The setting is postwar Japan in this standard melodrama from director Yoshishige Yoshida. Shinko (Mariko Okada) is a young teen living in Akitsu when she meets Shusaku (Hiroyuki Nagato). He is a student who comes to Akitsu just before the end of the war to try to regain his health, and Shinko helps take care of him. The couple fall in love, but when they both hear that Japan has surrendered, they attempt suicide together and fail. The two lovers separate as Shusaku leaves town in the aftermath of their failed attempt, then fate tragically intervenes nearly two decades later.

Akitsu.onsen.1962.720p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Persian

The post Yoshishige Yoshida – Akitsu onsen AKA Akitsu Springs (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

Across the Darkness (1959) DVDRIP x264 AC3 KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yasuzô Masumura – Yami o yokogire AKA Across Darkness (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki’s child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki’s son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her. Horrified they take the first plane to Kyoto. Meanwhile, she takes the son on boating, arranges an accident, and drowns him. It is close that she herself would also die.—Max S., Stockholm, Sweden

Utsukushisa.to.kanashimi.to.1965.1080p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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The post Masahiro Shinoda – Utsukushisa to kanashimi to AKA With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Director Mikio Naruse has admitted to going through a dark period as a younger man and his 1958 film Anzukko (the first he is credited with writing after 1950’s White Beast) seems, in part, his way of dealing with the tortures of his past.

Little.Peach.1958.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-ASO.mkv

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The post Mikio Naruse – Anzukko AKA Little Peach (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle’s house, meets two men when her father, a university professor, collapses. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but …

The Wind Blows Twice (1952) 1080p HDTV MPEG-2 AAC2.0-JPTV.club-mN.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Russian

The post Shirô Toyoda – Kaze futatabi AKA The Wind Blows Twice (1952) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu’s father’s restaurant.

Deep River Melody.1960.396p.U-NEXT.WEB-DL.AAC.H.264.mkv

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The post Sô Yamamura – Furyu fukagawata AKA Deep River Melody (1960) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Yôkihi is a panoramic period romance about the legendarily beautiful and graceful common-born woman loved by the last T’ang Emperor Xuan Zong. The pure love shared by the royal couple is offset by the political turmoil and corruption of the 8th century, as a dynasty breathes its last dying gasps.

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Yokihi was the first of Mizoguchi’s films to be made in colour. An opportunity afforded him by a tactical alliance between the studio he worked for and a Chinese company known as Shaw and sons, a forerunner of the famous Shaw brothers studio who would later go on to dominate Asian cinema. Seen as so ridiculous by Chinese cinemagoers of the period that it contributed to the collapse of the Shaw and sons studio. (…) Yokihi’ is the Japanese pronunciation of Yang Guifei, the name of a high-ranking imperial concubine at the court of the Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty. (…) The story of Yang Guifei is known to most Chinese people of reasonable education. Yang is referred to as one of the four great beauties of Chinese literature, putting her on a similar footing as Helen of Troy.

Yookihi (Princess Yang Kwei-Fei) - Kenji Mizoguchi (1955).mkv

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The post Kenji Mizoguchi – Yôkihi aka The Empress Yang Kwei Fei aka Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) first appeared on Cinema of the World.