Synopsis:
When Kotaro meets Kuroe, it is love at first sight. They resolve to spend the rest of their lives together. But one day, Kuroe collapses and X-rays reveal something resembling a flower budding in her lung. She refuses surgery and goes home with Kotaro, unable to drink water, lest the bud blooms. When Kotaro discovers that other flowers in the room cause the first water lily to shrivel up, so he fills the house with fresh flowers. Kotaro loses his job, but is more than ever desperate to meet the expense of fresh flowers for Kuroe. Kotaro is finally offered a job with the florist. The house literally shrinks around Kuroe, as the flower blooms inside her and she fades away.

Quote:
The haunting image of a young woman who discovers the bud of a flower is growing in her lung is at the center “L’Ecume des Jours,” one of the most famous novels of the influential post-war French author Boris Vian, a story that is transferred to Japan in Go Riju’s version of the book. Filled with beautiful imagery and intriguing elements, the film is nevertheless a little too languid to achieve widespread acceptance. However, further exposure on the fest route may give it a profile that could result in niche distribution in some territories.

Kuroe.aka.Chloe.2011.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 8mn
Size: 	1.26 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	716x356 ~> 854x356
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 192 Kbps
BPP: 	0.195
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/3F4A046B6A45950/Kuroe.aka.Chloe.2001.mkv

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

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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A man dies, and leaves a message to contact only one person, a young women who works as a waitress in the city. This women is by no means a friend, but rather an acquaintance. But, over the many times that they crossed paths, a promise was made. The promise was to bury this man when he dies.

Elephant.Song.1994.DVDRip.x264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	59 min 41 s
Size: 	853 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x480 ~> 704x528
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 611 kb/s
BPP: 	0.199
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/4653614966D81D6/Elephant.Song.1994.DVDRip.x264.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/9081FDE733989CE/Elephant.Song.1994.DVDRip.x264_track3__eng_-eng.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salaryman who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew.

3.08GB | 1h 46m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/85A9DE369E16E77/BeRLiN_1995_1080p_U-Next_WEB-DL_AAC_H.264-JPTVclub.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:None

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