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Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the vassal of Kaga Clan’s accounting officer, Shinagawa Daihachi demands that Omon serve him tea in his mansion and she refuses, the clan’s samurai abduct her setting in motion a series of events that will bring the two firefighters into a world of danger and excitement. Jirokichi, leader of the Edo firefighting team “Ha-gumi” must first rescue Omon from the clutches of the vile Kaga Clan’s retainers.

	
Edokko-hada.1961.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-Xeon921.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
Size: 	2.48 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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https://nitro.download/view/3836402D518CE90/Edokko-hada.1961.1080p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC-Xeon921.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masahiro Makino – Edokko-hada AKA Edo Purebreed (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Colourful, wildly stylised, immense captivating fable, including animation, kabuki and butoh and collapsing sets. About a soothsayer at court who was driven to insanity by the murder of his lover and will marry her likeness. And indeed, she’s a fox in human form!

MoMA wrote:
Uchida’s strangest and most stylized film is a visual feast, adapted by Yoshikata Yoda from a traditional puppet play. Dispensing with naturalism, Uchida uses expressionist sets and color schemes to convey the shifting states of mind of a protagonist driven mad by grief after his lover is killed. Some scenes are shot against theatrical backdrops inspired by kabuki theater and traditional dance; others unfold on elaborately colored sets reminiscent of traditional screen paintings. The Mad Fox’s audacious artifice makes Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) pale in comparison.

2.27GB | 1h 48m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C7EB00ACAF8D4C8/Koiya.koi.nasuna.koi.AKA.The.Mad.Fox.1962.576p.Bluray.AAC.1.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Tomu Uchida – Koiya koi nasuna koi AKA The Mad Fox [+ commentary] (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1637, the Tokugawa Shogunate mandated religious orders to severely restrict and contain the spread of Christianity. In Kyushu, Shimabara and Amakusa, the Christian population was particularly large, and the farmers continuously endured extreme pain and suffering under the oppression of the land’s rulers. Unable to pay taxes because of severe famine, Christians watched their daughters taken away by the samurai and waited for a miracle that could save them. People lined up to follow Shiro of Amakusa in the belief that he was the one to lead them out of despair. This is a serious story taken from the pages of history, and exposes what led up to the siege of Shimabara. A tremendous performance by mega-star Okawa Hashizo along with crisp direction by noted filmmaker Oshima Nagisa raise the level of this film to true art.

https://nitro.download/view/29FA2F9665B266C/Amakusa.shiro.tokisada.(The.Rebel).1962.avi
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http://nitroflare.com/view/D4DF81C4E33CD81/Amakusa.shiro.tokisada.%28The.Rebel%29.1962.Trailer.avi

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Nagisa Oshima – Amakusa shiro tokisada aka The Rebel (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.