Yoji Kitami, a fisherman’s son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji’s earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.

Arai.Umi.aka.The.Wild.Sea.1969.Tokujiro.Yamazaki.Shortened.Intl.Version.DVDRip.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 08 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Tokujirô Yamazaki – Arai umi AKA The Wild Sea (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.

Tekka.no.Hanamichi.Way.of.the.Yakuza.1968.DVDRip.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 30 min
Size: 	3.91 GiB
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/450281CB4232B77/Tekka.no.Hanamichi.Way.of.the.Yakuza.1968.DVDRip.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/880F5DB109A6346/Original.trailer.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Akinori Matsuo – Tekka no hanamichi AKA Dice and Swords (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Harada, a detective at the Shinjuku Police Station, lives with his little sister Noriko, who attends fashion school. One day, Harada is told by senior detective Ijima that Noriko is dating Yoshiura, a street thug. She quits school and rebels against Harada’s concerns. Soon after, Yoshiura is strangled to death, and Noriko’s pendant is found at the scene.

The Perennial Weed 1975 1080p WEB-DL AAC 2.0 x264-NDD.mkv

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Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 125 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/C5791C7A77DAC96/The_Perennial_Weed_1975_1080p_WEB-DL_AAC_2.0_x264-NDD.mkv
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

many thanks to @xrt for this great copy

The post Yoshitarô Nomura – The Perennial Weed (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother

Tattooed.Life.1965.Seijun.Suzuki.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 26 min
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#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 76.1 kb/s (Commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema)

https://nitro.download/view/6848993DE821195/Tattooed.Life.1965.Seijun.Suzuki.576p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French

The post Seijun Suzuki – Irezumi ichidai AKA Tattooed Life (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.

1.94GB | 1h 25m | 1024×424 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6620D48D64F44F2/Fighting.Elegy.1966.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Seijun Suzuki – Kenka erejî AKA Fighting Elegy (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Few novels were filmed as many times as Shiro Ozaki’s famous Theatre of Life . So rich and appealing is this roman fleuve about chivalrous yakuza that, over the decades, it was rendered in “youth”and animated versions, as a lavish epic or omnibus film (including one by Kinji Fukasaku), and indeed was initially made by Uchida in 1936 as a highly regarded “social tendency” film. But Uchida’s later version is considered the gold standard, partly because of his mastery at visual storytelling, partly because of his superb ensemble cast. The yakuza Hishakaku kills someone in a dispute over a barmaid, but turns himself in at the urging of Kiratsune, an old gangster who has just returned from eight years in Shanghai and has become his protector.When he gets out of prison, Hishakaku finds himself once again torn between his sense of duty to his gang and his sense of humanity, and is drawn back into the bloody clan feuds.

1.25GB | 2h 45m | 672×288 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/59B29AA6A6B9157/Jinsei.Gekijo.1972.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Tai Kato – Jinsei gekijô – Seishun aiyoku zankyohen aka Theater of LIfe: Youth, Lust and Spirit (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Though Suzuki created it in the midst of his stylistic breakthrough, «Our Blood Will Not Forgive» has never received the same amount of attention as other films he made around the same time. Nikkatsu icons Hideki Takahashi and Akira Kobayashi star as brothers — one a gangster, the other an ad man — who unite to avenge their yakuza father’s death eighteen years before. The film features a bold use of colour; an absurdist concluding gunfight; and, in one memorable scene, an impressively illogical use of rear projection as the brothers argue in a car while ocean waves rage around them.

Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai.1964.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 37 min
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https://nitro.download/view/946BF1828F38846/Oretachi_no_chi_ga_yurusanai.1964.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Seijun Suzuki – Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai aka Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.