In 18th century Edo, mother Okatsu presides over her family of 5 children, grown-up but living at home. As Okatsu manages the household finances and resolves minor quarrels, her family is given a daily sense of her patient, benevolent outlook.

Kah-chan 2001 1080p U-Next WEB-DL AAC H.264-JPTVclub.mkv

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A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one another.

Ai.futatabi.1971.AKA.To.Love.Again.REPACK.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-NTb.mkv

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A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one another.

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Katsumi is a university student who has no respect for his hardworking parents, his professors, or even his friends. He helps one friend obtain a loan to finance a dance, by humiliating his father at the bank where he works. He drugs and rapes Akiko, one of the girls in his class. She becomes infatuated with him, even though he remains aloof. He enjoys goading a rival gang in the pool hall. Finally, when facing the gang, he goes too far in trying to prove his courage. Written by Will Gilbert

Shokei.no.heya.1956.1080p.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a sanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa’s film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko (Chikage Awashima) and Kiyoha (Fujiko Yamamoto) fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle ot the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi (Ryuji Shinagawa), is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.

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PLOT: A young man struggles to come to terms with his true identity in a remote caste-based village in early 20th century Japan.

James Quandt wrote:
Set in 1903, during the late Meiji period, both novel and film depict a young teacher’s coming to terms with himself and society’s lingering feudal prejudice against his class of burakumin, then Japan’s minority group. But novel and film take strikingly different approaches to a topic still sensitive in the Japan of the 1960s. Toson Shimazaki’s 1906 novel Hakai was a pioneering piece of social realism tackling the thorny issue of the burakumin, the descendants of feudal era ‘untouchables’ who remained on the very lowest rung of the Japanese caste system, subject to virulent prejudice and virtual apartheid. The protagonist, Raizo Ichikawa, refuses to accept his lot in life, and, bound by his father’s dying wish that he conceal his lowly beginnings, takes a job as a teacher in a regular school. Still, the example of a famous burakumin writer and activist makes him consider that his people’s lot will not be improved by such subterfuge, and he becomes consumed by a desire to confess his true identity.

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青春とは、怪談である！芦川いづみの記念すべき「日活入社第一回作品」。獅子文六の評判小説を才匠市川崑が描く青春波乱のメロドラマ。バレリーナの千春と、徹底的な合理主義者で幼馴染の慎一。いずれは結婚を考えている二人の前に、船越トミという女が現われた。

Seishun.kaidan.1955.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-thr.mkv

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