Synopsis:
In post-war Japan, people are working hard, but never so much more than the Yakuza. In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together… too bad her family has agreed to sell her to the highest bidding Yank in Japan.
While Kinta deals with his relationship with Haruko, his Yakuza clan is faced with a serious problem. Sakiyama, a Hawaii-born Japanese ex-naval officer, is providing the clan with the scraps they need to feed their pigs… but with strings and dollars attached. As the gang shells out more and more money, Sakiyama begins to move his alliances..and so do the members of the gang.
With the big boss in the hospital and the gang falling to pieces, only the pigs remain a constant occurrence in the life of Kinta. However, he doesn’t realize what he has until it’s too late.

Pigs and Battleships (1961) -- Shohei Imamura.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 47mn
Size: 	2.57 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x436 
Aspect ratio:  	2.35:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/1AA53F55AEF1875/Pigs_and_Battleships_(1961)_–_Shohei_Imamura.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/021F8D6D892CC1C/Pigs_and_Battleships_(1961)_–_Shohei_Imamura.FR.srt

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

The post Shohei Imamura – Buta to gunkan aka Pigs and Battleships aka The Flesh is Hot (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A rarely seen but important 1965 work by Heinosuke Gosho.

Some remarks by Arthur Nolletti, in his book The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through Tears:

Gosho’s most critically acclaimed film of the 1960s… Ranked seventh in Kinema Jumpo’s “Best Ten” poll, it is rightly considered to be one of his most powerful works. Set on the Shimokita Peninsula in the northernmost area of Honshu, the film tells a stark and harrowing tale. Oshima Ayako (Yoshimura Jitsuko), a young woman in her teens, lives in a small, impoverished fishing village. Her father, Matsukichi (Yoshida Yoshio), is too ill to work. As a result, her mother, Kikuno (Sugai Kin), sells her to a nearby brothel. There she quickly is stripped of her innocence and illusions…

Based on Ogawa Hajime’s award-winning novel, Reiba no onna (A Woman in a Sacred Place), the film is set in the Osorezan, a desolate and gloomy wilderness that is one of the three most sacred places in Japan. Local folklore has it that the Osorezan is the entrance to the world of the dead…

An Innocent Witch is Gosho’s darkest work. Its unique mood is evident from the opening scene…Gosho uses widescreen boldly.

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 38mn
Size: 	454 MiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	720x400 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	Variable
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https://nitro.download/view/0898EB43A2BC6F5/Osorezan.no.onna1965.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Heinosuke Gosho – Osorezan no onna AKA An Innocent Witch AKA Woman of Osore Mansion (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds the affair of her daughter-in-law, she pleads with Hachi to leave the young woman with her since she would not be able to kill the warriors without her help. However, Hachi ignores her request and continues to meet the young woman. When a samurai wearing a demon mask stumbles upon the older woman at her hut asking her to guide him out of the field, she lures him and he falls in the pit where she drops the bodies of her victims. She climbs down the hole to take his possessions and his mask, and she finds he is a disfigured man. The she uses the demon mask to haunt her daughter-in-law to keep her away from Hachi. However, when she decides to remove the mask, she has a surprise.

2.59GB | 1h 43mn | 1024×432 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/874B12F58967D75/Onibaba.AKA.Devil.Woman.1964.576p.BDRip.DUAL.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (muxed)

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