This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series has the hero talked into escorting a precious religious artifact to Kyoto, Japan. A sect of Christian swordsmen are lying in wait to steal the statuette. What does it take for the reluctant man to accept the assignment? Why, enjoying the company of a virgin daughter of course.

Nemuri.Kyoshiro.09.1967.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
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https://nitro.download/view/5766F0F16751F35/Nemuri.Kyoshiro.09.1967.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kazuo Ikehiro – Nemuri Kyôshirô burai-hikae: Mashô no hada AKA Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: A Trail of Traps (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A samurai kills a Blind Man who tells him to “repay his debts.” Because of the samurai’s actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.

From Aurum Encylopedia of Horror, p.197 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!):
This harrowingly gruesome and macabre story derived from Rensaburo Shibata’s tale, recounts a family curse in all senses of the term. The plot proceeds in three phases: a poor samurai (Matsuhiro Tomura) kills a blind moneylender (Nobuo Kaneko) and sets the curse in motion as the victim’s ghost drives the killer insane, causing him to murder his wife and them commit suicide. The blind man’s daughter, also the lover of one of Tomura’s sons (Masakazu Tamura) is accidentally killed, and, crazed with grief, the boy takes to a life of crime. The third movement is inaugurated by the samurai’s second son (Yunusuke Kawazu). While courting a music teacher, played by Saeda Kawaguchi, he is seduced by the evil Hiroku Sakurai, who poisons her rival. As always in the Kaidan genre, this disfigures the victim, who is subsequently killed by her suitor before he flees with his femme fatale.

At the point, the story starts working up to its climax: the fleeing brother finds the severed head of his criminal sibling and is then haunted by the ghost of the woman he killed, which drives him to murder his lover. In addition, his mother reveals that his dead lover was also his half-sister. The family curse ends when he murders the old woman (his father’s lover) before committing suicide. Shibata’s original story combined motifs from various well-known ghost stories (including KYOREN NO ONNA SHISHO, 1962), but Hase’s frenetic direction gives this family romance of murder, mutilation, passion and incest a power all its own.

Curse Of The Blood 1968 720p HDTV AAC2.0 x264.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 28mn
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Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC

https://nitro.download/view/E006D62E2AF5145/Curse_Of_The_Blood_1968_720p_HDTV_AAC2.0_x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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The post Kazuo Hase – Kaidan zankoku monogatari AKA Cruel Ghost Legend (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

1.35GB | 1h 19mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1E915868363CBA9/Ueru.tamashii.1956.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv
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or
https://nitroflare.com/view/D59012A3B751F25/Ueru.tamashii.1956.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-SbR.part1.rar
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https://nitroflare.com/view/DC3E42B3DBEEF70/Ueru.tamashii.1956_ENG.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English, Turkish, Portuguese

The post Yûzô Kawashima – Ueru tamashii AKA Hungry Soul (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
In the wake of The Bomb, ex-soldier Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) joins a Hiroshima yakuza gang — the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia — and then the shootings, slashings, betrayals, and scheming begin. Premiering a year after The Godfather, The Yakuza Papers also broke box-office records and spawned sequels, but, in contrast, took a ruthlessly de-romanticized view of the underworld. Based on an actual gang boss’ memoirs, The Yakuza Papers plunges the audience into a gritty, brutal, violent newsreel of a three-decade struggle for power of Shakespearean complexity, a nihilistic epic unlike any other.

2.53GB | 1 h 37 min | 1024×426| mkv

https://nitro.download/view/696B1B99E68E6A0/Jingi.naki.tatakai.Kanketsu.hen.AKA.Battles.Without.Honour.and.Humanity.Final.Episode.1974.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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

The post Kinji Fukasaku – Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen AKA The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode (1974) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him unfulfilled. He next spends time with a young woman from his office, but finally decides he can make a difference through his job… After Watanabe’s death, co-workers at his funeral discuss his behavior over the last several months and debate why he suddenly became assertive in his job to promote a city park, and resolve to be more like Watanabe.

Ikiru.1952.BDRIP.BFI.4K.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 22 min
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https://nitro.download/view/CFEA1DA1B8CE188/Ikiru.1952.BDRIP.BFI.4K.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese, English
Subtitles:English

The post Akira Kurosawa – Ikiru (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight finds our favorite masseur and swordsman once again on the run. This time, he’s being pursued by a ruthless band of samurai who have been hired to kill him. Thinking they’ve got Zatoichi cornered, they instead kill a young woman, who is returning to her husband with her infant son. Ichi, feeling responsible for the woman’s death, resolves to deliver the child safely into the arms of its father.

Naturally, the samurai aren’t about to give up, and they continue to harass him. Complicating matters further, along the way, Ichi also saves the life of another young woman, who’s been scratching out a living has a petty thief. To pay back his kindness, she reluctantly agrees to accompany Ichi on his way to help him care for the child. But as they get closer to their destination, each of them becomes more and more attached to the baby, and starts to think of it as an opportunity to start over and lead a better life.

2.33GB | 1h 27mn | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/5E28910F6142BCC/Zatoichi.kessho-tabi.AKA.Fight.Zatoichi.Fight.1964.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Kenji Misumi – Zatôichi kesshô-tabi AKA Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
“8 Hours of Fear = 80 surprisingly entertaining minutes! This is the earliest Suzuki I’ve seen, before the man was even named “Seijun” (opening credits bill him by his birth name “Seitaro Suzuki”). A cast of diverse characters embark on a perilous bus journey (the railroad is out of commission, it seems) through known gangster territory. Think Stagecoach with yakuzas instead of attacking Apaches or Lifeboat with bumpy mountain roads in place of the high seas. Or, if you’re going to get all modern about it, maybe a slightly slower Speed (at 60mph).

Despite its age, this film is fast-paced and character rich, like a dress rehearsal for all the “types” to come in Suzuki’s later films. The passenger list on this bus to potential oblivion includes: The Student Bound to Honor, The Prostitute in Hiding, The Fussy Businessman, The Spoiled Actress, The War Veteran who’s also a Wife Murderer and, of course, The Yakuza who’s a low-down dirty yakuza. Along the way, we get crumbling old bridges, bear traps used to snare humans, bags of stolen money and a crying baby in mortal danger with a gun repeatedly placed to its temple. What’s not to love?

The dialogue is spirited and some of the interactions between passengers quite racy for its time. If this movie were made in America the same year rather than at the bottom of a double bill in Japan, I’m convinced it would be a classic playing every other month on TCM.” Cahiers Du Cinema

Eight Hours of Terror.1957.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 16 min
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https://nitro.download/view/005BBCCBBEE4E4F/Eight_Hours_of_Terror.1957.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian

The post Seijun Suzuki – Hachijikan no kyôfu AKA Eight Hours Of Terror (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.