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A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.

First.Love.2021.JAPANESE.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-THR.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 59mn
Size:	1.81 GiB
Video
Codec:	h264
Resolution:	1248x520
Aspect ratio:	2.40:1
Frame rate:	24.000 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/D63FC8B83886142/First.Love.2021.JAPANESE.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-THR.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yukihiko Tsutsumi – First Love (2021) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Middle-aged Hideo lives alone with an inflatable doll he calls Nozomi. The doll is his closest companion. He dresses it up, talks to it over dinner, and has sexual intercourse with it. However, unbeknown to Hideo, Nozomi was created with a heart. After Hideo leaves for work each day, Nozomi dresses in her maid’s outfit and explores the world outside their apartment with a sense of child-like wonder. She encounters various city residents who metaphorically are as “empty inside” as she is. When Nozomi meets Junichi, who works at a local video store, she falls in love with him and gets a part-time job at the store. She learns about the world through the movies she watches with Junichi, but her happiness with him is interrupted by a dramatic turn of events.

Director Koreeda has stated that the film is about the loneliness of urban life and the question of what it means to be human.

8.15GB | 1h 56m | 1280×692 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3D3772DEE9B62D0/Air.Doll.2009.720p.BluRay.AAC2.0.x264-DON.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hirokazu Koreeda – Kûki ningyô AKA Air Doll (2009) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.

+Commentary by Director Toshiaki Toyoda

3.33GB | 1h 53m | 1024×564 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1A9A631CEB9E862/Kuchu.teien.AKA.Hanging.Garden.2005.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Toshiaki Toyoda – Kûchû teien AKA Hanging Garden (2005) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Nami (Kumi Takiuchi) is a lonely young girl prone to outbursts of left field violence, due to being ignored by her poverty-relief obsessed mother who leaves one day, leaving her with her depressed father and older sister. Nami’s dad takes on a mistress and still ignored and with her sister now with a boyfriend, Nami seeks constant solace in in an inane shopping channel, captivated by the gadgets and bargains offered by the smiling host.

Years later, Nami, now a young woman has a peculiar hobby in which she observes and takes notes on sad and very lonely elderly people, who she calls “Solitarians”. There’s the angry middle aged man who barges by everywhere rudely bumping people aside, and there’s the crazy homeless looking guy who feeds the pigeons, all collectively becoming Nami’s muse and a source of endearment. One specific solitarian catches her attention. He’s Mr. Shiomi (Takashi Sasano) an embittered old man, who once empowered with former status, is now alone, lonely and angry, going through each day with a grumpy, dreary resignation.

Nami is captivated by this with Mr Shiomi providing her with much entertainment. One day however a Christian missionary woman Su Yong (Khobbi Kim) visits Mr Shiomi and asks if he’d like her to engage in bible reading with him. Suspicious at first, Mr Shiomi eventually agrees and a hesitant friendship begins between them with Mr Shiomi, becoming less bitter and finding a new appreciation for life.

Nami is not amused. Mr Shiomi’s new found zest means he’s no longer a “Solitarian” thanks to Su Yong’s meddling. What’s to be done about this state of affairs? One thing’s for sure, Nami will not have anyone messing with her precious hobby or her viewed from afar subjects…

Grateful Dead is well, pretty great actually with it starting off like a typically quirky Japanese comedy before slowly but inexorably getting darker & darker until veering into outright horror territory toward the third act. However, it’s really a (very effective) mixture of genres, combining comedy with drama and some social commentary to boot, before its demented conclusion.

A highly recommended little gem it should be sought out by any horror/genre fan or anyone who likes offbeat films in general.

4.37GB | 1h 38m | 1280×688 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E0F8A5E8394D96C/Greatful.Dead.2013.720p.BluRay.x264.(Eiji.Uchida).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Eiji Uchida – Gureitofuru deddo AKA Greatful dead (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Meet the Kyobashis, a model suburban Japanese family. Or are they? In director Toshiaki Toyoda’s skillful examination of contemporary domestic malaise, a mother’s plan for the perfect family initially seems to be working, but we soon learn that her perceived perfection is a lie that each family member chooses to believe at the expense of reality.

1.74GB | 1h 53m | 839×472 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1194FBC0993B84D/Toshiaki_Toyoda_-_(2005)_Hanging_Garden.mkv
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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (optional)

The post Toshiaki Toyoda – Kuuchuu Teien AKA Hanging Garden (2005) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Middle-aged Hideo lives alone with an inflatable doll he calls Nozomi. The doll is his closest companion. He dresses it up, talks to it over dinner, and has sexual intercourse with it. However, unbeknown to Hideo, Nozomi was created with a heart. After Hideo leaves for work each day, Nozomi dresses in her maid’s outfit and explores the world outside their apartment with a sense of child-like wonder. She encounters various city residents who metaphorically are as “empty inside” as she is. When Nozomi meets Junichi, who works at a local video store, she falls in love with him and gets a part-time job at the store. She learns about the world through the movies she watches with Junichi, but her happiness with him is interrupted by a dramatic turn of events. Director Koreeda has stated that the film is about the loneliness of urban life and the question of what it means to be human.

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English+Japanese (Sub+IDX)

The post Hirokazu Koreeda – Kûki ningyô aka Air Doll (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Recently widowed samurai Kanjūrō (Nomi Takaaki) puts down his sword and abandons his master, with nine-year-old daughter Tae (Kumada Sea) in tow. Now wanted for desertion, Kanjūrō is captured by a rival lord (Kunimura Jun), who makes an unusual offer. Kanjūrō will be released if he can bring a grin to the lord’s son (Shimizu Shūma), who hasn’t smiled since his mother’s death. If Kanjūrō can’t succeed within thirty days, he must commit seppuku. With the help of his jailers — and some harsh reinforcement from his daughter — the humorless Kanjūrō devises comically desperate (or desperately comic) methods to save his skin and crack the son’s stony exterior. Though more sentimental than writer/director Matsumoto Hitoshi’s previous films (Big Man Japan, Symbol), Scabbard Samurai is unmistakably in the same spirit, with deadpan absurdism and bizarre stunts recalling the variety shows that made his name.)

Saya-zamurai.AKA.Scabbard.Samurai.2010.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
Size: 	3.05 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x554 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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#1:  	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F4973861F907B7B/Saya-zamurai.AKA.Scabbard.Samurai.2010.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hitoshi Matsumoto – Saya zamurai aka Scabbard Samurai (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.