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Hirotaka Tashiro’s remarkably assured first feature focuses on a long ignored problem: the plight of the foreign worker in Japan. In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home. She finally finds a job and a place to stay with a Chinese man who is sympathetic to her situation. He introduces her to two of his Japanese neighbors who, when they hear Fey’s life story, immediately decide to help her find her Japanese father whom she has never met. Befriended by some, cheated and abused by many others, she soon realizes the bitter truth that there is really no place for her in this society. Newcomer Ruby Moleno gives an outstanding performance in a taut, revealing work that carefully avoids easy answers to a complex social reality. [SFFS.org]

Swimming With Tears.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 43mn
Size: 	1.34 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x340 ~> 704x380
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Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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BPP: 	0.288
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/78368B6B4948E9D/Swimming_With_Tears.mkv

Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog, Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hirotaka Tashiro – Afureru atsui namida AKA Swimming With Tears (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

SHE’S A WOMAN WHO DOES NOT REST.
A story about a torera (a live sex performer) who finds herself trapped in an anomalous game of association between sex, life and death, and its political equivalent of sleaze, subservicence and power in drug-addled world. Every night, she sets off to join her fellow toreras for a midnight show of fun and kitschy live sex act. In one tuning point of her life, she bumps into a long-lost friend, Myrna, a former torera, who seems to have a lost grip on life. Curacha makes it her personal mission to save Myrna as she does some sou-searching herself. In the end, we see traces of hope glimmering somewhere, somehow, in a manner that escapes the restless Curacha

Curacha.Ang.Babaeng.Walang.Pahinga.1998.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 39mn
Size:	327 MiB
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Codec:	h264
Resolution:	782x486
Aspect ratio:	16:10
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	410 kb/s
Audio
Tagalog 2.0ch AAC LC SBR @ 48.0 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/CADAF8F342FB720/Curacha.Ang.Babaeng.Walang.Pahinga.1998.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG.mkv

https://ddownload.com/dqo8eyexde5q/Curacha.Ang.Babaeng.Walang.Pahinga.1998.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-RSG.mkv

Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog
Subtitles:None

The post Chito S. Roño – Curacha ang babaeng walang pahinga (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

One of seven new films in a series–called the “Asian Beat” series–which revolve around the exotic adventures of a young Japanese hero, Tokio.

	
Asian Beat - I Love Nippon (TENGAN Daisuke, 1991).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
Size: 	272 MiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	480x360 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	236 kb/s
BPP: 	0.046
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https://nitro.download/view/F7357AF1EADDC11/Asian_Beat_-_I_Love_Nippon_(TENGAN_Daisuke,_1991).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/8AD39D4881A318F/Asian_Beat_-_I_Love_Nippon_(TENGAN_Daisuke,_1991).srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Daisuke Tengan – Asian Beat: I Love Nippon (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In the daytime, Karen is an insurance saleswoman in Manila, but in the evening she works as an escort in a club. She is very successful in selling insurance to her escort clients. On the weekends she returns to her husband and daughter in the provinces, who are living amongst the volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo. She is forced to take stock of her life when Sonny, a rich car dealer, offers to set her up in an apartment.

1.71GB | 1h 49m | 704×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E971CF2C68266A0/Segurista.1996.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:English

The post Tikoy Aguiluz – Segurista AKA Dead Sure (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.