A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

Across the Darkness (1959) DVDRIP x264 AC3 KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/5CBF83F9FAFBACB/Across_the_Darkness_(1959)_DVDRIP_x264_AC3_KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yasuzô Masumura – Yami o yokogire AKA Across Darkness (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.

Disobedience 1958 HDTV 1080i AAC MPEG2.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Giants and Toys is a sharp and snappy corporate satire revolving around the ruthless machinations of a group of admen working in the confectionary industry.

As a new recruit to the marketing department of World Caramel, fresh-faced graduate Nishi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) is eager to impress his ambitious and hard-nosed boss Goda (Black Test Car’s Hideo Takamatsu), even if it strains his relationships with his college friend Yokoyama (Koichi Fujiyama) and budding love interest Masami (Michiko Ono), who work at the rival companies of Giant and Apollo. With World’s lead over its competitors slipping badly, the two spot a chance to get back in the race in the shape of the pretty but unsophisticated 18-year-old, Kyoko (Hitomi Nozoe). Goda and Nishi get to work polishing this rough diamond as their new campaign girl, but as the three rival confectionary companies pitch themselves into an all-out advertising war that spills out onto the streets of Tokyo as it escalates to ludicrous extremes, Kyoko’s newfound fame starts going to her head.

Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut, this lurid adaptation of the award-winning 1957 novel by Ken Kaiko is considered a landmark in Japanese film history and a key work by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast, Red Angel), one of the country’s most highly acclaimed directors of his generation. Its absurdist and acidly cynical take on the excesses of the media and advertising worlds recalls the work of Frank Tashlin (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?), as it presents a garish vision of a bold new postwar Japan where traditional company values come head-to-head with American-style consumer capitalism.

https://nitro.download/view/A94DBE905F695D1/Giants.and.Toys.1958.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

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The spirit of Resnais runs deep in this existential melodrama. A young woman on a mountaineering holiday is accused of murdering her husband. Tied to a mountain between her brutalising spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes. To prevent all three from plunging to their deaths, the woman is forced to choose between cutting her husband’s rope or that of her lover…

An elliptical narrative structure shot in Masumura’s trademark ‘scope explores dark themes of gender, guilt and voyeurism in this blistering film.

“Probably Masumura’s greatest film.” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Comment

“One of Japanese cinema’s most striking portraits of a modern woman.” James Quandt , Ontario Cinematheque

A Wife Confesses.1961.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 31 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French

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Synopsis
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.

	
Chijo.AKA.On.This.Earth.1957.DVDRip.x264-PTP.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 38 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.

Yasuzo Masumura - Disobedience [1958].mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/D46BDD5797E5080/Yasuzo_Masumura_-_Disobedience__1958_.jpn.srt

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Subtitles:Japanese

Thank to @xrt for this copy

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Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man’s foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya’s brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister’s office. When Aya finds Kana’s discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana’s brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she’d stepped upon in the train…

Yurakucho.de.aimasho.1958.1080p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 36 min
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The post Kôji Shima – Yûrakuchô de aimashô AKA Chance Meeting (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.