A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

Snow Falling on the sea (cold hearted sea) 1984-480p.mp4

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https://nitro.download/view/D1AE80B84C6DA3C/Snow_Falling_on_the_sea_(cold_hearted_sea)_1984-480p.mp4

Language(s):Japanese
SubtitlesNone

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Shin’ichi Nakada – Umi ni furu yuki AKA The Cold-Hearted Sea (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Summary:
From Samuel Sloan@IMDB:
The summer of 1936. Shirou was on the way to Paris as the honeymoon with Madoka. He could marry her on one condition: he gave up pursuing a career as jazz musician. But he planned to stay in Shanghai to enjoy the jazz life. When Madoka found out about it, they were already in trouble which made impossible to get out of Shanghai. They began working in a dance hall, enjoying jazz and freedom. But the war was coming near… (The term ‘bansu king’ in the title derived from ‘advance king’, which means a person who always gets advance of his/her payment.)

Awards:
Nominated – 1985 – Award of the Japanese Academy
Best Actress – Keiko Matsuzaka
Best Art Direction -Kyohei Morita & Yutaka Yokoyama
Best Director – Kinji Fukasaku
Best Music Score – Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Best Sound – Kazuhisa Takahashi
Best Supporting Actor – Ryûdô Uzaki
Best Supporting Actress – Etsuko Shihomi

Won – 1985 – Mainichi Film Concours
Best Sound Recording – Kazuhisa Takahashi

Won – 1985 – Yokohama Film Festival Prize
Best Supporting Actress – Etsuko Shihomi

	
Kinji Fukasaku - Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)-KG.avi

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Runtime: 	2h 0mn
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#1:  	2.0ch MP3 @ 160 Kbps (Shanghai Rhapsody T80 3_1ch 448Kbps DELAY 0ms)

https://nitro.download/view/7B86C4EA6B8381F/Kinji_Fukasaku_-_Shanghai_Rhapsody_(1984)-KG.avi
https://nitro.download/view/C4D98CB4310F1CF/Kinji_Fukasaku_-_Shanghai_Rhapsody_(1984)-KG.en.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kinji Fukasaku – Shanhai bansukingu AKA Shanghai Rhapsody (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Keiko, a high school girl from private Yotsuba Gakuen. It may not be her own responsibility that the 17-year-old girl, who is about to enter college, is suddenly out of the way. Poor couples, uncomfortable homes, teachers of the highest grade, high school life that seems to be breathless. One day, Keiko, who had a head-on conflict with her teacher, began to go to snacks and discos with the invitation of a delinquent group, and eventually fell off the road to runaway, drinking, marijuana, dating with gangsters, prostitution, and drugs. To go–.

誠 Makoto Naito, who is a scriptwriter and director, tracks all cases of delinquent girls and shoots all locations to get closer to the emotions of teens. In addition to impressing the realism on the screen, the girl follows the process of delinquency fall that one girl followed with a cold feeling that is ruthless, and sometimes a strong shocking property.

In the cast, Aiko Morishita is fascinated by the role of Keiko, a girl, and a unique performance team such as Yoichi Miura, Morio Kazama, Tadashi Naruse, Kenji Imai, Yasushi Tonoyama is firmly set aside.

The.Fall.of.Teenager.1979.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-ARiN.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 19mn
Size:	4.82 GiB
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Codec:	h264
Resolution:	1920x800
Aspect ratio:	2.40:1
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Bit rate:	8 477 Kbps
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2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/BD937660CB4279F/The.Fall.of.Teenager.1979.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-ARiN.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Makoto Naitô – Jûdai: Keiko no baai a.k.a The Fall of Teenager (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Three centuries ago, a precious sword has been stolen by Kazamatsuri — the sword, which historic and symbolic value is priceless for the clan (Shogun Tokugawa donated it to clan 80 years before that, at the same time that he established them as the local rulers). Lord’s counselor’s young son Heishiro goes to retrieve the sword himself to protect the clan from the shame or possible demise. He is accompanied with two friends, Shintaro and Tadasuke, and followed by the ninjas of the clan. After Kazamatsuri wounds Heishiro and kills one of his friends, the young aristocrat still wants revenge more than sword itself, but meanwhile have to recover from his wounds, in the small forest house of a lonely samurai and his daughter. At the same time, Kamazatsuri stays in nearby town in the entertainment center run by Okatsu and falls into her. The older samurai tries to dissuade Heishiro from fighting with Kamazatsuri, but is himself gradually drawn into the conflict.

