The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

Kaerazaru hibi was nominated for the Award of the Japanese Academy in 1979 for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Director Toshiya Fujita won the Readers’ Choice Award given by Kinema Junpo in 1979 as Best Japanese Film Director for the film.

The Days of No Return 1978 NTSC DVD DD2.0 x264-RR.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 39 min
Size: 	1.41 GiB
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/FF8F6618150426A/The_Days_of_No_Return_1978_NTSC_DVD_DD2.0_x264-RR.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (srt.)

The post Toshiya Fujita – Kaerazaru hibi aka The Days of No Return (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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After the wartime government orders the disbanding of the Big Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.

The Last Game 1979 1080i HDTV AAC MPEG2 tattookiss-KG .mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 3 min
Size: 	12.3 GiB
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#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC

https://nitro.download/view/9525C2EC66C6023/The_Last_Game_1979_1080i_HDTV_AAC_MPEG2_tattookiss-KG_.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese

The post Kihachi Okamoto – Eireitachi no oenka: saigo no sôkeisen AKA The Last Game (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Very little information out there in English on this one, but it appears to be one of many filmatisations of Shiro Ozaki’s novel Jinsei Gekijo. Starstudded and directed in three segments by three directors. Seems to involve lots of yakuzas and politics. And sex (a golden shower!).

Theater.Of.Life.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 18 min
Size: 	2.26 GiB
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Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 950 kb/s
BPP: 	0.243
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#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/D5FCA4011038060/Theater.Of.Life.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3F782B128E58008/Theater.Of.Life.DVDRip.x264-KG.en.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Kinji Fukasaku & Sadao Nakajima & Jun’ya Satô – Jinsei gekijô AKA Theater Of Life (1983) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.

Kamu.onna.1988.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-CMEX.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
Size: 	7.24 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x1040 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	10 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.209
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/87976C930E49B0D/Kamu.onna.1988.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-CMEX.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Tatsumi Kumashiro – Kamu onna AKA Love Bites Back (1988) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Nami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.

Yoru Ga Mata Kuru.1994.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 48 min
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 181 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0CB4743CD52B58D/Yoru_Ga_Mata_Kuru.1994.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Chinese

The post Takashi Ishii – Yoru ga mata kuru AKA Alone in the Night (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This film was born of a theatrical production of Nastasya Filipovna, first staged in 1977 at the Stary Teatr in Cracow. I based my adaptation on the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoyevski’s The Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastasja.

For years I was tormented by apprehension, and later, by certainty that there exists some better solution for a stage version of The Idiot. Finally chance came to my aid. When in 1981 I visited Kyoto, I saw a performance of La Dame aux Camélias. In this way I met Tamasaburo Bando, one of the greatest Japanese performers of female roles.

Tamasaburo Bando is an unusual figure. He began his career at the age of six as a student of Kanya Morita in the Kabuki theatre. He was exceptionally quick in gaining the necessary skills to appear as onnagata – sometimes also called oyama – a performer of female roles. Today, Tamasaburo Bando is regarded as the most outstanding onnagata in Japanese theatre. The scale of his talent, however, goes far beyond the bounds of traditional Kabuki: he also plays roles belonging to classical European repertoire such as Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Medea, Juliet, and La Dame aux Camélias, which I saw during my stay in Kyoto. I had no difficulty to view him as my ideal Nastasya. Strangely, I also thought at the time that this young man would also be an excellent choice for Myshkin. Thus, the audience was able to witness the miraculous transformation of a man into a woman, and so experience the deep mysterious mental link between Myshkin and Nastasja.

The theatrical production of Nastasya was, in its way, an event, so it is not surprising that it met with such interest. Unfortunately, after several performances in Tokyo and Osaka, it had to close due to the actor’s other obligations. Then I had the idea to make it into a film, which would record our show and at the same time give us a chance to present it to a wider audience.

Tamasaburo played the film rich in the experience, gained from almost a hundred performances of Nastasja. In the presence of the camera, his acting became detached and exceptionally film-like – particularly in the interpretation of the character of Myshkin.

The female parts created by Tamasaburo Bando are especially dear to me because of the idealisation of women, also present in our Polish tradition. This is exactly how he views Nastasya, revealing everything about her, making her worthy of the love of both men (Myshkin and Rogozhin). What’s more, he has been able able to inspire admiration even for her faults. The creation of this amazing artist is not a female type, but rather an image of eternal femininity born of masculine admiration, never an act of imitation or mimicry. It is this creative form which is for us as Europeans the most striking feature of Japanese art.

Nastasya.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 41mn
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Bit rate: 	1 500 Kbps
BPP: 	0.194
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/FE2C773B533D644/Nastasya.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/89e0435fb7b3fa85f1e5615043fda76d/Nastasya.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Andrzej Wajda – Nastazja AKA Nastasya (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

ThemovieDB description:
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping as a shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later, Tamura finds a handgun from Yuko’s baggage and holds a suspicion ….

1.46GB | 1h 39m | 836×452 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/74E8C2DAA358750/Kuroi.Doresu.no.Onna.1987.DVDRip.x264-KG.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/B6EE818DC5287D7/Kuroi_doresu_no_onna_1987.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yôichi Sai – Kuroi doresu no onna AKA Woman In A Black Dress (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.