imdb Bandits on the Wind, Inagaki. This movie is beautiful, funny, heroic. It’s a shame it’s not better known. At one point the most immature and pathological bandit (in a bad bunch) is forced to pretend to be a prince. The timing that shows this Japanese’s inability to sit cross legged is hysterical. There’s a wonderful joke where a bandit weeps to recall how peasants were forced to build a defensive wall, and then slaughtered to keep it secret. “How did you escape?” another bandit wants to know. “Escape nothing: I was one of the guys doing the killing!” The martial arts triangle defense–two katana and a spear–is stellar. The bandits blend cooperation and chaos as it suits them; in the end their Bushido is heroic.

Hiroshi Inagaki - Bandits on the Wind (Yato kaze no naka o hashiru) 1961-1122.mp4

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#1:  	Japanese 2ch @ 126 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/ACEA7B4EF899203/Hiroshi_Inagaki_-_Bandits_on_the_Wind_(Yato_kaze_no_naka_o_hashiru)_1961-1122.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Horace H. for this copy

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Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by the always lovely Kumi Mizuno.

One of Okamoto’s trademarks is his recessive staging, i.e. the big foreground wide-angle look, the kind of wide-screen composition which is quite common in spaghetti westerns, particularly those of Sergio Leone’s (partly due to the technical problems of the Techniscope format, widely used in Italy in that period). We could notice this signature in Okamoto’s late 50s films already, that is, a few years earlier than Leone and other western directors.

Operation.Sewer.Rats.1962.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi

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XviD ISO MPEG-4
1:41:58 @ 23.976 fps
937 kbps 0.214 bpp
672 x 272 2.471 (42:17)
VBR MP3 Mono 80 kbps
[Average DRF/quantizer is 2.51]

https://nitro.download/view/B4923868D8CFCC5/Operation.Sewer.Rats.1962.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi

Language(s):Japanese and a bit Japanese Chinese
Subtitles:Japanese Hardsubs for the bit Japanese Chinese Only

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Synopsis:
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Shinjuku.yoidore.banchi.Hitokiri.tetsu.1977.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-Emmid.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9A161B1BD680D08/Shinjuku.yoidore.banchi.Hitokiri.tetsu.1977.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-Emmid.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/8D3EDA79B04DC42/Shinjuku.yoidore.banchi.Hitokiri.tetsu.1977.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-Emmid.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is a 1984 musical film directed by Shin Saito. The film originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some to be the best visual work from ‘Y.M.O.’

YMO.Propaganda.1984.DVDRip.x264.REPACK.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 22 min
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch FLAC @ 766 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/8B98EA3744C5E59/YMO.Propaganda.1984.DVDRip.x264.REPACK.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/02AD821A1D1CE09/YMO.Propaganda.1984.DVDRip.x264.srt

Language(s):English, Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story “Tazutazushi”. Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior’s daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei’s life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison – with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.

Bonds of Love 1969.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 38 min
Size: 	1.80 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
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Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 500 kb/s
BPP: 	0.394
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC (Stereo)

https://nitro.download/view/B632DFCF45CC863/Bonds_of_Love_1969.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/A82E1C2C66E28BC/Bonds.of.Love.1969.ENG.ohako.ass
https://nitro.download/view/AF68C7D04BE547E/Bonds.of.Love.1969.ENG.ohako.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (.srt, .ass)

The post Takashi Tsuboshima – Ai no kizuna AKA Bonds of Love (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
In 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflected in Gocho’s photographic images has become more profound over time since his death and has struck a chord in people’s hearts. While focusing on Gocho’s collection of photographs Self and Others, the film also visits places associated with him, creating a collage with the manuscripts, letters, photographs and voice recordings remaining in an attempt to capture “one more gesture”—a theme pursued by Gocho through photographic expression. This film is neither a critical biography nor a monograph on the photographer. Rather, we are offered a new perception. As if mesmerized, the photographs Gocho left behind captivate us in their gaze.

980MB | 53 min 27 s | 710×532 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/023EEF7407A7717/Self.and.Others.2001.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Satō Makoto discovered documentary film when he visited Minamata (well known as the former site of an environmental disaster) as a student, and worked on Katori Naotaka’s The Innocent Sea. While touring Japan with the film, he met people who lived by the polluted Agano River in Niigata and decided to make a film about them. Living there with seven crew members for three years, Living on the River Agano was completed in 1992 and showed people who live with the river and work in agriculture and fishing, quietly probing the cruelty of nature destroyed. Ten years later, and after attending several funerals of people who appeared in the first feature, the team returned to the area. The resulting film Memories of Agano is a ghostly poem on people, fields, stories, songs and buildings receding into absence, the power of images and the strength of sound to revive the past.

1.07GB | 55mn 48s | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6C229BB91F55D8C/Aga.no.kioku.AKA.Memories.of.Agano.2005.DVD.AC3.2.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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