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After World War II, Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. developed and launched colour film stocks, with which the first Japanese natural colour features Carmen Comes Home (1951) and Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido were produced by Shochiku; the latter has seldom been presented as its existing print is an incomplete one. Adapted from an early serial fiction by Yukio Mishima, it is a melodrama with women as subjects—a genre Nakamura was best at, with excellent representation of Mishima’s persevering characters. Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure. A few scenes are missing in this print, one of which near the end is without a soundtrack; lines in the original script are inserted in these scenes to make up for these defects, which do not discount the film’s status as a valuable film capturing Hakodate in its glorious and vibrant colours.

Natsuko.no.boken.1953.1080i HDTV.AAC2.0.MPEG2.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
Size: 	5.31 GiB
Video
Codec: 	MPEG-2
Resolution: 	1440x1080 ~> 1920x1080
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	7 909 kb/s
BPP: 	0.212
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC @ 141 kb/s

Note: This film contains the HD data telecined from surviving film materials. Some scenes lack pictures and in some other scenes the soundtrack is missing. To compensate for this absence, descriptive titles from the original screenplay have been inserted.

https://nitro.download/view/43BBB825C8E51A2/Natsuko.no.boken.1953.1080i_HDTV.AAC2.0.MPEG2.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese

The post Noboru Nakamura – Natsuko no Boken AKA Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido (1953) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

東京物語

They one hot beautiful summer day joyfully left home
She one hot sad day stumbled sideways
He strangely found himself back home
one of those so beautiful noisy hot summer days one says

Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:
The consistent use of a low, eye-level camera angle in the later works makes one realize that the eye level of most films is that of a standing spectator. But Ozu’s acknowledgment and use of the fact that we watch movies while seated is only one of his subtle strategies for drawing us into his tight family circles. Perhaps most striking of all is the absolutely equal distribution of love and generosity towards all of his characters — implicit in HEN IN THE WIND, but triumphant in such later masterpieces as LATE SPRING, EARLY SUMMER, and TOKYO STORY (1953).

Tokyo monogatari - Yasujiro Ozu (1953).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 16mn
Size: 	3.13 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 753 Kbps
BPP: 	0.260
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps
#2:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 128 Kbps (commentary Japanese (original Shochiku))
#3:  	English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 128 Kbps (Audio commentary featuring Yasujiro Ozu scholar David Desser)

https://nitro.download/view/5F6976D5568BA37/Tokyo_monogatari_-_Yasujiro_Ozu_(1953).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese

The post Yasujirô Ozu – Tôkyô monogatari aka Tokyo story (1953) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Amai.Himitsu.1971.Hdtv.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
Size: 	6.51 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1440x804 ~> 1929x804
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	11.2 Mb/s
BPP: 	0.405
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 161 kb/s (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/B1D9DFC09EFAECE/Amai.Himitsu.1971.Hdtv.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/74D9E31F2A15627/Amai.Himitsu.1971.Hdtv.srt
https://nitro.download/view/B352DD943DAC4A2/Amai.himitsu.1971.HDTV.jpn.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese,English

The post Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Amai Himitsu AKA Sweet Secret (1971) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The story of a young girl (Sachiko Hidari) who moves from a farm to the city of her dreams – Tokyo. Once settled as a maid, she realizes that the superiority of city life is only relative. Her employer’s son flees from Tokyo to the farm to see all the wonderful things the girl has told him about. When her employers go to pick up their son, the girl realizes that city folk are as ignorant of rural life as she was of city life.

3.48GB | 2h 22m | 960×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B992E4B47252FAB/The.Maids.Kid.1955.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-ARiN.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Tomotaka Tasaka – Jochukko AKA The Maid’s Kid (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.