A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she’s planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having “accidents,” and if he’s not careful, he might be next.

Kuroi.ie.AKA.The.Black.House.1999.1080p.BluRay.FLAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 58 min
Size: 	10.4 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1904x1024 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	12.0 Mb/s
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch FLAC @ 570 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/1D7DC3340FD24D3/Kuroi.ie.AKA.The.Black.House.1999.1080p.BluRay.FLAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Following the release of his Minbo No Onna — less a film than a textbook on how to extricate oneself from yakuza harassment — veteran director Juzo Itami was attacked and almost killed by the mob for his effort. In this crime-comedy, he voices his outrage at the attack, which he viewed as an attack on his right for self-expression. The film centers on Hiwako (played, as always, by Itami’s wife, Nobuko Miyamoto), a grand dame of the stage who witnesses a murder while exercising on a lonely country road. The victim turns out to be a lawyer who was snooping around in a shadowy cult clearly modeled on the subway-gassing sect Aum Shinrikyo. Hiwako manages to get a good look at the perpetrator’s face and identifies him as a cult member. Later, she volunteers to testify in court. Hiwako also makes the mistake of informing the media of her plans, which of course alerts the cult — making her a marked woman. Accordingly, a pair of cops are assigned to protect her: overly perky Chikamatsu (Takehiro Murata) who is a major fan of Hiwako’s, and the strong but silent Tachibana (Masahiko Nishimura), who is not. Considering the bodyguard duo as unwanted intrusion, Hiwako resumes her live as a spoiled diva and continues to see her secret lover (Masahiko Tsugawa). Then the cult starts to play hard ball; her secret liaison is suddenly splashed on every tabloid in the land, followed by threats on her life. Marutai No Onna proved to be the last film of Itami’s long and checkered career, he died of an apparent suicide in the winter of 1997.
— Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

2.63GB | 2h 11mn | 1024×556 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/85F275B752BB797/Marutai.no.onna.AKA.Woman.in.Witness.Protection.1997.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese (muxed)

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Quote:
Comedy is certainly not the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Japanese cinema. But a few more films like Koki Mitani’s hilarious screwball farce “Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald” could change all that.

This movie is ostensibly a goofy comedy about a live radio drama that goes haywire after the imperious diva playing the lead insists on certain last-minute changes. Her demands set in motion a desperate chain of events that transform a sudsy romantic drama set in a Japanese fishing village into a ludicrous action-adventure fantasy set in the United States.

“Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald” can be taken as pure, giddy fun in a farcical tradition that has all but disappeared from American movie comedy in the age of the salacious gross-out. But it can also be taken as a good-natured invitation to Japanese culture to lighten up. Its manic surface only partially conceals its satiric barbs.
As the broadcast skids out of control, the movie pokes gleeful fun at the Japanese insistence on order and good manners at all costs and on the rigidity of corporate politics and pecking orders. Finally the movie ridicules Japan’s envious fascination with the gaudy detritus of American popular culture.

Rajio.no.jikan.(Welcome.Back,Mr.Mcdonald).1997.DVD.DD5.1.x264-MKu.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 43mn
Size: 	2.32 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
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Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 696 Kbps
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#1:  	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps (Japanese)

https://nitro.download/view/B3CDF1121B1A628/Rajio.no.jikan.(Welcome.Back,Mr.Mcdonald).1997.DVD.DD5.1.x264-MKu.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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