In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son—until her long-lost husband returns.

1.16GB | 1h 04mn | 702×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0A33CF7A3D4DC5A/Every-Night.Dreams.1933.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese Intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post Mikio Naruse – Yogoto no yume AKA Every-Night Dreams (1933) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Shiro Toyada is known for his literary adaptations and this is an early adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi’s work, the second after Sotoji Kimura’s A Wanderer’s Notebook from three years ealier. Like Toyoda’s later 50s masterpieces it features strong minded woman and weak, feckless men.

Crybaby Apprentice tells of four sisters, the eldest, the widowed Sadako, has a failed businessman as a lover and two children, eleven year old Keikichi and his younger sister. The boy’s sullen demeanour gets on “uncle’s” nerves and after moving in to save money he threatens to move out again. During the course of the film Keikichi is passed from one sister to the next, unwanted either as a nuisance or through poverty.

Hiroko, the second sister is married to a failed writer Kanzo, unable to find a publisher for his “A Life with Scrofula”. After receiving the child, she orders Kanzo to palm the boy off onto youngest sister Renko who lives out in the suburbs with a struggling painter. Her plan comes to grief when crafty Renko cadges money off him to pay the electricity arrears and he trails off with the boy again in tow. Pawning a kimono to bury his sorrows in drink, he loses the boy, who is looked after for the night by a shakuhachi player, who teaches the crybaby to sing in order to overcome his tears.

The only stable sister is Sugako, a single comapany woman on a steady salary. After doing the rounds Keikichi ends up back with his non-too-excited mother.

Made in 1938, the year after the formation of the nationalstic Great Japan Youth Party, modeled on Hitler Youth and as The National Mobilization Law came into effect, following the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It seems to be a time of gas and electric outages. Renko wishes there could be a six month blackout, to cover the shame of her house’s enforced darkness with unpayable bills due.

375MB | 1h 20m | 720×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B531CAA46F7BF0A/1938_Crybaby_Apprentice_-_Shiro_Toyoda.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/13EE57941C083F7/1938_Crybaby_Apprentice_-_Shiro_Toyoda_-_eng.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada’s. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.

1.30GB | 1h 11m | 778×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/81B01B781C07130/What_Did_the_Lady_Forget_(1937)_–_Yasujiro_Ozu.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Muxed)

The post Yasujirô Ozu – Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka AKA What Did the Lady Forget? (1937) first appeared on Cinema of the World.