Another sprawling Nakahira drama detailing the love life of several members of a middle class family.

Shiki No Aiyoku (1958).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 47mn
Size: 	1.62 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	768x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 895 Kbps
BPP: 	0.179
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/E34F2A0CD720812/Shiki_No_Aiyoku_(1958).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/8E04EFA9A107552/Shiki_No_Aiyoku_(1958).en.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kô Nakahira – Shiki no aiyoku AKA Four Seasons of Love (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Captain Inouye is a music lover and he taught his unit to sing. One of his soldiers, Mizushima, learned to play harp to accompany the chorus of his comrades, discovering a gift unknown to himself before war. The music will save the company when Japan surrenders but now the country and its soldiers has to split his spirit in two: either accept, either refuse… either live, either die… but the film finds even more subtle separations, as if receiving like the burman soil it begins and ends with all the scars and tugs of postwar Japan.

1.79GB | 1h 56m | 680×510 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6E72B69F3F1F61A/Biruma_no_tategoto__The_Burmese_harp__-_Kon_Ichikawa_(1956).mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/075ceab052e746107c340a11cd5f65a5/Biruma_no_tategoto_[The_Burmese_harp]_-_Kon_Ichikawa_(1956).mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years’ before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana’s friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?

Review:
Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema’s major hit makers. Top Nikkatsu stars Yujiro Ishihara and Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to go straight, but when the authorities come looking for their help the pair realize the past isn’t so easy to shake.

Rusty Knife is set in Udaka, a newly born post-war city that’s always corrupt to the core. It’s as harsh and stark as any film noir city you’ve ever visited on screen, and the outcomes are harsh too. Like all good noirs, there’s one man – in this case a perisistent district attorney – intent are restoring order to his own little corner of a chaotic universe. When he insists on dragging former thugs into his investigation of the local crime syndicate things go sideways for all involved. As Robert Mitchum said about his gallows in Out of the Past, “Build ’em high, baby.”

As a celebration of Nikkatsu, Rusty Knife could be the poster child for the studio’s effort in the late fifties. It’s jazzy, it’s cool, it’s gritty and it is straight-up film noir. It was also rewarded at the box office. For good reason, director Masuda went on to direct a fifty-two features for Nikkatsu in ten years, many of them box office hits. If you’re looking to see a different side of Japanese cinema, do not miss Rusty Knife.

— Brandy Dean (Pretty Clever Films)

http://nitroflare.com/view/263F5C833C39E93/Rusty_Knife_%281958%29_–_Toshio_Masuda.mkv

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

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