“Ginza’s Story” is based on Yujiro’s hit song about the hopes and dreams of Japan’s young people.

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The post Koreyoshi Kurahara – Ginza no koi no monogatari AKA Love in Ginza (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.

Tekka.no.Hanamichi.Way.of.the.Yakuza.1968.DVDRip.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/880F5DB109A6346/Original.trailer.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

The post Akinori Matsuo – Tekka no hanamichi AKA Dice and Swords (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Along with The Baby Carriage and A Slope in the Sun, That Guy and I is one of a long list of youth films to be based on the novels of ISHISAKA Yojiro. A portrait of youth grappling with new forms of love and sexual ethics at the height of the ANPO struggle of 1960, the film was marketed as ISHIHARA Yujiro’s comeback picture after he injured himself in a skiing accident, and went on to break box office records in 1961.

Aitsu.to.watashi.1961.1080p.HDTV-mN.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Japanese

The post Kô Nakahira – Aitsu to watashi AKA That Guy And I (1961) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company’s office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong…

Kurenai.no.Tsubasa.1958.1080p.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-SbR.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Kô Nakahira – Kurenai no tsubasa AKA The Scarlet Wings AKA Crimson Wings (1958) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
In this musical Cinderella story, Chiemi Eri plays Midori, a sales girl for Camelia oil from the island of Oshima, with a talent for singing. Her talent is discovered and her career takes off, finally giving her the chance to perform at a venue in the prestigious Marunouchi area of Tokyo. The film’s climactic show is a gorgeously impressive spectacle.
This lively musical comedy is typical of the youth-oriented cinema produced at Nikkatsu in the midto late-1950s, when the studio courted the generation that was coming of age in the newly prosperous, liberal, democratic Japan. The film marked a collaboration between two of Japan’s most popular stars. As part of a trio of young actresses and singers who worked collectively under the billing of sannin musume (‘three girls’), Eri was seen last year at Bologna in the Toho production, Janken musume (So Young, So Bright, 1955). Here, she works at Nikkatsu alongside Yujiro Ishihara, who, after making a dramatic star debut in Ko Nakahira’s story of delinquent youth, Kurutta kajitsu (Crazed Fruit, 1956), had quickly became one of Japan’s most celebrated actors. As Michael Raine writes, “by 1958, [he] was the biggest male star in Japan” and “epitomized the sensitive tough guy in cinema and in popular music”. Both stars were to sustain successful careers both onscreen and in music, but were sadly to die, still relatively young, in the mid-1980s. Director Sunohara (1906-1997) was a successful commercial filmmaker at Nikkatsu and Toei, with around eighty films to his credit.
The “Kinema Junpo” reviewer praised the improved quality of the Konicolor process, saying that the film brought that process one step closer to the quality of Eastmancolor. Although critical of the film’s overall incoherence, which he partially attributed to the director’s inexperience with the musical genre, he praised star Eri for her singing and dancing, which he saw as the finest in the film, as well appreciating Ishihara’s sweet vocal cords.

Jazz musume tanjo.avi

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Subtitles:English

The post Masahisa Sunohara – Jazz musume tanjô aka Birth of a Jazz Child (1957) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.

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The post Kô Nakahira – Kurutta kajitsu AKA Crazed Fruit (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Autotranslated from Japanese:
Shintaro Munekata, the grandson of the president of Dainippon Bussan, decided to go abroad to see the wider world according to his grandfather’s will. Shintaro meets Yuriko on his plane. After that, Shintaro is replaced by an Araya man in the lobby of Beirut Airport. A moment later, the Arayas were killed by someone else.

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The post Kô Nakahira – Arabu no arashi AKA The Arab Storm (1961) first appeared on Cinema of the World.