Orin (Shima Iwashita) is a blind woman in the early 20th century who as a young girl became a goze, or itinerant entertainer, one of the few options available to women like her in Japan at the time (one of the others was to be a prostitute). Orin’s life is largely miserable, her misery the result of traditionalist attitudes, but she never grasps that her society is punishing her merely for the twin crimes of being a woman and disabled.

Orin is exiled from her troupe for moral lapses, and wanders the road on her own until she bands together with a deserter from a war Japan is fighting in Siberia (Yoshio Harada). The pair forge a curiously celibate partnership as they tour the countryside trying to keep out of the way of the various parties wanting to do them harm…

Ed Howard on Only the Cinema wrote:
This is a complex and powerful film, stunning in its steady accumulation of imagery and the tragic commentary of its narrative. Shinoda handles this potentially didactic material with remarkable delicacy, never allowing it to become a heavy-handed “message” film. Its messages are always contained organically by the story, and by the character of Orin, who’s played with wonderful range and quiet intensity by Iwashita (Shinoda’s wife, incidentally). Her performance encompasses strength, despair, sensuality, loneliness, and mystery, and she’s a wonderfully sensitive actress for depicting the emotional subtleties of this tale…This is a truly masterful film, filled with multiple layers and multiple meanings; its placid surface is deceiving.

Hanare.goze.Orin.AKA.Ballad.of.Orin.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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The post Masahiro Shinoda – Hanare goze Orin AKA Ballad of Orin (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The adventures of a ronin, a samurai without a feudal lord, trying to achieve safety in a neighbouring domain.

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The post Seiichirô Uchikawa – Dojo yaburi AKA Dojo Challengers 1 – Samurai from Nowhere (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

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The post Masahiro Shinoda – Buraikan AKA The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan AKA Outlaws (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi’s only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody’s, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act…
He’s always blowing his own horn and whenever that backfires, Yasukichi disappears.”

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The post Yôji Yamada – Iikagen baka AKA The Irresponsible Fool (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Gennosuke, a clan retainer, kills one of the clan ministers as part of a plot to achieve reform. He is pursued by his former comrades, each hoping to complete the vendetta put on Gennosuke by the clan. With the help of a master swordsman, Yamane, Gennosuke has a chance at survival.

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The post Hideo Gosha – Kedamono no ken AKA Sword of the Beast (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A young woman fends off a series of aggressive marriage proposals from a man who committed atrocities during World War II.

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Using a sort of reverse aesthetic structure to that of Otto Preminger’s Bonjour Tristesse, prolific and wildly diverse Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita opens his 1963 film A Legend or Was It? in the present, in spectacular color, within an almost archetypically idyll mountain village. He sets us amongst farmers who are pointedly kind, generous, and compassionate towards their neighbors. One man stops what he’s doing to mourn another’s dead horse; one man comments that the weather is too hot, to which his friend replies that they should be thankful, for they’d been fearing a cold front; two women tease each other kindly; a group helps pull a truck out of a rut. This is the absolute ideal of communal living. And then the narration informs us that things weren’t always this way, that less than twenty years ago, a “nightmare” had taken place, one that the farmers have tried desperately to put behind them. – from CriterionCast.

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The post Keisuke Kinoshita – Shito no densetsu AKA A Legend or Was It? (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

The.Donkey.Comes.on.a.Tank.1964.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.x264-EC.mkv

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The post Yôji Yamada – Baka ga tanku de yatte kuru AKA The Donkey Comes on a Tank (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.