The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.

Koko.ni.izumi.ari.1955.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 29 min
Size: 	8.98 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	8 368 kb/s
BPP: 	0.180
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/66F522738C24FE5/Koko.ni.izumi.ari.1955.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/C4E07F316B3CE52/Koko_ni_Izumi_Ari_(1955)_English_03.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Tadashi Imai – Koko ni izumi ari AKA There is a Spring (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
The Glacier Fox is an exciting documentary filmed in the frozen regions of Northern Japan. Director Korey Kurahara, who apparently was weaned on Disney’s True Life Adventures, strikes just the right balance between reality and artifice. His “cast” consists of a family of wild foxes, each with his or her own distinct personality. The film explores the foxes’ efforts to survive the elements and their ever-threatening environment. The Glacier Fox runs 90 minutes, and “runs” is just the right word to describe the breathless pace of this movie. — Hal Erickson

Glacier.Fox.1978.DVDRip.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 56mn
Size: 	4.10 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x480 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	4 793 Kbps
BPP: 	0.578
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/F75B3D965695566/Glacier.Fox.1978.DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English here

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Koreyoshi Kurahara – Kita-kitsune monogatari aka The glacier fox (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Masumura’s 44th film capitalizes on the student unrest of the late sixties as background for a story about a ‘liberated’ woman. Cruelly nymphomaniac, Michi is described as an ‘independent child of the times’, with no family obligations, no taste for housekeeping, and no need of a man to support her. Her sex mania and Nobuyuki’s masochism become less than plausible, and the other characters are all too superficially delineated to be engaging.

	
Vixen.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 34mn
Size: 	1.12 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x368 ~> 864x368
Aspect ratio:  	2.35:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 500 Kbps
BPP: 	0.236
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/14B3E17DF4F3795/Vixen.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1C59552958940E0/Vixen.1969.eng.ohako.ass
https://nitro.download/view/35C1BE716EC0E0E/Vixen.1969.eng.ohako.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yasuzô Masumura – Jotai AKA Vixen (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husband’s disapproval.

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One of Hani’s recurring themes was the status of women in modern society. His first attempt at the subject was this Antonioniesque melodrama set in a sterile high rise complex. A woman resident becomes discontent with the empty life she and her husband are leading. They encounter a street beggar who lives in poverty with his dog and a blind orphan. The woman becomes fascinated by the beggar’s world and pursues a friendship which leads to terrible discord and a tragedy.

“A minutely observed, intimate and unsentimental drama of social consciousness that uncovers the spiritual wasteland of suburbia, and explores the barriers erected by differences of class, money and, above all, aspiration.” —Holt’s Foreign Film Guide.

She.and.He.1963.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
Size: 	1.68 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	710x480 ~> 710x532
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.245
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#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/7AC0224D071CE85/She.and.He.1963.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Susumu Hani – Kanojo to kare AKA She and He (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.

2.11GB | 1h 47m | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F4CED85F556E58B/The.Eleventh.Hour.1957.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H.264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English,Japanese

The post Tomu Uchida – Dotanba AKA The Eleventh Hour (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Bara no hyôteki (1972)
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing – that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.

2.77GB | 1h 34m | 2560×1440 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4E05382902FE063/Target.of.Roses.1972.1080p.HDTV.AVC.AAC_2.0.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/10248f8167cde/Target.of.Roses.1972.1080p.HDTV.AVC.AAC_2.0.mkv

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

The post Kiyoshi Nishimura – Bara no hyôteki AKA The Target of Roses (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Based on a girl’s prize-winning school essay on the subject of “My Mother”. Mizuki Yoko fashioned one of her most moving scripts. Upon the death of her husband the mother (Tanaka Kinuyo) runs the family laundry by herself. She is helped by her first daughter (Kagawa Kyoko) bust must send her second daughter to live with relatives because she cannot afford to keep her. A real shomingeki with lots of heart
— Donald Richie, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film.

1.37GB | 1h 37m | 762×572 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/6CFCCCD21D07302/Okaasan_(Mother)_(1952)_–_Mikio_Naruse.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English,Spanish,French,Russian (muxed)

The post Mikio Naruse – Okasan aka Mother (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.