Charming, funky, homage to old-school samurai films – from the director of RED SHADOW

Impressive for its wealth of memorable characters, Samurai Fiction is an ideal companion to Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi remake, with its fresh and humorous approach. While it’s essentially a traditional tale of samurai honour, SF appeals with its progressive ideals, modern soundtrack, and young cast.

This film shows the director’s enthusiasm for the samurai movie genre. He based his Stereo Future (2001) around the making of a fictional samurai movie. In the same year, he made the big budget, techno-scored, remake of Red Shadow (or Akakage), which is in the same vein of comedy, action and drama – highly recommended.

Story-wise, SF tells of a headstrong but inexperienced samurai, Heishiro, trying to retrieve his clans’ ceremonial sword from a renegade swordsman, Kazamatsuri. When Heishiro is injured in a duel, Hanbei, a local retired swordsman, tries to persuade him to take a different approach from revenge.

While the story is essentially a drama, the cast is made up of expert comedians who make the most of their characters. Heishiro is a fairly good swordsman, but completely inexperienced with women. His long-suffering father, trying to cover up the sword’s disappearence, relies on an ageing ninja bodyguard, who refuses to use doors through force of habit (the wobbly ninja is a gag that the director will use again in Red Shadow). Cocky renegade Kazamatsuri disrespects one gang of attacking samurai turning his back on them and taking a leak, a long leak.

Heishiro is impressively played by Mitsuru Fukikoshi, who later played other samurai roles in Red Shadow, and the deadly serious Twilight Samurai. He also played the geeky boyfriend in the superb kaiju movie Gamera 2 – Attack of Legion.

The baddie, Kazamatsuri, is famously played by Tomoyasu Hotei, who also composed the soundtrack. Later, the storming track “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” would make his music internationally famous when it was used in Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol 1. He briefly reprised his samurai character in Red Shadow.

Morio Kazama deserves a special mention as the level-headed Hanbei, and also Tamaki Ogawa as his radiantly cute daughter.

As a homage to old samurai films, SF stays mostly in black and white, but the little flashes of colour gives away the fact that this must have been shot in colour, then desaturated. This means that some scenes lack the contrast of actual black-and-white film stock. Also, the glimpses of colour make you wonder what the film could have looked like.

Samurai.Fiction.1998.NTSC.x264-toho.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 51mn
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Resolution:	660x452
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
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Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/A0AF77CFC0DDCE9/Samurai.Fiction-toho-DVDRip.x264.AAC.SRT.Rus.Jpn.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles.English, Bulgarian, Russian

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Hiroyuki Nakano – SF: Episode One AKA Samurai Fiction (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet), is ushered into a lonely woman’s house one rainy night. Her husband is at the front in the war with Russia and, as our hero will soon discover, she’s wearing a chastitity belt…

	
Hihon.sode.to.sode.AKA.Secret.Book.Sleeve.and.Sleeve.1974.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 17 min
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FD2CC254007EC31/Hihon.sode.to.sode.AKA.Secret.Book.Sleeve.and.Sleeve.1974.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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

The post Akira Katô – Hihon: sode to sode AKA Secret Book: Sleeve and Sleeve (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.

1.82GB | 1h 53m | 716×462 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D4CB325538B4D12/Isan_Sozoku_AKA_Estate_Inheritance-1990-Yasuo_Furuhata.mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/C61A809E4E14BB1/Isan_Sozoku_AKA_Estate_Inheritance-1990-Yasuo_Furuhata.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/8D29FFDFEE587FF/Isan_Sozoku_AKA_Estate_Inheritance-1990-Yasuo_Furuhata.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yasuo Furuhata – Isan sôzoku AKA Estate Inheritance (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Kamata kôshinkyoku (1982)
Quote:
The English title Fall Guy is fitting – this is a film about a stuntman who takes several plunges for his movie star friend – but there’s a clever touch of subversion in the less obvious Japanese title. Kamata Koshin-Kyoku refers to Shochiku studio’s theme song. But this film about the production of a samurai epic on the Toei studio lot in Kyoto is hardly a fawning tribute to the world of cinema. It’s a film by Kinji Fukasaku. Like the director’s masterpiece, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Fall Guy exposes the injustices visited on honest, hard-working men serving corrupt and undeserving bosses; all he has done is change the setting. In the place of low-ranking yakuza are stuntmen, the foot soldiers of the entertainment industry. In the place of Japan’s criminal underground is a movie set.

1.54GB | 1h 47m | 839×454 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/FB14909B7697164/Fall.Guy.1982.DVDRip.x264-SMz.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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