Synopsis
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position. Fearing Toyotomi’s blood descendants would end, he impregnates one Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi in hopes of continuing the bloodline.

Female.Ninja.Magic.576p.HDTV.x264-oo.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
Size: 	1.93 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x430 
Aspect ratio:  	2.39:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.284
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 141 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/A72E99F8ACAB5D6/Female.Ninja.Magic.576p.HDTV.x264-oo.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
Ostensibly Imamura’s first work in documentary features, A Man Vanishes is much more, heralding the future work of Kazuo Hara and Werner Herzog, amongst others, in the genre-defying mix of style and loose adherence to filmic “reality.” Imamura follows one case of a growing phenomenon of working Japanese men who, sent to other cities while their families are left behind, disappear completely. The film concerns Yoshie Hayakawa, whose fiancée vanishes from sight, leaving behind only shadowy evidence of his past, casting darkness over Hayakawa’s relationship with her sister, her fiancée’s family, and even the investigator, who himself may not be what he seems to be. An exceedingly radical film in scope, technique, and aesthetic, Imamura’s film is in many ways a distillation of his many themes and obsessions as well as an implosion of them, casting off into the various orbits he would travel later.

Extras
* Subtitled trailer
* 9-minute interview with Shohei Imamura
* 230 pages booklet “5 Films of Imamura Shohei”

1.52GB | 02:09:32 | 640×480 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/545C5B739D58C97/A.Man.Vanishes.1967.DVDRip.XviD.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/76352C7093DC324/A.Man.Vanishes.1967.DVDRip.XviD.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Srt+Vobsub)

The post Shohei Imamura – Ningen Johatsu aka A Man Vanishes [+Extras] (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Imamura reveals remote and impoverished islands in the Philippines to be the home of rival factions of pirates in this absorbing investigation into a little-known way of life.

“In ballsy, proto-Nick Broomfield fashion, Shohei Imamura puts himself directly in the line of danger to film THE PIRATES OF BUBUAN, a startling documentary glimpse of shady activity on the Phillipine high seas in the early 1970s. As an unintended side effect of bringing a camera crew into relatively unknown territory, Imamura also captures the experiences of native islanders eking out their day-to-day lives on both the poverty line and the idyllic shoreline.” —The Cinefamily

615MB | 46mn 45s | 716×480 | mkv

http://nitroflare.com/view/99163572F1EFD27/The_Pirates_of_Bubuan_%281972%29_Imamura.mkv

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

The post Shôhei Imamura – Buban No Kaizoku AKA The Pirates of Bubuan (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Eight years into her marriage, Miyako Mizuki (Mariko Okada) looks happy on the outside, but in fact she is not satisfied with her husband, Yuzo (Shinsuke Ashida), who cares about nothing but his career. Miyako has been having an affair with a young interior designer named Kitano (Tamotsu Hayakawa), who in turn has a fiancée named Machie (Keiko Natsu). One night in a hotel, Miyako lets Kitano takes some nude photos of her. On her way back, she is followed by a stranger (Shigeru Tsuyuguchi), and loses her handbag with the film negatives inside while trying to escape. Later at home, Miyako receives a call from the stranger. He uses the negatives to threaten her to follow his instructions and take a train to the north. The stranger is named Ginpei. He was a teacher in a girls’ school, but was expelled because of a scandal with one of his students. As Miyako meets up with Ginpei, she develops a strange attraction towards him.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/E2C4554D5790414/Onna_no_mizuumi.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English, French sub/idx muxed

The post Yoshishige Yoshida – Onna no mizuumi aka Woman of the Lake (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.