Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.

Crazed.Fruit.1956.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family’s gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings..

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Subtitles:English

The post Tomu Uchida – Jibun no ana no nakade AKA A Hole of My Own Making (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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。

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The post Kon Ichikawa – Seishun kaidan AKA Ghost Story of Youth (1955) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.

+commentary by Donald Richie.

3.26GB | 1h 25mn | 1436×1076 | mkv

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kô Nakahira – Kurutta kajitsu AKA Crazed Fruit (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years’ before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana’s friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?

Review:
Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema’s major hit makers. Top Nikkatsu stars Yujiro Ishihara and Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to go straight, but when the authorities come looking for their help the pair realize the past isn’t so easy to shake.

Rusty Knife is set in Udaka, a newly born post-war city that’s always corrupt to the core. It’s as harsh and stark as any film noir city you’ve ever visited on screen, and the outcomes are harsh too. Like all good noirs, there’s one man – in this case a perisistent district attorney – intent are restoring order to his own little corner of a chaotic universe. When he insists on dragging former thugs into his investigation of the local crime syndicate things go sideways for all involved. As Robert Mitchum said about his gallows in Out of the Past, “Build ’em high, baby.”

As a celebration of Nikkatsu, Rusty Knife could be the poster child for the studio’s effort in the late fifties. It’s jazzy, it’s cool, it’s gritty and it is straight-up film noir. It was also rewarded at the box office. For good reason, director Masuda went on to direct a fifty-two features for Nikkatsu in ten years, many of them box office hits. If you’re looking to see a different side of Japanese cinema, do not miss Rusty Knife.

— Brandy Dean (Pretty Clever Films)

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian (muxed)

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