Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.

Yakuza's.Profile.1970.Keiichi.Ozawa.DVDRip.mkv

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Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Keiichi Ozawa – Yakuza no Yoko Kao AKA Yakuza’s Profile (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and a sharp departure from the Nikkatsu Action norm, Glass Johnny stars Shishido as a bike track tout whose mission in life is to make a winner out of a struggling rider (Hirata) and become rich as a result. Before he can achieve this, he becomes the unwilling savior of a pure-hearted, simple-minded prostitute (Ashikawa) on the run from her pimp.
Prior to Glass Johnny, Ashikawa’s portrayals of cute-but-spunky girls had won her a devoted male following-animator Hayao Miyazaki even later used her as a model for his anime heroines. In this film, however, she moves brazenly from childhood to womanhood, while following Giulietta Masina’s journey in La Strada from victimhood to transcendence.

	
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The post Koreyoshi Kurahara – Garasu no Jonî: Yajû no yô ni miete aka Glass Johnny: Looks Like a Beast (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this fifth episode of the “Wataridori” series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.

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The post Buichi Saitô – Daisogen no wataridori AKA The Rambler Rides Again (1960) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Nonaka Lock, who undertakes work for a huge fee, travels to Mexico to fulfill a promise he made to Pedro, who died in an accident in Mexico after his land was stolen and he was framed as a murderer. There, he is rescued by Miyako when he is being pickpocketed by a woman. Miyako says she has just arrived from Yokohama in search of her missing brother.

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Language(s):Japanese, Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Koreyoshi Kurahara – Mekishiko mushuku AKA Mexico Wanderer (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Born in Tokyo in 1923, Seijun Suzuki directed 42 films for Nikkatsu, averaging on about four a year, and he claims he could edit each in about a day. Despite being lauded by the critics for his unique visual style, as far as the general public and Nikkatsu president Kyusaku Hori were concerned by the mid-60s Suzuki’s approach was beginning to spin rapidly out of control.

In the latter part of the 60s, Nikkatsu’s undemanding youth-oriented potboilers were beginning to lose the company serious money. A scapegoat was needed, so after the colourful excesses of Tokyo Drifter (Tokyo Nagaremono, 1966) Suzuki was told to turn in something a little more conventional or else. Branded to Kill was the result and it was sufficiently whacked out for Nikkatsu to give him his marching orders (“They told me my films didn’t make money and they didn’t make sense, so they fired me”, Suzuki opines in the interview accompanying this DVD release.)

The story concerns Hanada, or Number 3 Killer, played by the hamster-faced Jo Shishido (who had collagen implants in his cheeks to enhance his box-office appeal), a terse yakuza assassin in shades who is turned on by the smell of boiling rice. Approached by the beautiful but deadly Misako (Mari Annu) to undertake a ‘kill or be killed’ contract, he soon finds himself entranced by this mysterious femme fatale with a bedroom full of entomological specimens and an impaled starling dangling from the rear view mirror of her car. When he botches up the job due to an untimely butterfly landing on his gun-sites, his own girlfriend is secretly hired by the mob boss to kill him. From then on it’s bullet-riddled mayhem all the way until a head-to-head finale set in a deserted boxing gymnasium with the anonymous Number 1.

With its grounding in a sumptuous pop art aesthetic, the laid-back and jazzy musical counterpoint, the stunning monochrome scope cinematography and masterful use of light and shadow, Branded Kill is pretty hard to resist. However, to be honest it isn’t the most accessible of films and for those unfamiliar with Suzuki’s unorthodox and seemingly disjointed style it will probably take a couple of viewings before the bare bones of the plot begin to emerge. Suzuki’s credo that editing is merely the manipulation of space and time makes for some strikingly staged action sequences (one of them later lifted and paraphrased in Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai), though does have a tendency to obscure some of the finer details of the narrative.

Still, Branded To Kill’s appeal hardly rests in its plotting, so whilst decidedly unconventional in terms of exposition and characterisation, the story is best viewed as little more than a backbone for the director to weave his magic. It is the impromptu breaks from script formula, the bizarre mish-mash of styles, and the inventive re-framing of conventional shots (according to Suzuki shots were more or less improvised during shooting due to logistical reasons such as time and budget) that are always the most refreshing aspects of a Suzuki movie. Put quite simply, Branded to Kill is a bloody marvellous looking film and arguably the pinnacle of the director’s strikingly eclectic style.

After his dismissal Suzuki successfully sued Nikkatsu. However, the fracas was enough to muddy his reputation and kept him out of work until he returned with the self-financed disaster Tales of Sorrow and Sadness (Hishu Monogatari, 1977), detailing the highs and lows of a professional female golfer. Fortunately he found his feet again with Zigeunerweisen (Tsuigoineru Waizen, 1980) and successfully resurrected his career, carrying it on into the 90s with Yumeji (1991). In 2001 Suzuki delivered a belated sequel to Branded To Kill, without Jo Shishido, entitled Pistol Opera.

Koroshi.No.Rakuin.1967.720p.BluRay.FLAC.1.0.x264-DON.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Greek, Serbian

The post Seijun Suzuki – Koroshi no rakuin AKA Branded to Kill (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In the wake of The Bomb, ex-soldier Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) joins a Hiroshima yakuza gang — the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia — and then the shootings, slashings, betrayals, and scheming begin. Premiering a year after The Godfather, The Yakuza Papers also broke box-office records and spawned sequels, but, in contrast, took a ruthlessly de-romanticized view of the underworld. Based on an actual gang boss’ memoirs, The Yakuza Papers plunges the audience into a gritty, brutal, violent newsreel of a three-decade struggle for power of Shakespearean complexity, a nihilistic epic unlike any other.

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https://nitro.download/view/696B1B99E68E6A0/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Kanketsu.hen.AKA.Battles.Without.Honour.and.Humanity.Final.Episode.1974.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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

The post Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen AKA The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Late Nikkatsu Action – One of Hasebe’s last for the studio before the Roman Porno films genre became their mainstay.

Nikkatsu Classic Library wrote:
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City.” With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo take notice and want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Jo Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the “change” he sees.

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https://nitro.download/view/FBBC8A7B576F6AE/Blood_for_Blood_(1971)_Hasebe_-CG.mkv
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Subtitles:English

The post Yasuharu Hasebe – Ryuketsu No Koso AKA Blood For Blood / Bloody Feud (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.