Made in 1936. The eldest son of Edo Kitamachi Magistrate Toyama Kinzaemon, Kinshiro, is the heir to the Toyama family, but after he thought that Shinnosuke, his stepmother, Fusae’s son, would succeed in his place, he left home, became acquainted with the yakuza and got into trouble. Even though his father, Kinzaemon, seemingly disregarded Kinshiro, he was concerned about him every day. His stepmother was also worried. One night, the couple go separately to find out about Kinshiro.

1936 Cherry Time in Edo - Ryohei Arai HDTV 1080i.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 21 min
Size: 	1.90 GiB
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Audio
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Directed by Arai Ryohei (荒井良平) even though IMDb says it was directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

https://nitro.download/view/58DAA7C572D289A/1936_Cherry_Time_in_Edo_-_Ryohei_Arai_HDTV_1080i.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3516F8055163ADD/1936_Cherry_Time_in_Edo_-_Ryohei_Arai_HDTV_1080i_v2.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese, English

The post Ryohei Arai – Hana no haru toyamazakura AKA Cherry Time in Edo (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The great Okawa Hashizo plays a double role in this thrilling tale of intrigue and corruption within the capital city of Edo. When Moriya Shuma, an injured Edo officer is rescued by a vassal whose appears to be his exact double, he swears to sweep out all the criminals from the city. Directed by one of Japan’s most revered filmmakers, Nakagawa Nobuo, this story is filled with twists and turns, and loaded with surprises. Plenty of realistic swordplay highlights this exciting motion picture.

1.25GB | 1h 29m | 694×354 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9451B572A5D86F9/The_Phantom_Goblin.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Nobuo Nakagawa – Maboroshi Tengu AKA The Phantom Goblin (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned, Hiken (Young Swordsman) stars Shogoro Ichikawa as Tenzen – a young swordsman who believes the ban is unfair. By contrast, his brother Chojuro (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a conformist, and keeps his opinions about the law to himself.

When Tenzen becomes possessed by his own evil sword style and is later banished, it falls to Chojuro to restore the family’s lost honor, and to challenge Tenzen to a death-duel!

1.66GB | 1h 47m | 850×378 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/242CC19D707C59D/The.Secret.Sword.1963.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Colourful, wildly stylised, immense captivating fable, including animation, kabuki and butoh and collapsing sets. About a soothsayer at court who was driven to insanity by the murder of his lover and will marry her likeness. And indeed, she’s a fox in human form!

MoMA wrote:
Uchida’s strangest and most stylized film is a visual feast, adapted by Yoshikata Yoda from a traditional puppet play. Dispensing with naturalism, Uchida uses expressionist sets and color schemes to convey the shifting states of mind of a protagonist driven mad by grief after his lover is killed. Some scenes are shot against theatrical backdrops inspired by kabuki theater and traditional dance; others unfold on elaborately colored sets reminiscent of traditional screen paintings. The Mad Fox’s audacious artifice makes Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) pale in comparison.

2.27GB | 1h 48m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C7EB00ACAF8D4C8/Koiya.koi.nasuna.koi.AKA.The.Mad.Fox.1962.576p.Bluray.AAC.1.0.x264-SaL.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Tomu Uchida – Koiya koi nasuna koi AKA The Mad Fox [+ commentary] (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Tomu Uchida’s A Bloody Spear at Mt. Fuji is the story of an unassuming samurai who is more interested in a person’s actions than his social standing. In spite of the rigid class divide that exists between himself and his servants he tends to treat them as his equals even when they themselves feel that they are inferior to him. The film features remarkable subplots that add scope and depth to the social criticism offered by the main plot. Among these is the story of a male orphan who idolizes the samurai’s spear bearer and a young woman who is sold into prostitution because her family is too poor to support her.

+Commentary by Jasper Sharp)

2.16GB | 1h 34m | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3BB1F225B56B32F/A_Bloody_Spear_on_Mount_Fuji_(1955)_–_Tomu_Uchida.mkv

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

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