Masahiko Yoshimatsu works as an assistant professor of cultural anthropology. Although he acts the serious scholar at the university, his room at home has been decorated with countless photos of high school students in their sailor uniforms taken on the streets. One day, at the local train station, a girl caught Yoshimatsu’s eye. The sweet aroma of her beautiful black hair dazzled his thoughts. “That’s the girl!”, he thought. “This is the Venus I’ve been looking for!” He started tailing the girl…

Lusty Discipline in Uniform.1982.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Japanese, Chinese

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Tokyo housewife Yasuko Honda (Keiko Takahashi, the director’s wife) has a workaholic husband named Saturo (Shirô Shimomoto) who has been called away for out-of-town duty for a few days, so she is home alone with her elementary-school–age son Takuto (Takuto Yonezu). Already fed up with the frequent intrusions of door-to-door salesmen, because of whom she keeps her door locked and latched, she is highly frustrated when salesman Yamakawa (Daijirô Tsutsumi) slips his hand through her chained door to offer a brochure. She slams the door on his hand, instantly making an enemy of the man, who becomes bent on revenge.

From that simple set-up, Banmei Takahashi — who cowrote the screenplay with Ataru Oikawa — delivers a master class in suspense, as Yamakawa begins a mission of payback that grows increasingly deadly. One scene that is an early-on example of the rising tension of the film begins with Takuto witnessing the front door handle quietly moving up and down after Yasuko asks him to fetch the newspaper from the mail slot. This situation builds into a tug-of-war power display over the newspaper between Yasuko and Yamakawa.

Banmei Takahashi does a marvelous job with framing. A beautifully shot chase scene within the Honda’s apartment is shot from overhead, which simultaneously plays with viewers’ willing suspension of disbelief while heightening the tension as we watch the action unfold without a ceiling but with door and wall frames exposed to us. Plenty of the red stuff is on display, along with a sudden shot that — by my estimation — needed to be filmed in black-and-white at the time because of the gore on display. Cinematographer Yasushi Sasakibara does a brilliant job of capturing those scenes and others, including bringing viewers uncomfortably close to the proceedings in some instances.

An added element of fun is seeing the technology that was cutting-edge in 1988 but is charmingly quaint viewed with 2023 eyes. One such piece of equipment is a rather sizable tabletop television remote control that I had never seen before but that may have been popular in Japan back in the day.

Doa AKA Door - 1988 - Banmei Takahashi.mkv

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A young housewife is not having a good day. Her husband is never home, the rent is late, her kid has caught the flu, and now – someone’s at her door. It’s a salesman, trying to pawn off some stupid thing or other. There’s no time to deal with it. Just tell him to go to hell, to peddle his goods someplace else. And then, when he doesn’t listen, she slams the door in his face. Or more accurately, on his hand. And this guy is pissed. The psycho salesman decides to teach her a lesson. He starts making phone threats. Soon the sick bastard has mustered enough guts to break into her apartment. He savagely torments mommy and child until the woman finally turns the tables… -Thomas Weisser, “Japanese Cinema: Essential Handbook”

740MB | 1h 34m | 656×384 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DA7CAF7C6472E87/Door_-CG.mkv

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Midnight Eye review:
Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.

As Serpent’s Path opens we see two men, named Nijima (Kurosawa regular Sho Aikawa) and Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa), drive their car to an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. Out of the trunk they drag a man, who they take with them into the building and chain to a wall. Miyashita is out for revenge against the killers of his eight-year old daughter. Nijima, a schoolteacher by trade, is helping him, though exactly why and how these two men decided to team up remains unclear. They proceed to subtly torment their victim, a low-level yakuza, into a confession. Miyashita, himself a former yakuza, is grief stricken and about to lose his sanity altogether. He laments over a perpetually looping extract of home video footage of his daughter, which is played on a tv set in front of their captive. Nijima on the other hand is calm and collected, his detached air of professionalism keeping Miyashita’s smouldering rage at bay.

But the confession they hope for doesn’t come. Instead they get the name of another possible culprit who ends up in the same situation. He in turn gives them the name of another and pretty soon the two avengers find themselves in more trouble than they bargained for and nowhere nearer the identity of the actual murderer.

1.16GB | 1h 25mn | 832×468 | mkv

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Language(s)Japanese
Subtitles:English

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