Yoshiaki Masaki left his family for a career as designer in Tokyo. After his father’s death he quits job and girlfriend and returns in the small town to take over the family’s weaving mill. However his mother has already sold it – against his will. Stuck in the provinces, he seeks to establish a new company against heavy competition and with none of his relatives believing in him.

Uchu.no.hosoku.aka.Universal.Laws.1990.Kazuyuki.Izutsu.DVDRip.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 56mn
Size:	6.79 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	720x480
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	8 149 kb/s
Audio
Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/6AF834CB3AA7643/Uchu.no.hosoku.aka.Universal.Laws.1990.Kazuyuki.Izutsu.DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles.None

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.

Za.Chugaku.kyoshi.AKA.The.Games.Teachers.Play.1992.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 48mn
Size:	1.97 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	704x360 ~> 704x405
Aspect ratio:	1.738
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	2 208 kb/s
Audio
Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0C385ABE81B1DFD/Za.Chugaku.kyoshi.AKA.The.Games.Teachers.Play.1992.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hideyuki Hirayama – Za Chugaku kyoshi AKA The Games Teachers Play (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife’s closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.

1.67GB | 1 h 36 min | 853×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A09334B26EE1670/Warau.kaeru.AKA.The.Laughing.Frog.2002.DVDRip.x264.AC3-TM.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Continuing the Setouchi trilogy — which began with 1984’s MacArthur’s Children — this film looks at Japan just after World War II. The film opens with documentary footage of the 1995 Hanshin earthquake that flattened Kobe. The devastation reminds an elderly Keita Onda of the ruined landscape of Kobe just after the Allied bombing raids, which he witnessed from his home on nearby Awajishima Island. Cut to 1945, when Keita’s father, Kokichi (Kyozo Nagatsuka), receives the ashes of his eldest son who died on the battlefield. A rigid traditionalist, Kokichi decides to follow custom and return the ashes to his son’s birthplace in Kyushu. He hires out a car — a lavish expense that has the neighbors’ tongues wagging about a possible mass suicide. Instead, the family — consisting of the father, the mother Fuji (played by Shinoda’s wife, Shima Iwashita), Keita (Hideyuki Kasahara), daughter Hideko (Sayuri Kawachi), and teenaged son Koji (Jun Toba) — end up on a ferry bound for the south of Japan. Koji and his father are locked in a battle of wills. While dad preaches the value of tradition, Koji is much more interested in all things American. As the film progresses, Koji falls for a beautiful war-orphan named Yukiko (Hinano Yoshikawa). Also featured in this film are side stories about other passengers on the boat, including a sweet-talking black marketer who enlightens Kokichi on the joys of foreign liquor, a drug-addled soldier who falls in love with an impoverished woman about to turn tricks just to eat, and a dapper middle-aged man who jumps from the boat.

Quote:
starting with MacArthur’s Children, continuing with Childhood Days and Setouchi Moonlight Serenade, and culminating with Spy Sorge, Shinoda has increasingly turned to representing Japan’s wartime and immediate postwar experience. He has stated that Spy Sorge is the culmination of his ideas on this modern history, and that it will be his last film.

https://nitro.download/view/C7E27C3C2A27C26/Moonlight_Serenade.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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