A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him.

Onibi.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/22363DE03706D09/Onibi.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi’s pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.

Rosuto.kuraimu.Senko.2010.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-LA.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 57mn
Size:	11.4 GiB
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Codec:	h264
Resolution:	1920x1080
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Japanese 5.1ch E-AC-3 @ 640 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/6576B51C06473D1/Rosuto.kuraimu.Senko.2010.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-LA.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

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letterboxd wrote:
The story of Tamikawa, a professionally and artistically burned out singer, who embarks on a search for a director named Goda. During the journey, the man not only experiences a lot of adventures, but also tries to find himself and answer the question whether he still sees his career in show business.

You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
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https://nitro.download/view/B5D576F32F022D2/You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.x264.AAC.2.0.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
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https://nitro.download/view/B247E2974BC67D7/You.Gotta.Chance.1985.Kazuki.Omori.BDRip.x264.AAC.2.0.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Evan for these copies.

The post Kazuki Ohmori – You Gotta Chance (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Orin (Shima Iwashita) is a blind woman in the early 20th century who as a young girl became a goze, or itinerant entertainer, one of the few options available to women like her in Japan at the time (one of the others was to be a prostitute). Orin’s life is largely miserable, her misery the result of traditionalist attitudes, but she never grasps that her society is punishing her merely for the twin crimes of being a woman and disabled.

Orin is exiled from her troupe for moral lapses, and wanders the road on her own until she bands together with a deserter from a war Japan is fighting in Siberia (Yoshio Harada). The pair forge a curiously celibate partnership as they tour the countryside trying to keep out of the way of the various parties wanting to do them harm…

Ed Howard on Only the Cinema wrote:
This is a complex and powerful film, stunning in its steady accumulation of imagery and the tragic commentary of its narrative. Shinoda handles this potentially didactic material with remarkable delicacy, never allowing it to become a heavy-handed “message” film. Its messages are always contained organically by the story, and by the character of Orin, who’s played with wonderful range and quiet intensity by Iwashita (Shinoda’s wife, incidentally). Her performance encompasses strength, despair, sensuality, loneliness, and mystery, and she’s a wonderfully sensitive actress for depicting the emotional subtleties of this tale…This is a truly masterful film, filled with multiple layers and multiple meanings; its placid surface is deceiving.

Hanare.goze.Orin.AKA.Ballad.of.Orin.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 58 min
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#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3DDBC03037F6864/Hanare.goze.Orin.AKA.Ballad.of.Orin.1977.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (srt, default); Russian (idx/VobSub); Japanese (idx/VobSub)

The post Masahiro Shinoda – Hanare goze Orin AKA Ballad of Orin (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

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Nearly a decade after being fired by Nikkatsu Studios, Suzuki returned to the director’s chair with this titillating tale of a model who is groomed to become a professional golfer as a publicity stunt. When she turns out to be good at the sport, her success leads a deranged fan to hatch a blackmail scheme. “Riddled with the director’s wildly non-conformist use of non-contiguous edits, unhinged shot composition, and violent splashes of colour, crazed and chaotic and for too long buried in the sand bunkers of obscurity, this long-overlooked work simply cries out for revival” (Jasper Sharp, Midnight Eye).

A.Tale.of.Sorrow.and.Sadness.1977.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-PTer.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/DDE1A5515DA979F/A.Tale.of.Sorrow.and.Sadness.1977.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-PTer.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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A female golfer who has exceeded expectations to reach the top not only has to contend with being in-demand, but also with the men in her life, her neigbours, her brother and not to mention a stalker.

A.Tale.of.Sorrow.and.Sadness.1977.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 33 min
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https://nitro.download/view/00E7916FDEA866D/A.Tale.of.Sorrow.and.Sadness.1977.BDRIP.576p.x264.AAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese, English
Subtitles:English

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Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.

Zawa-zawa.Shimo-Kitazawa.2000.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-NYCR4T.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/AA57556EFE20445/Zawa-zawa.Shimo-Kitazawa.2000.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-NYCR4T.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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