This is the first of three major film adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel from the 1940s, the second one being the 11959 version directed by Koji Shima, the third one being Kon Ichikawa’s The Makioa Sisters from 1983. Abe’s version stars Hideko Takamine, Hisako Yamane, Yukiko Todoroki and Ranko Hanai in the roles of the sisters. Yukiko Todoroki would also appear in Shima’s version of the film, here in the role of a different sister.
The novel (and the films) follow the lives of the wealthy Makioka family of Osaka from the autumn of 1936 to April 1941, focusing on the family’s attempts to find a husband for the third sister, Yukiko. It depicts the decline of the family’s upper-middle-class, suburban lifestyle as the specter of World War II and Allied Occupation hangs over the novel.

Yutaka Abe - Sasameyuki (1950).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/60A4F28C71CDBC8/Yutaka_Abe_-_Sasameyuki_(1950).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
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Many Thanks to @xrt for this copy

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FALLEN BLOSSOMS follows the inhabitants of a Kyoto geisha house as the civil war of the Meiji Restoration rages just outside their walls. Set completely inside the house, only female characters are seen on screen. AKA: FLOWERS HAVE FALLEN.

Tamizo Ishida - Fallen Blossoms [1938] [Remastered].mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/07E3E03ACAB002A/Tamizo_Ishida_-_Fallen_Blossoms__1938___Remastered_.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:english

Thnaks to @xrt for this rip.

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A drama film produced during WW2 about a japanese fighter squadron and their families.
Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto and co-written by Akira Kurosawa.

1.66GB | 1h 49m | 716×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CA41EAC95D521C6/Tsubasa.no.Gaika.1942.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3B6A70D437FACD4/Tsubasa.no.Gaika.1942.DVDRip.x264-KG_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows of women in a geisha house in Kyoto by recounting the relationships of its inhabitants.

Alexander Jacoby & Johan Nordström wrote:
Ishida’s original and brilliant film tells history as ‘her story’. Against the backdrop of a victory for the imperial forces in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Ishida recounts the relationships among the inhabitants of a Kyoto geisha house, producing what has been described by Noël Burch as “one of the most remarkable community portraits ever filmed”. The film is set completely inside the house, with only female characters ever seen on screen.

For Burch, “the exclusion from the scene of men, patrons or soldiers, is a meaningful corollary of the exclusion of Japanese women from the history of the country”. Ishida narrates his story using an imaginative cinematic style in which shots are almost never repeated. The narrative, Burch notes, evokes Chekhov, but he judges its “combination of a restricted, unified setting and continual renewal of the imagery” to be unparalleled in conventional narrative cinema.

1.18GB | 1h 14m | 694×520 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A7260F1211EA1BE/Hana_Chirinu_(1938).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/037D3BABEFFCFB6/Hana_Chirinu_(1938)_-_eng_02.srt
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/356b37c2f4d08/Hana_Chirinu_%281938%29.mkv
https://tezfiles.com/file/14639eaa0e27b/Hana_Chirinu_%281938%29_-_eng_02.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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