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A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.

Disobedience 1958 HDTV 1080i AAC MPEG2.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/9B6BC3C1B63EA4D/Disobedience_1958_HDTV_1080i_AAC_MPEG2.mkv
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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Yasuzo Masumura – Oyafukô dôri AKA Disobedience (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.

Yasuzo Masumura - Disobedience [1958].mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 19 min
Size: 	5.75 GiB
Video
Codec: 	MPEG-2
Resolution: 	1440x1080
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
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https://nitro.download/view/BDBC5E91B4BA9DD/Yasuzo_Masumura_-_Disobedience__1958_.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0B1E6D11860AFB6/Yasuzo_Masumura_-_Disobedience__1958_.eng.srt
https://nitro.download/view/D46BDD5797E5080/Yasuzo_Masumura_-_Disobedience__1958_.jpn.srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese

Thank to @xrt for this copy

The post Yasuzô Masumura – Oyafukô dôri AKA Disobedience (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A handsome, suave Toshiro Mifune lights up the screen as painter Ichiro, whose circumstantial meeting with a famous singer (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) is twisted by the tabloid press into a torrid affair. Ichiro files a lawsuit against the seedy gossip magazine, but his lawyer, Hiruta (Kurosawa stalwart Takashi Shimura), is playing both sides. A portrait of cultural moral decline, Scandal is also a compelling courtroom drama and a moving tale of human redemption.

Scandal.1950.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 45 min
Size: 	1.61 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/855CD376F16435C/Scandal.1950.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Akira Kurosawa – Shûbun AKA Scandal (1950) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

This well-paced, effective drama by director Ko Nakahira eloquently decries the foibles of adultery by looking at a worst possible scenario. Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor and because of the age difference as well as several other factors, she is bored with the marriage and falls for one of his students, Yuichiro (Seiji Miyaguchi). The two manage to sneak off for stolen moments together and on one of those occasions in the park, they both witness a murder. Shocked by what they saw, the student insists that they immediately go to the police to testify against the killer. But this is Japan, after all, and the adulterous wife knows that losing face by losing her marriage over her infidelity is much worse than the need to identify a killer. Unfortunately for him, the student never quite sees it her way.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

997MB | 1h 17mn | 716×352 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/226971F1A05936A/Mikkai_-_The_Assignation_(1959)-KG.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6972D2535D53B1C/The_Assignation.ass

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kô Nakahira – Mikkai AKA The Assignation (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Nick Wrigley, Masters of Cinema wrote:
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother’s despair becomes interminable.

Kinoshita is widely regarded as having more breadth as a director than any other in Japan. Just comparing this film with the other Panorama Kinoshita DVD release TWENTY-FOUR EYES (made the following year in 1954) is quite astonishing. Every film for him – 42 in 23 years – was a chance to experiment. He pushed long takes to the limit with deep focus long shots; he tried fast cutting action; he approached *all* genres and was wildly successful at almost everything he tried his hand at, yet he remained modestly unimpressed with his jack-of-all-trades approach describing it as “half-baked”. Masaki Kobayashi (a pupil of Kinoshita) believed that Kinoshita’s genius lay precisely in his wide-ranging breadth and fearlessness. Indeed, according to Audie Bock’s marvellous book “JAPANESE FILM DIRECTORS” (from which the DVD text extras liberally quote) Kinoshita’s films were more liked in Japan and more successful than both Kurosawa and Mizoguchi at the time of release.

Within 15 minutes it becomes apparent that this is a major film by a major filmmaker. The way the film unfolds, interspersed with genuine newsreel footage to underline the poverty and atmosphere of postwar Japan, is tremendously effective and as brilliantly fresh today as I expect it was when it was made. Throughout the film, the mother (Yuko Mochizuki) occasionally has flashbacks which are presented without sound. This stark, simple device – one which is rarely used in sound cinema – concentrates all the viewer’s attention on the flashbacks’ significance and reinforces her feelings in a particularly unique way. I don’t want to give much away about the plot – suffice to say I was glued to this throughout. [Lovely to see Ozu regular Keiji Sada in a small part as a down-on-his-luck guitarist (Sada unfortunately died in a car accident in 1964 aged 38)]. Rarely written about, this film is astonishing, and deserves a place in every cineaste’s collection.

1.31GB | 1s 51m | 640×480 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/534C40A34D7AA2C/A_Japanese_Tragedy_(1953).mkv
or
https://nitro.download/view/E4CF2F62C7FBD1B/A_Japanese_Tragedy_(1953).part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/CCF81AAE35FAEE4/A_Japanese_Tragedy_(1953).part2.rar

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English,German

The post Keisuke Kinoshita – Nihon no higeki AKA A Japanese Tragedy (1953) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

https://nitro.download/view/CAF1599B6032686/Fireworks_Over_the_Sea_(1951)_Kinoshita.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Keisuke Kinoshita – Umi no hanabi AKA Fireworks Over the Sea (1951) first appeared on Cinema of the World.