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After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla’s possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who’s experiments result in a new mutation.

Gojira.vs.Biorante.1989.576p.BluRay.DDP4.0.x264-KG.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
Size: 	4.12 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 224 kb/s
BPP: 	0.238
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#1:  	Japanese 4ch E-AC-3 @ 768 kb/s (Original Dolby Stereo SR 4.0 Mix / Criterion USA UHD Blu-ray (2025))
#2:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s (Original Dolby Stereo SR Mix / Matrixed / Toho JPN UHD Blu-ray (2023))
#3:  	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s (5.1 Surround Remix / Toho JPN UHD Blu-ray (2023))
#4:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s (English Dub Dual Mono Mix / Echo Bridge Entertainment USA Blu-ray (2012))
#5:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by film historian Samm Deighan / Criterion USA UHD Blu-ray (2025))
#6:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by director Kazuki Omori and director of special effects Koichi Kawakita / Toho JPN UHD Blu-ray (2023))

https://nitro.download/view/39F0466C69A230C/Gojira.vs.Biorante.1989.576p.BluRay.DDP4.0.x264-KG.mkv

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

The post Kazuki Ohmori & Kôji Hashimoto & Kenjirô Ohmori – Gojira vs. Biorante AKA Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

For his latest film, Yoshida turned once more to melodrama as a means of sensitively engaging a difficult political issue, here the devastating legacy of the Hiroshima bombing. Mariko Okada stars, in her 154th film, as the eldest of three women trying to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together. A shared memory of the Hiroshima disaster draws the three generations together in a search back to the very site of the atomic trauma that unites them, with Hiroshima standing in as a figure for the limit point of the national imagination. Among Yoshida’s more classical films, Women in the Mirror is an assuredly stylish late work that carefully balances the three women’s stories as interlocking pieces of a complex psychological and historiographic puzzle.

Women.in.the.Mirror.2002.NTSC.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264-Q0S.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 9 min
Size: 	2.77 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	662x438 ~> 778x438
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 670 kb/s
BPP: 	0.384
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/8848928E9BC8E40/Women.in.the.Mirror.2002.NTSC.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264-Q0S.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French

The post Yoshishige Yoshida – Kagami no onnatachi AKA The Women in the Mirror (2002) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A somber, visually distilled, and deeply affecting portrait of the human toll and uncalculated tragedy of nuclear holocaust. In contrast to Shohei Imamura’s characteristically unrefined, primitivistic, and subversively bawdy cinema, the film is shot in high contrast black and white, creating a spare and tonally muted chronicle of dignity, survival, community, and human resilience. Through recurring literal and figurative images of regression, Imamura conveys a dual meaning, not only in the community’s noble attempt to rebuild Hiroshima and return to a semblance of normal life after the annihilating bombing but also in their collective gradual and systematic erasure from Japanese society through long-term effects of radiation sickness, infertility, cultural (and geographic) isolation, and social stigmatization.

The black rain in the title refers to the combination of ash, radioactive fallout, and water that fell one or two hours after the explosion. There have been other books and films about the dropping of the atomic bomb but none as unique and powerful as this one. Based on a novel by Masuji Ibuse who gathered information from interviews and the diaries of real-life bomb victims, the film depicts how an entire family is affected psychologically as well as physically by the bomb years after the original explosion. It is a horrifying vision but one that resonates with deep compassion for humanity.

Shohei Imamura - (1989) Black Rain.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 2 min
Size: 	2.54 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 585 kb/s
BPP: 	0.191
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s (Commentary by Jasper Sharp)

https://nitro.download/view/4AFF81998AD8D32/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/1a6f393afc2fbb2c8c2382a3e5dca4d8/Shohei_Imamura_-_(1989)_Black_Rain.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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