers and multiple meanings; its placid surface is deceiving.

Hanare.goze.Orin.AKA.Ballad.of.Orin.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 58 min
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https://nitro.download/view/3DDBC03037F6864/Hanare.goze.Orin.AKA.Ballad.of.Orin.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (srt, default); Russian (idx/VobSub); Japanese (idx/VobSub)

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Hanare goze Orin AKA Ballad of Orin (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

The.Scandalous.Adventures.of.Buraikan.1970.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-ASO.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Buraikan AKA The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan AKA Outlaws (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki’s child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki’s son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her. Horrified they take the first plane to Kyoto. Meanwhile, she takes the son on boating, arranges an accident, and drowns him. It is close that she herself would also die.—Max S., Stockholm, Sweden

Utsukushisa.to.kanashimi.to.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
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https://nitro.download/view/B9C5BDEBDA8841A/Utsukushisa.to.kanashimi.to.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Portuguese, Spanish

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Utsukushisa to kanashimi to AKA With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

Spy.Sorge.Part.1.2001.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Spy Sorge (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Many films have drawn from classic Japanese theatrical forms, but none with such shocking cinematic effect as director Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide. In this striking adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play (featuring the music of famed composer Toru Takemitsu), a paper merchant sacrifices family, fortune, and ultimately life for his erotic obsession with a prostitute.

Double.Suicide.1969.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/91E7DA563790CFD/Double.Suicide.1969.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Shinjû: Ten no Amijima AKA Double Suicide (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

As the great military commander Hideyoshi was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village. Years later, one of the survivors has hired a young but skilled assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission: to sneak into the most heavily guarded castle in Japan, and kill the supreme ruler of the country.

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https://nitro.download/view/30B2B8CC7052C6D/Fukuro.No.Shiro.AKA.Owls.Castle.1999.480p.DVD.x264.AC3.5.1.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Fukuro no shiro AKA Owls’ Castle (1999) first appeared on Cinema of the World.