After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

Wandafuru.raifu.1998.REPACK.1080p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-EA.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 59 min
Size: 	18.2 GiB
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#2:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 64.0 kb/s (Criterion Commentary with Linda C. Ehrlich)
#3:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC SBR @ 64.0 kb/s (BFi Commentary with Tara Judah)

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hirokazu Koreeda – Wandâfuru raifu AKA After Life (1998) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Following up on his acclaimed debut feature, Kichiku Dai Enkai — an intense portrait of a band of 1970s radicals who descend into morass of fratricidal blood lust — Kazuyoshi Kumakiri shifts gears completely by offering this understated romantic drama. Ichio (Takeshi Kitano regular Susumu Terajima) runs a rundown eatery on a Hokkaido highway. One day, a couple gets into a spat resulting in the guy — an overly tanned self-satisfied clod — hopping in his red sports car and driving off without her. The woman, Taeko (Rinko Kikuchi), returns to order a meal. When she tries to dash without paying, Ichio nabs her but lets her off with a warning. Ichio soon finds himself similarly stranded when his horseracing-mad father — and owner of the restaurant — swipes Ichio’s car for a crazed gambling road trip with his buddies. Later that night while camping out, Taeko inadvertently burns down one of the restaurant’s sheds. This time around, Ichio puts Taeko to work. Soon, in spite of themselves, a relationship is born.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Sora no ana.avi

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Runtime: 	2h 7mn
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kazuyoshi Kumakiri – Sora no ana AKA Hole in the Sky (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot
Rantaro was born into a low class ninja family. His parents hope he can one day become an elite ninja to make his family proud. Rantaro, bearing his parents’ expectations, enters the Ninja Academy. At the academy, he becomes friends with Shinbe (Futa Kimura), the son of a wealthy merchant family and Kirimaru (Roi Hayashi ), who lost his father in the war. The students at the Ninja Academy are called Nintama – which means future ninjas. Rantaro has a fun time at school, but Rantaro, Shinbe and Kirimaru have difficulties with their studies.

One day, a killer appears in the house of Yukitaka Saito (Takeshi Kaga) and his son, 4th grader at the Ninja Academy, Takamura (Takuya Mizoguchi). Although Yukitaka Saito now runs a popular store, Yukitaka and Takamura were once members of the Usetake ninjas. Now, the Usetake ninjas are aiming to kill them both. Can the students at the Ninja Academy save them?

Film Festivals
2011 (10th) New York Asian Film Festival / 2011 (5th) JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema – July 1-14, 2011 *World Premiere
2011 (15th) Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival – July 14-24, 2011 – Family Fanta *Asian Premiere
2011 (15th) Fantasia Film Festival – July 14-August 7, 2011 *Canadian Premiere
2011 (44th) Sitges Film Festival – October 6th-16th, 2011 – Midnight X-Treme
2011 (31st) Hawaii International Film Festival – October 13-23, 2011 – Spotlight on Japan *Hawaii Premiere
2011 (12th) San Diego Asian Film Festival – October 20 – 28, 2011 – Asia Pop!
2012 (15th) Shanghai International Film Festival – June 16-24, 2012 – Global Village: Japan Film Week

5.84GB | 1h 39m | 1280×536 | mkv

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Subtitles:English

The post Takashi Miike – Nintama Rantarô AKA Ninja Kids!!! (2011) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Every Monday morning, a team of advisors welcome in a facility a group of people that has just died with the mission of helping each one of them to select their best memory that will last for the eternity in the first three days. On Thursday, filmmakers begin to recreate the selected memory, and in the end of the week they screen it in a movie theater and he or she moves to Heaven.

2.20GB | 1h 58m | 956×576 | mkv

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hirokazu Koreeda – Wandâfuru raifu aka After Life (1998) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
With its focus on the emotional aftermath of a religious cult’s terrorist attack on Tokyo, “Distance” was always going to invite comparisons with the Aum cult’s nerve gas attack on the city’s subway system in 1995.

Yet, rather than simply recreating that tragedy, “Distance” takes us into a far more complex, and decidedly more unsettling, drama about loss and bereavement.Three years after the fictional Ark of Truth group has contaminated Tokyo’s water supply with a genetically-engineered virus, leaving 128 people dead and 8,000 injured, four of the dead cult members’ relatives meet to pay their respects to their loved ones at the lake where their ashes were scattered.

Forced to spend the night in the forest after their car is stolen, the foursome end up staying with the group’s only surviving member in their old headquarters.Despite providing plenty of flashbacks to the events that led up to the fatal day, writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda never explains their motivation. Proving more interested in the reactions of the cult members’ relatives, this muted drama builds into a brooding study of their feelings of loss, responsibility, and incomprehension.

By using lots of handheld camerawork and deliberately eschewing the use of any musical score, “Distance” creates the kind of unsettling atmosphere that could have come straight out of a horror film… except there’s no monster, nothing supernatural, and no real demons.

It’s creepy, inspired film-making, demonstrating that Japanese cinema’s current interest in the horrific stretches far beyond shockfests like “Ring”, “Battle Royale”, and “Audition”.

Much like 2001’s “Eureka”, this impressionistic film knows that real horror is to be found in recognizing the gulf of incomprehension that lies between one’s self and others.

3.67GB | 2 h 12 min | 996×576 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Hirokazu Koreeda – Distance (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A massacre initiated by the followers of an apocalyptic religious sect, the Ark of Truth, leaves more than a hundred people dead – including the self-appointed executioners, slain by fellow cult members.

Three years pass. On the anniversary of the slaughter, four friends who lost loved ones in the tragedy seek solace by journeying to the secluded lake where it all began. They encounter a man who was with the executioners until the very moment the killing began, and their pilgrimage takes a strange, unexpected turn.

1.94GB | 2h 12mn | 853×480 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx, sub, srt)

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