Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death. Directed by Jun Ichikawa.

DVD Source: Rental, DVD5
DVD Format: NTSC
DVD Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0
Program(s): DVD Decrypter
Menus: Untouched
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: Untouched
Extras contain: none
DVD runtime(s): 01:55:02

https://nitro.download/view/1490FA8598302F2/Ryoma’s_Wife,_Her_Husband_and_Her_Lover.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Chinese

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As the great military commander Hideyoshi was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village. Years later, one of the survivors has hired a young but skilled assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission: to sneak into the most heavily guarded castle in Japan, and kill the supreme ruler of the country.

2.48GB | 2h 16m | 720×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/30B2B8CC7052C6D/Fukuro.No.Shiro.AKA.Owls.Castle.1999.480p.DVD.x264.AC3.5.1.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them. In his search he joins a notorious clan, known as the Shinsengumi where he does as much as possible to get money. Looked at as a money grubber,Yoshimura proves his strength physically and mentally by being loyal to his honor. During the dramatic period, with the rise of the Emperor and the fall of the Shogun. Yoshimura shows us the struggle of life in a personal way, by changing the lives of the people he meets and the way life is looked at.

3.96GB | 2 h 17 min | 1016×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/866C7E3771E33DA/Mibu.gishi.den.AKA.When.the.Last.Sword.Is.Drawn.2003.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles: English, Japanese (muxed)

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This Jissoji starring Chishu Ryu is the story of a Japanese man who went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now retired and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his grandchild who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead 4th son. Lot’s of conflicting feelings about him having stayed in America during the war. Have a box of tissues handy. This was a made for TV movie.

1.15GB | 1:36:22 | 696×476 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/F29A958EE989C8F/Nami_no_bon.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/11D35E51D899172/Nami_no_Bon.srt

LanguageJapanese
Subtitles:English

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A young Japanese film maker is in hospital in Tokyo. His estranged father tries to visit, but the son refuses to see him. So, as a gesture of reconciliation, the father decides to go to China to complete the filming of a Chinese opera, called “Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles,” which the son was working on but unable to finish.

1.25GB | 1h 48m | 854×462 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/007F6FF52EEC8B2/Riding_Alone_For_Thousand_of_Miles_NTSC_DVD_x264.mkv

Language:Mandarin,Japanese
Subtitles:English

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I gaze on the moon
As I tread the drear wild,
And feel that my mother
Now thinks of her child;
As she looks on that moon
From our own cottage door,
Thro’ the woodbine whose fragrance
Shall cheer me no more.
Home, home, sweet sweet home,
There’s no place like home,
There’s no place like home.
—”Home, Sweet Home”

Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄), a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, was famous for portraying older women. She played the Burmese obasan in both the b/w and this color version of Burmese Harp. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Imai’s Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Kihachi Okamoto’s Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo.
One of her memorable roles was that of the voice of Kanta’s grandmother in the 1988 Studio Ghibli movie My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro).
She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital at the age of 98.

“The Soil of Burma is Red”

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Set against the final days of World War II, The Burmese Harp portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred Japanese soldiers as they prepare to return to Japan. The film focuses on Shoji Yasui, a soldier known to his comrades for his harp playing, who fails to convince a resistant company to surrender and is presumed dead when a battle destroys their hillside encampment. To rejoin his fellow soldiers, Shoji steals the robes of a Buddhist monk and begins to make his way across the countryside. But along the way, he becomes fixated on the hundreds of abandoned, unburied war casualties and begins to assume the duties of his costume and tend to the bodies. Meanwhile, Shoji’s friends mount a search for him, eventually noticing the monk to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance.

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There are no subs but the story is virtually the same. If you are familiar w/ the 1956 version, you won’t find any trouble understanding this film.

https://nitro.download/view/6328169E014D89D/Burmese.Harp.1985.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles: No English subs, but it’s not hard to understand if u r familar w/ the original.

The post Kon Ichikawa – Biruma no tategoto aka The Burmese Harp (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Set in the 16th century, an ambitious young samurai is adopted into a noble household, thereby attaining the necessary status to marry the daughter of the castle warden. Plans for the marriage are jeopardized, however, when a beautiful young woman, claiming to have lost her memory, appears. The enamored samurai marries her instead, but lives in constant fear that she will recover her memory.

Fusa.1993.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 31mn
Size:	1.47 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	710x464 ~> 824x464
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	29.970 fps
Bit rate:	2 074 kb/s
Audio
Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/AD0A7BFEEB8AA4D/Fusa.1993.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese

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