FALLEN BLOSSOMS follows the inhabitants of a Kyoto geisha house as the civil war of the Meiji Restoration rages just outside their walls. Set completely inside the house, only female characters are seen on screen. AKA: FLOWERS HAVE FALLEN.

Tamizo Ishida - Fallen Blossoms [1938] [Remastered].mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 14mn
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https://nitro.download/view/07E3E03ACAB002A/Tamizo_Ishida_-_Fallen_Blossoms__1938___Remastered_.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:english

Thnaks to @xrt for this rip.

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Maya Grohn wrote:
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo, which was published in a magazine called “KING”, the most popular magazine of its time. This type of magazine was deemed too popular for serious literature lovers, who regarded it as beneath them. Once a girl, a long time ago, Maya could not understand it all, but through ageing I have begun to enjoy these thing in a quite different manner.

The film starts with a scene at a kabuki theatre at the end of the Edo period. A prologue, which is the introduction to a new actor. The two senior actors beg a favour for their junior, as his custodians. The real top stars, Hasegawa Kazuo and Kurokawa Yataro play the senior actors who appear in this scene only.

The story is rather complicated and might be difficult to follow. The complexity is not logical complexity, but simply everything conveniently mixed up. This, however, is the charm of the adventure novel, though I am afraid it does not appeal to modern people anymore.

In the film its excitement is found not in action, but in the mystic identity of Haranosuke, man or woman, one or other twin, a secret hidden in the orizuru (folded paper crane of the title).

301MB | 1h 53m | 540×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B07CD6FB7CE074D/Folding_crane_seven_changes_(1941)__(360p_30fps_H264-128kbit_AAC).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/DBA0C372ED6FC44/Folding_crane_seven_changes_(1941)__(360p_30fps_H264-128kbit_AAC)_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Tamizo Ishida – Orizo nan henge AKA Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (1941) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows of women in a geisha house in Kyoto by recounting the relationships of its inhabitants.

Alexander Jacoby & Johan Nordström wrote:
Ishida’s original and brilliant film tells history as ‘her story’. Against the backdrop of a victory for the imperial forces in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Ishida recounts the relationships among the inhabitants of a Kyoto geisha house, producing what has been described by Noël Burch as “one of the most remarkable community portraits ever filmed”. The film is set completely inside the house, with only female characters ever seen on screen.

For Burch, “the exclusion from the scene of men, patrons or soldiers, is a meaningful corollary of the exclusion of Japanese women from the history of the country”. Ishida narrates his story using an imaginative cinematic style in which shots are almost never repeated. The narrative, Burch notes, evokes Chekhov, but he judges its “combination of a restricted, unified setting and continual renewal of the imagery” to be unparalleled in conventional narrative cinema.

1.18GB | 1h 14m | 694×520 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A7260F1211EA1BE/Hana_Chirinu_(1938).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/037D3BABEFFCFB6/Hana_Chirinu_(1938)_-_eng_02.srt
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/356b37c2f4d08/Hana_Chirinu_%281938%29.mkv
https://tezfiles.com/file/14639eaa0e27b/Hana_Chirinu_%281938%29_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Maya Grohn wrote:
This film is based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko.

It is a story of two girls with totally different family backgrounds. The family of Eiko was in the okiya business, which handled geiko (geisha), one of the highest rank okiya in Osaka. Eiko was attending the girls’ school, modeled after Wilmina Girls School (currently Osaka Jogakuin).

One day a new girl, Sada Mitsuru moved to the school from Tokyo, Mitsuru’s father was a successful businessman and her mother a pious Christian.

The two girls become best friends. the story is very girlish, but the director Ishida Tamizo describes the mind of Eiko in his subtle way of expression with great attention.

This movie is historically valuable in knowing old Osaka with its businesses and shops, including the entertainment areas.

Author Yoshiya Nobuko made the story by creating two girls who had contrasting family backgrounds that made the story dramatic and the director crosshatched it to add the depth.

179MB | 1h 12m | 320×240 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2D0F74974DD8AF3/Flower_picking_diary_(1939)_(240p_15fps_H264-96kbit_AAC).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/750FDA6940AF3D8/Flower_picking_diary_(1939)_(240p_15fps_H264-96kbit_AAC)_-_eng_01.srt
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/1af8f610a51b7/Flower_picking_diary_%281939%29_%28240p_15fps_H264-96kbit_AAC%29.mp4
https://tezfiles.com/file/07a8b687f8d33/Flower_picking_diary_%281939%29_%28240p_15fps_H264-96kbit_AAC%29_-_eng_01.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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