Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves. Will she be satisfied when she looks back for the last time? (summary from IMDB)

	
Sono hi no mae ni (Scenery to Remember).mkv

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The post Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Sono hi no mae ni AKA Scenery to Remember (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Part One of the Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy
Detective Maiku “Mike” Hama (Masatoshi Nagase; Mystery Train) navigates the Yokohama underworld with razor sharp threads, Belmondo cool and two-fisted street savvy. But when he comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter at a local mah-jongg parlor, the unflappable Hama has no idea what he’s in for. Though seemingly a luckless immigrant teetering on the threshold of Yokohama’s gutter, Hama’s Taiwanese client holds the secret to a ferocious gangland revenge triangle that soon has bullets, fists and severed fingers flying. Hama’s plunge into a dizzyingly escalating, brutally violent multiethnic gang war ultimately snares him in a web of revenge and deceit that spans continents and severs bloodlines.

Things aren’t what they seem in director Kaizo Hayashi’s glorious black and white widescreen valentine to French New Wave, American Film Noir and Japanese gangster flicks. Though a hard-boiled P.I. in the Spillane mold, Hama is really all heart and as likely to trip over his kid sister’s apron strings as trip up a two-faced gangster. Once he’s out of his movie theater office and on the case, Hama becomes a punching bag for everyone from corrupt cops to Yakuza thugs and even his detective mentor (Seijun Suzuki regular Shishido Jo).

Though The Most Terrible Time in my Life begins as a meticulous and sly parody of all things Noir, it is “at heart a work of infectious, unironic affection.” (The Village Voice). Hayashi’s shadowy retro gloss and self-made hero decorate a very real portrait of shifting allegiances in a modern Japan of ebbing compassion and a modern Asia with vanishing borders.

Waga jinsei saiaku no toki.1994.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kaizô Hayashi – Waga jinsei saiaku no toki AKA The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.

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Subtitles:English, Chinese

The post Kaizô Hayashi – Harukana jidai no kaidan o AKA The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Stairway to the Distant Past is the second film in the Mike Hama Private Investigator Trilogy. If you’ve seen part one The Most Terrible Time in My Life you must seek this out to find out how all your favourite characters are getting on. The films themes are age and family as Mikes mother “Dynamite Sexy Lilly” returns to Yokohama with her strip act many years after deserting Mike and his sister Akane. She reveals who Mikes father is and he sets out to find him. This films DoP deserves an Oscar as the picture is stunningly shot – it reminded me most of the Cinema du Look of Luc Besson and Leos Carax.

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The post Kaizo Hayashi – Harukana jidai no kaidan o AKA The Stairway To The Distant Past [+Extras] (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.