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John Lone, the star of the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (89), portrays a Chinese revolutionary in Shadow of China. Pursued by the Communists, Lone escapes to Hong Kong, where he builds up a multimillion dollar business enterprise. He hopes to use his international clout to effect changes in Mainland China, but he is defeated by revelations of his earlier underhanded business practices, and by the “dangerous” aspects of his previous political activities.

Shadow.Of.China.1990.Xvid.VHSRip.KG-stahl.avi

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https://nitro.download/view/6490028EE2881DF/Shadow.Of.China.1990.Xvid.VHSRip.KG-stahl.avi

Language(s):English, Chinese
Subtitles:English (for Chinese parts)

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Ho Jun is a student from Beijing who is working in a cattle slaughter house in Tokyo. He lives with other Chinese friends in cheap lodgings. All of them find it difficult to adapt to Japanese culture. To make matters worse Ho Jun and some friends devise a plot to rob a local pinball gambling house – the gangster who owns the house finds them out and threatens to send Ho Jun back to China.

About.Love.Tokyo.1992.VHS-Rip.KG-stahl.avi

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https://nitro.download/view/90402A41645DF9C/About.Love.Tokyo.1992.VHS-Rip.KG-stahl.avi
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Language(s):Japanese / Mandarin
Subtitles:Japanese hardubs for chinese parts, English

The post Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Ai ni tsuite, Tokyo AKA About Love, Tokyo (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ho Jun is a student from Beijing who is working in a cattle slaughter house in Tokyo. He lives with other Chinese friends in cheap lodgings. All of them find it difficult to adapt to Japanese culture. To make matters worse Ho Jun and some friends devise a plot to rob a local pinball gambling house – the gangster who owns the house finds them out and threatens to send Ho Jun back to China.

Ai.ni.tsuite.Tokyo (1992).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/508AA827EBE84B6/Ai.ni.tsuite.Tokyo_(1992).mkv

Language(s):Japanese / Mandarin
Subtitles:Japanese hardubs for chinese parts, English

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Saraba Itoshiki Daichi (Farewell to the Land) takes up the question of what happens when the balance of an extended family in rural Japan is upset. The main character blames himself for the deaths of his two sons in a boating accident and leaves his wife and parents behind. He takes on a mistress, to the shame of his family, and he pops stimulants to keep up with his work schedule as a truck driver. Growing increasingly irritable and irrational, he goes through various conflicts with his brother, his colleagues, his boss, and his wife. The film ends in an act of violence for which no explanation is given.

Saraba.Itoshiki.Daichi.AKA.Farewell.to.the.Land.(1982).DVDRip.x264.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/5C3ECC7FDCAA5EF/Saraba.Itoshiki.Daichi.AKA.Farewell.to.the.Land.(1982).DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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A wonderful, captivating, and far-too-seldom-seen film by the brilliant Mitsuo Yanagimachi. As photographed by the equally brilliant Masaki Tamura (Ogawa Productions, Lady Snowblood, Tampopo, P.P. Rider).

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The lives of a dying breed, Chinese peddlers, provide the focus of this fascinating Japanese-Taiwanese drama. The story begins with Tianshuang, the Ye family patriarch, as he entices his customers by eating fire and juggling. Once they are hooked, he then sells them his snake oil. Unfortunately, business just isn’t what it used to be and A-Hong, his son, is thinking of finding a new profession. Meanwhile, his rival peddler wows his potential customers with a thrilling show involving live cobras. During each performance he allows them to bite him and is very proud of the resulting scars.

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https://nitro.download/view/4838CEE8C345219/Wandering_Peddlers_(1995).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/AEAD28C19B5D18F/Wandering_Peddlers_Trailer.mkv

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

The post Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Tabisuru pao-jiang-hu AKA Wandering Peddlers [+Extra] (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are threatened by a planned marine park. Tatsuo is a macho lumberjack who hunts boars and monkeys with the young Ryota. Tatsuo is married with two children, has four elder sisters, and is under pressure to sell the family land to the developers. When the fish pens are deliberately contaminated by oil, the fishermen suspect Tatsuo. Kimiko, an old girlfriend of Tatsuo, returns to the village to find money to pay off her debts. During the annual fire festival, Tatsuo becomes angry when the old traditions are not preserved.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/DBF0535C025ED9A/Himatsuri.1985.DVDRip.AC3.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Himatsuri AKA Fire Festival (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Throws down the gauntlet with the very first shot, in which the camera glides sinuously all over the sprawling exterior of a university campus, caroming from one group to characters to another, for minute after self-consciously virtuosic minute, and just as you’re idly wondering whether Fred Ward is going to show up and start ranting about the opening of Touch of Evil, we suddenly pick up two film students engaged in discussion of that very topic, who then proceed to address The Player itself. Except that Altman’s achievement really is little more than a clever, hollow joke, whereas Yanagimachi has taken that sort of suffocating pomo referentiality as his subject. Ostensibly a fairly lighthearted havoc-on-the-set comedy, the film portrays a simulacrum of reality far more chilling than the one revealed in The Matrix — a world in which no person, act or object exists for its own sake, free of antecedent. What’s more — and this is just shy of miraculous, given the premise and milieu — it does so without any of the facile live-or-Memorex? rug-pulling that such treatises usually favor. (The genius of the climax, which keeps you poised on a serrated edge separating the merely horrific from the truly catastrophic, depends upon Yanagimachi’s commitment to unforced naturalism.) So dense and resonant that I couldn’t even begin to unpack it without a second viewing (already arranged, thankfully), and even then half of its appeal lies in the vivid yet offhanded sense of hectic collegiality that I was never able to articulate when trying to explain why I loved Irma Vep. Nor can I necessarily explain the gooseflesh I experienced Dwhen one character, reading DSM-IV diagnoses aloud in an attempt to understand the film-within-the-film’s protagonist, is joined by another character reading aloud from The Stranger, their competing voices gradually drowned out by an ominous orchestral swell that turns out to be diagetic. It’s the most terrifying lark I’ve ever seen.

1.50GB | 1h 55mn | 858×464 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9A38C67F4A93CA4/Mitsuo_Yanagimachi_-_(2005)_Who’s_Camus_Anyway.mkv

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Subtitles:English (optional)

The post Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Kamyu nante shiranai AKA Who’s Camus Anyway? (2005) first appeared on Cinema of the World.