Many films have drawn from classic Japanese theatrical forms, but none with such shocking cinematic effect as director Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide. In this striking adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play (featuring the music of famed composer Toru Takemitsu), a paper merchant sacrifices family, fortune, and ultimately life for his erotic obsession with a prostitute.

Double.Suicide.1969.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
Size: 	2.33 GiB
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Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
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https://nitro.download/view/91E7DA563790CFD/Double.Suicide.1969.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Playing on the legend of ghosts returning in the form of cats to seek vengeance for their deaths, Kuroneko [Black Cat from the Grove] tells the tale of a mother and daughter, raped and killed by marauding samurai, and their supernatural revenge.

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Kuroneko (“A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove”) is a 1968 black-and-white Japanese horror film, directed by Kaneto Shindo, and an adaptation of a supernatural folktale. Set during a civil war in Japan’s Heian period, the spirits of a woman and her daughter-in-law seek revenge after losing their lives to a brutal incident.

Criterion wrote:
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. From Kaneto Shindo, director of the terror classic Onibaba, Kuroneko (Black Cat) is a spectacularly eerie twilight tale with a shocking feminist angle, evoked through ghostly special effects and exquisite cinematography.

1.57GB | 1h 39m | 854×364 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C512436D18A48F1/Kuroneko.1968.480p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Ogin-sama (1978) Synopsis:
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin’s father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord’s plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.

Ogin, a very beautiful young woman, comes to the attention of Hideyoshi, the unifier of 16th century Japan. Her love for another causes her to reject him and precipitates tragedy.

1.37GB | 2h 33m | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/186F58FE3A59CF5/Love_and_Faith_(1978)_–_Kei_Kumai.avi

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

The post Kei Kumai – Ogin-sama AKA Love and Faith (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.