The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.

This film was Japan’s submission to the 61st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.

	
Downtown Heroes 1988 NTSC DVD DD2.0 x264-RR.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 0 min
Size: 	2.68 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	716x464 ~> 858x464
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 799 kb/s
BPP: 	0.351
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/8866E8BCFA48FB0/Downtown_Heroes_1988_NTSC_DVD_DD2.0_x264-RR.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yôji Yamada – Dauntaun hirozu AKA Hope and Pain (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Yakuza in Yokohama. Shinkokai executive Kenji Shimada met Asako seven years ago when the group was just starting out. Kenji was a thug in the Kohoku group, but the group suddenly disbanded. Ninomiya, an executive, moved to the Kanto Rengo, and fellow executive Kusuhara took Kenji and Hideo with him to the Shinkokai. One day, Kenji forcefully raped Asako, a hostess at a pink salon, but fell in love with her angel-like kindness. Kenji and Hideo start playing catch bar “Kuroneko”, but Asako gets caught by the detective. Asako, who returned to “Kuroneko”, was defrauded of 200,000 yen by Yoko, her fellow pinsaro, and she was beaten by Kenji. Kenji worked hard to collect money for his older brother, Kusuhara. However, Kusuhara uses this money to lose at a gambling house in the Kanto Union and ends up owing Ninomiya 5 million yen. Kenji sells Asako to a soapland in order to make money. Kusuhara goes to return the money to Ninomiya, but is brutally killed. Kenji stabs Ninomiya to death on the train while they are on a family vacation. Kenji, who has been released from prison after completing a seven-year sentence, hears from Yoko about Asako’s whereabouts, but finds out that she was hooked up to a bad guy and was hooked on shabu, and is currently recuperating at a sanatorium. When Kenji visited Asako, he seemed to have faint memories of her coming back to him.

Firefly.Hotaru.Ver.Luisant.1989.DVDRip.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
Size: 	3.74 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x480 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	5 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.483
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3

https://nitro.download/view/DD3F1E886DA8181/Firefly.Hotaru.Ver.Luisant.1989.DVDRip.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/EE4BC3FE772E2A7/Firefly.Hotaru.Ver.Luisant.Trailer.DVDRip.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Many thanksto @Evan for this copy

The post Shunichi Kajima – Hotaru (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Hoshino (Toshiro Yanagiba) is the mob-connected owner of a ritzy Chinese restaurant. One evening he’s sitting down in a lavishly appointed private room to enjoy an elaborate multicourse dinner, when he gets a call from a crooked politician of his acquaintance. A long-meditated money-laundering deal is about to bear fruit and earn him a cool 5 billion yen. The gang boss who backed him on this deal will be pleased.

He is, understandably, in the mood for celebrating when an unexpected visitor (Izam) arrives — a tall, husky, mincing fellow in dreadlocks, with a gun. He is a hit man sent to whack Hoshino — but for what? The hit man neither explains nor kills; instead he sits down at the table and asks Hoshino when dinner is going to be served. Coolly, Hoshino calls in Chinese for the waitress, who enters, wearing a red, slit dress and an inscrutable expression, with the first course. The longest meal of Hoshino’s life has just begun.

Chinese.Dinner.2001.DVDRip.x264-WH.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 18mn
Size:	1.46 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	706x470 ~> 835x470
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
Bit rate:	2 440 kb/s
Audio
Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/07FA60EAD3909BB/Chinese.Dinner.2001.DVDRip.x264-WH.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yukihiko Tsutsumi – Chinese Dinner (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.