Quote:
Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumnal bus ride from a hot spring town through a mountain pass. When the jaunty bus unceremoniously breaks down, a bittersweet sadness overcomes the passengers as unexpected reunions take place, but nothing can be what it was before the war.

Asu wa nipponbare 1948 HDTV 1080i AAC MPEG2 tattookiss-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 4 min
Size: 	3.64 GiB
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Hiroshi Shimizu – Asu wa nipponbare (1948) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing. He learns he is dying of cancer and wants to find some meaning in his life. He finds himself unable to talk with his family, and spends a night on the town with a novelist, but that leaves him unfulfilled. He next spends time with a young woman from his office, but finally decides he can make a difference through his job… After Watanabe’s death, co-workers at his funeral discuss his behavior over the last several months and debate why he suddenly became assertive in his job to promote a city park, and resolve to be more like Watanabe.

Ikiru.1952.BDRIP.BFI.4K.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 22 min
Size: 	3.80 GiB
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Language(s):Japanese, English
Subtitles:English

The post Akira Kurosawa – Ikiru (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
Based on an Ibuse Masuji short story, this delightful escapist drama is set at a hot spring resort providing sanctuary to people of vastly different backgrounds and personalities bounded by one thing: their common desire to not leave. The resort’s patrons include a Tokyo woman (Tanaka Kinuyo) with a mysterious past who develops a brief relationship with a wounded soldier (Ryu Chishu). A comedic piece filmed and set during wartime Japan, Kanzashi makes a statement with its lightness.

1GB | 1h 33mn | 664×498 | mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/64D8B91B0454D89/Hiroshi_Shimizu_-_%281941%29_Ornamental_Hairpin.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hiroshi Shimizu – Kanzashi aka Ornamental Hairpin (1941) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
From acquarello at Strictly Film School Blog: Hiroshi Shimizu’s government-pressured, militarism-era film A Star Athlete is a breezy, refreshingly lighthearted, and subtly subversive slice-of-life comedy that centers on an all-day student march in formation and armed combat drills through the rural countryside for military training exercises. Shimizu demonstrates his deceptively facile adeptness and virtuoso camerawork through a series of extraordinarily choreographed plan sequence shots: a track-and-field race around the campus track between the school’s start athlete Seki (Shuji Sano) and his constantly spurring – and sparring – team mate (Chishu Ryu); an extended dolly sequence of the students’ march as bemused villagers and flirtatious, love-struck young women alternately respectfully step aside, playfully trail, obliviously obstruct, and amorously chase the dashing students in uniform; a mock battlefield charge assault through muddy fields as a guilt-ridden motley crew of travelers on the road scramble to flee from the students in a mistaken belief of being chased in retribution for their petty transgressions during their brief stay in the village.

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English idx/sub

The post Hiroshi Shimizu – Hanagata senshu aka A Star Athlete (1937) first appeared on Cinema of the World.