SYNOPSIS:
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori’s stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.

A.Killers.Key.1967.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264-Slope.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	2.23 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x424 
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 772 kb/s
BPP: 	0.362
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch AAC LC @ 161 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 86.7 kb/s (Commentary by critic and Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns)

https://nitro.download/view/0DB9791A655C99E/A.Killers.Key.1967.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264-Slope.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kazuo Mori – Aru koroshiya no kagi AKA A Killer’s Key (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Review from Takuma_964 @ Letterboxd wrote:
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss’s crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film’s remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn’t have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It’s bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I’ve seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!

Flower.Cards.Chivalry.AKA.Hana.fuda.tosei.1967.1080i.HDTV.MPEG2.AAC-JPTVclub.ts

General
Container:	MPEG-TS
Runtime:	1h 32mn
Size:	6.30 GiB
Video
Codec:	MPEG-2
Resolution:	1440x1080 ~> 1920x1080
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	29.970 fps
Bit rate:	
Audio
2.0ch AAC LC

https://nitro.download/view/FF0C43B5EBB1663/Flower.Cards.Chivalry.1967.1080i.HDTV.MPEG2.AAC-JPTVclub.ts

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles;Japanese

Many thanks to @xrt for this copy.

The post Masashige Narusawa – Hana fudâ tôsei AKA Flower Cards Chivalry (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Review from Takuma_964 @ Letterboxd wrote:
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss’s crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film’s remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn’t have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It’s bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I’ve seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!

Making.One's.Way.1967.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H264.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	3.05 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 ~> 1920x1080
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	59.940 fps
Bit rate: 	4 573 kb/s
BPP: 	0.049
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 141 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3681120BA47E969/Making.One’s.Way.1967.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese

The post Masashige Narusawa – Hana fudâ tôsei AKA Flower Cards Chivalry (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child’s ransom for them.

Quote:
You can watch this crime drama as a sort of Japanese DESPERATE HOURS. A just married ordinary man has his family held as hostage by three hoodlums who want him to do something for them. Get a big package of money from his boss, and not a Yakuza. This is not a yakuza movie, folks, but a true suspense film, a bit far from what Kinji Fukasaku used to show us. A tale told with a terrific nick of time pace, with splendid editing and simple filming skills. The main lead character, the poor man who is lost in the city because he knows that he must obey to what the gangsters ordered him to do, this man’s play is so convincing. I was not lucky enough to see it with subtitles, and I am sure I unfortunately missed a lot. But I followed the basic scheme anyway. I would have imagined Koji Tsuruta as the husband’s character. A golden gem that deserves to be seen at all costs. Beware the terrific jazzy score which enhances the atmosphere of this awesome movie. I love crime films from Japan, and this one doesn’t look like a feature from the rising sun country.

Odoshi.1966.576p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-KG.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 23 min
Size: 	2.58 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x436 
Aspect ratio:  	2.35:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	4 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.374
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch FLAC @ 196 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Japanese film expert Tom Mes)

https://nitro.download/view/034881732A7A2C8/Odoshi.1966.576p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kinji Fukasaku – Odoshi AKA The Threat (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

An innocent man gets killed for the debt accumulated by his gambler son. This sets Okatsu, a master with the sword and an adopted daughter of the victim, on a path of revenge.

+Commentary by Japanese Film expert Chris D.

1.35GB | 1h 28m | 720×360 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9B19EBB3EABA0CA/Quick-draw.Okatsu.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB-KG.mkv
or
https://rapidgator.net/file/45592d3ec6a894107aae21b784357fc6/Quick-draw.Okatsu.1969.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB-KG.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Nobuo Nakagawa – Yôen dokufu-den: Hitokiri Okatsu AKA Quick-draw Okatsu (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.

2.61GB | 1h 56mn | 764×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DE4EC739D17BD17/The.Strangling.1979.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kaneto Shindô – Kôsatsu AKA The Strangling (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.

701MB | 44m 41s | 706×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/60273E70548CC95/The.Claws.of.the.Divine.Beast.1980.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Seijun Suzuki – Chin Shun-shin no “Shinju no tsume” AKA Chin Shun-shin’s “The Claws of the Divine Beast” (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.