Sanka (1972) Kaneto Shindô, Nobuko Otowa, Tokuko Watanabe, Jiro Kawarazaki, Drama

Human / Ningen (1962) [Repost] Movies

Posted by ETRU at Sept. 28, 2014

Based on Nogami Yaeko’s original novel, The Neptune, which was based on real-life events, it follows four people stuck on a small fishing ship that is adrift at sea. After running out of fuel and losing their rudder in a storm, they find themselves lost with no navigation, and it’s during Obon, a religious Japanese holiday which means NO ONE will be out looking for them during the festival. They immediately split into two groups, the Captain and his young shipmate ( Taiji Tonoyama and Kei Yamamoto respectively), and headstrong Hachizo (Kei Satô) and Gorosuke (Nobuko Otowa) the woman who is corrupted by Hachizo as the film progresses….

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Okami (1955) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Feb. 1, 2014

Based on an actual event. A cash delivery truck is ambushed and robbed in a quiet highway. The perpetrators are neither gangsters nor habitual offenders. Instead they are good-hearted and law-abiding citizens. These five persons are rookie insurance salespersons who find it impossible to meet their quotas or get work elsewhere.

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Genbaku no ko / Children of Hiroshima (1952) Movies

Posted by Rare-1 at Sept. 24, 2014

Six years after the atomic bombing of 06 August 1945, the school teacher Takako Ishikawa returns to Hiroshima on her vacation to visit friends and to honor her parents that died in the bombing. Takako was raised by her uncle and aunt. While in her hometown she stays with her friend, Natsue Morikawa, who has become infertile due to the side effect of the A-bomb. While walking along the destroyed city, she sees a former family friend, Iwakichi, who worked with her father, and is almost blind and has become a beggar. She pays a visit to his shanty in the slums and discovers that his grandson, Taro, is living in an orphanage since Iwakichi's shanty is no place to raise the child. When Morikawa tells her that three former pupils from the kindergarten have survived to the bombing, Takako pays a visit to each one of them and finds how the A-bomb and the radiation have affected their lives. Before returning home, Takako asks Iwakachi to let her bring Taro with her; but their bond is very strong.

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Onibaba (1964) "The Hole" - CRITERION Remaster Movies

Posted by Lilywhite Lilith at Jan. 9, 2010

Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, they dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of their meager spoils. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals the trio’s horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale Onibaba is a singular cinematic experience.

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Onibaba (1964) (The Criterion Collection/Masters of Cinema) [2 DVD9s] Movies

Posted by mook45 at June 24, 2011

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Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Jan. 1, 2022

Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #226]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 1280x536, ~ 2.5 Mbps | 1hr 42mn | 2.11 GB
Japanese: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps \ Japanese (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror

Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru Hayashi, and stunning images both lyrical and macabre, Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale Onibaba conjures a nightmarish vision of humankind’s deepest desires and impulses.

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Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Jan. 18, 2022

Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #226]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~35.5 Mbps | 1hr 42mn | 44.3 GB
Japanese: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps \ Japanese (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror

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Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Jan. 6, 2022

Onibaba (1964) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #226]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x804, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 1hr 42mn | 3.11 GB
Japanese: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps \ Japanese (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Horror

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Tree without leaves/Rakuyoju (1986) Movies

Posted by serpmolot at June 25, 2011

Tree without leaves/Rakuyoju (1986)

Tree Without Leaves : Shohei Imamura's Black Rain (Kuroi Ame, 1989) was not the only solemn, black-and-white, rural drama to come out of Japan in the late '80s. Although Kaneto Shindo's Tree without Leaves is also largely set in the environs of Hiroshima, the title is not an allusion to the mushroom cloud, but to a family without succession. The story is framed as a series of reminiscences by aging scriptwriter Haru (Kobayashi, no doubt a substitute for Shindo himself, who also wrote and produced the film), who has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano Prefecture to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in, and more specifically the role of his mother.

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Kuroneko (1968) (Masters of Cinema) [DVD9] [PAL] [Re-post] Movies

Posted by mook45 at July 8, 2011

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